But..................I am left with programmes taking longer to load, boot-up taking longer and I have two involuntary shutdowns. Those I can do without
Pprunepop, for a while my machine took longer to load, especially the icons on the desktop, but after a few start-up cycles it seemed to sort itself out. Ditto Office programs - they were slow to load, but soon returned to normal. I've read somewhere that XP has inbuilt technology to make frequently used files load faster so maybe it needed time after the SP2 update to figure out which files it should shuffle on the disk (or whatever it does
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Dunno about the shutdowns
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