I have read a few months back that the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is more trouble than it is worth. What has been your experience? Thanks.

I was required to have my entire company migrate to SP2 in mid-August, and have had nothing but trouble with the thing.

Main issues have been with corrupted device drivers after the update -- both for the NIC and video card. Of course, with Windows one never knows what exactly is broken, since the OS itself is broken :D

Personally, I'd wait a bit more; you're not gaining any functionality / security that you shouldn't already have, if you're keeping up with security updates & are behind a decent firewall.

I've installed it on 5 computers over the past few days and didn't have any problem other than a conflict with Norton's AV, which has already been documented. I only had one computer running that, so I uninstalled it, and replaced it with CA's ez Armor, which my other machine's were already running. A reinstall of Norton's may have solved the problem, but I'd been meaning to replace it anyway, so I didn't bother.

I turned off the built in firewall because I was already running the ez Armor FW, and I disabled Automatic Updates because I prefer to check myself.

I haven't had any problems with any of the machines so far.

No problems here.

i've basically turned off the annoying security startup splashscreen and also prefer to check updates myself. IMO the pack 2 isn't really needed. just have a your own firewall and antivirus updated regularly.

Thanks for the quick replies. I have a good firewall, et.al., so I'll forgo the SP 2.

I'm not sure that the security protections are the only upgrades included in SP2, but there is probably no rush to get it. I waited as long as I could to get it, but then, I'm an update junky... always jonesing for his next MS fix. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I installed it and other than the Norton thing, I've had no problems, at least as yet.

Just curious Arvon; did an uninstall/reinstall of Norton's solve the SP2 problem?

Well I have Norton 2004 edition along with SP2. And no problems here. Unless of course it another version you guys are talking about?

My problem was with the AV from Norton System Works 2003.