Originally Posted by
Tarq57
While this approach will be fine for a while, sooner or later in the (extended) life of XP, there will probably come a time when SP3 needs to be installed for continued support.
Indeed, but that's likely to be a few years off, and by then I'll have switched over to 100% Linux. Already, my old PC with Slackware is faster than the new one with Windows for most functions. The next trick will be to put Slackware on a separate partition on the new PC and see what happens...