Terry

Installing SP2 first for XP is a very good idea or should I say is necessary. Go ahead and install the SP2 .

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"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:kgdq635042r1ne4f096h7s2t3otku6utnf@4ax.com...
> At http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/s...hattoknow.mspx I read
> "Before you install SP2, get your version of Windows completely
> up-to-date with the latest performance and security updates. Go to the
> Microsoft Update, click Express Install, and then install all high
> priority updates listed."
>
> Is that absolutely essential please? Because I'm in a sort of Catch 22
> situation here.
>
> On my wife's new PC which we ordered without an OS, I've run her old
> XP SP1 CD, successfully installing a raw version of XP Home SP1. But
> before proceeding with adding her broadband and all the many other
> applications she had running on her old PC under XP SP2, I want to get
> back to the familiar look of her old desktop etc. To do that I used
> the File & Transfer Wizard. But the new PC doesn't recognise the
> settings I've copied across, i.e. the wizard won't run on the new PC.
> I'm *guessing* this is because it's on SP1 and the settings were saved
> on SP2. So I've downloaded the full 266 MB SP2 update EXE (on my own
> PC), copied it across to the new PC, and am now hesitating about
> running it.
>
> Any advice urgently appreciated please.
>
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> Terry, West Sussex, UK