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After restore is all updates required or service packs

Started by jr70895 , Jul 14 2013 08:37 PM

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jr70895

Posted 14 July 2013 - 08:37 PM

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Restored Dell laptop to original factory settings with Vista operating system. Checking online Vista is now up to SP3, is it necessary to go thru all the updates or can I just install the service packs such as SP1,SP2,SP3. Will stay with Vista for now as apparently someone sold me a Windows 7 upgrade disk with a bad Key number according to Microsoft

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SleepyDude

Posted 15 July 2013 - 02:40 AM

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Hi,

The latest Service Pack for Windows Vista is SP2, SP3 is for Windows XP!
You need to install the SP1 first then the SP2, after this update to Internet Explorer 9 and then you need to check for new updates using the Windows Updates applet from Control Panel because there will be allot more updates to install...