XP

[martha]

I have a "vista" machine. I've had nothing but trouble with it. (Vista) I
won't go over my complaints, but as far as I'm concerned, it stinks. I
found a copy of XP on Ebay ( NEW Microsoft Windows XP Home, Full SP2!! w/
Legal COA) for $84.00.
I had a copy that I believe I paid around $200 for in 2003 but I sold my
older machine and threw in the disk because I got the new machine.
My question is: The disk comes with "SP2" I wonder if the "SP2" is
integrated. Does anyone know?
thanks,
marta

 

[Andrew Murray]

I have a "vista" machine. I've had nothing but trouble with it. (Vista) I
won't go over my complaints, but as far as I'm concerned, it stinks. I
found a copy of XP on Ebay ( NEW Microsoft Windows XP Home, Full SP2!! w/
Legal COA) for $84.00.
I had a copy that I believe I paid around $200 for in 2003 but I sold my
older machine and threw in the disk because I got the new machine.
My question is: The disk comes with "SP2" I wonder if the "SP2" is
integrated. Does anyone know?
thanks,
marta

Yes, it would be.
I have the XP Pro with SP2 and it's all-in-one, and would be a seemless
installation.

 

[VanguardLH]

I have a "vista" machine. I've had nothing but trouble with it.
(Vista) I won't go over my complaints, but as far as I'm concerned,
it stinks. I found a copy of XP on Ebay ( NEW Microsoft Windows XP
Home, Full SP2!! w/ Legal COA) for $84.00.
I had a copy that I believe I paid around $200 for in 2003 but I
sold my older machine and threw in the disk because I got the new
machine.
My question is: The disk comes with "SP2" I wonder if the "SP2" is
integrated. Does anyone know?
thanks,
marta

Well, did you get 1 or 2 CDs? If you got 1 CD then everything should
be on it. If you got 2 CDs, one of them has the service pack.

 

[martha]

Well, did you get 1 or 2 CDs? If you got 1 CD then everything should
be on it. If you got 2 CDs, one of them has the service pack.

I haven't got it yet

marta

 

[Panic]

I have an older computer that came out before SP2 so I always had the
problem that if I ever had to reinstall WinXP it wouldn't have SP2 anymore.
So I surfed over to Windows web page and requested they send me a SP2 CD
(free) so I wouldn't have to go through a long download to get it. Once I
had it I found a site with instructions on how to "slipstream" Sp2 onto my
basic WinXP on my hard drive and then how to burn the combined package to a
new CD that I labeled WinXP w/ SP2.

Recently I had to do a repair/install and it was nice to be able to return
to the SP2 update. That allowed me to go online and download the 80+
updates that have come out since SP2.

Hopefully MS will soon come out with an SP3 that contains SP1, SP2, and all
those upgrades since SP2.

 

[martha]

I have an older computer that came out before SP2 so I always had the
problem that if I ever had to reinstall WinXP it wouldn't have SP2 anymore.
So I surfed over to Windows web page and requested they send me a SP2 CD
(free) so I wouldn't have to go through a long download to get it. Once I
had it I found a site with instructions on how to "slipstream" Sp2 onto my
basic WinXP on my hard drive and then how to burn the combined package to a
new CD that I labeled WinXP w/ SP2.

Recently I had to do a repair/install and it was nice to be able to return
to the SP2 update. That allowed me to go online and download the 80+
updates that have come out since SP2.

Hopefully MS will soon come out with an SP3 that contains SP1, SP2, and
all those upgrades since SP2.

Well, I had the first version of XP (Before SP1) I had to add Sp1
eventually to go from photoshop 7 to CS2
It wasn't any problem. BUT! when adding SP2 I started running into all of
the new "security" warnings. I've got all kings of virus/spyware. I only
need an operating system. The people I worry about the most is Microsoft!
Seriously, What am I missing here? That's one of my main complaints about
Vista. A webpage that I just produced, open it in IE, I get a bar at the
top that says: "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has
restricted this webpage... Bla Bla Bla..." You have to stop what your doing,
reach down, grab the mouse, Click on the Bar, and make a choice of several,
click on that, THEN, another "Security Warning" comes up and says: "Allowing
active content such as script and activeX can be useful, but Bla Bla
Bla...are you sure... bla bla bla" And you can't just hit enter, You have
to reach down, grab the mouse, You get the picture...Why do I buy this
Virus/spyware?
HELL! Who am I protecting myself from?

DAMN!