[Ham-Computers] Wanting to borrow...

[Ron Youvan]

Jim Hill wrote:

> 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
> auto-start, 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.

   I do know, traditionally, M$ service packs include all previous service packs because there are 
so many user that don't know what is good for them, what to do or where to go.
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