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

Yours is not a good example.
Your computer is also not behaving as an SP-1 installation.
If others would had reported what you did, that would prove Carey correct
since SP-2 is clearly not correctly removed in your case.
But your computer seems to be unique.
You do not have an SP-1 or SP-2 installation, you have some sort of
unreliable hybrid.

You can verify the correct data.
But it would take quite some time to check each item by date and version.
At the very least you would have to check each and every item affected by
SP-1 or SP-2.
Considering about 10 seconds each and the large number of data, dedicate a
few weeks solely to this with no other computer use permitted.
Or perform another Repair Installation to correct the problems or a Clean
Installation may be necessary if the integrity of Windows has any importance
to you.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol
http://www.dts-l.org


"Stephen" <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%
> Could be. Could be I have the entire set of WinXPSP1 files in my system
> folders plus things that were not erased during the fix like extra reg
> settings and so on that would have been created with WinXPSP2. Dollars to
> donoughts that's the case, but whose is to know unless an inventory is
> done.
> If you know cough it up!
>
> But one thing's for sure is that it is not behaving like SP2, and is not
> reporting SP2, which makes the MVPguy mistaken because he said such a
> scenario woud result in a WINXPSP2 installation .. which it is not.


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