[Terpfen]

"... I had installed SP1 for XP, and had a marked decrease in performance..."

Urgh, yeah, this is my major problem with SP1 (which I'm still running, as I have no alternatives); every few minutes, my PC will slow down to a crawl for absolutely no reason. This is especially annoying when I'm playing a game of some sort. Has Microsoft fixed this in SP2?

[FierceDraka]

Has Microsoft fixed this in SP2?

I don't know if it will be fixed in SP2, but it seems that MS was made aware of the issue and re-did the patch.

It's rooted in Windows XP Hotfix Q811493. You can see it in Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Also, it's been reported that this problem affects between 40% and 60% of XP users who installed SP1.

But once bitten, twice shy, ya know? I won't install SP2 until I get the full green light that it won't muck up my system with tons of useless BS, or restart all those damned useless services I went to so much trouble to disable.

For now, I'm running fast and lean with the original XP install, with a few performance mods to the registry, of course. ;-)