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"XP Service Pack 2"

It's now officially out and if you want it without the need of using Windows Update you can get it here:

[URL]http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xpsp2.html[/URL]

It's 266 Mb so get downloading :P

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Hi Turbo

The Windows Update release is also available for Pro users by the way, but it will be smaller as it leaves out all the security updates you already have.

Scope wrote:
> Nope its not.

Yes it is, but for Network engineers and IT pro's only (non domestic and XP Pro only) [URL]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en[/URL]

I'm downloading it now from M$ as I type, all 266MB of it!

The domestic release (XP Home) is out towards the end of the month through Windows Update.

Before installing, I'd read this: [URL]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842242[/URL]

and this

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3570636.stm[/URL]

Nope its not.

is the real release out yet? i cant seem to find it on the M$ website.

Coool, i love sp2, the wireless stuff is great :)

Well it said when you installed the beta that you just uninstalled it and then installed the new one, obviously MS screwed up. Annoying at the time but SP2 is now installed and I've recovered all but a few bits that I needed to.

From what I have heard the Beta SP2 may not recover (or in some cases corrupt) certain files it has replaced and apparently backed up, take it from us SP2 works fine as all our XP machines in this office had it installed a few days ago.

Belldandy wrote:
> *flashback to this morning*
>
> *uninstalls SP2 beta, restarts and installs SP2*
>
> *Pc restarts*
>
> *screen goes blank*
>
> *long error message*
>
> *repeat several times*
>
> *try to go to safe mode*
>
> *won't*
>
> *tries recovery*
>
> *doesn't work*
>
> *spends rest of day formatting and reinstalling the OS and god knows
> how much stuff, before using a data recovery program to try dig up
> the pile of stuff he had not backed up for a year*

It's the Beta version.

My cousin uninstalled it and exactly the same thing happened.

That's why you should never trust Beta programs of stuff as big as that...

Tyla wrote:
> Best way to find out if your PC is getting ready is to start up
> windows update, If the url is v4.xxxx then you on the old one, if you
> pointing to v5.xxx then that's where SP2 will be dilevered from.

Mine was 4, but I just changed the URL to 5!

Downloading something now, just, um, don't know what...