[Ham-Computers] Wanting to borrow...

[Gary Pewitt]

I had the same problem when I was still running XP.  They (Microslime) 
told me they wouldn't sell me a disk and my modem connection would 
always drop out when I left it on over night trying to download the SP.  
So I took a thumb drive to the library and used their high speed 
connection to download it.  Just made it under the one hour limit of the 
library computer usage.  Hope you have a near by library.  And a thumb 
drive.  Their computers didn't have any CD or DVD drives but they did 
have USB connectors.
Good luck.  Gary  N9ZSV



On 11/6/2011 1:50 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> : Don't run XP here any longer, but it seems to me that if you already
> : have XP on the machine that you should be able to download the SP3
> : directly from MS by using Windows Update (that's how I did it in the
> past).
>
> Hoping for a disk, so when I re-install XP thirty years from now on a stand
> alone computer 700 miles form the nearest phone line I can have all the
> updates as well!
>
> In the meantime, I am on 30-40K dialup and don't have the hours or datarate
> from my ISP to dowload even 10% of what's on the average CD.  32 fiber optic
> trunks 3/4 mile away and highspeed in only a few cities in the entire state.
> Go figure!
>
> Kurt
>
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Gary Pewitt   N9ZSV
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