Re: Repair XP SP2 installation with XP SP1 CD-ROM
- From: "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:31:18 -0600
It is easily determined by his own description that it is not behaving as
SP-1, not speculating at all :
"Some of the SP2 icons remained in the Control Panel"
"I clicked on the Security Center icon..."
"Clicking on the Windows Firewall and Wireless Network Setup Wizard icons
just threw up error messages."
Those all indicate possible problems related to the uninstall of SP-2.
And that is only what is seen, what about what is not seen?
What assurances do you have?
Have you checked all the files to be sure all are the correct version?
"the actual system files in use are SP1 versions"
How did you verify all of them?
"as I'm sure any SP2 specific registry"
"since they are no longer tied to the OS"
Why are you sure?
What demonstrates all necessary files are correct?
How do you know what is tied to what?
I do not need to attempt this, I have not stated either way whether it will
work or not.
But both your descriptions do little to suggest it was successful.
The listed problems suggest otherwise and I would not accept the
uninstallation with those listed problems as a successful uninstall.
If you do, that is up to you and your computer.
I prefer something more definitive than SP-1 displayed in winver and some
inoperative functions.
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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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"Steve N." <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
>
>> Yours is not a good example.
>> Your computer is also not behaving as an SP-1 installation.
>
> How can you determine that it is not behgaving like an SP1 installation?
> Have you done it and are you using a machine that you've done it to? This
> is pure speculation on your part.
>
>> If others would had reported what you did, that would prove Carey correct
>> since SP-2 is clearly not correctly removed in your case.
>
> No, Carey was still wrong. He said it would not work *at* *all*, that
> there would be an error and it would fail. There were no errors and there
> was no failure. The machines are running SP1. The system files in use are
> not SP2 versions they are SP1 versions.
>
>> But your computer seems to be unique.
>
> Nope, the same thing happened here.
>
>> You do not have an SP-1 or SP-2 installation, you have some sort of
>> unreliable hybrid.
>
> Nope, the actual system files in use are SP1 versions and any leftover SP2
> additional items are non-functional and non-issues that I can tell so far.
> It would be interesting to see Torgeir's report on this, though.
>
>>
>> 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
>
> A subsequent repair install probably won't alter it. SP1 has no knowledge
> of the additional features of SP2, that is why they were ignored and left
> alone but since they are no longer tied to the OS they are inactive, as
> I'm sure any SP2 specific registry entries and services that cannot run
> under SP1 are.
>
>
>> or a Clean Installation may be necessary if the integrity of Windows has
>> any importance
>> to you.
>>
>
> As another in the original thread stated, they do this on a regular basis
> every day. I'm sure if they'd have run into issues due to these possible
> unreliabilities you are only guessing at they'd have been mentioned. They
> are left-over, inactive, unused and unusable pieces of SP2 software that
> are no longer part of the OS. The persistence of the Security Center, etc.
> is cosmetic and has no effect on the reliable operation of the machine
> that I can determine.
>
> That said, I agree that the very best way to go from a slipstreamed or
> pre-installed SP2 installation to SP1 would be a clean SP1 install, but
> that does not deter from the fact that it is very much indeed possible to
> do it the way we have and that it in fact worked, the result is in fact an
> SP1 OS, and everything I've tried on it so far has worked fine.
>
> Steve
>
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