[Ham-Computers] Wanting to borrow...

[Jim Hill]

Kurt:  If you have not followed Gary's suggestion and gone to your 
local library...

I made a copy of my Windows SP3 upgrade on a CD-R, and will mail it 
to you.  I'll need your mailing address. The original disk was an 
autostart, but you will need to start this copy manually.  Use 
Windows Explorer (or one of the much better aftermarket app's, like 
Directory Opus) to go to AUTORUN.EXE and double-click this 
file.  Maybe you could just use Start>Run, but you probably want to 
look at the contents first because the upgrade is in a folder.

If you click "What to know before installing Service Pack 3, you will 
notice sp2 is mentioned.  I guess they copied it directly from sp2 
without checking it carefully.

If sp3 is already installed it will hang up instead of reinstalling 
over the old one.

Does it include sp2, or do you need to install sp2 first?  I don't 
know.  I have the sp2 install disk too, and think I used it in the 
past.  I bought sp3 about 9/6/08.

Burning this disk makes me appreciate flash drives.  I had to install 
disk burning software and get back up to speed again, including 
remembering that all my drives are not RW when I could not burn anything.

Jim


At 11:01 AM 11/6/2011, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
>Service Pack 3 CD for Windows XP Home Edition.
>
>Seems microschmuck can't process something as simple as a mailing address,
>so I can't order one from them...
>
>I'd like to borrow one to install, then send it back.
>
>Kurt
>
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