Windows XP Pro SP2--SP2 has seemingly disappeared

[lelin]

I tried to uninstall a program I no longer needed, but a popup message said I
could not because I did not have XP SP2 on my computer. I know that I
installed SP2 long ago by download, and in fact am currently running SP3.
Can I safely reinstall SP2 by download? I don't want to uninstall and
reinstall Windows and start from scratch with that. Does anyone have any
idea how my SP2 apparently vanished?

Immediate history: I got fed up with Pinnacle Studio v. 10.7 and since it is
no longer supported I purchased v. 12 and installed it by download. Then
when I tried to uninstall v. 10 I was stopped by the message as stated above.

 

[PvdG42]

I tried to uninstall a program I no longer needed, but a popup message
said I
could not because I did not have XP SP2 on my computer. I know that I
installed SP2 long ago by download, and in fact am currently running SP3.
Can I safely reinstall SP2 by download? I don't want to uninstall and
reinstall Windows and start from scratch with that. Does anyone have any
idea how my SP2 apparently vanished?

Immediate history: I got fed up with Pinnacle Studio v. 10.7 and since it
is
no longer supported I purchased v. 12 and installed it by download. Then
when I tried to uninstall v. 10 I was stopped by the message as stated
above.

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