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"God I love windows..."

Everything started to freeze a minute ago and I needed to cold boot.. blah!
Seems I stopped the "avgcore.sys error" thank god for that, anyway do you think I should use windows update even though I have a firewall and hate Internet exporer or should I wait for Service Pack 2?

Yeah, but, there is a Windows Update option available soon, which is the 80mb the BBC was referring to.

WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe = 266meg, its made my work machine slightly faster (its a P3 450)

80mb is probably the NetSetup, while 250mb sounds like an all-inc patch.

I've done windows update it's stable enough but they find so many security holes nowadays it's a pain using Windows Slow Update just to patch a bloody problem they made themselves.

ll I've been running SP2 for a month or so now and it's not noticeably any more flawed than SP1, it adds a few new features and stuff so you may as well upgrade now if you can be bothered to download it.

The last link says 250mb - The BBC says 80 !?! : [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3547978.stm[/URL]

MS say they hope it will be applied on 100,000,000 (One hundred million) machines within two months!

Also free on CD if required.

For those AppleMac users out there: [URL]http://www.funjunkie.co.uk/comments.cfm/article=bcf6f7a0-3b03-4f47-8d82-36a358e266dd[/URL]

[URL]http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/09/1343208&tid=201&tid=218[/URL]

*points* Ha ha!

Yes but like everything lately it keeps being delayed (nothing new there then)
[URL]http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/n_3178-news.html[/URL]

Is there a release date on SP2 yet?