On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:45:07 -0000, John Williamson wrote:

On 09/01/2014 21:20, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:14:29 -0000, soup wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I think my longest up on XP without a crash is 3 hours.

Seriously, three hours? What on earth were you doing to it?
I ran XP for 7 years( fair enough it was switched off each night and
restarted the next day) and only once saw a BSOD.

Have ran 7 for four years now (also did my HNC in Networking in it),
it has never blue screened. There is one program (A game. Which runs
fine on XP [youngest son now has the XP machine]) it refuses to run
have tried (halfheartedly) to get to the bottom of this but have pretty
much chalked it down to 'one of those things'.

Leaving XP on 24/7 can be problematic. I think it leaks memory.

That memory leak was fixed *many* years ago.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216641

The infamous 49.7 day bug.

Other things deteriorate with time powered up.

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