Few Steps To install IIS On Windows XP SP2 Without CD

A number of computer users face a lot of trouble while trying to install Windows XP in their PC. Sometimes it becomes quite frustrating if you face trouble while installing a small piece of software in your PC. If you are having trouble you may follow the steps mentioned below to install IIS on Windows XP without a CD.

First you have to download XP SP2 installation file unless you have it on your PC.

Then you have to extract the content of the file and paste it into a folder with the help of WinRar or other same kind of compression software.

Now you should start installing IIS using normal process i.e. control panel > add and remove programs > Windows components.

According to the instruction you have to browse for the 1386 folder that is the source folder and you have extracted earlier.

As it will ask you for the missing files you need to browse for the 1386 folder and its sub folders to look for them.

Though the process of installing IIS on SP2 is not very difficult you may face some problems mentioned below.

You may fail while setting up IIS and may be asked for XP SP2 CD while you are having only XP SP1 CD along with SP2 installation package.

If you search you may find solution from Google or Microsoft. But the suggestions can be difficult fro you to follow.

You have to solve this problem by opening the SP2 installation file by WinRar and collect a CD image file from it. Then you need to copy the images onto a virtual CD that you can install to supply the missing files but can be found inside the 1386 folder.

The solution is not at all very tough as it appears. You will not have to waste time merging the SP2 into Win XP CD or alter Windows security folder. You simply have to use the things that are already there.