Re: Do I Really Need SP3?

From: neo [mvp outlook] (neo@mvps.org)
Date: 01/31/03


From: "neo [mvp outlook]" <neo@mvps.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:27:22 -0800


While you should be able to make do with SP2 and any pre sp3/4 patches,
eventually you are going to have to upgrade to the latest service do to file
dependencies. (fwiw, there have been many security fixes between windows
2000 gold (no service packs) and today. going with the latest sp means
fewer post hotfixes to be applied right after install.)

"James Walker" <jamewalk@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:04f801c2c8bc$9b872f50$d2f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA09...
> 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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