My school requires me to download a program called Smart Enforcer in order to log onto the internet. Today, it insisted that I download and install Windows Service Pack 2. It gives me two hours of restricted access until I do so (I can get another two hours by logging out and then in again). The problem is, as anyone who's tried downloading from Microsoft knows, it takes more than two hours to download the service pack. If I can install Linux, this shouldn't be a problem because they don't require me to use Smart Enforcer then. However, I'm not prepared to completely migrate to another OS, and I'm worried about my data getting wiped. Is there any way I can install Linux, get the service pack, switch back to Windows and install? Or is there a way to burn the pack onto a CD from a computer that already has the update and then install in on my machine?
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
I would try downloading it in the time allowed before trying to use Linux todownload the service pack.
-Bok
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
You're running the risk of racking up some major headaches when you play willy-nilly with operating systems.
My advice would be to download the pack, burn it to CD and simply go that route if you can find someone with a high-speed connection and a burner.
I suspect you may not be the only person to have this problem, so you might try calling the school (high school? college?) and see if they have the Service Pack 2 available.
-Trevor
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
If the service pack front loader doesn't already automatically do it, there are some shareware/freeware programs out there that allow a person to stop and start downloads.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Any advice on how to find the install file if I download to a different computer and then burn to a CD? Where does Windows put it?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I think Microsoft has an option to download the entire file and not just the install link.
I'll take a look.
-Trevor
Edit: If you want to download the larger file without having to use Windows update -