First see if it actually did install SP2. Right click on the My Computer
Icon and select properties, on the main "General" tab you should see, under
"System" the information about your Operating system, including the version
number and in the last line the service pack number.

As far as manual download, Microsoft says that manual downloads of SP2 via
Windows Update will be available soon. Exactly what they mean by "soon" is
anybody's guess.

William Pike
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Virginia Savage
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:33 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] WindowsXP - Service Pack 2

About 4 days ago I received notification WinXP SP2 is ready to be
downloaded.  I clicked on the appropriate button, and about 30 seconds
later, the Windows Update icon disappeared from my taskbar.

I have tried going to the WinXP SP2 Home page to download it, but cannot
find a way to do this.

I don't know why the download aborted, and want to install this important
update.

Please help?

Thank you.

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