Quote Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
I agree.

I disagree. If you occasionally do a full uninstall on programmes you no longer need, AND use a utility like CCleaner to get rid of the crap and to check your registry; AND periodically have a purge of startup processes, AND once in a while defrag your harddrive, then XP will zip along just fine and dandy.
True enough. I much prefer to do a reinstall as any corrupted drivers or registry files which a reinstall or registry clean won't fix get sorted automatically

I've just got my own PC and have nothing else other than my games, a DivX codec, flash, shockwave, acrobat and MSN messenger installed. I fully intend to keep it that way