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Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers

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  • Version: SP2
  • Category: Service Pack
  • Language: English

This installation package is intended for IT professionals and developers downloading and installing on multiple computers on a network. If you're updating just one computer, please visit Windows Update

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides new proactive security technologies for Windows XP to better defend against viruses, worms, and hackers. In addition to a more robust security infrastructure, SP2 improves the security configuration options of Windows XP and provides better security information to help users faced with security decisions.

Support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. If you are running Windows XP SP2 after support ends, you will not receive security updates for Windows. To keep your Windows XP computer up-to-date download Service Pack 3 through Windows update now.

Read technical details about SP2, including what's new in SP2, how to deploy SP2, and how to manage an environment with SP2.

DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER: A smaller, more appropriate download is now available on Windows Update. The best way to ensure you get Windows XP Service Pack 2 is by turning on the Automatic Updates feature in Windows XP today. You can use our step-by-step instructions or, if you prefer, let us do it for you.

The Microsoft Download Center site is your only authorized web source for downloading a licensed copy of Windows XP Service Pack 2. To report a website offering unlicensed copies of Windows XP SP2 for download, please send e-mail to: [email protected] or visit http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/ReportingUs.mspx.

Files

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Files
WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
  • SHA1: 33a8fef60d48ae1f2c4feea27111af5ceca3c4f6
  • Size: 265.67 MB

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System Requirements

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, TabletPC


See also article 837783 “Hard disk space requirements for Windows XP Service Pack 2” in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

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