[Andromeda43]

SP2 ain't no big thing. It's jus a newer and better version of windows. Get it!, jus like you would'a any other upgrade for the past ten years. It's a no-brainer! MS fixed a bunch of problems and added much higher security, like a pretty dang'd good firewall.

What it Will do though, is set anything that you may have "tweaked" back to default.
So if you've shut down un-needed Services or tweaked your memory manager, You'll have to go back and do your tweaks again.

Again, it ain't no big thing!

It's jus a part of the ongoing process.

As for slowing down your PC....if it does, then you've got a pretty sorry PC. lol

Cheers,
Andromeda43

[techniquefreak]

No difference, I think. Now I just install w/ SP2 integrated in the first place. Couldn't live without it when you know it's there.

[bledd]

i'll say that I don't notice the difference to be honest (used nlited installs mind), but the SP's in Win2000 slow it down... (sp4 is a lot bigger than no sp)

maybe someone can test with benchmarks? -vanilla xp, xpsp1 and xpsp2 (no tweaks allowed) I would but don't have the time