I quite like XP. UNIX is better-engineered by miles but I agree: not enough apps to justify the jump to Linux (yet). XP is the best Windows attempt yet.
My line-of-enquiry is going to start with this driver that my machine says is missing (Code 28) — it’s an obvious place for me to start.
Is it showing up that way on your machine?
Does you machine use onboard graphics or addon card graphics?
Either way you will need to determine the OEM of the motherboard and/or the graphic card to get the drivers.
The only message I have on this machine is for a USB controller, and I doubt that would have anything to do with my problem.
I just cleared the USB message.