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re: New Installation Now Painful Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 11:03 pm Posted by MaddMaxx (1989 messages posted) You don't need autorun to install a program. Open the cd drive in My Computer then find and open the setup.exe file. On Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 7:10 pm, Vision wrote: >I just wiped my disk and reinstalled XP with SP1. I remember being able to download >SP2 and other updates before...am I still able to do this? Also, installing programs >from cd was working fine after the reinstall. But now(72 hours later) I can't get >any new programs installed from cd. The auto run isn't working and I can't get it >to work. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: New Installation Now Painful Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 4:48 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Probably too late now but you would have been better off to create a new XP CD slipstreamed with SP2 then used it to do the install. In case your interested, here is the info on how to do this: The simplest way to create a Bootable Windows XP Pro or Home Installation CD Slipstreamed with SP2 is to use Autostreamer. You point to your XP Pro CD, the SP2 Service Pack .exe file, give it a path to write the .iso file to and off it goes. In 5 or 10 minutes you have a .iso file that you can burn to CD with almost any CD burner program you want to use. I used Roxio 7. The you install using the new CD. Here is the link to Autostreamer: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Autostreamer.shtml You can download the SP2 .exe here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en If not interested, you can still use the above link to download SP2. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum