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View Poll Results: From your experience, how would you judge the stability of Windows XP
Very unstable (a serious error, like a BSOD, averaging once a day or more frequently) 0 0%
Unstable (frequent trivial instabilities, or a serious instability more than a few times a month) 2 5.56%
Mediocre stability (occasional instabilities) 6 16.67%
Stable (only rare or intermitent problems) 6 16.67%
Very stable (rare minior instabilities, no major instablities, like BSOD, more than once per year) 22 61.11%
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Old 09-22-09   #11 (permalink)
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Yeah I have never had an operationg system crash or give me errors or anything weird, linux, mac, windows.
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The only reason for XP to be unstable is user error. The os has been around forever so all the bugs have been worked out and then some.
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it's been stable. i rarely ever get BSODs, and the only time i need to reinstall is usually because of Linux screwing something up or because a game crashes...

XP still is a very good OS...
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XP is very stable, but recently I did a fresh install with a pre SP1 disc.


That sucked.
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Mine's been super stable. All my BSODs and random restarts were/are due to unstable OCs
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XP is very stable, but recently I did a fresh install with a pre SP1 disc.


That sucked.

Our corp. multi license disk for work is SP1 (November 2002) Doing 400 updates to a machine SUCKS. Server SBS 2003 Hates doing Pre SP2 forced updates on that network for some reason as well.
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XP is very stable, but recently I did a fresh install with a pre SP1 disc.
Any reason your didn't slipstream the updates into a new disc?
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