Damage_inc- Posted December 4, 2012 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.37 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted December 4, 2012 so I aquaire my old first computor back from the inlaws to give to one of my kids .use restore cd and now its back to xp home no service packs..now I find there is no longer xp support .I havent found a service pack to download yet.gets 10minutes in the process and then says sorry.has anyone been thru this and found a way to update xp home? so i find the files install and start to download then it freezes and says it cant complete and server wont connect ...dont matter what download i find/sp1 or 2 or 3 or it version.....etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
little_old_man Posted December 4, 2012 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.30 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Share Posted December 4, 2012 You may be screwed. Microsoft stopped supporting XP a while ago. If you have a working version of XP I would just use it as is and forget any updates. If you know anybody with a fully updated version of XP they could copy the updates to a flash drive for you to use. A few years from now some will be asking the same question about Windows 8 and 10. This is how a monopoly forces you to buy new products, kind of like what Apple does to their users every 2-3 years on phones, tablets and computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WiZiD Posted December 4, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I have the disk for service 2 and a disk for service pack 3. Ordered them from Microsoft a long time ago. I could mail you copies or try to make iso's and put them in my drop box. If you want send me a PM as to the way you want to go with that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
JohnnyQuest Posted December 4, 2012 Member ID: 1965 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1176 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 1082 Achievement Points: 8599 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 15, 2016 Birthday: 02/11/1969 Share Posted December 4, 2012 WiZiD has everything...in fact he has so much i am moving beside him...oh wait better get my green card first...he he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiZiD Posted December 5, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Windows 7 SP1 DVD Windows Vista SP1 Windows Vista SP2 get these while you still can... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WiZiD Posted December 5, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted December 5, 2012 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/search.aspx?q=windows+XP+service+packs I just tried a few links in here and they worked. The link is for XP service packs. The download links... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted December 5, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.50 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted December 5, 2012 Microsoft will stop supporting XP in April 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
J3st3r Posted December 5, 2012 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5083 Content Per Day: 1.05 Reputation: 5009 Achievement Points: 44628 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Wednesday at 03:49 AM Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted December 5, 2012 (edited) My old laptop has Windows ME on it.I tried to put XP on it but it's just to slow to run it.I think it may be time to install Linux on it or retire it lol. If you can put at-least 1 gig of memory in it you can run Win 7 32 bit 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) processor 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver My media center PC that I have hooked to my TV has an old Intel P4 1.5ghz cpu and 2 gig of memory and it works good with Win 7 32 bit.I use it to DL "Movies" for late night entertainment.lol If it has a crappy Intel Celeron or an AMD Duron or low end Sempron cpu don't install Win 7 on it.The fsb and cache speed are just to slow. Give us some Specs of the PC in question if you want to update to Win 7.I can get you some "wares" lol. Edited December 5, 2012 by Pvt.Death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KaptCrunch Posted December 5, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 295 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4454 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3617 Achievement Points: 36412 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted December 5, 2012 Damage_inc may be bad set-up with HDD, manu partition cause error in D/Ling check partitions and free space of drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Damage_inc- Posted December 5, 2012 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.37 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 THANKS.I HAD TO DOWNLOAD AND BURN A CD ON THIS COMPUTOR FIRST ..XPSP2 AND THEN XPSP3..ITS ALL GOOD NOW,,PROBLEM WAS I WAS TRYING TO INSTALL DIRECTLY AND THAT DOESNT WORK AND THAT COMPUTOR WOULD NOT WORK PROPERLY WITHOUT SP1 INSTALLED.ALL OK NOW THANKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Xtreme Posted December 6, 2012 Member ID: 3095 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 188 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 115 Achievement Points: 1277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2013 Birthday: 02/14/1963 Share Posted December 6, 2012 You may be screwed. Microsoft stopped supporting XP a while ago. If you have a working version of XP I would just use it as is and forget any updates. If you know anybody with a fully updated version of XP they could copy the updates to a flash drive for you to use. A few years from now some will be asking the same question about Windows 8 and 10. This is how a monopoly forces you to buy new products, kind of like what Apple does to their users every 2-3 years on phones, tablets and computers. That's not true. I admin about 50 XP computers at work and all of them are fully updated. MS is continuing to support and patch XP until sometime in 2014. For the OP, you ONLY need to install XP SP3. All of the SP1/2 updates are included in SP3. Did you active your copy of Windows? The problems you're having are usually because: 1) you have not activated your copy 2) you need to have at least SP3 installed and 3) you need to have IE8 installed. The first thing you need to do is install SP3 and then IE8. After that the patching goes without a hitch. I do it all the time. WolfTiS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted December 6, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted December 6, 2012 You may be screwed. Microsoft stopped supporting XP a while ago. If you have a working version of XP I would just use it as is and forget any updates. If you know anybody with a fully updated version of XP they could copy the updates to a flash drive for you to use. A few years from now some will be asking the same question about Windows 8 and 10. This is how a monopoly forces you to buy new products, kind of like what Apple does to their users every 2-3 years on phones, tablets and computers. That's not true. I admin about 50 XP computers at work and all of them are fully updated. MS is continuing to support and patch XP until sometime in 2014. For the OP, you ONLY need to install XP SP3. All of the SP1/2 updates are included in SP3. Did you active your copy of Windows? The problems you're having are usually because: 1) you have not activated your copy 2) you need to have at least SP3 installed and 3) you need to have IE8 installed. The first thing you need to do is install SP3 and then IE8. After that the patching goes without a hitch. I do it all the time. Absolutely correct. Though then patch to IE9 as 8 sucks ass. What am I saying fuck IE altogether and get FF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted December 6, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Sorry forgot no IE 9 for XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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