SP2 needed to install digital camera ??

I am trying to get my sons digital camera onto our pc. We have windows XP. I
am getting a message saying i need SP2. I did have SP2 a while back but took
it off now i cannot find out when i go to update i cannot find it anywhere,
where can i get SP2 from quickly. The camera was for my sons birthday and he
is just itching to download his photos and use it as a web cam.
Regards Lesley
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cheers !!

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"Lesley J" wrote:

| I am trying to get my sons digital camera onto our pc. We have windows XP. I
| am getting a message saying i need SP2. I did have SP2 a while back but took
| it off now i cannot find out when i go to update i cannot find it anywhere,
| where can i get SP2 from quickly. The camera was for my sons birthday and he
| is just itching to download his photos and use it as a web cam.
| Regards Lesley
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| cheers !!

Thanks for the link. I am still having probs, when i click on download SP2 it
takes me to the microsoft update page. I click both the express and customj
install but none of them give me the SP2 download, i am told there are no
updates needed. I have checked to see if i was mistaken and maybe didn't
uninstall it but i only have pack 1, do i need to uninstall this before i can
install pack 2 ?
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cheers !!


"Lesley J" wrote:

> I am trying to get my sons digital camera onto our pc. We have windows XP. I
> am getting a message saying i need SP2. I did have SP2 a while back but took
> it off now i cannot find out when i go to update i cannot find it anywhere,
> where can i get SP2 from quickly. The camera was for my sons birthday and he
> is just itching to download his photos and use it as a web cam.
> Regards Lesley
> --
> cheers !!

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:03:03 -0700, "Lesley J"
<> wrote:

>Thanks for the link. I am still having probs, when i click on download SP2 it
>takes me to the microsoft update page. I click both the express and customj
>install but none of them give me the SP2 download, i am told there are no
>updates needed. I have checked to see if i was mistaken and maybe didn't
>uninstall it but i only have pack 1, do i need to uninstall this before i can
>install pack 2 ?

Try this link if you wish

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/index.html

Non Microsoft link so download it and use it if you wish but be warned
that putting SP2 in even from M$ carries a risk that you could end up
with a totally busted OS and your OS can't be very well if its
confused re the presence of SP2 or not and struggling with a camera.

Please be aware that using non M$ links to get patches is dodgy
business however I have used this site to get obscure patches and
never had a problem.

Your choice.

Jonah

"Lesley J" <> wrote in message
news:1C0B16C8-8EF5-4292-BCDB-...
> Thanks for the link. I am still having probs, when i click on download SP2 it
> takes me to the microsoft update page. I click both the express and customj
> install but none of them give me the SP2 download, i am told there are no
> updates needed. I have checked to see if i was mistaken and maybe didn't
> uninstall it but i only have pack 1, do i need to uninstall this before i can
> install pack 2 ?


Check to see if you declined the download of XPsp2 after you uninstalled it.
I think you would still be offered it until you either installed it again or declined it.

The Automatic Updates dialog has a link in it to "Change automatic update
settings". If you don't have an AU icon to doubleclick on, Run...
(e.g. press Win-Rand enter control wuaucpl.cpl

Then see if you have an active button to "Offer updates again that I've
previously hidden".


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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