[prasad26]

Hi benst,
The major difference between the service packs is majorly related to system performance. You can refer this link wherein you can get the relative difference...
Hope it helps you ...

[benst290]

Thanks for your help Guys, So it's just a case of inserting the disk and following the instructions on screen then? and then installing the drivers after i have installed windows XP? thanks again Ben

[MJM]

Originally Posted by philthomas

Did you try to download it from Windows Updates, if so it's probably looking for WGA ..... or did you download it seperately.
According to M$ it includes all previous updates see here

I take it this is a legal copy of XP <cough>

I don't own illegal software.
MS says it's required.

[spot]

Originally Posted by benst290

Thanks for your help Guys, So it's just a case of inserting the disk and following the instructions on screen then? and then installing the drivers after i have installed windows XP? thanks again Ben

Well... that sort of leaves out around fifteen system restarts but you've got the gist of it.

Good luck!

[spot]

Originally Posted by prasad26

Hi benst,
The major difference between the service packs is majorly related to system performance. You can refer this link wherein you can get the relative difference...
Hope it helps you ...

The idea that system performance improves with each service pack is one that brings a smile to my face. In an ideal world yes, maybe - on a 2Gz processor with 2GB of memory yes it possibly does. For the poor sod running maybe a Pentium 3 or 4 between 800MHz and say 1.6MHz, and there's a lot of those, in maybe 192 or 256MB of memory - and I bet that's most computers left over from the first couple of years after XP came out and quite likely a large chunk of the laptops for a couple of years after - each service pack is like pouring treacle into it. The system resources needed go up with a jolt and there are simply no spare resources to make it go, everything falls back into doubling the swap times on virtual memory.

If you think you've got a slow XP computer, put the memory up to the 1GB or 2GB maximum and bring your 6 minute startup down to 2. It's a whole new machine with the memory maxed out.

[benst290]

Originally Posted by spot

Well... that sort of leaves out around fifteen system restarts but you've got the gist of it.

Good luck!

System restarts? Do you mean after installing every update? Ben

[spot]

I never quite understood the system restart game, they can be deferred to an extent but they still add up. I expect there are bonus points for cutting out the inessential ones but I could never work out which they were.

[benst290]

Originally Posted by spot

I never quite understood the system restart game, they can be deferred to an extent but they still add up. I expect there are bonus points for cutting out the inessential ones but I could never work out which they were.

Ok fair enough, I suppose i will just have to grin and bare it lol! Thanks for your help again