Thanks Janus, That worked! Upon exiting from this tweak, I got a screen that said something to the fact that this copy of Windows may not be genuine. (grin) No complaints out of the machine since re-booting; and no notification icon in the sys tray. "There was the initial confusion and driver errors when SP2 first came out" Your correct Zxian, what ticked me off was that MS flat out denied there was a problem with the drivers supplied with SP2. Then the hotfixes/patches started coming out. Simple things stopped working; usb keys, video cameras, etc. I have two other computers behind me, both took SP2 without a problem. I won't install SP2 on this computer until one of my raid drives goes South and I have to re-install the OS. It's just not worth the time & frustration if SP2 fails me again. (reformat & reinstall SP1) "Microsoft is not driving people away from the OS. They're telling people that if they want continued support, they should get with the times and update to SP2." I'm an oem system builder and if you follow the threads at the OEM TechNet Discussion Groups, you'll see that there still are problems installing drivers during set-up routines. And what about corporate users that have proprietary applications that can't be upgraded to run on SP2? I guess they are just SOL after October as well. I'm sorry, I just don't buy it! Best, Treeman