I’m not sure why people have been slagging Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Sure, the “Windows Security” applet is cheesy, Windows Firewall is a bit intrusive at first and the security improvements to Internet Explorer are too little too late (use Firefox people). I did, however, notice a kewl improvement. On my primary IDE channle, I have two hard disks. My master disk is an ATA-133 and the slave is an ATA-100. Instead of running in UDMA Mode 6, my master disk slowed down a notch to match the drive running at UDMA Mode 5 ever since I can remember. Until now. Ever since I installed SP2, my master disk is running at it’s full UDMA Mode 6 potential 🙂
