RaptoUK

You may be right in your circumstance, without knowing more I cannot say, but what you have said does not hold true in all cases. Take this example: a customer brings me his PC to re-install the OS, XP Home, on the side of the PC is an OEM license sticker, he bought the PC new and it came with XP Home installed, he has mislaid the original XP media. He has a license . . . yet I am not allowed to re-install from media that I have . . . I have read this from a post by Microsoft personnel.

I don't know about your situation . . . and this may not be relevant, just take it as an example. It used to be the case (may still be the case) that for OEM licenses the OS could only be installed or re-installed from the original media supplied with the PC, and also the license was not transferable to a different PC. Microsoft do, what might be considered, strange things with their licensing. It's their product though, if you don't want to play by their rules then you don't have to buy.

Thanks for the clarification

Lazy by downloading software that will be free to all when it is generally released to the public ? I don't understand your logic, how is this being lazy ? Perhaps you need to clarify your point and and make it more specific. Please also bear in mind that some of us have legitimate access to Service Packs before they are released to the general public . .

And re-install all my apps or do you mean re-install over the top of my current install ? anyway, I don't have an SP2 integrated build, just SP2 on it's own . .

Well I imaged my boot drive . . eventually, and tried SP2 install, no go, got this . . . tried running the "System Update Readiness Tool for x64-based Systems (KB947821) [April 2009]" and then SP2, same problem . . . I'm currently thinking that I am going to abandon my vLite install by installing Vista over the top of what I have already and then installing SP2. I don't see too many other options at the moment . . . having said that, I don't need SP2 as far as I am aware, no problems that need sorting so I will probably wait a while.

If the MD5 posted can be trusted then yes . . .

I found this . . . I tried it and the SP2 installer doesn't complain about missing components any more, I haven't installed yet, I want to make an image first just incase something nasty happens

Hi, my first post here, and I'm asking for help I used vlite just after Christmas to create my Vista Ultimate 64bit install, I've been using it since, no issues. I downloaded SP2 tonight and when I tried to install it and it gives the following message (see attachment) the link given is this: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/948465 not much help it would be good if I could add the missing components, install SP2 and then remove the components I added one small problem . . . I don't know what components SP2 requires that I don't have installed . . . any ideas ??