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I've been putting XP on several PCs lately which previously had W2000 or ME.
In each case, I've done a thorough format of the drives and installed XP.
When the install is complete, I do the "windows update" thing and eventually
get to SP2. Once at SP2, I do the "windows update" thing and then get
different results. In some cases, it says there are 3 updates, in some
cases 5, and in some cases, none. Why aren't they all the same. And even
worse, in one case where there were 5 updates, I downloaded them, rebooted
and some of my previous icons disappeared and some software disappeared
including Outlook which I had to reconfigure. It seems to me that if I take
10 PCs, format the drives, load XP, they should all look and act the same.
That does not seem to be the case. Any ideas why. It's very
frustrating.

thanks


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