Installing a service pack

Hello.

is there anyway i can know which service pack i have?

I'm quite unfamiliar with the service packs and i wanted to know if my
files will get erased when i install a service pack(Windows 2000 SP4). On the
first page of the installation wizard, it said "backup your system". is that
necessary?

I would like to know the answer to this also. I just spent several hours
doing Windows XP updating. After I had successfully downloaded and installed
all reported needed updates, or at least after all required updates were
reportedly successfully installed, I went back to the Updates site expecting
to see a "clean" required update list, and it said that NOW I needed to
install XP Service Pack 2!!! It was going to be a 5+ hour down load on my
dail up server. It failed to install, no doubt due to a loss of dial up
connection some time during the process (this happened several times during
the other updates as well, took about 4 restarts to get through them). Can a
Service Pack 2 update be obtained on disk from Microsoft?

Once I install Service Pack 2, will there be a another long list of updates
to it that I will now need to download? Can they be suppplied on disc as well?

See
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...s/default.mspx

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"caabaj1g" <> wrote in message
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>I would like to know the answer to this also. I just spent several hours
> doing Windows XP updating. After I had successfully downloaded and
> installed
> all reported needed updates, or at least after all required updates were
> reportedly successfully installed, I went back to the Updates site
> expecting
> to see a "clean" required update list, and it said that NOW I needed to
> install XP Service Pack 2!!! It was going to be a 5+ hour down load on my
> dail up server. It failed to install, no doubt due to a loss of dial up
> connection some time during the process (this happened several times
> during
> the other updates as well, took about 4 restarts to get through them).
> Can a
> Service Pack 2 update be obtained on disk from Microsoft?
>
> Once I install Service Pack 2, will there be a another long list of
> updates
> to it that I will now need to download? Can they be suppplied on disc as
> well?
>
>
>
>

Right click My Computer
Click Properties.
The installed Service Pack is listed under "System"

Data and settings should be safe.
The suggestion to back-up is for the remote chance something goes wrong.
You should routinely be backing up important data in case of a hardware or
software disaster.

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http://www.dts-l.org


"Umer" <> wrote in message
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> Hello.
>
> is there anyway i can know which service pack i have?
>
> I'm quite unfamiliar with the service packs and i wanted to know if my
> files will get erased when i install a service pack(Windows 2000 SP4). On
> the
> first page of the installation wizard, it said "backup your system". is
> that
> necessary?