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

Stephen wrote:

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:

Seems like you have mixed code with both probably leading to future
problems.
If SP-2 was truly gone, you would not have what you have.
If SP-2 was installed, you would not have what you have.
You currently have something that can not be relied upon.
Winver does not tell the whole story and clearly in your case is not
reliable.

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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.


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.



The same thing happened here. The only things I noticed left over from SP2 was the non functioning Security Center and Firewall control panel.

Steve

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