XP_SP2

  I've been seeing some people mention that SP2 is slow on the first boot.  I'd 
suggest to take a look deeper in event viewer and also check services to make 
sure everything is really 100% OK.  I've been playing with RC2 for awhile on 
clean machines and things have been working fine.  I then started playing with 
a Win2K Pro SP4 upgraded it to XP SP1 and tried RC2 on it.  Well all I can say 
is I'm glad I cloned the HDD before loading RC2.  I then waited for the final 
version of SP2 and just gave that a shot and the same problem.  The system is 
slow on boot, I start checking services and found things not started like RPC 
but then again all networking works fine outbound.  The Security Center service 
did not start so the firewall is not on, I'm sure that related to RPC service 
not starting.   Event view is loaded with service start up problems but I can't 
get into the details on the events.  Double click does nothing and right click 
props does nothing.  I tried getting into the problem system with another good 
system to check Computer Manager/Event view but no go, system could not be 
found.  I tried pinging the system and all packets lost.  I can get out with 
the problem system but can't get in from outside.  The firewall service is NOT 
started but looks to be going.  I'm sure the problems are related to the 
upgrade from Win2k to XP and then SP2 but I just thought I would say something.