I'll start my download now.

[den]

Microsoft has released, or will be soon, SP2 for XP. It can be downloaded from their site.

I am on a dial-up connection that never connects faster than 40Kbps, and has a download speed that never exceeds 3kbps. So, how big is that service pack? Anyone want to guess how long it'll take me to download? Looks like I'll have to pass until MS issue it as a freebie C, like their last one.

Comments

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

I've heard that it's around 80MB. If it would help, I'd be happy to burn SP2 to a CD and mail it to you.

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

The full installer (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en) is 266MB. You can't burn anything else to a CD either, unfortunately. Now to grab it on my parents' cable connection (I want it for myself too).

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

If you'll note, that's the Pro and dev installer for multiples. The single version is a bit smaller, according to my sources.

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

I would've expected the "single" version to be like the NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 "single" installers like it, fetching required files from the internet at installation time?

Anyway, getting off-topic here, so I'll keep quiet...

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Single version is 80MB or more, depending on how up-to-date your OS is on patches. As far as I know, it's burnable as a full install, but I'm checking with my personal MS guru to be sure of that.