to install or not.

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Yea, I think you can slipstream just about any XP disk with SP2. OEMs disks work.
I'm sure prolly can't do it to a dell recover disk or such, cause you really aren't looking at an XP disk.
Hmmm....the other day, I noticed that the gov. got invloved into some licensing issues and vendors can't sell COA's only anymore, must have software....does dell, hp,,,,whomever NEED TO supply XP OEM disks now? I'll have to read into that one. Fair's fair, right.
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Do you run any p2p programs?

Before installing SP2 read this "If you are using Windows XP, you must have noticed all the fuss about Service Pack 2. It introduced an array of security
"enhancements": dual direction firewall, several long overdue IE improvements, memory protection and the crippling of
the TCP/IP stack.



Hang on, how is crippling of the TCP/IP stack a security enhancement?



Windows XP SP2 limits half-open connections (SYN) to a maximum of 10 (the previous limit was over 65,000). This is
supposed to slow down certain viruses because their spreading strategy is to try to connect to a high amount of random
IP numbers.



The drawback with this connection limit is that other legitimate network intensive applications can be slowed down as
well. Applications like security network scanners, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications or a combination of network
applications that a power user may be using (VPN, FTP, p2p, RDP, SSH, "Firefox on steroids" and more).



To me it sounds awfully lot like treating the symptoms instead of the cause which would have been to tighten up
Windows security to prevent virus infections in the first place.



There is a way to tell whether your daily networking activities are being affected by the patch. Each time your computer
tries to establish more than 10 half-open connection, a system event will be logged in Windows. It looks something like
this:



EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts



Access the event viewer by Start / Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Event Viewer / System. Sort by Event and scroll
down to 4226. If you only have a few occurrences, I would not worry about it but if you see many daily occurrences it's
time to look into why they are appearing."

You can get a patch to re-open your connection limits from http://www.lvllord.de/