>>>I guess you're either lucky or don't have more than 9 instances of IE + VS instance + SQL Server + SQL Profiler + Word (for spell check purposes) opened at the same time on Windows XP SP1. Not to mention ~7 instances of WE.
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>>>Forgot to mention that it was more than a week when I re-started my PC last time.
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>>If you have that much stuff running all at once, are you running low on RAM? Fire up Task Manager, go to the Performance tab and look at "Commit Charge [Total]" and "Physical Memory [Total]". If the former is close to, or larger than the latter you may have a low memory condition.
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>>BTW XP SP1 is way out of date - you're missing out on tons of bug fixes and security updates. SP3 has been out for some time now and is quite solid IME. Of course, it requires that your copy passes WGA validation - this doesn't happen automatically through Windows Update or Microsoft Update, you have to manually run one or the other and download and install WGA.
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>I have XP SP2, got confused once more, sorry.

You should still upgrade to SP3. That also requires re-running WGA validation.