The first long boot would be quite normal. It is part of the install process; only after a reboot certain things can be installed/set up....
Other then that, I had also a fear of upgrading to SP2 after reading all these negative reports on the net. Well, I must say, it went as smooth as a baby's bottom....
XP SP2 is performing very good without a single glitch or any speed decrease....
This post was edited on 10-25-2004 at 06:27 PM by CookieRevised.
If you have more than one partition a good idea would be leaving your current Windows as it is and installing XP SP2 in another partition. I did it this way so I could have my old one if something went wrong, but XP SP2 works perfect here.