or you could download a service pack next time you're at a pc with fast (ADSL or better) web access and a CD burner. Do a serach in google for something like "download XP service pack", and only click on a result that has ".microsoft.com" in the URL. Get the "network install" version, download it, burn it, take it home....install.....Bob's your uncle. Nothing much will be different, but you can imagine that everything got better. Some times, imagining it, makes it feel like it has. If you've got a really, really good imagination, you could skip the download steps, and pretend you've already done it.