# Windows XP SP1 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-sp1/128044 "2002-09-11T23:56:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-sp1/128044/1 "2002-09-11T23:56:54Z")
Anyone else install this yet? I did, and my fancy themes (UXtheme.dll patch) wouldn’t work anymore. I forgot how I got it that way, so I installed Style XP - but I think that is limited to 30 days. ☹ So anyone else have any problems with SP1? I expected to have problems, but it went smoothly except for the theme problem. I don’t fully understand what SP 1 fixed aside from the huge security hole in XP (that nobody knew about?? I don’t get that). And there was another update: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (Windows XP), and it left all those annoying shortcuts for Windows Media Player everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-sp1/128044/2 "2002-09-12T00:28:43Z")
No problems, but I’ve been frequently dloading updates, so the service pack probably didn’t add a whole lot to my system. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-sp1/128044/3 "2002-09-12T17:56:17Z")
There is a huge security hole which is only patched by SP-1. See your favorite computer news site for details, but the exploit invovling faulty URLs is nasty. ☹ :eek: