Firstly, I had many people contact me about the URL I provided to the
main XP SP2 home page. They said the link wouldn't work. So you
understand, almost all messages that are sent to NTBugtraq have their
line lengths hard clipped by the list software at 72 characters. That
means a long URL is going to get broken into two or more distinct lines.
Now unfortunately, most email software is just too stupid to understand
this, or maybe more accurately, most email software is too stupid to
recognize that a plain text email shouldn't interpret anything as being
"HTML" (IOWs, there shouldn't be any clickable links in such a message.)
The result is that you get an email which shows a clickable URL, but in
fact the URL is incomplete.
For Outlook users, all you have to do is click "Edit", then "Edit
Message", and use delete to put the full URL back together. Poof, the
complete workable URL.
Meanwhile, I put that URL into TinyURL, as well as a couple of others
people suggested you could use to get XP SP2.
Secondly, while a few people indicated they had problems getting a
completed download, most seemed to have no problems. Download times, the
time they attempted the download, and the networks they were on
obviously varied, so your mileage may vary (YMMV).
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.
mspx
http://tinyurl.com/26uwc
Jim Kerr provided the link directly to the download page;
English: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT
Professionals and Developers
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4
f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/5bobl
German: Windows XP Service Pack 2-Netzwerkinstallationspaket fur
IT-Spezialisten und Entwickler
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=de&FamilyID=
049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a
http://tinyurl.com/6loh4
Ghassan provided the link directly to the download file itself;
English:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73c
f11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
http://tinyurl.com/6j4xb
German:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/6/4/96442257-721a-4cd5-9006-10a
40cbb45cb/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-DEU.exe
http://tinyurl.com/66sze
Louis Solomon suggested you might want to use a download manager such as
GetRight from www.getright.com
Cheers,
Russ - NTBugtraq Editor
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