Is it an absolute necessity to have SP2 installed?Owen

In general or for FSX?In general, no.For FSX, YES.Thanks,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development Team Active Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/AirSource Member: http://www.air-source.us/FSEconomy Member:http://www.fseconomy.com/

>In general, no.Unless the machine is directly connected to the Internet. In that case using SP2 is pretty much mandatory, provided the user posesses a sense of responsibility.Regards,http://www.bremmekamp.com/img/misc/avsim.jpg

Yeah, I was talking about FSX. Thanks

I don't for the life of me understand why people don't install SP2... Same deal with the .NET framework, it's like everyone thinks that patches and fixes are actually bad things.

I have a couple of legacy apps that will not run nor reinstall under SP2.While some people maintain that SP2 was just security variations there were changes apparently in the API (like COM32 library objects) that some apps could not handle.I have hardware and software security devices so I'm not too worried. I use Firefox most of the time and do not have to worry about holes in IE.

>I don't for the life of me understand why people don't>install SP2... Same deal with the .NET framework, it's like>everyone thinks that patches and fixes are actually bad>things.Although .net is neither a fix nor a patch... ;)Regards,http://www.bremmekamp.com/img/misc/avsim.jpg