Re: Repair XP SP2 installation with XP SP1 CD-ROM

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Not if you want to preserve the installation of existing applications. And
yes, you can do it, if you have a WinXP SP2 machine and instead wish to go
back to WinXP SP1 (say this is the company standard right now), you just pop
in a WinXP SP1 CD (Same type as in OEM, retail, VL), boot to said CD and
select a repair install, and afterwards apply all the fixes pertinent to XP
SP1 (except SP2) and you are off and running. A repair installation always
brings the PC's OS back to the base installation found on the CD. That's
why MS always tells you to reinstall all applicable hotfixes and/or Service
Packs after doing a repair install. Oh don't get involved, on of the
newsgroups has about 100+ posts on this issue, but the point was Carey said
it "can't" be done, where many of us real "experts" said it can, as we do
this daily with new PC/Laptops arriving with XP SP2, and before joining them
to the domain and deploying them to users we repair install the XP OS with
SP1. This in effect downgrades SP2 to SP1.

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"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You don't do a repair install of Windows XP SP2 with a windows XP SP1 CD.
> You do a clean format/install if you want to go back to SP1.
>
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> Richard Urban
>
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>
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
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> "Stephen" <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Poor Carey Frishe, God love him, Yup. Chiming in, so to speak, I want to
>> say
>> I did a repair of a clean installed WinXPSP2 using a WinXPSP1 CD-ROM.
>>
>> THE result was the Windows installation was downgraded to WinXPSP1. Some
>> of
>> the SP2 icons remained in the Control Panel.
>>
>> I clicked on the Security Center icon .. the panel opened but reported
>> that
>> the Security Center was unavailable because the service had not started.
>> Clicking on the Windows Firewall and Wireless Network Setup Wizard icons
>> just threw up error messages.
>>
>> Winver reported SP1.
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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