I am with jumpman17, xpsp2 can be made into a fully patched and as secure as windows gets (SP3 is not like SP1 or SP2, it is just a rollup of the updates with a few minor tweaks (that can break stuff) thrown in). I made an offline update and a batch file to install them.
Offline updates:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=130031
"dir /b >>c:\a.txt" will give the you file names in a file called a.txt which you will find in your c:\ folder (you can leave out the c:\ part but most of those apps make an iso)
I forget the commands and they vary on a few to make an unattended install but if you run the updates with a /help it should bring the commands up.
Offline updates:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=130031
"dir /b >>c:\a.txt" will give the you file names in a file called a.txt which you will find in your c:\ folder (you can leave out the c:\ part but most of those apps make an iso)
I forget the commands and they vary on a few to make an unattended install but if you run the updates with a /help it should bring the commands up.