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Alternative place to get Service Pack 2?

  • 22-12-2004 8:35pm
    #1
    HacksawEddie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭


    hi
    can i get or install windows xp pro service pack 2 without going through the microsoft site? (torrent etc?)
    lets just say i dont have a "formal" product key.

    cheers


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  • #2
    Winters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    It came out on torrent immediatly after it was released as a chance to show how much torrents benefit file sharing, but it was removed after several orders or somesuch. Typical Microsoft.

    Depending on your "formal" product key it may or may not work. You can only download it and find out.


  • #3
    jessy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭jessy


    About 2 months ago it was being shipped with most pc magazines. Maybe you can find one of them. Tbh I don’t know why you would want to install it.


  • #4
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    jessy wrote:
    About 2 months ago it was being shipped with most pc magazines. Maybe you can find one of them. Tbh I don’t know why you would want to install it.
    Am I the only one who hasn't had a single problem, other than it lowering my mic volume, with SP2?


  • #5
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Winters wrote:
    It came out on torrent immediatly after it was released as a chance to show how much torrents benefit file sharing, but it was removed after several orders or somesuch. Typical Microsoft.

    Depending on your "formal" product key it may or may not work. You can only download it and find out.
    Actually, they removed it to stop the chance that someone would alter it maliciously and then put it back out on file share, thus afflicting any number of people who download it. In sort, "typical Microsoft" was quite right to do it.


  • #6
    Gosh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Gosh


    HacksawEddie wrote:
    can i get or install windows xp pro service pack 2 without going through the microsoft site?

    You can order a CD from microsoft here (don't need a product key "informal" or not)

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx

    you don't need anything apart from an email address (and that's only for a confirmation email) and a delivery address .. you'll get the CD in about 4 weeks

    I've installed on 4 PC's and a laptop - don't need a product key to install


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  • #7
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Its not like SP1 where they set it to not install onto machines using any of a bunch of known pirated keys - it should install on any system running XP.


  • #8
    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe

    jus download as normal ffs.


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