OT: Update to XP SP2 or Not Too

[Atrocities]

Thanks RD, I shall not install until I have more info. I have been burned by MS updates before on many occations, and this SP2 looks a lot like a monster trojan horse to me.

[David E. Gervais]

SP2 didn't work for me, I'm back to SP1 and the critical updates installed. My system is running smooth again. FYI the only thing that really 'bugged' me was the 'spyware' and 'hijackers' that took control of IE. I now use Mozilla so those are now a thing of the past.

BTW the thing that killed SP2 for me is that my system would freeze on bootup. I had to boot in safemode, then from safemode do a warm reboot. (I hate boot errors that give no clue as to what is causing the problem.)

Anyway, nuf said, Cheers!

[Atrocities]

SP2 = bad Thanks. Will avoid installing.

[Arkcon]

I waited a bit for SP2, I installed it on my sister's laptop first, saw how it worked, then installed it on mine.
It worked OK for a short while, then I lost the ability to connect to the DSL provider. And I had already deleted the roll back point.

*Dumb*

I'd suggest keeping the Last rollback point on your computer a good long time.

[Aiken]

Can't you just cancell SP installation from the Control Panel applet? It used to work on my win2k machine. You just had to keep %SystemRoot% directory untouched. Haven't tried xp, though.