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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by akb1979: [qb] I've never updated Windows due to having a dial-up connection and I have my doubts about the SP2 disk.[/qb][/QUOTE]Don't come crying to me when your computer gets infected with some evil icky virus exploiting a flaw in MSN Messenger, then. [QUOTE][qb]I already have the SP2 disk - from the PC Gamer mag. It says that it'll take about 2 hours to install & take 1.8-2.0 GB of my hard drive space. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm not sure that's right. I've just downloaded it, and once the download had finished it probably took around 15-20 minutes to actually install. I didn't check how much hard drive space it took up, but as I've got at least 40 gig free I'm not too bothered. And I'm lazy to do a seperate quote box for Andrew, so I'll just answer it here...downloading SP2 would include all the previous updates. I'd say that you could use System Restore if it goes wrong, but that would be hard to do if the computer keeps resetting. I'm curious as to what the problem is. I'm a bit sceptical about that "helpdesk having hundreds of queries", because millions of people obviously installed that update without any trouble. And why on Earth did they have to wipe your computer? Wouldn't it load up in safe mode? Couldn't they just do a repair installation of Windows? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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