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The firewall and other new precautions in IE may not stop a hacker but it will put a stop to the existing exploits that are out there and therefore it is worth it. I mean, you do lock your doors even though someone can break a window and still get in, right?
The hard drive is absolutely certain to be fragmented after installing SP2. And you need more than a defrag, you need your boot files moved to the front of the hard disk. I think Windows will do that for you, after about three boots, if the system becomes idle for 20 minutes, or something like that. Clicking Start/Run and typing "Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks" is supposed to force Windows to do it immediately.
Wayne Bundrick
\"It tastes like there\'s a party in my mouth and everybody\'s throwing up!\" -- Philip J. Fry
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