Quote - JCD
Windws Vista on a recent good spec machine is very simple, very stable :)
So, there's no need for being an "IT guy"... :p

That may be the case and worth looking into if I go the stand alone PC route, but as it is now, I seem to have to install some sort of patch or update or something every other time I launch XP and at least once a month it gets hosed up... luckily being a VM, I keep a clean copy of the virtual PC and simply copy the clean one over the hosed one and life is good again.

I'm certainly not trying to start a Mac/PC thing, but that has been my experience with running Windows. Admittedly, I'm a Mac user that's a little out of his element with XP and very well may be doing something to screw it up