you know, along with your statement and the few I received after I stated that virtually *everyone* I know and work with has to reboot windows XP every few days... I don't know what to think.
Well that's a vast improvement over previous versions that needed several reboots a day. Seriously, my personal experience is that XP is far more stable now, and rebooting XP completely is somewhat infrequent, though applications would hang, but can be restarted without an OS reboot. Besides XP, is there another common denominator between everyone you know? Same hardware manufacturer, or certain devices that need updated drivers (or in some cases have buggy drivers that don't have updates). There's also the chance that malware has gotten on your systems that's causing the problem. It takes some knowledge and effort to support XP, which in comparison makes OSX appear carefree (which is mostly is).
As far as the three applications, you don't say which video conferencing software you use, but that could be the problem (as well as the audio/video drivers). I've personally had my share of problems with Adobe, especially not closing/clearing memory after it's done (try Foxit Reader foxitsoftware.com as a good/small/fast alternative to the bloated Adobe Reader - I've come across a few rendering incompatabilities, but it appears much more stable than Adobe to me). I'd hate to admit this, but Microsoft Office has been fairly stable in more recent offerings, and hasn't been the source of many problems that I've come across. |
