Windows XP is messed up

[Guest]

Last year (I think in late August, when SP2 final came out), I had the
pre-SP2 version installed. I accidentally installed SP2 Final over it and in
my About Windows dialog it says that it's the RTM version. I keep on getting
Explorer crashes, and I tried to look in Microsoft Support and I found
nothing. I tried to uninstall SP2 once, everything was fine, but when I went
into WIndows Update SP2 wouldn't come up. I don't know if the SP2 cd is
TOTALLY free, can anybody tell me if I have to pay money to get the SP2 CD??
I am totally confused, and I cannot mess up the computer because there is
alot of personl and work data in it and if it gets deleted, I will be in big
trouble, so, what am I supposed to do??????

 

[Guest]

Last year (I think in late August, when SP2 final came out), I had the
pre-SP2 version installed. I accidentally installed SP2 Final over it and in
my About Windows dialog it says that it's the RTM version. I keep on getting
Explorer crashes, and I tried to look in Microsoft Support and I found
nothing. I tried to uninstall SP2 once, everything was fine, but when I went
into WIndows Update SP2 wouldn't come up. I don't know if the SP2 cd is
TOTALLY free, can anybody tell me if I have to pay money to get the SP2 CD??
I am totally confused, and I cannot mess up the computer because there is
alot of personl and work data in it and if it gets deleted, I will be in big
trouble, so, what am I supposed to do??????

Yes, it is fre
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx

 

[Guest]

SP2 is a free CD...... ring up microsoft and they will post it....before u
install it i would suggest running scandisk and defrag first.......also
get hold of a good reg cleaning programme and run that....

 

[Guest]

Thanks! I just ordered it right now lol Thanks again!

 

[Guest]

what kind of reg cleaing app? Where can I find one and is it free? I defraged
a little while ago (I think 2-4 days ago) Thanks for the info

 

[Guest]

Word od advice, once you get going again, delet, disable whatever you need
to do to get rid of internet exploder!!! I highly recomend (as did PC
Magazine) use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser.

 

[JerryMouse]

Thanks! I just ordered it right now lol Thanks again!

Or you could have picked it up at the counter at Best Buy, Staples, Office
Max, etc. It's as ubiquitous as the AOL CD.

 

[Guest]

I do. I'm using it right now!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223
Firefox/1.0.1

FFX roks lol