SP2 for Vista
Well that was a harrowing experience, hopefully never repeated. After the download, Vista said it needed to update my modem driver, One World ADSL. After a time it said update failed not mentioning now the modem would not work. Uninstalled SP2.
Tried the disk for the modem to reload the driver, Vista said "sorry" cannot use atachments to INF file, so could not load. I did a quick back up of recent files that had not been backed up yet. Was OK for a few then Vista said could not read/write from DVD drive. Turned the confuser off, started with the Vista Install disk in, and selected restore to an earlier point. It only gave choices from download of SP2. Message after ages was restore had failed. However, lucky day when I turned the computer on, no more SP2 and the modem works. It may be just a bad day, but I reckon I will wait a while before any more updates.
I may buy a new hard drive and put XP on it. A friend, wants to load XP after his drive had Vista on and gets message after 48% load that installation has failed.