Any pros or cons to installing SP2?

Hi, Regarding the default language setting using Regional Settings in the Control Panel, the English version of Win2K with or without SP1 allows you to change the system default language to another one successfully. the English version of Win2K with SP2 fails to change it. I don't know if it works or not if you first change it then apply SP2. I guess not.... Regards, Dai

By what Microsoft is saying, this is not an essential update. Unless you are having issues outlined in Microsoft buletins on what SP-2 fixes, I wouldn't. If it ain't broke, why fix it.

I would install it. The concept of If it's not broken don't fix it' is a good one, but unfortunately it may be broken and you just don't know it. That's how a lot of security issues are discovered. I would say there is a small risk of the SP causing any trouble and if you select the backup option you can always uninstall it if it gives you trouble. I'm installing it on all of my servers so I guess I'll find out.

Here's my 2 cents... I have loaded up about 50-60 W2K boxes and I support them for about the past 4-5 months... I have found W2K to be very stable, reliable...these boxes were all either no SP or SP1... My home machine, also W2K and built the same way as the ones at work was running great with SP1 installed... I use Outlook with a POP3 account to Yahoo with a cable connection... After downloading IE5.5 update from Microsoft...everything worked great...I then downloaded SP2 and applied it... My IE locked up...I could not access the Inet, could not access Yahoo for my email... I had to completly wipe out W2K and re-install... Don't know if it was caused by the IE5.5 upgrade, or SP2, or the combination...but over the next couple of weeks I should get a chance to test it out and see what caused it... My point being...If you have the latest IE5.5 upgrade installed, do NOT install SP2 until we find out more... Steve

I installed SP2 today thinking that it might correct some freeze-up issues with my computer; (I'm thinking it might be Win 2000). Did SP2 fix it? Not so. It magnified my problem. There were times I could not even get the operating system to boot. Freeze-ups were within 1 minute of boot-up. Thankfully I clicked START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS, then removed Windows 2000 Service Pack 2. It brought my computer back to last installation using Service Pack 1.

Hi all, I have installed Win 2000 SP2 for about a week (using express edition---> about 10-20 MB). Before installing it I found some errors in Event Viewer (WinMgmt and Perfctrs ERRORS). After i install it (making backup), then there is no more ERRORS again. I think it is worth it.