I downloaded it on broadband at my last hotel on my Compaq Presario laptop, then the the installation froze 3 times at different stages to the point where I got a message on the last reboot that my XP was now in an unstable state and I had better uninstall SP2 from the Add/Remove! I think I'll wait until I get the Disk and try again. As far as I can see, you've got to get the damn thing done or else you don't get any further Updates and therefore no future protection.