Re: PC-cillin & WinXP SP2, Installation Order?

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From: Ionizer (me7_at_privacy.net)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:58:00 -0400

"Henry T Fiddler" <htfiddler@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:e07e709d.0408291426.47b44ca7@posting.google.com...
> I am planning on installing PC-cillin Internet Security 2004 on my
> laptop which is currently running Win XP Pro SP1. I have not yet
> installed SP2, for fear it may be buggy. But in reading various
> newsgroups, I'm convinced that I should go ahead and make the plunge
> with SP2. I have already been running this laptop for a month,
> totally unprotected, over an "always on DSL connection" and fear it is
> already crawling with various malware vermin. It already runs very
> slow (2 gHz, 256 meg), and I am living in pop-up hell.

Have a look at this page: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm
"Service Pack Installation Checklist." Fix and clean up your system
before dropping SP2 on to it; as that page advises.

Follow-ups set to 24hoursupport.helpdesk 

-- 
Ian.

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