I have carefully avoided SP2 on my PT -MBox system. I continue to run XP SP1. While I did turn off the automatic updates I still go to the microsoft security page to get critical security updates. Just there a minute ago and found 13 new critical security update all applicable to SP1. I install all and continue to run SP1 on this system Very interesting, on my other home computer system which is also XP SP1 when I go to the download page I see only one option for critical download, SP2. jazzmandan