[Phat Pat]

sp2 is just peachy keen if you disable the firewall -there are a few new control pannel buttons, one is firewall, you can disable it there- (I use sygate personal firewall) and disable the security center (in services (services.msc at command prompt))

im not worried about the loss of the firewall because of how useless the old one was, not to mention I have a router with a firewall built in (think consumer grade hardware firewall)

I hear there are changes to OE and IE, but I dont use them anymore, so I cant really tell ya.

I had a problem with the install, the only style I could get was Windows Classic, but a second restart solved that.

I give it a 8 out of 10 on the microsoft patch meter, but its only been a day and Im sure in true microsoft style, it has screwed something up that I havent noticed yet.