No. SP2 will not install on a "pirated" version of Windows XP,
nor can it be slipstreamed in.

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

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"s-y-n-e-r-g-y" wrote:

| If you slipstream SP2 onto a pirated Xp Pro disk does it bypass the
| serial/wga check and let you install w/ sp2?
|
| thx 08/17/05