[Mycroft Holmes]

You DO realize that Win XP has a drop-dead date for Update Support in 2013? After that, ALL exploit holes found in the OS WILL NOT be fixed ...

Yes, I do understand, quite well. Microsoft has used FUD as a major marketing tool for a long time. It works. You might want to look at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9026940/How_to_make_Windows_XP_last_for_the_next_seven_years for another perspective. Or not.

[Lmo56]

Yes, I do understand, quite well. Microsoft has used FUD as a major marketing tool for a long time. It works. You might want to look at:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9026940/How_to_make_Windows_XP_last_for_the_next_seven_years for another perspective. Or not.

And you DO realize that the article was written in 2007?

2007 + 7 = 2014 ...

BTW: I regularly purge my temporary Internet files from IE, then run CCleaner [both registry and file cleaning], then run Auslogics Registry Cleaner to pick up strays that CCleaner misses, then run Windows Cleanup [including removing all but the most recent Restore Point], and finally defragment using Diskeeper ...