I agree with you. I love the XP program, as it fills all my needs in business and reliability. I'm running an amd 64 chip with a gig of ram and everything just purrs.
When I made the change from 98 VII to W2000 I noticed that the hard drive didn't work as much, but still didn't like how the OS worked with some software systems. Now, with XP Pro, I'm happy; and I don't game.
Yep; all that and NO MORE "ILLEGAL OPERATION" CRASHES!
Dan