Re: unable to upgrade to sp2

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Run dialog box, type winver
3. Click OK.

A dialog box displays the version that you are running.

Does it say Service Pack 2?

How to troubleshoot Windows Update or Microsoft Update when you are
repeatedly offered an update
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910339

If required
Windows XP Service Pack 2 - download (for single PCs also)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en

SP2 CD can be ordered online.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx




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"Mohan.Pothuri" <Mohan.Pothuri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|i am having xp home sp1 and with windows update configurator, it keeps
| downloading sp2 and asks shall i install, if i say ok it asks for user
| license and when i accept that, it says install is completed, but it
doesnt
| reflect int he system. also when i go to windows update it always says sp2
| needs to be applied on your system. however even after multiple attemps, i
| could not succeed. any help in this regard is helpfull.
|
| Thanks,
| Pothuri


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