Re: how do I uninstall sp4 (it came preloaded)

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From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:00:01 -0400

Forget about it !

Instead of them telling you to uninstall Win2K SP4, you tell them to fix the problem to work
with SP4 !

Dave

"Greg Kelley" <gkelley@orthodesign.com> wrote in message
news:1509201c41cb8$0ffb8ac0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
| According to one of the support people for one of my
| applications (SolidWorks) Windows 2000 sp4 has some issues
| working with Solidworks, and this isn't letting me open
| some previously saved files.
| He told me to uninstall win2000 sp4, and see if that fixed
| my problem.
|
| Win2K Pro SP4 came on my computer when it was purchased,
| and is what is on my CD, how can I uninstall it?
| Or will installing sp3 over top roll it back?
|
|

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