SP2 Upgrade on CD?

[Elizabeth Drew]

Does anyone know how/if I can get the SP2 upgrade on CD
instead of downloading? Windows Update shows that the
download is at least 75MB in size, which is ridiculous
with a dial-up connection. But nowhere on Microsoft's
website is any information given about such an option.
Toshiba (who provided XP on the pc that I bought) says to
go to Microsoft.com to get a CD of SP2.

Help!

 

[*ProteanThread*]

Does anyone know how/if I can get the SP2 upgrade on CD
instead of downloading? Windows Update shows that the
download is at least 75MB in size, which is ridiculous
with a dial-up connection. But nowhere on Microsoft's
website is any information given about such an option.
Toshiba (who provided XP on the pc that I bought) says to
go to Microsoft.com to get a CD of SP2.

Help!

From what I understand, a CD won't be available until late september or
early october at the earliest - but by then SP2 may have changed slightly
due to the new vulnerabilities found after SP2 was released (or you could
leave auto updates enabled for now) ;-)

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Does anyone know how/if I can get the SP2 upgrade on CD
instead of downloading? Windows Update shows that the
download is at least 75MB in size, which is ridiculous
with a dial-up connection. But nowhere on Microsoft's
website is any information given about such an option.
Toshiba (who provided XP on the pc that I bought) says to
go to Microsoft.com to get a CD of SP2.

Help!

You can't yet, but as soon as the order system is available you should
be able to order the CD from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP MCE
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Does anyone know how/if I can get the SP2 upgrade on CD
instead of downloading? Windows Update shows that the
download is at least 75MB in size, which is ridiculous
with a dial-up connection.

Watch at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx
It should open for orders around Wednesday unless things get delayed