Re: Service Pack 2 is very unstable

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From: averageguy (anywhere_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:09:19 -0400

I'm with you Laurence. I tried every suggestion offered here without
success. I used a CD to install. Wasted countless hours. I am sticking to
XPpro with SP1. When I buy a new box I will make sure SP2 comes pre
installed.

"Peter" <ex-brit AT rogers DOT com> wrote in message
news:uivA9D5qEHA.1576@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Order SP2 on CD
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx
>
> --
> Peter.
> Toronto, Canada.
> XP Home SP2.
> P4 Dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 160gb HD, 1.0gb DDR.
> "Laurence" <Laurence@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8C3ECD39-3DE7-4FAF-A2E4-ED2D5AAB9C91@microsoft.com...
> >I do have 2 computers and decided to install SP2 this weekend,
disregarding
> > the warning I got from friends and acquaintance (Out of 10 users that
> > installed or attempted to install SP2, 4 faced significant issues that
> > leaded
> > to system failure). The results of my attempts can be summed up as
> > follows:
> > 1. My desk top computer at to be rebooted from disk and restored to a
pre
> > SP2 date... Windows was just not starting!
> > 2. My laptop computer showed repeat "windows install" boxes each time it
> > is
> > started up and my modem has since then failed (May not be related?). As
a
> > result I have also had to restore my laptop to a pre SP2 date.
> >
> > Conclusion: This has been a great waste of time! What do I do next?
Can
> > I
> > get a CD with the upgrades so that I can attempt to load them one by
one?
> > I
> > am not prepared to waste any more time installing SP2 in its existing
> > downloaded format...
>
>

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