WINDOWS XP/SERVICE PACK 2

[toycept]

I'm trying to determine whether it's advantageous to upgrade my Windows XP with SP2. Can anyone share any pro's and con's for upgrading. I am running SW 2005 SP0.1.

Thanks.

John

 

[Tigerdawg]

As far as advantageous or not, I'm not sure. It will not crash 2005 SP0.1 that I can tell. That was not necessarily the case for SP 0.0.

 

[crjones]

We run on a network for all of our stuff and we have seen a slowdown in response with SW2005 SP0.1.

 

[Theophilus]

I've had better access to networked drives with SP 2--much more quick screen display of contents over a wireless network. Much better.

Otherwise, no problems. A few interfaces here and there have been cleaned up or rearranged. Overall, I like it. I think you need to be concerned for the most part about things that access other computers--servers, networks, Internet, etc.--those will be most affected by SP 2 and usually can be reactivated if SP 2 shuts off access.

Check the Microsoft web site for a list of software that have had some unexpected results. Also, this has floated through the forum before, so do a search.

Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com