Windows /Office XP SPs

[Guest]

Hi everyone,
I've got just a few small questions that seem to bother me all the time:
1) Does Windows XP SP2 include SP1 and all other previous windows updates?
If so, why is it free for downloading whereas you needed a license for SP1?

2) What is the actual difference between SP2 for IT... and for single user?

3) Why should anyone bother to buy or to inquire about a MS release of
Windows XP SP2 CD if you can just slipstream them both together and burn them
on a CD yourself? Maybe I'm mistaken but isn't that possible?

4) If the newest SP always includes the older one, why then, when you go to
the office update site, do you see SP1, SP2 and SP3 all listed one after
another, as well as other single office product updates (which are all
supposed to be included in the SPs)? Furthermore, it is even required to
download and install SP1 and then SP2 before installing SP3 is even possible.
The logical conclusion would be, that each SP has an absolutely different
content and it is therefore needed to download as well as install all three.
This makes me even more unsure about the fact that Windows SP2 includes the
1st.

Please, I need experts here!!!
Help me, as I'm really curious about those questions!!!
thanks,
Adam

 

[Dick Kistler]

Hi everyone,
I've got just a few small questions that seem to bother me all the time:
1) Does Windows XP SP2 include SP1 and all other previous windows updates?
If so, why is it free for downloading whereas you needed a license for
SP1?

Windows XP SP2 contains SP1. Windows XP SP1 was also free to download
to those who have XP. You have to agree to a licensing agreement for both.

2) What is the actual difference between SP2 for IT... and for single
user?

XP SP2 Network Install is the entire service pack, some 270 MB. The single
user can download from Automatic Updates or eventually manually through
windows update a version which will install only the files he doesn't
have. This may mean he only has to download 80-100 MB, depending
on the updates he has already installed.

3) Why should anyone bother to buy or to inquire about a MS release of
Windows XP SP2 CD if you can just slipstream them both together and burn
them
on a CD yourself? Maybe I'm mistaken but isn't that possible?

The CD is mainly for people who don't have a fast internet connection, and
would have a hard time downloading either the Windows Update version
or the Network Install version of SP2. Having the CD is basically the same
as having
the Network Install version of SP2. It is possible to slipstream your XP
install
CD and the Network Install version of SP2, to give a new XP install disk
containing SP2. Such a slipstreamed copy of XP would be useful if you
ever needed to install XP again, but would not be useful to upgrade a
current XP install. You would use the Network Install directly, the SP2 CD,
or
Windows Update to do that.

4) If the newest SP always includes the older one, why then, when you go
to
the office update site, do you see SP1, SP2 and SP3 all listed one after
another, as well as other single office product updates (which are all
supposed to be included in the SPs)? Furthermore, it is even required to
download and install SP1 and then SP2 before installing SP3 is even
possible.
The logical conclusion would be, that each SP has an absolutely different
content and it is therefore needed to download as well as install all
three.
This makes me even more unsure about the fact that Windows SP2 includes
the
1st.

Don't know about MS Office Service Packs, but Windows XP SP2 contains all
fixes up to this point. Maybe somone else can answer the question about
Office
service packs.

 

[The Prophecy]

Windows XP SP2 contains SP1. Windows XP SP1 was also free to download
to those who have XP. You have to agree to a licensing agreement for
both.

XP SP2 Network Install is the entire service pack, some 270 MB. The
single user can download from Automatic Updates or eventually
manually through windows update a version which will install only the
files he doesn't have. This may mean he only has to download 80-100
MB, depending on the updates he has already installed.


The CD is mainly for people who don't have a fast internet
connection, and would have a hard time downloading either the Windows
Update version or the Network Install version of SP2. Having the CD is
basically the
same as having
the Network Install version of SP2. It is possible to slipstream your
XP install
CD and the Network Install version of SP2, to give a new XP install
disk containing SP2. Such a slipstreamed copy of XP would be useful
if you ever needed to install XP again, but would not be useful to
upgrade a current XP install. You would use the Network Install
directly, the SP2 CD, or
Windows Update to do that.


Don't know about MS Office Service Packs, but Windows XP SP2 contains
all fixes up to this point. Maybe somone else can answer the question
about Office
service packs.

Office Service packs DO need to be installed sequentially.