xp update
 

Hello, soz if in wrong forum!My mum downloaded the newest xp update service pack 2 from the microsoft update site. It was 77 megabytes and took about 3 and a half hours to download! Is this usual, please? She is abit worried as her computer took ages to start up again and her desktop took ages to reappear. Thanks. :)

Re: xp update
 

What connection does she have, dial up or BB?

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Hiya, she has dial up.

Re: xp update
 

I have installed XP SP2 on several machines now. The first time the machine starts up after XP SP2 is installed, it does take a long time to start (it actually seems like a lot of the installation is done after the machine restarts). It does get quicker though.

the 3.5 hourse to download is quick if she's on Dial Up. Even if she is on broadband, then it may not be so unusual as the windows update servers are under a heavy strain at the moment.

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When it first reboots after the install it will be very slow as its still doing the update. I'd recommend that you now do a defrag and then reboot to see if its faster. Mine was slow initally, once i defragged and rebooted it was fine.

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A 77Mb download on dial-up taking 3 and a half hours is to be expected, nothing wrong there :)

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Thanks all for your replies. She says she will sleep well tonight and I rather think we may have gained a new member! Cheers all! :)

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Yep as said that is about right for dial up, you may want to go to the MS site and order a SP2 CD so she doesn't have to do that again though lol
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...s/default.mspx
The install does take a while since it is a large number of patches and changes that occur, if the PC hasn't been kept totally up to date with all the updates that have been released then it would have taken a while for it all to have been installed :)