Re: Downloading XP's SP2 and all other patches...

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Easy solution:  Have him bring his machine to your house and get on your 
connection, do the download(s)?



Dan wrote:
> My brother's hard drive took the big dive two weeks ago, and last night we
> finally installed a new hard drive and reloaded XP.  The XP install CD has
> only service pack 1 on it.  My brother only has a dial-up internet
> connection.  I convinced him to wait for me to burn a CD with SP2 on it.  I
> found that on Microsoft's site and downloaded it.
>
> But now I'm wondering if there's a way to download all of the other security
> updates that have occurred since SP2 was released, as well as IE7, in one
> fell swoop.  I definitely don't want to manually download each of these
> separately; if it comes to that, I'll just have Windows Update take care of
> that.
>
> Also, this is a Dell pc, and the XP cd was Dell's.  I was surprised that I
> was not prompted to supply the 25-character product ID (?) somewhere in the
> install.  When originally prompted for registering, I had to cancel because
> I did not have the account information necessary to set up the dial-up
> connection.  Makes me wonder if Dell's XP install disk is coded to install
> on any Dell box without requiring the product ID.  But that sounds
> soooooooooo not like Microsoft.
>
> - Dan
>