SillyDog701

[KRTeagle]

I have XP home, 2.4 gigaherts and a 120 gig hard drive and am running a pentium 4 32 bit processor. I am also getting errors since installing SP2 (spontanious system crashes, slow start up time, etc.) and I was told to get ace system utilities. I got it and used all it's functions and my condition has improved, (crashes not as frequent, computer loads a bit faster) but I still get errors every so often. I want to get rid of sp2 but I don't have very good security software for my pc right now and don't want to take that risk. what are the sugestions for my condition?

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[luvr]

I'm using SP2 without any significant problems - that is, it compares favourably to Windows 2000 SP4 (which is what I was running previously).

I completely wiped my harddisks clean, and installed XP from scratch, then added SP2 from a CD that came with one or another magazine.

I'm not using the Windows FireWall (I'm using ZoneAlarm Pro instead), I have disabled a whole slew of services (including Automatic Update), I'm not running any Anti-Virus software (except on one separate system partition that I use to login to the office VPN - which was, in fact, the initial reason why I was urged to switch to XP). I'm using the classic view (on the desktop, on folders, and on the Start menu and Task bar as well), and I have turned off all kinds of visual effects (which are just highly distracting anyway, in my opinion).

The system starts up a whole lot faster than Windows 2000 used to do, it's apparently just as stable, and it looks amost exactly as Windows 2000 (except for the icon appearances - which are actually the only sign that I'm running a different Windows version now) - so, I'm not complaining.

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