Sigh

Installed WinXP SP2 a week back, and life is fine so far. It installed flawlessly, seem to co-exist and work with everything that existed. One small problem I had - when I tried to replace Notepad with Notepad2. I realised that the old DLL cache does not work the way it used to work, and there's one more layer of security imposed by replacing files directly from a hidden SP2 source in Windows folder. This might be taking my HDD space, but it's not a major concern. I should say, SP2's an improvement as a whole. As I always say something is better than nothing.

Came across this wisdom of a seemingly old man on ZD Net blog - which is a good bottom line:

"Having been involved in computers since 1968, I’ve found all new software, to include “upgrades", to be an improvement over what we had back then. SP2, from the beta version thorugh the release version, has also contributed signficantly."