| Should Service Pack 2 not be to your liking, or if serious and unresolvable problems arise after installing it, you can easily uninstall SP2 from the Add or Remove Programs applet of the Control Panel. To remove SP2, proceed as follows: Open the Add or Remove Programs applet by clicking Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs. Highlight the "Windows XP Service Pack 2" entry and click Remove. When Windows asks you to confirm that you want to remove the service pack, click Yes. Follow the remaining prompts to finish the process. You may see a dialog box displaying a list of applications that you have installed since installing SP2. These applications may not function properly after the removal of SP2, and thus may require reinstallation.
Removing the "Remove" Option If after testing SP2, you don't want to keep the option of uninstalling it, you can recover about 300MB of disk space by deleting the archived files. To do this, follow these steps: 1. | Log on as a Computer Administrator.
| 2. | Open Windows Explorer. Click Tools, Folder Options, and select the View tab. Under Advanced Settings, be sure that Show Hidden Files and Folders is selected. If it isn't, select it. Click OK to close the dialog.
| 3. | Click View, Details.
| 4. | Browse to the Windows folder, usually C:\WINDOWS. You should see a folder named $NtServicePackUninstall$. Right-click it and select Delete.
| 5. | Open the Control Panel, and open Add or Remove Programs. Highlight Windows XP Service Pack 2 and click Remove.
If Windows asks you if you really want to remove the Service Pack, click No! Bad news: the "uninstall" folder is still present. You may have deleted the folder from an inactive Windows folder; find and delete the correct uninstall folder before proceeding.
What you are hoping to see is the message "An error occurred while trying to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2." Click Yes to remove the entry from the Add or Remove Programs list.
| 6. | Empty the Recycle Bin to recover the disk space.
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