[Krsqk]

Sure, Windows runs fine, as long as you don't touch anything. Heaven forbid you should want to adjust things, or remove the not-so-helpful search dog, or get rid of the Playskool interface. And don't even think about creating a custom install file.

I've done eleven re-installations of WinXP Home over the past year, seven of which have been in the past 3 weeks. I finally had to unplug my DSL before I reinstalled, since I had security breaches happen before I could even do Windows Update. Sure, it's more secure after updates (at least, we don't know what parts aren't secure), but it shouldn't be quite so full of holes or so cranky about giving up its death-grip on every aspect of my computing (anyone else want to run Windows Update in another browser than IE?).