hi all, yeah it comes down to alot of thing to keep ur pc running fine,
age of components , eg capacitors on motherboard only last a few yesrs b4 they go,
then just out of date hardware making it obsolete for newer programs
and the most common cause on win xp machines, is hte nature of xp diteariating
the OS just wears out and need reinstall, also HDD probs cause it too, so defraging helps and junk files removing etc,
but there was another guy said the same thing he has to reinstall every 6 months or so, same here
but now i got win 7 (cough the free version:P) and its been fine, had HDD probs so had to reinstall but other than that works fine
cya love Rimz