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so if people actually followed the instructions as per:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/s...hattoknow.mspx

pay paticular note to "Before You Download SP2" section
8. Close all open programs.

Which should say "disable all startup apps from running on startup in
advance of installing XP2" or similiar.

ie simply closing them means they will run on the reboot which is NOT
recommended.

In other words, disable, reboot, then upgrade.

My guess half the XP2 problems read here are due to third party 24/7
background apps.