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(Unverified)Feb 13th 2008 2:06AM
There are many reasons for or against using XP with service pack 2. It is a lose/win situation.
With SP2, you get better firewall, better support of wireless routers, support for drives over 137GB + miscellaneous fixes including usb 2 support for some usb devices.
But downsides to SP2 are that it is MUCH slower than without it, & it can also crash software that you use regularly. Also, SP2 can crash some laptop or pc systems that work fine with the normal XP with OUT SP2.
In addition, am finding that it is becoming increasingly difficult to run seemingly simple programs as they keep on, you must have dot net 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, java, flash, shockwave, windows installer update, direct X 9, etc etc.
Granted, it would not be so bad if everything were backwards compatible. That is to say, if you can scrap dot.net and just remove the other versions.
But since programs are coded for 1.1 and others for 2, and others for 3, you end up having to install 3 or 4 versions just to run all the programs you need to.
I am sick personally, of all the upgrade this, upgrade that & simply wish for the day when they can be through with "upgrades".
After all, you can do all you want to a pc but the basic file contents has always been and always will be: Audio, Documents, Pictures, Games, Video + your miscellaneous updates/settings/utilities.
There has been such an appalling lack of standards & with the Vista & DX 10, in addition to Vista sucking, game producers are going to produce DX for Vista, etc etc, and XP users will be forced to upgrade to vista simply because there is no DX 10 version for XP.
Maybe I will just ditch windows altogether and go with Ubuntu. It is free, simple, works, & doesn't bug you about updates, updates, updates. In addition, it can be run from cd before you install it.
Have actually used Ubuntu live disk to repair a harddisk that was unreadable from windows laptop that would bluescreen before windows loaded, before your xp disk could load with utilities for fixing it, etc etc.