A Windows Question

[steven8]

Purely hypothetical question. Let's not get any deeper than we need to.

If you had XP SP1 and you put in a disk of XP SP2, would it come up and say the version on the disk was newer, do you wish to upgrade? And then perform a full upgrade, complete with the new keycode?

[scott]

think it might upgrade to SP2 but it wont of given you a new keycode, but if you have got a new keycode there are ways to change it, the keykode is not related to the disk in most cases, to find your keycode it will be on the pakaging of the windows XP disk, or on the computer that had an XP instalation already installed when purchased.

[Destron]

I don't know, but I do know microsoft, and that tells me that it probably doesn't.

[MakerOfGames]

Hmm... I think it would ask to upgrade the system. If not right away I would stop the install process before it warns you that all your data will be destroyed . Popping in the disk while XP with SP1 is running might work. I would at least hope Microsoft thought of it. That would be the easiest way that would make sense. Hope that helps.

[steven8]

Hmm... I think it would ask to upgrade the system. If not right away I would stop the install process before it warns you that all your data will be destroyed . Popping in the disk while XP with SP1 is running might work. I would at least hope Microsoft thought of it. That would be the easiest way that would make sense. Hope that helps.

Oh yes, the way I was thinking was to be having the system running, then let the xp w/sp2 disk autorun.

[MakerOfGames]

Yeah I would try that. So long as Microsoft didn't overlook an important feature like that .

[firelord]

i just put my sp2 cd in and if i remember write it loads straight away and replaces all sp1 settings and you do not have to register sp2 again.well thats how mine worked anyway

[steven8]

i just put my sp2 cd in and if i remember write it loads straight away and replaces all sp1 settings and you do not have to register sp2 again.well thats how mine worked anyway

I was wondering if that would happen. Thanks, Firelord.

[paradoxnj]

Steven, you can use the same keycode for SP2 as SP1. If it prompts you, just enter the one you used for the original installation. My recommendation would be to update to SP2 via Microsoft Update. It's much cleaner and takes all the post SP2 patches into account. If you "upgrade" via CD, you risk messing up your drivers.

[jonas]

I would have to agree with paradoxnj windows updates would be safest way to update to sp2. Or you could do like I did, I don't fully trust microsoft update, because my computer seems to crash, and run slow every time i use it. So... I just downloaded that patch from microsofts website, and threw it on a disc, so that I would always have it around to upgrade after installing xp. Link to Xp sp2