How have SP2 bugs been cured?

`I have purposely deferred downloading and installing SP2 [to improve my Windows XP home edition, SP1] untill Microsoft has cured most of the notorious problems created by SP2.
Two Questions: IF I NOW download and install SP2, will the thing I download have all of the "cures ", up to present date, incorporated into it?? OR, will I have to thereafter download and install additional "patches" to put the various "cures" into the SP2 after I have it installed?
Finally, would you advise deferring the SP2 to some later time?
This may be a dumb question, but thanks anyway.--Lee Mitchell

 

Not a dumb question at all.

If your PC is running well, then SP2 is a good idea although best done from either a CD or a download to hard disk and run from there. Not good to do from the web.

I think there are a couple of patches since SP2 was released but you can easily get them after you have the SP loaded.

As to loading it now or later, all I can say is that I opted to do it now and have been happy with the results. Just make sure it is going on to a clean system and that you load the latest drivers for all your hardware before you start the update.

 

Newt and Crister: Thank you, thank you for your replies. My system and number of programs loaded is fairly simple,---so I have decided to download SP2 to my hard drive and then install it. But I will do the "clean-up" you suggested prior to the download. Those clean-up suggestions sound really helpful.


Thanks------------------Lee