What's the FASTEST way to discover if sp2 is installed.

[Plato]

On a standard keyboard, it's the rightmost key on the top row.

True. But you can be on the phone with somebody for 1/2 hour and then
find out they have a laptop and as you know, the keys may be anywhere

 

[Al Smith]

I see you've gotten lots of answers, all good. But nobody told you what I

Sir,
I dip my lid to you.
An elegant, simple, solution.
Gunner

Doesn't work for me. I hold down the Windows key, press the Pause
key, and nothing happens.

 

[Bob I]

Humm, maybe the Break key broke! System properties should pop up.

 

[WWII]

Right click "My Computer" then Properties.

Doesn't work for me. I hold down the Windows key, press the Pause key, and
nothing happens.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Doesn't work for me. I hold down the Windows key, press the Pause key,
and nothing happens.

Try a new keyboard.

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both at once. - RAH

 

[Al Smith]

Try a new keyboard.

Could possibly be the keyboard, I guess. I've had to clean it
twice. The last time my Enter key was failing to work some of the
time (very annoying). I took the keyboard apart, sucked out all
the crap, and it seems to work fine now -- except for this Windows
Key + Pause|Break thing, which does nothing at all. Hmmm, I wonder
what other keys don't work?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Could possibly be the keyboard, I guess. I've had to clean it twice. The
last time my Enter key was failing to work some of the time (very
annoying). I took the keyboard apart, sucked out all the crap, and it
seems to work fine now -- except for this Windows Key + Pause|Break
thing, which does nothing at all. Hmmm, I wonder what other keys don't
work?

Apparently nothing crucial, or you'd have noticed something, I'm sure.

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Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

 

[DanR]

Have you checked each of these keys independently? The "windows" key is easy
to check. To check the pause key go to a command prompt and type dir <enter>
and press pause before the files are done scrolling. You should be able to
pause the scrolling.

and nothing happens.



Try a new keyboard.

Could possibly be the keyboard, I guess. I've had to clean it
twice. The last time my Enter key was failing to work some of the
time (very annoying). I took the keyboard apart, sucked out all
the crap, and it seems to work fine now -- except for this Windows
Key + Pause|Break thing, which does nothing at all. Hmmm, I wonder
what other keys don't work?

 

[lllusion]

My point was that Illusion could ask his/her client to reboot the machine
and read to him/her what he/she saw on the screen. If the client can not
restart his/her computer he/she is beyond help and should be ___________.
(fill in the blank)

In most cases we can solve problems without a reboot while the customer
is on the phone. However, it's good to have in the back of my mind for
the other circumstances.

Regarding Jerry's comment. He has a point in that many people wouldn't
correctly answer the question regarding what they see on the screen.
Quite often the answers to questions are incomplete or wrong. Other
times when I ask a customer to click on something they say "I don't have
that" whereupon I reply that they do and then try to help them find
something that is directly beside something they are already looking at.
(Then the customer replies, "Oh there!".) :~

--
Howie
"The very belief that violence is unavoidable
is a root cause of violence."
Samdhong Rinpoche
1st Democratically Elected Chairman of the
Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile

 

[lllusion]

Slightly more intuitive than winver:
In Explorer, click Help -> About Windows.

Nice. Thanks.

--
Howie
"The very belief that violence is unavoidable
is a root cause of violence."
Samdhong Rinpoche
1st Democratically Elected Chairman of the
Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile

 

[lllusion]

I see you've gotten lots of answers, all good. But nobody told
you what I think is the fastest way: hold down the Windows key
and press the "Pause | Break" key.

I was looking around for that quick key. Thanks.
But as Plato points out, some people don't even know what PrtScn means.
And here in Sweden there are lots of different keyboards and few would
know what I'd mean by that key.

--
Howie
"The very belief that violence is unavoidable
is a root cause of violence."
Samdhong Rinpoche
1st Democratically Elected Chairman of the
Tibetan Cabinet-in-Exile

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I was looking around for that quick key. Thanks.

You're welcome. Glad to help.

But as Plato points out, some people don't even know what
PrtScn
means.

The problem, of course, is that it no longer means what it says.

And here in Sweden there are lots of different keyboards and
few would know what I'd mean by that key.

Yes, a good point. I assume that what it says on keys like that
is different in different countries.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I was looking around for that quick key. Thanks.
But as Plato points out, some people don't even know what PrtScn means.
And here in Sweden there are lots of different keyboards and few would
know what I'd mean by that key.

And there are still quite a lot of Keyboards around which do not have a
WinKey. The only way I regard as reliable - as being possible on *any*
machine, is Control Panel; System (in its Performance and Maintenance
Category if using Category View)