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To: sandeep who wrote (63553)	4/24/2007 11:32:46 AM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 213177

I had XP running for 5 years without any ill effects. I loved XP, but I installed it onto an old Win2K machine from the original disk (without SP1 or 2) and got a worm (Blaster, I think) within seconds of hooking it up to the Stanford network (ie, before I could get the updates). Wouldn't have happened with a fresh install of XP SP2, of course, but suffice to say, I bought some Symantec stock that day :).

To: sandeep who wrote (63553)	4/25/2007 4:49:19 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

I had XP running for 5 years without any ill effects. So you never had XP lockup and had to reboot? Sorry but that is just not believeable. About every other day I have some sort of "memory leak" problem where my XP machine gets unbearably slow, then I need to reboot, during the reboot phase the icons on my desktop that I was using flash on and off (this is because there are multiple copies of these in memory, I am told). Also whenever I use IE (which I don't like but one of my companies uses it) in conjunction with adobe acrobat reader it locks up. You are saying this kind of thing never happens to you? i don't think I have ever met any windows user that did not have to reboot at least once every 48 hrs (assuming they are using the PC)