Service Pack Help

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As windows update has already downloaded and installed a bunch of
service pack 2 updates and later you are again trying to reinstall SP1
over that,that's creating all the problems.
It will be a good idea to go for a clean installation followed by SP2.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

rt55g wrote:

> Hi, i dont know if this is the right place to ask this but i am having
> trouble with service pack one (yeah i know its old.) . For some reason
> service pack one mysteriously uninstalled itself and i am left
> servicepackless. I still have all the sp1 hotfixes installed though. Also
> windows update has downloaded a bunch of service pack 2 security updates
> (even though under system properties it says I have no service pack
> installed) and then stoped working. I tried reinstalling service pack 1 but
> that just screwed my computer making it very slow and making most programs
> dysfunctional. Unfortunantly I cant even use service pack 2 because everytime
> i do it ruins my computer and forces me to do a clean reinstall of windows.
> By the way I run Norton anti virus, Norton firewall, Microsoft anti s-pyware,
> ad-aware, have a hardware firewall, use mozilla, and run scans daily so im
> pretty sure my computer is fairly secure and not overrun by viruses. So if
> any of you guys know whats causing my installation problems and how to get
> SP1 to work, any help would be appreciated thanks.