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Good advice Joe...
and I plan to do that to my aging laptop; however I need Vista x64 for my DRM riddled media center. I've never seen a FOSS solution for cable compliant systems(yet).

It is a pain to maintain XP, but running as a user on my Vista x64 system has the malware just sitting in my temp files unable to do anything(yet). The one time I got hit the UAC stopped it, later free Adaware removed it. CCleaner keeps the bugs out of my temp files.

It can still be done for free, but it will eventually be a pain on 64 bit systems as the malware writers wise up.

Avast is 64 bit now, so no worries for the most part, pocket book wise, for Window$ users out there. I think once a good lot of use figure out how to run VMs on Linux, a lot of gamers will move to FOSS solutions. I'm seeing a lot of games written for Linux now, and the hardware market is responding quite well. Maybe there will be a big movement in the near future?

Or should I say - bowel movement - to get rid of Windows for good.
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