SP2 Flawless Installation

Reading the posts in this newsgroup, one might think that no one can get XP
SP2 to install. Of course, that's because people that didn't have trouble
don't bother to post about their trouble free experience.

I'm here to tell that story. I downloaded SP2 last night, installed it and
was back up in 25 minutes. Heck, I didn't bother backing up my files,
didn't bother scanning for viruses, didn't scan for adware, I didn't even
shut other programs down while I did all of this. I was browsing the net
while SP2 was installing itself.

While I don't recommend this, I figured what the heck. If it didn't break
while I did this, it couldn't be as bad as you might think reading this
newsgroup.

The only precaution I took was to make a RESTORE POINT. That's it.

Like I said, all went flawlessly and I was back online in 25 minutes.

So for those of you reading about those that had problems and are getting
worried, rest assured, SP2 does work and work well. There are bound to be a
few glitches here and there for a small percentage of people. They will
come to this newsgroup for help. Just don't get the wrong impression that
no one can get SP2 installed and working. I did.

Same here. I installed SP2 on 6 systems when it first became available using
the 266mb network download. I never turned off any programs. After
installation, I defragged the systems and that was it. No problems on any of
them. I strongly suggest that
everyone either download SP2 from here, http://tinyurl.com/5bobl , and burn
it to cd, or order the CD from MS just in case a reinstall of XP is ever
needed.

--
Curt.


"Sixeye" <> wrote in message
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> Reading the posts in this newsgroup, one might think that no one can get
> XP SP2 to install. Of course, that's because people that didn't have
> trouble don't bother to post about their trouble free experience.
>
> I'm here to tell that story. I downloaded SP2 last night, installed it
> and was back up in 25 minutes. Heck, I didn't bother backing up my files,
> didn't bother scanning for viruses, didn't scan for adware, I didn't even
> shut other programs down while I did all of this. I was browsing the net
> while SP2 was installing itself.
>
> While I don't recommend this, I figured what the heck. If it didn't break
> while I did this, it couldn't be as bad as you might think reading this
> newsgroup.
>
> The only precaution I took was to make a RESTORE POINT. That's it.
>
> Like I said, all went flawlessly and I was back online in 25 minutes.
>
> So for those of you reading about those that had problems and are getting
> worried, rest assured, SP2 does work and work well. There are bound to be
> a few glitches here and there for a small percentage of people. They will
> come to this newsgroup for help. Just don't get the wrong impression that
> no one can get SP2 installed and working. I did.
>