Is WinXP SP2 a Good thing?

[MoonShadow]

What am I in for !!!!!

Would like to hear if anyone has had success or problems with this patch. I need to rebuild my machine and looks like I will have to install it.

[Rich A]

I'm curious why you "have" to install Service Pack 2 ?? I have Win XP Pro with SP 1, but have no intentions of upgrading to SP2 until it's been out a while. My PC ain't broke so I'm not going to "fix it".

If I were you, I'd install all the way to SP1 and then browse the forums and check with others who HAVE installed SP3. Once it's known to be okay (and/or M$ comes out with a bunch of patches and maybe even a SP2a ) then I'd go for it.

It's just that if you are rebuilding, upgrading or making a whole new computer, why add an "unknown" to a new mix ??

Get it up and running reliably with SP1 first.

[hencharge]

SP2 is great for me, the inbuilt security programme works great and my computer seems to freeze less, my vote: yes

[plastikaa]

Ive heard a lot of positive comments about SP2 speeding your pc up and being more reliable and less of those ...encountered an error messages - and the only negative was that it stopped a program working (IBServer) but for some reason they did a reinstall of it and then it worked fine. Im waiting for it to appear on windows updates for me before i download. Thats if my PC hasn't already started downloading it itself.

[Jarred]

Well I thought service pack 2 was very very bad when I upgraded, made my browzing though windows and everything a bit slower, but I reloaded my machine and put on SP2 and it runs great, I dont know why it was soo crappy before (the problems did start when I installed it) but I think its worth getting on a clean install!