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" <chenkuttavan@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ef7b612-921e-4fce-8790-1cf46292312c@42g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
> 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 cSP2

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.
--
SC Tom