Thanks for that link Hipster, gunna do that for sure. But I'm only going to use my spare 12gig drive and leave my current 80G as is, to be sure. Then when I'm conviced that sp1 doesn't cause any probs with hardware and stuff then I'll image that on to the 80G, and I'll have the original image to play with. I'm always loading junk to mess around with, which drives me nuts (can't help myself), as I know that somewhere there is going to be conflicts and I'm going to have to re-install
Speaking of which, I'd downloaded a game demo benchmarking tool called CodeCreatures, that has some of the most unreal graphics I've seen. I've got a gf4ti4200 that struggles to get 7-8 fps with this thing @ 1024*768. The water and grass effects look superb.
http://www.guru3d.com/files/
its a 40 Meg file, and the demo only goes for about 1000 frames if you choose the single demo.
If you download it you can see how all the junk on my comp cannot be making the computer run smoothly after a couple of months. (the benefits of cable!!)
But as I said last night, the next attempt at shut down resulted in a re-boot. AAAARGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
I wish my computer would get over its brain fart mode at the moment, it does run super fast and smooth at the moment, but these uncertain shutdown/re-boot are driving me nuts! I think it's only about 20-30 seconds or so but it fells like an hour to wait and see if it's going to re-start,so I can shut it down with the switch.
Sorry about the long winded reply but I think I need a shoulder to cry on.