Hi Doreen,
Well, far as experience goes, I've had no problems with
either. Donwloaded SP2 shortly after it came out, and SP3 a
few weeks ago, not sure of the exact date but fairly
recently. At least in this location, one on XP Pro, the
other on XP Home, networked, I've seen no problems and a few
times identified (due to info found on ng's) things that it
seemed to have improved. There are a few improvements in
both of them, some added menu items here & there, pretty
simple but generally useful stuff. Most of the work in them
is behind the scenes, of course, so there isn't a lot of
obvious changes.
I do not game, but I do manage web sites, do video
editing for the public (ceremonies, etc), and write a fair
number of technical papers and reports both freelance and
government apps. So, there could be problems I wouldn't
have seen in other areas, so that's for what it's worth
info. SP3 does seem to have a decent rep though, and is
in general mundane to the casual user. The only apps I
haven t' used much since SP3 are Access and PowerPoint.
I'm still curious why you would want to have SP2 instead
of SP3 though, but that's your own business, not mine <g>.
I believe in the SP3 simply becuase it has more "fixes" in
it beyond what was in 2. Normaly what I do with things like
that is take note when it's released, whether there was a
beta or not, and then read the horror stories etc. that
occur which are attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the new
package. You have to keep in mind when you're reading the
horror stories that happy people don't write in - just the
unhappy, and as often as not, the perceived problem caused
by the pack is off base or they just have a gripe to air,
etc.. But when similar threads about similar problems start
to pile up, you can generally believe them and make your own
judgement whether to donwload it now or wait and hope for a
fix to the fix to be issued, which does happen on occasion.
At the moment I cannot think of anything in either that
would have an SP as a source.
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