Do I have to use a SP2 disk?

I have a 2 year old Dell laptop. It was getting increasingly flaky and
nothing seemed to fix it, so I reloaded the original disk mirror.

That seemed to fix it, but it immediately started downloading a Windows
update as soon as I established an internet connection (which was one of the
things that didn't work before).

The computer came with a system mirror disk and a SP2 disk. I am assuming I
don't have to use the SP2 disk, as the update will take care of that. Is
that correct?

Ted wrote:
> I have a 2 year old Dell laptop. It was getting increasingly flaky
> and nothing seemed to fix it, so I reloaded the original disk
> mirror.
> That seemed to fix it, but it immediately started downloading a
> Windows update as soon as I established an internet connection
> (which was one of the things that didn't work before).
>
> The computer came with a system mirror disk and a SP2 disk. I am
> assuming I don't have to use the SP2 disk, as the update will take
> care of that. Is that correct?


Sooner or later - it will et SP2 or a future SP that replaced SP2. Yes.
May take several reboots and such.

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
Custom updates.
Everything but hardware is what I suggest.

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"Ted" <Ted@yahoo.org> wrote in message
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>I have a 2 year old Dell laptop. It was getting increasingly flaky and
>nothing seemed to fix it, so I reloaded the original disk mirror.
>
> That seemed to fix it, but it immediately started downloading a Windows
> update as soon as I established an internet connection (which was one of
> the things that didn't work before).
>
> The computer came with a system mirror disk and a SP2 disk. I am assuming
> I don't have to use the SP2 disk, as the update will take care of that.
> Is that correct?
>
If that "SP2 disk" is the one that just has the SP2 patches on it, then
using it will save you
a lot of time. The advantage of having SP2 on a CD is that you need not
expose your computer
to potential malware while you are installing XP.
Jim

"Ted" <Ted@yahoo.org> wrote in message
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> I have a 2 year old Dell laptop. It was getting increasingly flaky and
> nothing seemed to fix it, so I reloaded the original disk mirror.
>
> That seemed to fix it, but it immediately started downloading a Windows
> update as soon as I established an internet connection (which was one of
the
> things that didn't work before).
>
> The computer came with a system mirror disk and a SP2 disk. I am assuming
I
> don't have to use the SP2 disk, as the update will take care of that. Is
> that correct?
>
>


Yes, once you have sp2 installed there are still a lot of needed updates
you may want to go with SP3