XP Service Pack 2

[Cheng_van]

Hi,

My laptop has XP with service pack 2 but the Indic language support

(Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages) is not

enabled. If I check the box, the XP disk is required but I don't have

a functional disk drive in my laptop. Is there a way to copy the files

from the service pack two? I downloaded the service pack 2 from

Microsoft website but it seems it can't be extracted. I searched fro a

source that allows download of this particular set of files but don't

find any. What I need is support for Indian languages. Can somebody

help?

Thanks in advance,

Cheng.

 

[SC Tom]

"Cheng_van" wrote in message

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> Hi,

> My laptop has XP with service pack 2 but the Indic language support

> (Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages) is not

> enabled. If I check the box, the XP disk is required but I don't have

> a functional disk drive in my laptop. Is there a way to copy the files

> from the service pack two? I downloaded the service pack 2 from

> Microsoft website but it seems it can't be extracted. I searched fro a

> source that allows download of this particular set of files but don't

> find any. What I need is support for Indian languages. Can somebody

> help?

> Thanks in advance,

> Cheng.



If you have the service pack downloaded to your hard drive, you can expand

it by adding a /x. For example, say the file is named SP2.exe. Open a

command prompt in the folder you have SP2.exe downloaded and type in:



sp2.exe /x c:\SP2



This will expand the service pack to the SP2 folder on your C: drive. If the

folder doesn't exist, it will be created for you. You may get a prompt to do

so; I don't remember for sure if it just creates it or asks you if you want

to create the folder.



A lot of the files in the SP2 folder will be compressed with an extension

such as ccd.dl_. These can be expanded using the expand command. From a

command prompt, type expand /? and press enter for all the switches to use.

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SC Tom