Let me start at the beginning:
When I bought SWG to play it, I installed SP2 for XP. As soon as it was in, my PC proceeded to run slower than shit. Booting took at least twice as long as it once did. Shutdowns did as well, plus I was getting quite a few random stupid 'Ending program' errors. So when I quit SWG I ripped it out. Not to mention the upgrade to SP2 booted my Radeon off as the primary video card and I don't even remember how I finally got it back. I think I had to take the SP out. Because I did take it out, shortly after I quit/uninstalled Galaxies. And my computer miraculously began to run much better.
So, today, I was thinking of buying myself an iPod. Got a vacation coming up, tired of my old generic MP3 player, things like that. iTunes needs SP2. I do not have SP2, as it pissed me off way back then. I don't like it, it eats up ram like Vista or something on this machine.
Now, before anyone goes all sldkfjsldkfjasdfasdfsCOMPROMISED let me say first I've had nothing more than 2 trojans the entire time I've owned this PC. Keep scripts off, ads blocked, scan every two days, keep an eye on registry/processes, etc etc. I know how to at least *prevent* some of the virus influx.
My question to those of you savvy with this kind of thing is: is there a way to get SP2 in and it not rape my PC speed again? Playing LotRO in Bree or the Ettenmoors is already stutter-y. Ettenmoors is actually suffering from problems in general, and even people with ridiculously top of the line PCs can get slammed down to 4 FPS around more than one raid. So clearly, with my less than stellar PC, I don't want to do anything to kill my LotRO experience.
But I need iTunes. And AVG is going LOLVISTA/SP2+ ONRY soon. So are there certain things in the SP I can safely disable? Move? Suggestions plz. And no watermelons. :D
When I bought SWG to play it, I installed SP2 for XP. As soon as it was in, my PC proceeded to run slower than shit. Booting took at least twice as long as it once did. Shutdowns did as well, plus I was getting quite a few random stupid 'Ending program' errors. So when I quit SWG I ripped it out. Not to mention the upgrade to SP2 booted my Radeon off as the primary video card and I don't even remember how I finally got it back. I think I had to take the SP out. Because I did take it out, shortly after I quit/uninstalled Galaxies. And my computer miraculously began to run much better.
So, today, I was thinking of buying myself an iPod. Got a vacation coming up, tired of my old generic MP3 player, things like that. iTunes needs SP2. I do not have SP2, as it pissed me off way back then. I don't like it, it eats up ram like Vista or something on this machine.
Now, before anyone goes all sldkfjsldkfjasdfasdfsCOMPROMISED let me say first I've had nothing more than 2 trojans the entire time I've owned this PC. Keep scripts off, ads blocked, scan every two days, keep an eye on registry/processes, etc etc. I know how to at least *prevent* some of the virus influx.
My question to those of you savvy with this kind of thing is: is there a way to get SP2 in and it not rape my PC speed again? Playing LotRO in Bree or the Ettenmoors is already stutter-y. Ettenmoors is actually suffering from problems in general, and even people with ridiculously top of the line PCs can get slammed down to 4 FPS around more than one raid. So clearly, with my less than stellar PC, I don't want to do anything to kill my LotRO experience.
But I need iTunes. And AVG is going LOLVISTA/SP2+ ONRY soon. So are there certain things in the SP I can safely disable? Move? Suggestions plz. And no watermelons. :D
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