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Husky
I just left the web update site. I'm on at 56k. sp2 is 111 megs. It claimed 5
hours something ,something @ 56k. I let it run last night when I turned in.
Woke up this morning with the login welcome screen to my account or admin with
4 programs running in my account [yippee finally got XP with both accounts on
the welcome screen finally]. there was only 40 megs and it didn't have the
brains to try again. just a big fat note it failed at 40 megs and I need to
start where I left off. [big improvement over having to restart over and over
on every failure from square one and here I have gozilla that's been doing
resume and call back till it has a connection for several years now.
1st question: why is it that the only XP pro version available for download is
the 200+ meg version ? 111 megs doesn't waste that much time to grab [over and
over again ] ? or where can you download sp2 for XP pro. I had a beta version
and immediately removed it when it crapped out my display, and all of the ATI
stuff. I hope this version doesn't. But since I was beta testing only days b4
they started releasing sp2 for the update site, I'm guessing it will crap out
all my ATI stuff again.
2nd it's downloading to my machine now. Can I use that for future reinstalls
and where is windows downloading it to on my machine and how can I access that
copy ?
the 2nd to me is a valid question as I think windows deletes updates once it
installs them because for the longest time [b4 I found out about being able to
download the updates] I was constantly visiting windows update cause it claimed
I needed to install update xxxx and then it dawned on me that I just installed
that yesterday, and the day b4, and b4 that etc..
I don't really want a daily repeat of attempting to install a 111 meg file. I
didn't get this machine just to suck 1 program from the M$ site day after day
indefinitely.
hours something ,something @ 56k. I let it run last night when I turned in.
Woke up this morning with the login welcome screen to my account or admin with
4 programs running in my account [yippee finally got XP with both accounts on
the welcome screen finally]. there was only 40 megs and it didn't have the
brains to try again. just a big fat note it failed at 40 megs and I need to
start where I left off. [big improvement over having to restart over and over
on every failure from square one and here I have gozilla that's been doing
resume and call back till it has a connection for several years now.
1st question: why is it that the only XP pro version available for download is
the 200+ meg version ? 111 megs doesn't waste that much time to grab [over and
over again ] ? or where can you download sp2 for XP pro. I had a beta version
and immediately removed it when it crapped out my display, and all of the ATI
stuff. I hope this version doesn't. But since I was beta testing only days b4
they started releasing sp2 for the update site, I'm guessing it will crap out
all my ATI stuff again.
2nd it's downloading to my machine now. Can I use that for future reinstalls
and where is windows downloading it to on my machine and how can I access that
copy ?
the 2nd to me is a valid question as I think windows deletes updates once it
installs them because for the longest time [b4 I found out about being able to
download the updates] I was constantly visiting windows update cause it claimed
I needed to install update xxxx and then it dawned on me that I just installed
that yesterday, and the day b4, and b4 that etc..
I don't really want a daily repeat of attempting to install a 111 meg file. I
didn't get this machine just to suck 1 program from the M$ site day after day
indefinitely.