SP2-is it all?

Two days ago I noticed an automatic download in progress, which terminated
on 34%. On checking Add/Remove I found:
1. My SP1 Updates were nowhere to be seen
2. Three SP2 updates:Q322011, Q814995, Q819696 were now listed.
The following day there was a further Automatic Download which terminated at
35%. On checking Add/Remove I found nothing new.
My question is: was this a normal procedure for downloading SP2, have I got
the whole thing and should I be worried that SP1 has vanished?
Thank you.

Is Service pack 2 listed near the bottom?
If not you do not have SP-2 installed.
Those 3 updates are not SP-2 updates.
They are updates that are incorporated in SP-2.
Once SP-2 is installed, they will vanish from Add/Remove Programs.

How was SP-1 installed?
If SP-1 was slipstreamed, there would not be an entry for Service Pack
1 in Add/Remove Programs.

Right click My Computer, click Properties.
What does the bottom line under "System" show?

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"" <> wrote
in message news:...
> Two days ago I noticed an automatic download in progress, which
> terminated
> on 34%. On checking Add/Remove I found:
> 1. My SP1 Updates were nowhere to be seen
> 2. Three SP2 updates:Q322011, Q814995, Q819696 were now listed.
> The following day there was a further Automatic Download which
> terminated at
> 35%. On checking Add/Remove I found nothing new.
> My question is: was this a normal procedure for downloading SP2,
> have I got
> the whole thing and should I be worried that SP1 has vanished?
> Thank you.

Thank you for the comments.
To answer your questions.
The three entries are listed right at the bottom of the Add/Remove and each
reads: Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q....(followed by number)
In My Computer Properties SP1 is shown as installed, but it is not in
Add/Remove as it was before.
What is your comment now? 1- Do I have SP1 or not? 2-Do I have SP2 or not?
Thank you.
"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Is Service pack 2 listed near the bottom?
> If not you do not have SP-2 installed.
> Those 3 updates are not SP-2 updates.
> They are updates that are incorporated in SP-2.
> Once SP-2 is installed, they will vanish from Add/Remove Programs.
>
> How was SP-1 installed?
> If SP-1 was slipstreamed, there would not be an entry for Service Pack
> 1 in Add/Remove Programs.
>
> Right click My Computer, click Properties.
> What does the bottom line under "System" show?
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>
>
> "" <> wrote
> in message news:...
> > Two days ago I noticed an automatic download in progress, which
> > terminated
> > on 34%. On checking Add/Remove I found:
> > 1. My SP1 Updates were nowhere to be seen
> > 2. Three SP2 updates:Q322011, Q814995, Q819696 were now listed.
> > The following day there was a further Automatic Download which
> > terminated at
> > 35%. On checking Add/Remove I found nothing new.
> > My question is: was this a normal procedure for downloading SP2,
> > have I got
> > the whole thing and should I be worried that SP1 has vanished?
> > Thank you.
>
>

It seems you have SP-1.
The hotfixes are normal if SP-1 is installed and would be gone if SP-2
was installed.

Install SP-2:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"" <> wrote
in message news:...
> Thank you for the comments.
> To answer your questions.
> The three entries are listed right at the bottom of the Add/Remove
> and each
> reads: Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q....(followed by number)
> In My Computer Properties SP1 is shown as installed, but it is not
> in
> Add/Remove as it was before.
> What is your comment now? 1- Do I have SP1 or not? 2-Do I have SP2
> or not?
> Thank you.
> "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Is Service pack 2 listed near the bottom?
>> If not you do not have SP-2 installed.
>> Those 3 updates are not SP-2 updates.
>> They are updates that are incorporated in SP-2.
>> Once SP-2 is installed, they will vanish from Add/Remove Programs.
>>
>> How was SP-1 installed?
>> If SP-1 was slipstreamed, there would not be an entry for Service
>> Pack
>> 1 in Add/Remove Programs.
>>
>> Right click My Computer, click Properties.
>> What does the bottom line under "System" show?
>>
>> --
>> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
>> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>>
>>
>> "" <>
>> wrote
>> in message news:...
>> > Two days ago I noticed an automatic download in progress, which
>> > terminated
>> > on 34%. On checking Add/Remove I found:
>> > 1. My SP1 Updates were nowhere to be seen
>> > 2. Three SP2 updates:Q322011, Q814995, Q819696 were now listed.
>> > The following day there was a further Automatic Download which
>> > terminated at
>> > 35%. On checking Add/Remove I found nothing new.
>> > My question is: was this a normal procedure for downloading SP2,
>> > have I got
>> > the whole thing and should I be worried that SP1 has vanished?
>> > Thank you.
>>
>>
>
>

"" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <> wrote in message
> news:
....
>> Right click My Computer, click Properties.
>> What does the bottom line under "System" show?

I had difficulty finding a right-clickable icon for My Computer too.
(Finally found one in a Folders Explorers bar.)
In that case a simpler technique to show the equivalent Properties
dialog would be to press Win-Break.

Alternative sources of version information are:

Run... winver
Run... msinfo32 /category SystemSummary
(Select the Version entry and press Ctrl-c to copy it to ClipBoard.)
Enter the following pipeline in a command window:
systeminfo | find /i "OS Version"


> To answer your questions.
....

You didn't really.


> What is your comment now? 1- Do I have SP1 or not? 2-Do I have SP2 or not?

That's what we're asking you.


> Thank you.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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