Re: How to install Fax on an SP2 system.

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"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <russval@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frequent question. That's why we have a FAQ here.
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835131

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Russ Valentine
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"randwill" <rwilliams4254@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am trying to install the Fax funtionality for Windows XP Pro. When I
try
this through Add/Remove, it asks me to insert the CD labled Windows XP
Pro
Service Pack 2. I have no such CD. I have the Windows XP Pro CD and
inserted that, but it doesn't work. Since I upgraded to SP2 online, how
am
I suppose to do this??





Thank you. Even though the answer to number one helped me, it is very
out-of-date and doesn't mention SP2 at all.

So now I'm installed and I navigate through several drop downs to Send a Fax
....get the Send Fax Wizard but when I click next I get the error- Fax server
information cannot be retrieved. The Fax Wizard will close now.

I'm not really surprised since the Configuartion Wizard only wanted input of
stuff like my name and e-mail address.

Wouldn't I have to tell the software about my modem? The Fax Configuration
Wizard didn't ask this at all.

Also, how do I know if my modem is compatable with this software? The
compatability link on the old, out-of-date page sends me to a page named
"Windows Marketplace" which encourages me to "Find Buy Try" and contains
dozens of links to millions of things I don't care about. I just need a
list of compatable Fax Modems. Does such a list exist? If Windows Fax
utility is not compatable with my modem I don't need to go any further.

I'm not trying to do anything as exotic as some of the questions and answers
on the linked page suggest. I just want to use the Windows XP Fax utility to
send and receive faxes.

Are there step by step instructions somewhere?

Thanks for any help.


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