I've installed SP2 on three laptops with different hardware and different brand wireless network cards.  For all three I had to uninstall the wireless cards and reinstall them.  Even after that it still took me over ½ hour each to get the wireless cards talking to the access point.

Other than that and some annoying problems in IE, SP2 has not caused a problem.  I do NOT use the Windows firewall (I have a real hardware firewall and I do some packet capturing to see what is going out) and I have turned off the security center.  I do not want MS getting in the way of what I want to do.  I don't tax the systems and we are not into the games so I cannot speak to them.

- Wayne Copeland

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Last Saturday morning, I was on our family laptop (Dell, connected wirelessly to our Dell desktop) and an info bubble popped up and said there are updates available, do you want to download.  I clicked OK and to my horror, it started installing SP2.  The info bubble said nothing about loading SP2, it just "surprised" me after I clicked OK and the pop-up window showed the SP2 loading.  Result - - it totally corrupted my opsys so the "explorer.exe" file kept looping, making the "START" button and key inoperable.  Bottom line was that totally reformatting seemed the only option.   I called there Dell tech and we were fortunately able to go to a restore point from the day before and restore the opsys.  The tech said he had heard MS was "inserting" SP2 into the generic update info bubbles, and he also said they have been getting jammed with calls from wireless users with "SP2 issues" liker mine (opsys trashed)...  Lessons learned - I'm waiting for a more stabile SP2 or maybe SP3.  Another tech joked that he only downloads odd numbered SP's, since the even numbered ones seem to be problematic... Superstitious???   ;)

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