XP

[Guest 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

[Guest Andrew Murray]

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"martha" <martha@martha.com> wrote in message

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>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.

[Guest VanguardLH]

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"martha" <martha@martha.com> wrote in message

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>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.

[Guest martha]

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>

> 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

[Guest Panic]

Re: XP

 

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" <martha@martha.com> wrote in message

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>

>>

>> 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

[Guest martha]

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"Panic" <smartwit@home.com> wrote in message

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>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!