Summary: Lately I have been using a slipstreamed copy of SP2 on my XP installs. Works great. Saves downloading SP2 etc or loading additional patches after in...
Summary: After having to re-install my O/S using the Dell suppied OEM version of Windows XP MCE 2005 w/Update Rollup 2, when starting up my PC ,it would go t...
Summary: There is allot of conflicting information out there about whether to install SP2 or not, some say that it causes numerous OS problems as well as probl...
Summary: Did you do the 80+ updates post SP2? I suspect there MAY be some issues with one or more of them. Just my gut feeling. I don't know if that is rela...
Summary: If I say "go ahead" and you do and it trashes your system you'll come back to blame me for your misfortune. If I say "No Don't do it" and your system ...
Summary: First-You list win 98 as your O/S. 64 mb's ram is not enough ram to run XP. Try a system repair. --How to do a system repair.--Boot from the xp cd and...
Summary: I searched the archives and the latest posts I found for XP SP3 are dated around May 2008. Most of them seemed to indicate that it was OK to install S...
Summary: Already read all of that Chuck2, but thanks. Found it while looking at your last link. Oh, and as far as the whole Sp2, vs SP3 thing... I tried it lon...
Summary: I though some people might be interested in the following survey about failures caused by SP2 install. It was taken by PC World magazine. "About 75% d...
Summary: Thanx in advance for any help on this problem. I just installed SP2 following a thorough cleanup, defrag, etc. Every time I log on, a dialogue box l...
Summary: Well it looks like the change in permission to the registry folderm Hkey_Classes_Root did the trick for an under repair win xp install. Bagel virus ha...
Summary: Press ΓΏ+Pause Break keys together to access System Properties. Under the General tab you will see whether or not your machine has SP2. i_XpUser ...
Summary: Said it would take 2 hours. Took 23 mins. At this time all appears to running well. Tested all currently install programs. No problems to report at th...
Summary: can you boot into safe mode (probably not) if so i would sheck your svcpack.log (c:\windows) and see what files are installed, or look for a uninstal...
Summary: Here's my problem: I have installed Windows XP SP1 yesterday. Today, I checked the Windows Update page, and it also said that I successfully installe...
Summary: Hi I received a message from Internet Security department ("Internet Security Department" <yycjosjmn-mhanfkc@updates.com>) Subject: New Net Critica...
Summary: Currently I'm using Win98SE but this weekend I'm getting WinXP Pro. I'm planning on doing a 'clean' install rather than an upgrade, but I want to know...
Summary: Hello, just this morning the internet for my two desktops are not working. I have a wireless router and it's working fine (I'm on my notebook and I'm...
Summary: I've got a bit of system lag and I'm trying to decide whether or not to get more RAM or if there is something I can do to free up some memory. Accordi...
Summary: I had a Mup.sys problem last week and I tried to reformate and reinstall but Win XP install stopped at driver.cab. after sometime of poking around i d...
Summary: Peterpetal, since you had to do a "repair" prior to installing SP2 I have to assume you had problems that weren't completely corrected. One of the mos...
Summary: how can I chk whether directx 8.1 is installed in pc or not I am using xp pro Because recently I start playing GTA3 but the charactor moves very slo...