uninstall Service Pack 2

[Guest]

Is it possible to uninstall and reinstall just Service Pack 2 without
uninstalling and reinstalling Windows XP?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Is it possible to uninstall and reinstall just Service Pack 2
without uninstalling and reinstalling Windows XP?

If you installed SP2 separately.. Sure.
Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs, Show Updates checkbox and uninstall
Windows XP Service Pack 2.

If Windows XP SP2 was integrated into your installation media (came
installed on the computer) <- you cannot remove SP2.

Why do you want to?
Perhaps if you just tell us the particular issue, we can work around that.

 

[DL]

Its probably the services issue he posted awhile ago.

 

[Guest]

what about if you tried to update your comp to service pack 2 using the
update page, and then it failed so you had to do a system restore? (happened
to my comp) and it doesn't show sp2 in the add/remove programs menu, but it
shows some items in there that say sp2 (when i right click my comp and select
properties, it says my comp is still sp1). i tried to update it to sp2 again,
but after it took a really long time to load it had an error message and
stopped (i can post the message this weekend if you ask after i try to update
it again).

Its probably the services issue he posted awhile ago.

 

[Alec S.]

what about if you tried to update your comp to service pack 2 using the
update page, and then it failed so you had to do a system restore? (happened
to my comp) and it doesn't show sp2 in the add/remove programs menu, but it
shows some items in there that say sp2 (when i right click my comp and select
properties, it says my comp is still sp1). i tried to update it to sp2 again,
but after it took a really long time to load it had an error message and
stopped (i can post the message this weekend if you ask after i try to update
it again).

Installing SP2 is the same as installing it from a download, so if it completes successfully, it will have an ARP entry.

The items tagged as "SP2" are normal, they just mean that updates from SP2 are installed, not that SP2 itself is necessarily
installed. I've got numerous SP2 updates installed event though I only have SP1.

The (excruciatingly) long delay seems to be the norm now, but the error message isn't. You should be able to look it up on the
WindowsUpdate/MicrosoftUpdate website to try to determine what's wrong (do you have enough space?)

 

[Guest]

ya, i have enough space. i'll try it again this weekend, and if it doesn't
work, then i'll check what the error is (and post here again).

 

[Guest]

ya, i tried to update it again this weekend, but it wouldn't work. it didn't
even give me an error message, it just loaded to a screen that had links to
this site and to the faq.