"mr.sumo snr." <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> It was a simple matter of finishing the installation.  Connecting to
Windows
> Update, and downloading and installing Service Pack 1.

No way, that does not work..

> Actually I tell a
> lie....I had already previously downloaded the entire service pack 1.
It's
> a little known fact that at Windows Update you can actually download all
the
> updates as if you were downloading a program from www.download.com and
then
> save the updates to a directory of your choice.  I did this for SP1 some
> time ago - when it was first released in fact.

And not for a Japanese PC maybe....
That doesn't work for me because the SP1 from this site is in English and
the XP in Japanese. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
Maybe I'm going to Yodobashi Camera and tell them that they have the choice
between exchanging my altmodish XP (bought in January 2003, it should have
contained the update) against a new one or giving me that SP1 update on a
CD.

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