Re: SP3-For a home user; WHY?

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"pheasant" <kiavan02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I read the updates SP3 is supposed to address, and as a home user that
surfs the internet over a wireless network, does a minimal amount of
digital photography and not a whole lot else, can't see where the updates
apply to anything I use it for.

Other than just to be up to date, is there any compelling reason that a
casual user would even want to update for?

My old dell laptop has a 4GB hard drive, and windows xp sp2 already has
darned near 2.5 used up! That's just the os for heaven's sake. ...

Yup, that's old. A few Gby is the size of RAM these days,
and the interesting unit for hard drives is the _hundreds_ of Gby.
If I had a system like that, and no motive for updating it, and if
the system was working for my needs, I'd leave good enough
alone.


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