My daughter asked me to help her with this update on her Presario laptop,
which came pre-loaded with V-SP1.
When XP-SP2 came out it was very important to do a bit of prep before
installing the service pack: cleaning the system, turning off AV and running
progs, etc. Doing so always insured an incident free process and it worked
dozens of times for me.
Is there a preparation protocol for Vista's SP2?
Thanks.

TVeblen;1061783 Wrote:
My daughter asked me to help her with this update on her Presario
laptop,
which came pre-loaded with V-SP1.
When XP-SP2 came out it was very important to do a bit of prep before
installing the service pack: cleaning the system, turning off AV and
running
progs, etc. Doing so always insured an incident free process and it
worked
dozens of times for me.
Is there a preparation protocol for Vista's SP2?
Thanks.I recently installed SP2 and I didn't really prepare anything. I went to
installing right away and so far, no problems.


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ronrontiu

"TVeblen" wrote in message
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My daughter asked me to help her with this update on her Presario laptop,
which came pre-loaded with V-SP1.
When XP-SP2 came out it was very important to do a bit of prep before
installing the service pack: cleaning the system, turning off AV and
running progs, etc. Doing so always insured an incident free process and
it worked dozens of times for me.
Is there a preparation protocol for Vista's SP2?
Thanks.

Follow the same protocol you did with XP.
If you are running a 3rd party firewall such as Zone Alarm, make sure that
it is not only turned off, but that it is not set to load on startup. Enable
Windows firewall before downloading and installing SP2.
If you have the stand-alone SP2 installation on a CD/DVD, copy it to the HDD
to run it. I ran into real problems trying to install it from the DVD. If
you're installing it from Windows Update, disregard this statement :-)

SC Tom

"SC Tom" wrote in message
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"TVeblen" wrote in message
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My daughter asked me to help her with this update on her Presario laptop,
which came pre-loaded with V-SP1.
When XP-SP2 came out it was very important to do a bit of prep before
installing the service pack: cleaning the system, turning off AV and
running progs, etc. Doing so always insured an incident free process and
it worked dozens of times for me.
Is there a preparation protocol for Vista's SP2?
Thanks.

Follow the same protocol you did with XP.
If you are running a 3rd party firewall such as Zone Alarm, make sure that
it is not only turned off, but that it is not set to load on startup.
Enable Windows firewall before downloading and installing SP2.
If you have the stand-alone SP2 installation on a CD/DVD, copy it to the
HDD to run it. I ran into real problems trying to install it from the DVD.
If you're installing it from Windows Update, disregard this statement :-)

SC Tom



Thanks Tom. Also- this is a large download. Is there a way to verify the
file integrity?
I'm considering using an Ethernet cable rather than the wireless to insure a
clean download. But errors can still occur in any download.

(And this was supposed to be a new post. How did I end up here? Strange)

"TVeblen" wrote in message
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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"TVeblen" wrote in message
...
My daughter asked me to help her with this update on her Presario
laptop, which came pre-loaded with V-SP1.
When XP-SP2 came out it was very important to do a bit of prep before
installing the service pack: cleaning the system, turning off AV and
running progs, etc. Doing so always insured an incident free process and
it worked dozens of times for me.
Is there a preparation protocol for Vista's SP2?
Thanks.

Follow the same protocol you did with XP.
If you are running a 3rd party firewall such as Zone Alarm, make sure
that it is not only turned off, but that it is not set to load on
startup. Enable Windows firewall before downloading and installing SP2.
If you have the stand-alone SP2 installation on a CD/DVD, copy it to the
HDD to run it. I ran into real problems trying to install it from the
DVD. If you're installing it from Windows Update, disregard this
statement :-)

SC Tom



Thanks Tom. Also- this is a large download. Is there a way to verify the
file integrity?
I'm considering using an Ethernet cable rather than the wireless to insure
a clean download. But errors can still occur in any download.

(And this was supposed to be a new post. How did I end up here? Strange)

I believe Vista verifies the download before the actual installation.

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Also- this is a large download. Is there a way to verify the
file integrity?

All Microsoft patches and other releases are signed, which ensures that
the files have not been altered during download.