If you have XP service pack 3, you still have to have sp 2 on your pc?

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• I have problems with my lap top which is been updated, but the older the other updates to the service pack file is still present?

  My lap top began to play up with the updates of some files windows service pack 3.5 have been introduced, and I tried to speed things up with the removal of some two files old service pack. He struggled with the race, the trash/delete was misplaced, files have disappeared behind a fictitious system restore. I tried to run Mr. Fix it and get the icon cache is indicated as an error of changing icons and does not repair. I'm doing Defrag disk to re - configure the HDD without losing valuable records and continue to get a size of insufficient volume of about 12% to reconfigure the hard drive. I tried to remove some files more since then and things are run faster by removing a lot of material from google. But the restoration of the system was not available to provide an overview of available programs. Is it because that the guest user is the amount of space drive, help or I may need to get a different system not running windows?

  Hi studiosSorohan melodeon,.

  Follow these methods.

  Method 1: Run the fixit of the article.

  Difficulty of Windows system performance slow computer problems

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/slow_windows_performance/

  Method 2: Perform a clean boot to see if there is a conflict of software like the clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353

  Note: After completing the steps in the clean boot troubleshooting, follow the section How to configure Windows to use a Normal startup state of the link to return the computer to a Normal startupmode.

  After the clean boot used to resolve the problem, you can follow these steps to configure Windows XP to start normally.

  (a) click Startand then click run.

  (b) type msconfigand click OK.

  (c) the System Configuration Utility dialog box appears.

  (d) click the general tab, click Normal startup - load all services and device drivers and then click OK.

  (e) when you are prompted, click on restart to restart the computer.

  Method 3: Follow the steps in the article.

  Maintenance tasks that improve performance

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-CA/Windows-XP/help/Setup/maintenance-improve-performance

• Download Windows Service Pack 2

  I have trouble downloading SP2. When I try to download it via windows update, the download starts then I get an error screen saying "The Installation was not successful." Below that was "Item could not be found."

  I tried to download the standalone windows Download Center service pack, but it still doesn't work.

  Can someone help me please? I'm doing something wrong? Someone at - it similar problems?

  Hi cbelle,

  Thank you for using answers Forum.

  I suggest using the CheckSUR for investigating issues of update.

  What is system update readiness tool? System resources, such as file of data, even in the data memory and registry data, can develop inconsistencies during the lifecycle of the operating system. These contradictions may be caused by various hardware failures or can be caused by software problems. In some cases, these inconsistencies can affect the Windows Service store, and they can cause software updates not do not work. The system update tool attempts to resolve these inconsistencies.

  The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

  

  Download the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista (KB947821) package now.
  (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0435684b-8d12-4028-9cb0-b2903257f1fd)

  

  Download the update tool for Windows Vista x 64 (KB947821) package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b950e3b1-3267-41c2-8f10-1fe9a4bfa44d)

  Copied from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821

  Please let us know if that helps.
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  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Can XP - I still install Service Pack 3?

  I try to update Windows xp service pack 2 with service pack 3 - what I read - it has expired the 13/07/10-is in any case always update my version of windows?  What happens if I try to install the '3' without these other versions first. Other options? HELP ME :(

  Steps to take before you install Windows XP Service Pack 3
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950717

  To make sure that you have a good experience when you install Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), it is always good to check whether your computer is ready for Windows XP SP3. This article gives you the components required to install Windows XP SP3. Other than these prerequisites, this article also provides suggestions to improve your experience.

  In addition, this article can help you solve some common error messages that you may receive when you install Windows XP SP3.

  FYI

  Windows XP Service Pack 3 - file to Image CD ISO-9660:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2FCDE6CE-B5FB-4488-8C50-FE22559D164E&displaylang=en

  Windows XP Service Pack 3 for developers network installation Package and the professionals (unique facilities for the PC can use the same file)
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en

  You can keep a copy for future reinstallation.

  TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2011 - Update Services

• my computer guard reboot changes back several times after the installation of Service pack 2 on Vista.

  I tried to update my computer (Dell, Vista Home premium) with service pack 2 for Vista.
  But after completing the installation, there was an error when I tried to restart to complete update and work stoppage.
  So I restarted the computer and, instead of log on screen, the message [service pack was not installed recovery changes do not turn off your computer] appeared
  and then restart automatically.

  Now it's repeating this cycle for a day!... .the message - > restart-> message-> restart...
  What should I do? I can still start windows safe mode. (the same message...)
  I have lots of important files it contains so really want to reinstall Vista.
  Please help me...

  Hi arkitekromero,

  Given that repair options did not work for you.  I suggest you try the method below.

  Change the settings of the REGISTRY can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the REGISTRY settings configuration can be solved. Changes to these settings are at your own risk. Rename the Pending.xml file, and then change the registry notes read the following important notes before you use this troubleshooting method. Use this method to resolve the symptom of restart that is described in the "Symptoms" section, so that you can back up data before you reinstall Windows. You must use this method of troubleshooting only if you plan to back up data and reinstall Windows. Use this method only after trying other methods. Note If your computer is not configured to start from a CD or a DVD, see the documentation provided with your computer for instructions on how to continue. Use this method only if the computer has no restore points or if you cannot start your computer to a point where the system restore feature is available. After using this method, the following conditions may exist until reinstalling Windows: An update is being installed may not be installed correctly. Windows Update may not work correctly. If an update is installed, you may be unable to stop the installation process. You may be unable to enable and disable certain Windows functions in option. Certain optional Windows features may not work correctly. The computer may be in an unprotected state. To rename the Pending.xml file, and edit the registry, follow these steps. Start Windows Vista and go to system recovery options: Insert the Windows Vista installation disc in the disc drive, and then restart the computer. When you are prompted to restart from the disc, press any key. When you are prompted, configure the language to install, time and currency formatsand keyboard or input method options that you want, and then click Next. On the Install Windows page, click repair your computer. In the System Recovery Options page, click the version of the Windows Vista operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next. Use the system recovery options to rename the Pending.xml file and modify the registry:

  1. In the System Recovery Options page, click command prompt.
  2. Type cd C:\windows\winsxs, and then press ENTER.
  3. Type ren pending.xml pending.old, and then press ENTER.
  4. Type regedit and press ENTER.
  5. Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
  6. On the file menu, click load the hive.
  7. Look for the following folder:
     C:\windows\system32\config\components
  8. When you are prompted for a name, type Offline_Components.
  9. In the registry editor, find and delete the following registry subkey:
     HLKM\Offline Components\AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving
     HKLM\Offline Components\PendingXmlIdentifier

  Exit the registry editor:

  1. At the command prompt, type exit to quit the registry editor.
  2. Press ENTER.
  3. Click restart.

  Thank you for using answers Forum. Please let us know how it works.

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• Windows xp professional service pack 1 required

  I recently reformatted my hard drive and want to re install windows xp pro 2002 of the original disc.
  After you start the installation from the cd, I now get a message asking for the service pack 1 cd (which I did not) and the establishment will not continue without it.
  Where can I get a copy of this disc please?

  Hello

  It is possible that the installation did not finish and your CD (which could be a CD of Windows XP service pack 1 installation) still needed to be in the optical drive.

  In the case and the installation is really finished, what triggers this message?

  You can download stand-alone service packs. Indeed, in order to get a job of Windows updates, you need to download and install these service packs...

  Check your level of service current pack...

  • Hold down the Windows (between Ctrl and Alt) key and press Pause break
  • Examine what is listed in the system: section

  If there is no designated service pack level, first you need to download SP2 from...

  http://www.Microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&ID=28

  .. .and then run the downloaded program to install SP2 (SP2 includes SP1 and SP1A).

  Once you have done this, or if you were already in service pack 1, 1a or 2, then install SP3 by downloading and running from...

  http://www.Microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&ID=24

  For both of the above, you can ignore the text that says it's for network installations and also ignore the text advising windows/microsoft update if a single update of a PC.

  So try and get up-to-date with the Windows updates.

  Tricky

• Service Pack 3 problems!

  After you install Service pack 3 on my Tablet PC (xp home), I lost the ability to turn (rotate) my screen for entries, carbonless.  On my other computer (the same but with service pack 2), it still works.  How can I remove 3 and reinstall 2?

  Contact the manufacturer for updated driver to correct the problem.

  And get the installed SP3 on your computer, also: computers running WinXP SP2 not will be offered NO more critical security updates, automatic updates will stop working, and the Windows Update Web site will not be available after April 12, 2010, until that SP3 is installed. ~ Robear Dyer (PA bear); MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002. DISCLAIMER: I do not represent nor don't work for Microsoft

• No details pane in Explorer - Windows 7 complete edition, all updates and service pack 1 applied.

  I am running WIndows 7 Ultimate and my Explorer window displays more info at the bottom pane in the files list. Is there any component at all. It does not matter what library or folder that I discovered in the Details view, there is no pane. When I browse the same libraries through residential group however, sharing on my laptop computer that is also running windows 7 ultimate, the pane is there.

  I just installed Service pack 1 and still no detail pane.  Can I change the details of the view to everything I want to display in the list of file in detail, but there is nothing else than the status at the bottom toolbar.  I tried turning this toolbar on and outside, but no difference.

  I can't seem to find information on how to activate the details, on and outside pane, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

  In Windows Explorer, it should just be a case of clicking organize , then layout , then click on the details pane. You say that this does not work for you?

• Error when you try to install Windows XP Service Pack 3: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.

  Windows XP SP3 problem

  Recently, I met a problem with my PC and was forced to use the system recovery. Now I'm back to factory settings and try to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my computer. Windows Update won't work for me, that whenever I try to update I get [error number: 0x8024400A]. I think it's because I use Service Pack 2, or that's what I concluded after researching the problem, anyway.

  This is not my real concern, however. Because I could not get the update automatically, I tried to download and install the "Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT professionals and developers" myself. The first time I did it, I restarted the PC after the installation and was met with "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. "  I went into safe mode and went to a just system restore point before SP3 was installed, but now I don't know how to install it correctly without encountering this problem after reboot. I'm hardly the easy just stick with SP2 when there are potentially important available updates. How can I get Windows Service Pack 3 is installed on my PC?

  It's certainly interesting!

  If the cause of your problem is to have a HP PC with an AMD processor and an original image on your hard drive (and of course it sounds like this is the case), the solution should be to rename the file intelppm.sys and launch the sp37394.exe patch. Once done, the SP3 file that you downloaded from here:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/en-US/Download/details.aspx?ID=24
  SHOULD work!
  I'm puzzled why there is no intelppm.sys file in your directory C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers.
  Since you recently returned to square one with your PC ("return to factory settings"), then you may as well run the patch from this page:
  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&LC=en&DLC=en&softwareitem=PV-60484-2
  and try the SP3 Setup file again.
  But, first, let's be absolutely sure that we are both using the same terminology. Please answer the following questions:
  1. have you safely backed up ALL your data?
  2. what method did you use to ride "back to factory settings? I think that your choices have been a destructive restore (full) and a (partial) non-destructive recovery. The first erases the disk and leave you with a pristine image and NOTHING ELSE (which means that all of your programs and data get deleted). The other (which does not always correctly) is supposed to leave programs and data intact.

• What I need to remove service pack 1, 2, because I now have 3. He is always eager to install things for service pack 1. Thank you Jim z

  Should I delete srevice Pack1 and all its pc componits since I have service pack 3? And his watch still publishes to srevice pack 1. Thanks Jim Z.

  Hi Jim.

  You don't need to uninstall or remove a service pack in your Windows XP.

  Each pack of serivce is stacked on the previous service pack.

  Infact, you will not be able to install the latest Service Pack before the previous one.

  I wish you good health.

  Please check that it might be the Service Pack for your Microsoft Office, but not the Windows Service Pack to your Windows updates.

• After you have reinstalled Windows XP, I can not install any service packs.

  Could not load service packs windows xp

  I reloaded windows xp pro, and now I can't get service packs to load. With packages of sp, I can't get the flash drives, and so on. Any ideas out there?

  Hello

  Service Pack2 (if you need it) can be obtained here.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?ID=28

  Service Pack3 can be obtained here.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?ID=24

  Have you tried windows update? If Yes, see this...

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-windows_update/error-after-fresh-install-of-Windows-XP-Pro/a617bb44-9944-4338-b82e-c18372ad986f

  If the foregoing is not useful so can I suggest that you be a little more specific on what is blocking you? Tell us what you do to try to get the service Pack installed, and what happens when you do that, including error messages verbatim etc.

  Tricky

• Service pack 1 ready to install, after you have clicked on install nothing happens.

  My system restore and reach the point of windows update when Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is ready to install. Updated Windows finishes and closes, I agreed to terms and conditions and I clicked on install. Nothing happens, I rebooted the system manually and tried to implement everything, and no matter what I do on windows reboot, it shows still 1 important update available: Windows Vista Service Pack 1. It does not start only. Often in the past, I download the 5-Language-Stand-Alone-Service-Pack, but as stated on the page requires much more space, then the version included in the automatic update of Windows? Any info would be greatly appreciated thanks.

  Download the applicable full file - it will install only what suits him. Also, you have the advantage of being able to save SP on the disk if you do not have to download it again.

  You can use the downloads for single PC as well.

  Learn how to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/133c8953-c9cd-4FA5-8883-03e91bb6f2021033.mspx

  If you have problems to receive the service pack from Windows Update, you can download SP1 as a stand-alone package from the Microsoft Download Center website, and then install SP1 manually.

  Then pass SP2

  Learn how to install Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2)
  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-GB/help/105f7420-6f7f-4FE8-8698-2f40ca5f53711033.mspx

• You can download service pack 1 and 2 correctly for me, sp1 has been downloaded many times, but I get pop ups, saying: I do not have sp1 and I don't know where the sp2 went his lost

  you have my permission to connect to my laptop to do what must be corrected. Thank you

  Hello

  I'm sorry, but we do not dial out.

  We provide the information that you can use yourself.

  Click Start > right click on computer > left click on properties > see if you have Vista 32 bit or Vista 64-bit installed.

  It will also tell you here what Service Packs, if any, are already installed.

  Then, choose the download of 'bit' OK to use to install Service Packs, first of all the installation of SP1.

  Vista SP1 32-bit (x 86): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30

  Vista SP1 64-bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21299

  Vista SP2 32-bit (x 86): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16468

  Vista SP2 64-bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17669

  And if you have any problems:

  There is a Forum that Microsoft has put in place for problems with Vista Service Packs. If repost you the Forum they will definitely try to help you here...

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/itprovistasp/threads

  See you soon.

• After you have installed face to face Service pack 2 with network connectivity issue

  Original title: How can I stop this?

  Since the download for Vista service Pack 2, I have to reset my IP addresses when I connect.  How can I stop this?

  Hello

  1 What is a wired or wireless network?
  2. What is the exact error message or error code?

  Try the following and see if it helps.

  Method 1:

  
  Check the proxy server settings are turned on. To do this, try the following steps:
  a. activate the proxy on Internet Explorer (IE)
  b. Click Start, type inetcpl.cpl and press to enter.
  c. click on the Connections tab, click the LAN Settings button.
  d. check "Automatically detect settings" under proxy server.
  e. click ok to apply the changes.
  f. open Internet Explorer and check if the problem persists.
  
   
  Method 2:
  
  Purge the DNS and check if it helps.
  
  Try the following steps and try to purge the DNS and check if it helps.
  
  a. Click Start. Type cmd in the search box and press ENTER.
  b. at the command prompt, type the following command and press ENTER:
  ipconfig/flushdns (there is a space between ipconfig and /).
  It will show you the message successfully empty the cache of DNS resolution.
  c. at the command prompt, type the following command and press ENTER:
  ipconfig/registerdns (there is a space between ipconfig and /).
  For reference, see the following Microsoft article:
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781949 (WS.10) .aspx

  Method 3:

  How to reset the Protocol (TCP/IP) Internet: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357

• After you install Windows Vista, I said that I have 30 days to activate it, but when I type my product code, I get an error message saying: I don't have a service pack installed.

  I put vista on my computer and it says I have 30 days to activate, but when I type in my product code I get an error message. I do not have a service pack installed, this is the problem? And if so how to obtain the service pack and what one should I get? I also have a problem with my automatic updates... many of them fail to install. How can I prevent that to happen?

  original title: product activation key

  Hello

  1. you receive an error message during the Windows update fails?

  Problem with Windows Vista Activation:

  Step 1:

  For the problem with the activation of Windows Vista, I suggest that you check the links below that would help you to the activation of Windows Vista.

  How to activate Windows Vista

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/940315

  You may be unable to activate Windows Vista over the Internet by using the Windows Activation Wizard of

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/933177

  Activating Windows: Frequently asked questions

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/activating-Windows-frequently-asked-questions

  Step 2:

  Windows Vista has two service packs you can install service pack 1, and then later you can install service pack 2 on the computer.

  Service pack (SP) is an update of Windows, often combining previously released updates, that helps make Windows more reliable.

  To download the service pack, click the link below.

  Service Pack Center

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/downloads/service-packs

  Problem with Windows Update:

  Try to reset the Windows Update components.

  How to reset the Windows Update components?

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058

  See also:

  Problems with installing updates

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-problems-with-installing-updates