try to get xp professional...but its no broken leg when its just home at the end when ur dad buys it...

professional is more secure, but get norton, its better

yes but only norton anti virus... no personal firewall... cause its useless..

I got norton, I don't use the firewall but besides that it's a good program.

how did u get it???i cant get it on windows update web site

i was a betatester... reported some bugs and stuff like that... i think it should be somewhere on the MSdownload section..(try the search function on the site of MS) actually not at the update site available, but that comes in a few weeks, i guess its not launched everywhere localised, cause of some problems with thirdparty programs, but that will be fixed soon as well.

Edit: try it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...45-9e368d3cdb5a

SP2 got some nice features:
-popup blocker for IE6 (blocking sites that popup, activeX scripts blocking and stuff like that)
-WinXP gets a nice feture called "security center" where u can see windows new integrated firewall and networksecurity options, a list of supportted antivirus programs and a possibility to let ur system update automaticly when a new patch/fix is out there

and quite a few things more

and @ ncc1701z:
yes it is, u got not that much improvements, but fewer bugs and security lacks.

i dont know the difference at all if their ressource intensce or not.. cause i always got xp prof. since i formatted my new pc the first of 4 times in 2,5 years( it would be 2 times at all, but once cause of a hdd crash and another day i shot down my registry as i modified/tuned it)...

but i know sp2 is useful