Re: How can I tell if Service Pack 2 was installed and is functioning?

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From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:22:20 -0400

You can't "download" Windows XP Home. You have to purchase it in a store.
Or, it comes with a new computer (-: 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
<Alan Moorman@visi.com> wrote in message 
news:avq2f0d0ppplvu8qa61elfbevobfnd2q53@4ax.com...
>I have Windows XP Home, and when I downloaded it, the thing hung after
> finishing the download -- saying "preparing to install"
>
> I waited 10 minutes, and then restarted the computer.   Went to the
> update web site again, and clicked on the download again.  It appeared
> to know that I had already downloaded SP2, and it went right into
> install mode.
>
> It finally asked me to restart the computer.  Which I did.
>
> After it settled down, I went online again, and started Windows Update
> again, and after searching in it's usual way, it said I should
> download SP2!
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????????
>
> How can I tell if it actually installed SP2 correctly?
>
> (And why didn't Microsoft's site know if I had?)
>
> Thanks,
>   Alan
>
>
>
>

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