Are you possibly talking about using another SP1 disk
altogether?

Yes.

Well yes, then, of course this would work. The problem might be getting one
of those disks from the manufacturer. There was never a doubt in my mind
that a roll back of SP2 to SP1 could be performed with an SP1 disk - I've
deleted all the uninstall directories and done this earlier (I've messed a
*lot* with installations :-). The real deal was to *get* this disk from the
OEM (if a slipstreamed SP2 disk was supplied originally) which I suspect,
they may fuss about. Has anyone tried this?



In that case, would there be product key complications,
and where could this be procured from.

As long as the WinXP SP1 OS is of the same type as the original WinXP SP2
OS installation, there will be no product key complications.


I hate to say this, but Carey might be right this time?

Nope.

No surprises there; we all know it 8-).




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