"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> 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."
>
Of course it's essential, just relative to the following where you
"want to get back to the familiar look of old desktop" and you
then say "new PC won't recognise the settings" - though no detail?
So it could be anything from graphics drivers, to patches, to simply
you want settings that are only available under SP2 but the PC
has to be patched with all high priority updates before SP2 is
installed. And the MS site guides you on all of that.
And doing as instructed is the safest option as once it is ready
then windows update will auto detect it is and download and
install SP2 to a setup that the scan deems is prepared, rather
than you doing it fingers crossed from a download.



> 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