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Be Afraid...Very Afraid...


I just installed WinXP SP2.

I'm either very brave...or very stooopid.

Actually, I have positive results to report.

• Caveats first: I'm a computer geek and get this stuff; the download is huge, my broadband pipe (cable) is huge, and it still took about 20 minutes; this is a new box, with little installed (fewer chances of conflicts).


• Install was pretty painless; the only conflict was with Norton Anti-Virus, and it was not a "conflict" - MS sorta recommends getting another virus protection program. Which? I dunno. Didn't care.


• So far, everything came back after the second reboot (first for install completion, second my own choice to see if it all took).


• As noted in caveats, not a lot installed here, but the Apache server and so on that I do have here are behaving nicely.


• The update attempted to block start of an FTP server I have running here; I allowed to run and the second reboot honored this request. Good.

Bottom Line: Big honkin' update, but went extremely well as far as I can see (in 20 or so minutes...).

This surprises me, but in a good way.

Keep your fingers crossed....