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  1. Oct 9th, 2004, 11:33 AM #1
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    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?

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  2. Oct 9th, 2004, 12:33 PM #2
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    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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  3. Oct 9th, 2004, 12:35 PM #3
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    Originally posted by dglienna
    0 minutes means that its already on your hard drive.
    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.
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  4. Oct 10th, 2004, 06:13 AM #4
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    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.
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  6. Oct 10th, 2004, 09:40 AM #5
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    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...

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  7. Oct 10th, 2004, 01:27 PM #6
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    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!
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    its working more than it isn't, lately, fwiw
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  9. Oct 12th, 2004, 02:53 AM #8
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    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.
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  11. Oct 12th, 2004, 08:23 AM #9
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    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.
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  12. Oct 13th, 2004, 04:03 AM #10
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    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.
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