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ih8bills

Originally Posted by joe5

You shouldn't need an internet connection to install SP2 if you had the full installer for it.
Try this one:

Windows XP Service Pack 2

Or let them send you SP2 on cd to your home for free:

Order Windows XP Service Pack 2 on CD

To have SP2 installed is a good thing anyway, but relevent to your problem, it also has directx 9.0c in it included.

a good idea to have the CD, too... for backup purposes

sieggy lee

Im downloading it now...hope it works.It does annoy me tho.IM trying to play need for speed underground and it says i neeed directx 9.0c or higher...which i already have an when i try to install it, it fails and all that jibber thats on my first post pops up...DAM!!....BLAST!!!!

.I thought i could order it of the net, being free and all but i gotta pay for it!.It costs £6!....cheeky lol

ih8bills

Originally Posted by sieggy lee

Im downloading it now...hope it works.It does annoy me tho.IM trying to play need for speed underground and it says i neeed directx 9.0c or higher...which i already have an when i try to install it, it fails and all that jibber thats on my first post pops up...DAM!!....BLAST!!!! .I thought i could order it of the net, being free and all but i gotta pay for it!.It costs £6!....cheeky lol

Keeping up-to-date should be a routine... it is a necessary part of keeping yourself and others a little safer-- there are many, many viruses/trojans etc... that you are vulnerable to due to NOT being updated.
Software (like games) also plan their upgrades to apply to upgraded PC's-- newer video drivers--run on newer Operating System files
XP is ten years old now-- there are thousands of threats / hundreds of pieces of hardware / hundreds of new software apps that did not exist... when it was first written.

Updating your OS should be a normal part of your PC maintenance.

sieggy lee

Originally Posted by ih8bills

Keeping up-to-date should be a routine... it is a necessary part of keeping yourself and others a little safer-- there are many, many viruses/trojans etc... that you are vulnerable to due to NOT being updated.
Software (like games) also plan their upgrades to apply to upgraded PC's-- newer video drivers--run on newer Operating System files
XP is ten years old now-- there are thousands of threats / hundreds of pieces of hardware / hundreds of new software apps that did not exist... when it was first written.

Updating your Operating System should be a normal part of your PC maintenance.

I know and i am trying but it aint easy when im not on the net.iI can only download stuff from work and i don't have all day to do it...and i wouldn't even know wot stuff i need to download as alot of the stuff i have downloaded says i need to be connected to the internet.

ih8bills

So you have no internet connection @ home?
Even dialup would be better than nothing... you can get a service plan for very little money. SP2 would take a very long time to download--it's a huge file-- but you could keep other stuff updated pretty easily. It would certainly be better than no connection-- a dial-up modem does not cost much-- and I've seen plans for as little as $7.95 per month US
No wonder you are still running XP "original".
I misunderstood your previous posts. my apologies

slinkey1981

You downloaded the SP2 installer, you need the SP2 Redistributable. The installer is just a program that tells it what you need to upgrade to SP2, while the redist. includes everything that any PC would need to upgrade.

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