Using Windows XP Service Pack 2 Update For IT Professionals

I downloaded the Windows XP Service Pack 2 for IT & Network Professionals
because I'm working on a PC that has Service Pack 1 and the regular auto
download and update is not working for some reason. Has anyone used this SP2
for network professionals on a single PC that had this issue? My guess is
something has blocked this PC's normal ability to download SP2 automatically
the way it should've in the very beginning.

catprotector wrote:
> I downloaded the Windows XP Service Pack 2 for IT & Network
> Professionals because I'm working on a PC that has Service Pack 1
> and the regular auto download and update is not working for some
> reason. Has anyone used this SP2 for network professionals on a
> single PC that had this issue? My guess is something has blocked
> this PC's normal ability to download SP2 automatically the way it
> should've in the very beginning.

Possibly. You should properly prepare for SP2 in any case.

- Check to make sure you do not need a motherboard BIOS update for it.
- Check to see that all of your hardware drivers are the latest FROM tghe
hardware manufacturer - in general avoid getting hardware drivers from
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ .
- Scan and clean your machine of Viruses/Trojans/Worms with whatever
antivirus application you have.
- Scan and clean your machine of Spyware/Adware/Malware with a few different
AntiSpyware applications (Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spybot Search and Destroy and
SuperAntiSpyware come to mind.)
- Check your hard disk drive for errors (CHKDSK).
- Make sure you have at least 15% free disk space (More than 4GB is
recommended) on your OS partition (C drive usually) and defragment the
partition.

Then manually install the SP2. There is *no difference* in SP2 from the web
page, using automatic updates or installing it from the stand-alone
installer. It will still install SP2 - the same SP2.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

We have already done all of what you had posted but thanks though.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> catprotector wrote:
> > I downloaded the Windows XP Service Pack 2 for IT & Network
> > Professionals because I'm working on a PC that has Service Pack 1
> > and the regular auto download and update is not working for some
> > reason. Has anyone used this SP2 for network professionals on a
> > single PC that had this issue? My guess is something has blocked
> > this PC's normal ability to download SP2 automatically the way it
> > should've in the very beginning.
>
> Possibly. You should properly prepare for SP2 in any case.
>
> - Check to make sure you do not need a motherboard BIOS update for it.
> - Check to see that all of your hardware drivers are the latest FROM tghe
> hardware manufacturer - in general avoid getting hardware drivers from
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ .
> - Scan and clean your machine of Viruses/Trojans/Worms with whatever
> antivirus application you have.
> - Scan and clean your machine of Spyware/Adware/Malware with a few different
> AntiSpyware applications (Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spybot Search and Destroy and
> SuperAntiSpyware come to mind.)
> - Check your hard disk drive for errors (CHKDSK).
> - Make sure you have at least 15% free disk space (More than 4GB is
> recommended) on your OS partition (C drive usually) and defragment the
> partition.
>
> Then manually install the SP2. There is *no difference* in SP2 from the web
> page, using automatic updates or installing it from the stand-alone
> installer. It will still install SP2 - the same SP2.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
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