Creeping corruption

XP slowly degenerates

[mayor]

When I got my new computer a year ago, complete with Windows XP, I said goodby to the several-times-daily reboots forced upon me by Windows 2000. I raved at the stability of XP.

Well, the party and the honeymoon are over. XP rarely hangs like 2000 did but it gets corrupted and applications take on a mind of their own. I have to reboot to clear the slate, and I'm doing that once a day now, especially after a power play manipulating a giant spreadsheet or someting like that.

I call it 'creeping corruption'.

Anyone have ideas about how to start fresh with Windows XP? My computer came loaded with XP, but not with a pile of discs. Online XP updates have been of no help.

[juniperwasting]

Had the same type of problem, only took 6 months for explorer.exe to corrupt and kaput. I happen to have the XP disk that came with it, so I backed up, reformatted, and re-installed. It is the only solution I could find.

Note: the M$ forums and help center made me want to fly to Redmond with a crowbar

[4eyes]

Yeah - I'm going through it now - random crashes, one or two a day.

About 6 months after a re-install for the same reason.

Pah!

[edit_g]

And you thought Microsoft would change one of their most well known features.

"it's not a bug! It's a feature!"

[ScottM]

Going on almost 2 years with the same machine running XP. Have only recently noticed anything similar. But similar it is.

Also without discs...grrr.

[Compworld]

Great.. Just what I need. To do another reformat and reinstall. Like I have nothing better to do with my time. I am seriously thinking about going back to Linux with a Windows Emulator for certain programs. Plus, I would not have to worry to much about viruses either :). It truly make you think about it.

CompWorld