Hi, See: http://www.servicepals.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34448 Forums > General > Computer Help, Hints and Tips > removal of sp 2 in xp home removal of sp 2 in xp home Question. Please can anyone help me I am trying to increase my RAM by 500MB but Service Pack 2 will not let me make any upgrades ect I am reaching the stage of wanting to throw my Pc out of the window I am running XP Home. Answer. Go to control panel. At the top Add/Remove programs, scroll down to the Windows SP2 bit and click-on remove. If you have SP1 then just run that.....also, if you have all necessary security soft, anti virus, firewall etc you do not need to worry too much about SP2. Have had a lot of reports of this, but I use the Pro Corp edition which is almost, for microsoft, fault free. Thereafter, just go to the Microsoft website and upgrade all vulnerability patches. How do peeps live with this ? It would drive me nuts having to Un-install an update just to install more RAM !!! AND Then have to re-install progs On-Line to make the system secure On-Line !!! ----- Also For something completly different. See:http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/ "Ever wonder what's lurking within the dark corners, nooks and crannies of your computer? Is some gremlin responsible for all those crashes---you know, the ones that happen when you are trying to save that critical document you've been working on so diligently for the past three hours? We wondered too, so we took a look to see what we could find. And guess what? When we put the computer chips under the microscope we found some very interesting creatures hiding there. Our search has led to a new collection of photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) featuring many of the interesting silicon creatures and other doodling scribbled onto integrated circuits by engineers when they were designing computer chip masks. The tiny creatures are far too small to be seen with the naked eye, so we have provided high-magnification photomicrographs to share these mysterious wonders with our visitors. Engineers designing modern computer chips have a very rich sense of humor as you will discover when you visit our Silicon Creatures Gallery that we keep corralled in the Silicon Zoo. We hope you enjoy your adventure!" Kind Regards, Michael aka rockape -- =========================================================== The Scunthorpe Amiga User Group List Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/scag Administrative contact: Ryu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Website: http://www.scunthorpe-amiga.webhop.org To unsubscribe send an email to scag-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field ===========================================================