Hello,
At my office we have an old HP computer --- P4 2,8 ghz , 1 gb ram, 80 gb HD.
the hard drive is too cluttered and I have ordered a 160gb perpendicular recording secondary drive.
My question: What is the best way to do a system restore and get SP3. (System restore will return it to a state with no service packs at all).
I've read about slip streaming a xp disk but this is from a recovery partition. I plan on plugging in the secondary drive, moving all files from HD1 to HD2 worth keeping and running the system recovery.
Do I have to do the service packs in order? Can I just download a stand alone package for sp3 and be done? Should I just do windows update and restart the computer 1,000 times while it goes through all the updates?
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
ps. The pc is just for MS office and internet use, I do not want or plan on updating other components.
At my office we have an old HP computer --- P4 2,8 ghz , 1 gb ram, 80 gb HD.
the hard drive is too cluttered and I have ordered a 160gb perpendicular recording secondary drive.
My question: What is the best way to do a system restore and get SP3. (System restore will return it to a state with no service packs at all).
I've read about slip streaming a xp disk but this is from a recovery partition. I plan on plugging in the secondary drive, moving all files from HD1 to HD2 worth keeping and running the system recovery.
Do I have to do the service packs in order? Can I just download a stand alone package for sp3 and be done? Should I just do windows update and restart the computer 1,000 times while it goes through all the updates?
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
ps. The pc is just for MS office and internet use, I do not want or plan on updating other components.