Error occurs when you try to install Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2: "update.inf file is not correct"

Source: Microsoft Support

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When you try to install Service Pack 2 on the Windows Server 2003 computer, the following error message occurs:

The Service Pack 2  <installationfilepath>\i386\update\update.inf file is not correct.

This may occur if the following registry entry is not correct:

Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]
Value:
ProgramFilesDir

By default, if Windows is installed on the C: drive, the data of this value should be C:\Program Files. If the value was changed to a different location, the problem may occur.

1. Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and browse to the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]

2. In the right pane, find the following value:

Value: ProgramFilesDir
Type: REG_SZ

3. Double click this value and set its data to the correct one. For example, if Windows is installed on the C: drive, this value should be "c:\program files" (without the quotation marks).

933700 Microsoft does not support changing the location of the Program Files folder by modifying the ProgramFilesDir registry value
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;933700 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933700)



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