"Plato" |@|.| wrote in message
wrote:

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 fact closing open programs for just the time of installation is fully
sufficient.
SP2 reboots just once - when it has finished installation. No need to
disable startup..

;-)