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mine was 115 even though it said 100 on update....and after I restarted it repaired msn messenger for some reason...anyone else get that?

well i guess it was scanning to see what we needed.. I installed all previous updates before going.. perhaps that is why my package is smaller??? :pinch: I hope.. would be a waste of a whole 20 minutes haha :rofl:

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,Jun 15 2004, 16:04] When i tried using windowsupdate, the download was 100mb, probably cause i already have rc1 installed

Btw does sp2 contain all fixes,etc that are in sp1, so that theres no need to install sp1, then 2. I take it, it does.

i have rc1 installed also... strange how mine is in the 70mb range..

I installed sp2 rc2 and when my computer rebooted it had a diff boot screen. The bar was blue and it didnt say windows xp home just windows xp. I got it from windows update.

O ya hi every one I am new here :D

Aw, you spoiled the surprise :laugh: :p

Bah, mine's still failing at the 1.6 MB mark on Windows Update.  :hmmm:

Did your download fail or just appear to hang up? Mine appeared to hang at 1.6 mb but I think that it downloaded 1.6 mb of stuff and then did some analysis of my system. When it resumed downloading after a few minutes the size of the download dropped from 100 mb to 95.8 mb.

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