Do I Really Need SP3?

From: James Walker (jamewalk@prodigy.net)
Date: 01/31/03 

From: "James Walker" <jamewalk@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:06:30 -0800

I have Win2000 running on my home P2 machine (no SP's
installed) and want to update with most recent security
patch from MS. However, the most recent patch requires
either SP2 or SP3, with the latter eating up a lot more
memory. Can I make do with just SP2? My current OS is
pretty stable with few bugs I have seen.

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