All of which I agree with, Mike.

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"Mike M" wrote in message
...
The implication is (at least to me) that it is necessary to install
SP1 prior to installing SP2.

Noel,

Something which at no time did I say or even suggest. Read my posts
again. I was extolling the virtue of installing (clean) from a
slipstreamed XP CD and quite clearly, to me at least, stating that such an
install leads to a considerable reduction in the size of the dllcache
against, for example, that seen by those who installed XP (in say 2001)
and then SP1 (in 2002) and then SP2 (in 2004) or even those who installed
from an XP RTM CD yesterday and then installed SP2 today.
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Noel Paton wrote:

Mike -
the final sentence in your original post reads....
"The benefits on a clean install are
significant for XP as the dll cache is several hundred MB smaller than
when installing XP then SP1 then SP2."

The implication is (at least to me) that it is necessary to install
SP1 prior to installing SP2.