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    Re: Advice wanted on partitioning a hard drive
    « Reply #15 on: July 12, 2009, 03:35:56 PM »
    Salutations,

    Again, a big THANKS to everyone who helped me out.

    I now have my hard drive partitioned as I had hoped and am back online blasting along at  24 Kbps on my dialup connection. 

    I did read Eldergeek and indeed have turned to him on several occasions in time past.  Special thanks to JJ300 for a nice simple runthrough.  Worked without a hitch.

    Last question regarding my reload of XP:  Should I order the SP2 CD and attempt to load SP2? I have heard conflicting advice on this issue.  Some folks say it can cause a host of headaches and problems.  Any advice greatly appreciated.

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    Re: Advice wanted on partitioning a hard drive
    « Reply #16 on: July 12, 2009, 05:56:47 PM »
    I highly recommend you get SP2 and install it.  Since you've just performed a fresh installation of Windows XP, now is the best time to install SP2.  Some of the people who complained of problems - a very small percentage of the total population of SP2 installations, by the way - probably had some malware or other unknown problems in their systems before installing SP2 and that may have caused the problems they encountered after installing SP2.  In other words, installing SP2 on a clean system is the ideal situation.
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    Re: Advice wanted on partitioning a hard drive
    « Reply #17 on: July 12, 2009, 05:59:51 PM »
    SP2 is highly recommended...it was touted as a security fix when in reality it was a major upgrade to the OS...
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    Re: Advice wanted on partitioning a hard drive
    « Reply #18 on: July 12, 2009, 09:29:13 PM »
    Heh... XP has moved onto SP3'

    Not sure what all it does. But I know if Explorer.exe crashes it restarts it automaticaly. I dont think that happens pre SP3.
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    Re: Advice wanted on partitioning a hard drive
    « Reply #19 on: July 13, 2009, 03:21:21 AM »
    Quote from: fat_basterd21 on July 12, 2009, 09:29:13 PM
    Heh... XP has moved onto SP3'

    Not sure what all it does. But I know if Explorer.exe crashes it restarts it automaticaly. I dont think that happens pre SP3.



    errr.... that's happened since windows 98, actually....
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    Re: Advice wanted on partitioning a hard drive
    « Reply #20 on: July 13, 2009, 04:46:11 AM »
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    Heh... XP has moved onto SP3'

    But he will need SP2 first to install SP3....
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    Re: Advice wanted on partitioning a hard drive
    « Reply #21 on: July 13, 2009, 10:38:09 AM »
    Just saying dont stop at SP3 unless someone have a better reason.

    Also I know of several programs that will not run on your comp unless you have SP2 installed.
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