I administer a medium scale network here and while I tend to take "blanket statements" with a grain of salt, I also have learned to use caution on "updates". One of the so-called security patches disabled something we were exploiting here. Another example is mdm.exe I have yet to identify what it is supposed to do, but it gradually slows the computer down further and further, till you think you need to upgrade. delete mdm.exe and the machine is back to its old self again. another one is WINMGMT.EXE, anyone knows management can slow productivity ;-) Lonnie - KF4HAZ - ----- From: "Nick Veys" > Am I the only one who thinks a blanket statement like this is kind of > irresponsible? Seems like you run an HP from the text, which would > imply a certain model of HP, which would imply a certain problem with > hardware/software compatibility with XPSP1. An issue I'm sure many, > many people will not have. Mine and every system I admin have been > running SP1 for several weeks now with no issues whatsoever. > > nick@veys.com | www.veys.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.