How to reinstall SP2?

[Pazzo]

I had a SP2 install some weeks ago, but restored my PC back to SP1 because of
various conflicting software packages. I now have resolved those conflicts,
so want to reinstall SP2. Guess what? The Windows Update site still thinks I
already have SP2, so it is no longer available to me for download. How can I
fix this?

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Download and install SP-2 manually per step 1 on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm

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


"Pazzo" > wrote in message
...
>I had a SP2 install some weeks ago, but restored my PC back to SP1 because
>of
> various conflicting software packages. I now have resolved those
> conflicts,
> so want to reinstall SP2. Guess what? The Windows Update site still thinks
> I
> already have SP2, so it is no longer available to me for download. How can
> I
> fix this?

[Rock]

Pazzo wrote:

> I had a SP2 install some weeks ago, but restored my PC back to SP1 because of
> various conflicting software packages. I now have resolved those conflicts,
> so want to reinstall SP2. Guess what? The Windows Update site still thinks I
> already have SP2, so it is no longer available to me for download. How can I
> fix this?

Download the full network version of SP2, or get one of the free SP2 CDs
available from MS or at office supply stores.

Download and Deploy Service Pack 2 to Multiple Computers
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2predl.mspx

Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default810.mspx

[Pazzo]

Thanks Jupiter,
I just downloaded the 266 MB CD. I was hoping I could somehow reset or fool
the autoupdate so that it returns to the pre-SP2 state. The fact that AU
states I have SP2 indicates that a Windows deinstall/restore does not
actually eliminate all settings in the registry, or wherever this SP2 setting
is stored. That's a small bug.
Pazzo

[George Hester]

Windows Update gets the information of what Update has been installed by =
referring to XML files on your hard
drive. That's why it thinks you still have it installed. Removing SP2 =
is not "smart or dumb your call" to remove
that install from the XMLs. Look at them here:

C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate\%UpdateVersion%\

I don't recall the Windows Update version XP uses but in Windows 2000 it =
is v4. In its subfolder you should
have a XML called iuhist.xml. The important word here is hist(ory). =
That is how Windows Update knows you
have installed something and completed it successfully.

You could play with the XML files in there to get the SP2 to come back. =
Or just remove all the XML files from=20
that area; get your SP2 again; then put them back after you install it. =
Of course don't install anything that is NOT
in the XMLs that you are removing.

--=20
George Hester
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"Pazzo" > wrote in message =
...
> Thanks Jupiter,
> I just downloaded the 266 MB CD. I was hoping I could somehow reset or =
fool=20
> the autoupdate so that it returns to the pre-SP2 state. The fact that =
AU=20
> states I have SP2 indicates that a Windows deinstall/restore does not=20
> actually eliminate all settings in the registry, or wherever this SP2 =
setting=20
> is stored. That's a small bug.
> Pazzo

[Alex Nichol]

Pazzo wrote:

>I just downloaded the 266 MB CD. I was hoping I could somehow reset or fool
>the autoupdate so that it returns to the pre-SP2 state.

If you downloaded that 266 MB .exe file, just go ahead and run it (with
usual precautions about a clean unencumbered machine). It will install
SP2 without paying attention to those Windows update ideas, and all will
be well

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[George Hester]

Alex I was trying to answer this question, "I was hoping I could somehow =
reset or fool=20
the autoupdate so that it returns to the pre-SP2 state[...t]hat's a =
small bug[.]" from the OP.
What I described is how to do that.

--=20
George Hester
_________________________________
"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message =
...
> Pazzo wrote:
>=20
> >I just downloaded the 266 MB CD. I was hoping I could somehow reset =
or fool=20
> >the autoupdate so that it returns to the pre-SP2 state.=20
>=20
> If you downloaded that 266 MB .exe file, just go ahead and run it =
(with
> usual precautions about a clean unencumbered machine). It will =
install
> SP2 without paying attention to those Windows update ideas, and all =
will
> be well
>=20
> --=20
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Alex Nichol]

George Hester wrote:

>Alex I was trying to answer this question, "I was hoping I could somehow reset or fool
>the autoupdate so that it returns to the pre-SP2 state[...t]hat's a small bug[.]" from the OP.
>What I described is how to do that.

And I was suggesting he does not need to bother if he is, as it appears,
intending to run the full SP2 again


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[George Hester]

Of course not. I understood that. I just tried to answer the question =
that was posed. Call that unnecessary but
what can I say? I believe it is always the right thing to do to answer =
the question that is posed even if it is not
necessary to do it in their particular case.

--=20
George Hester
_________________________________
"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message =
...
> George Hester wrote:
>=20
> >Alex I was trying to answer this question, "I was hoping I could =
somehow reset or fool=20
> >the autoupdate so that it returns to the pre-SP2 state[...t]hat's a =
small bug[.]" from the OP.
> >What I described is how to do that.
>=20
> And I was suggesting he does not need to bother if he is, as it =
appears,
> intending to run the full SP2 again
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)