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

Sorry. When you do a downgrade, you do a complete downgrade. Otherwise you
may well be left with code from two different SP's. It might not hurt you
immediately but it is almost certain to bite you in the arse sooner or
later. Also, some hotfixes you install are based on the SP2 code. Now the
code is gone so the hotfixes will all have to be reinstalled.

Why would you even bother with such a potential mess?

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Star Fleet Admiral Q" <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)@(SPAM-NOT)hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:eRB1bjXZFHA.3280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> news:e7pPzZXZFHA.3364@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>>
>> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>>
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>>
>> "Stephen" <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23mZjcOXZFHA.3220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 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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