Eeek.. Windows Update Says I Do Not Have SP2

Hello,
This wasn't happening before, but I think I did the "bug" or whatever. I formatted my computer, and went directly to SP1. Then, I went directly to SP2 without downloading all the updates first. I think this is the "bug", but correct me if I'm wrong. So, for some reason, now it starts saying I need SP2. I don't know what to do because I'm not sure if it will just overwrite SP2 with no problems or have all these problems come up.

And I'm positive I have SP2, but it doesn't say it in the System Properties. I know I have SP2 because I have the little Security Center.

EDIT: When I go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com it takes me to Windows Update... I check for updates (Custom Install instead of Express, shouldn't matter) and it says I need SP2. But, it says it will take 0 minutes to download 0 kb. I still think that it might mess up, though. So anyone experienced this?

Alacritous

0 minutes means that its already on your hard drive. you could try to re-install it, but I suggest that you uninstall it, get all the other updates, and then re-install it. i installed 3 times before getting things right on one machine.

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Originally posted by dglienna
0 minutes means that its already on your hard drive.

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I know...

I'll do the other things you said. I just installed all the updates, but if things don't work I'll uninstall SP2 and re-install it.

I think Microsoft released a patch for this issue. I can't imagine it would hurt to just let it do what it wants. Saves a whole lot of time, besides, go straight to XPSP2 in future, there is no need to install XPSP1 because it's in XPSP2.

Yeah, I think I solved it.

The reason I didn't go straight to SP2 is because I formatted like 2 days before it released, so... Kinda stupid but...

Alacritous

SP2 was sitting in the system tray at my friends last night, but I went to Windows Update and installed 4 updates BEFORE SP2. Glad that I did. Everrything worked perfectly!

its working more than it isn't, lately, fwiw

You can always turn the firewall off, that would solve your networking woes, just make sure that in place of it, you have a gateway or firewall that they are all protected by.

Well its a corporate network behind a NAT firewall etc. etc.
And I don't much fancy turning the firewall off on all our machines that we deploy it onto!

And I haven't had a chance to fiddle with the XP SP2 / Windows 2003 group policy settings yet.

Apparently there is a bug that may occur when you import the XPSP2 policies into Windows Server 2003 because the policies are of a different format to the one the Group Policy Editor uses in Server 2003 (Some extra text or something if I remember correctly), you need a patch from Microsoft for it, can't remember where it is though.