ok i just got it today... and because of this updates it starts up slower, and my games are slower that are memory intense! This is taking more cpu usages! Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz w/ HT and 800Mhz fbs. 512MB DUAL CHANNEL SDRAM ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DDR 120GB HD Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 4.1 Altec Lansing Surround Sound Speakers w/ subwofe

Welcome to SP2. If it bothers you uninstall it in control panel-add/remove. It seems to affect different machines different ways.

Did you do a clean install with a slipstreamed Xp/Sp2 cd? If not I suggest you try that before judging Sp2. Your system should actually run faster with Sp2 installed. Hope this helps, Sandman --------------- Which of the following is true? A. God created man B. Man created God

Well the actual starting up the internet explorer and the destop properties seems faster... but with games its not good that are memory intense such as MMO's FarCry runs better with DX.c gowever Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz w/ HT and 800Mhz fbs. 512MB DUAL CHANNEL SDRAM ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DDR 120GB HD Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 4.1 Altec Lansing Surround Sound Speakers w/ subwofe

Hi sandman. I tried your simpleslipper but it kept putting SP1 back on the machine. I tried 4 different ways and it didn't work.

Thats really odd Per. No one has reported that problem before. When you browse the disc SS burnt do you see a file in the root of the cd named "SETUPXP.HTM"? Hope this helps, Sandman --------------- Which of the following is true? A. God created man B. Man created God

I will have to do it again as I trashed the cd's I used. Will send you a private message. Rgds.