Bill,

There is a HOTFIX that applies to this issue. But you have to call
Microsoft to get it. The Knowledge Base article is #895322.

Carl

"Bill Doman" wrote:

> Running in safe mode as admin, I get the message The requested section
> was not present in the activation context when installing SP2. This is
> a former client's machine running SP1 XP home. I've tried running as
> other user with admin rights, but no joy.... I saw the post elsewhere
> on using secedit, but this seems to only be present in XP Pro--could I
> copy the executable from one of my pro machines and use it on the Home
> edition or would this just hose things more completely? Any suggestions
> (especially any that work) would be appreciated.
>
> Bill
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