Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development. Sign in to vote. My PC crashed several weeks ago and I sent it out to recover as much as possible. Unfortunately, I lost some programs a video editing program in particular in the process. While trying to reload them, I receive an error message that says I need to have the SP2 update installed to continue. Microsoft no longer supports SP2 and has no solution handy. The software is also no longer supported and everyone wants me to upgrade to the newest of everything WINDOWS 7 or VISTA, new video editing software, new video capture hardware, etc Is there any way I can get everything to work properly as it had previously?
The obvious answer is that SP3 shold take care of it, but having the SP3 upgrade instead of SP2 is what is stopping the installation. When you said " SP2 CD Be sure you have a copy of your OS. That being said, I would still want to at least confirm that those Drivers and utilities were the most current.
By all means follow the order recommended by Dell, but that should be Chipsets first, then Notebook System Software. This is a link to your Dell Drivers and Utilities site You will notice that WinXP is not on that or any other site, also check it against your system to see if there are other files that are not available for download, so you can copy and save them, if you would want them later.
I got a Windows XP Pro. I have not received any restore CD, nor can I find any restore utility on the disk drive. There is an additional small partition which contains the software used to test the laptop, but apart from that, its driver download for me I guess.
Giovanni, A D should have that second partition. I am only repeating what others have said, as my D shipped 10 months ago still had the CD set and no OS Restore partition. Best of luck with your project. Currently I am backing up my documents and desktop but I will need to learn how to backup files of contacts within microsoft outlook, aol etc. This has already been done with MS and malwarebytes. These are potentially malware contaminated files but since they are not the operating system files and since they passed the malware scans they are safe to reinstall?
Will one of the windows updates convert xp sp2 into xp sp3? Will there be numerous reboots with numerous updates. This is likely to take one or more hours? When I was having the problems I checked the hardware on my computer by booting and pressing the f12 key. This opened dell diagnostics and all of the hardware passed.
It skipped one step and that was flashing the bios. I have a dead battery and it indicated that it only can flash the bios with battery power. If flashing a bios is a part of the windows installation process then It would fail at that point as I will only have electrical power. I hope that this is not a part of the reinstall process. If it is then I would need to get a battery before I replace the operating system. I have not set up microsoft outlook since 5 years ago and no longer remember how to do that.
But I anticipate I will need to get isp codes or use smtp or something like that? I'll have to google search for the aol configuration too. Using wifi and speed test. How do I download now and them get them to the proper place on my internal drive after the operating system installation.
Is it somehow a simple copy and paste somewhere or does the operating system look and find it on the external hard drive to place the files in the right place?
The download options are run, save and cancel. If i click on save now can it go to the extrnal hard drive for use later? I am guessing that this is a lot diffrent than the word, excel, powerpoint, adobe files etc which is a copy and paste to my documents? And the same for the drivers, the updated drivers could be downloaded somehow to the external drive and then somehow go to the right place after operating system installation?
How do i find each driver that is old to make sure it seeks a new driver that is on the external drive? Where are all the drivers populated to go through the process? Do I somehow skip this step by not installing the drivers on the dll cd and somehow install drivers from the external drive the first time. How do I do this? I use windows xp sp3 and I have a disk from dell that is a reinstallation cd Microsoft windows xp home edition service pack 2: Also I have microsoft office and if I have any problems with it I reinsert the cd and it enables repairs.
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To connect to the Microsoft download site, you must have a functional Web browser. If Internet Explorer 6 does not work on the computer after you uninstall the later version of Internet Explorer, you cannot download the Internet Explorer installation package.
Therefore, you will have to use a computer that has a functional Web browser to download the Internet Explorer installation package. Then, use a shared network drive to install the program from the downloaded installation package on this other computer onto the repaired computer. If you cannot use a shared network for this purpose, copy the Internet Explorer installation package onto a CD on the second computer. Then, use this CD to install Internet Explorer on the first computer.
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