Posted by Lance on 04/02/06 15:45

Here's a very good checklist for pre-installation tasks:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm

Lance
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Lance thought carefully and wrote on 4/2/2006 8:37 AM:
> I participated in testing the "prerelease" version of SP2 and then went
> out and installed the final release of SP2 on about 25 computers without
> any problems whatsoever.
>
> The people in our test group with the most problems where those that had
> remnants of viruses, adware or spyware on their computers. Their copy
> WinXP was broken to begin with so installing SP2 on top of a broken copy
> of Windows just messed thing up even further.
>
> I do recall that people running Alcohol 120% (or other CD/DVD emulation
> software) did have problems. The fix was to uninstall it before
> installing SP2, then reinstall afterwards.
>
> If your computer is clean and otherwise updated and you do your homework
> you will not have a problem:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sp2_whattoknow.mspx
>
> For security related updates like SP2 Microsoft offers free phone
> support. You have to dig for it, but the link above will eventually lead
> you to their phone number.
>
> Lance
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