Uninstalling SP2

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Yes, you can safely remove SP2 from Add/Remove.

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"Lisa" <No@Spamallowed.com> wrote in message
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>I have XP Home Edition and I have installed SP2 and I want to know if I
>can safely uninstall it using ADD/REMOVE. I cannot get AVG 7 to work. I've
>made posts here as well as to the Grisoft's forum with no response. The
>only other thing I can think to do is uninstall SP2, install AVG 7 and then
>re-install SP2. I think the firewall is somehow blocking it because I
>cannot get it to connect for updates although I have configured the
>firewall according to the Grisoft's documentation. Any thoughts on this
>would be appreciated.
>
> HP Pavillion
> AMD Athlon XP 1700+
> 512 MG DDR
> XP Home Edition , SP2
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Thanks for the info!

"André Gulliksen" <andre.gulliksen@start.no> wrote in message
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> Lisa wrote:
>> I have XP Home Edition and I have installed SP2 and I want to know
>> if I can safely uninstall it using ADD/REMOVE. I cannot get AVG 7 to
>> work.
>
> Well, yes, it should be safe to remove it. But I have seen AVG 7 installed
> on several XP SP2 computers, so it does not have to be related in any way.
> I have however had some bad experiences with the AVG update server. Some
> times it has been impossible to get contact with it, no matter what. You
> may wish to retry the updating a couple of times before going to the step
> of uninstalling and reinstalling SP2.
>