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….