"f1charlie" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Yesterday just before switching off I noticed that SP2 was available via
> Windows Update. As I was going to bed, I thought I would leave it until
> today to install it. When I go to Windows Update, SP2 is no longer
> offered, although some other updates were. SP2 hasn't been installed,
> so where has it gone? Will it be offered again?
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> f1charlie[/color]

My PC never showed SP2 on Windows Update. I don't know why. I downloaded
and installed it manually.

You made a mistake. It doesn't show on Update list for people who have
conflicting soft/hardware, it's very intelligent unlike WindowsXP and won't
force updates which are known to caus eproblems for your machine it
identified as such. You might be missing prerequisites also.

Now that you FORCED SP2, you may or may not expect problems in future,
nobody knows. Microsoft doesn't take chances with your kind of setup these
days, unlike WindowsXP where updates were more or less offered to everyone
almost the same for a given Windows version.