Life of technology. No it shouldn't happen like that. My guess is you have a machine that is online a lot and you or someone downloads 'junk'. Or you could have installed something that caused a problem. Win XP is actually VERY stable, one of the better MS operating systems.

Macs have their glitches as well, though generally not as often as Microsoft products. Macs are more expensive, different keyboard structure, etc. Not exactly the most difficult thing to work, but just not a Microsoft computer.

Don't get spun on the grass is greener syndrome where "if Microsoft sucks, then Mac must be great". Not true. I have plenty of friends that switched to Macs, only to switch back.

I have 3 Macs and had 3 Windows boxes (XP/Vista)

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