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Old December 8th, 2004, 11:17 PM
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What is the quickest way to tell if a computer has the SP2 update for XP or not?
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Old December 8th, 2004, 11:20 PM
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Hi Q,

I guess the quickest visual way would be to look for the Security Center in the Control Panel.

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Old December 8th, 2004, 11:24 PM
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You can click start/my computer/ click on view system information you should see something like this
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Old December 8th, 2004, 11:28 PM
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Thank you. We thought we got the SP2 against our wishes when we saw the Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q819696 in the Add/Remove programmes. So what can this be then? There is no security center in the Control Panel but this computer has not yet gotten rebooted since the suspicious download.
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You can click start/my computer/ click on view system information you should see something like this
Whew! Not there! Great news.
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even before I got sp2 I had four hot fixes with the sp2 prefix. Even now useing belarc advisor it shows one sp3
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We thought we got the SP2 against our wishes when we saw the Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q819696 in the Add/Remove programmes. So what can this be then?
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;819696

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Easy just follow what bigc said. This is mine:
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