birdman said:
I have not installed Service Pack 2 yet, My Question is should I uninstall
Service Pack 1 before I install Service Pack 2, or will installing
Service Pack 2 over ride Service Pack 1?
waiting for reply
Thank you.
What feature of SP2 are you looking for?
This is an excert from a newsletter I get.
SP2 is huge--- so big it's almost a whole new version of XP. Like any new
version of any OS, it *will* contain bugs, and it *will* cause trouble on
some setups. The more complex and/or nonstandard your setup is, the greater
the likelihood of a problem.
Plus, there's no "must have right now" element to SP2: Much of SP2 is
designed to force uninformed (or just plain lazy!) PC users to use basic
security--- to stay current with updates, to use a firewall, etc. (These are
the users running the unpatched/unprotected systems that allow most
worms/viruses to spread.)
But odds are, if you're reading this newsletter, you already know about and
are using pretty good security practices, such as good firewall, antivirus
and anti-spyware tools, and you're keeping up to date with Critical Updates.
If that's the case, you won't gain a lot by rushing into SP2.
Instead, wait a bit--- even as much as a month or two--- to let the worst
problems with SP2 come to light and be fixed on other user's PCs.
Again, as long as you're already using the kinds of security tools and
techniques we discuss in this newsletter every week (example:
http://www.informationweek.com/840/langa.htm ), there's no need to rush into
SP2.
I'm not the only one suggesting this "go slow" approach. See, for example
these other authors:
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/60.htm
http://channelzone.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,1759,1633858,00.asp