Posted on 06/13/2006 11:15:21 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Our family PC runs XP Home and is used more than a little, probably an average of 20-25 hours per week. I installed SpywareBlaster and AVG anti-virus on it, both of which can or do update themselves automatically. If you consider that "anal," so be it.
None of us "digs around" at allmuch less "really"to keep anything cleaned up. I might clear the browser cache every 3 or 4 months, if I think about it. But, whether it's surfing the 'Net, burning DVDs or CDs, recording cable TV, synching with my PDA, editing or printing photos, editing audio, backing up the other PCs on our home network, FTP-ing to and from my Web sites, or ripping CDs, it's been running fine since I built it about 3 years ago. Never had any reason to consider reformatting the drive or reloading the OS (knocking on wood as I type that ;).
Yeah, I read about it last night. They have a hole...
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