Integrate SP2 and hotfixes or not?

[virelai]

Hi everyone,

I have one simple question, i've asked it in other forums but it seems like nobody could/want answer it, hope you can help me!

I'm a sound engineer wannabe, i'm looking forward to create the perfect unattended version of winxp to work with audio applications; as probably you already know, audio apps are really heavy, and demand a lot of memory and processing power, so what i really need is to send to the thashcan everything is not strictly related with the sability of the OS.

So with this version i'm not gonna connect to the internet (actually i'm gonna disable everything has to do with connection...network card, services, even uninstall IE messenger and whatever), and i was wondering if i just could avoid integrating the SP2 and the hotfixes, as most of these patches are security-related ones.

So, what do i have to do? Integrate or not integrate? Does anyone know if not installing the updates could cause stability issues to the OS? Should i just install only some of the patches? But which ones?

Please help me, it's really important!!

Thanks

Bye

Edited March 5, 2007 by virelai

[virelai]

no answers?!

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Here is what I suggest:

Go ahead and use SP2 and integrate all of the hotfixes or use ryans update pack, then once all of the files are updated rip all of the extra crap out with nlite. That way you ensure all of your files are updated and get the benefits of sp2 yet still have the lean machine you want.

Lots of people say alot of bad stuff about sp2 but it really does alot for Windows XP.