I chose the PS3 because my buddy went through 2 Xbox 360's in a year, first one he got the red ring of death and the second one scratched his game discs.
The day before yesterday, I pressed the Shutdown button expecting a prompt (something you can configure in XP). Vista neatly closed the few applications that were running, logged me out and shut down, nice and easy.
Imagine my surprise when I booted it up tonight only to see a Windows 2000-****"flat" user interface with everything I installed missing, no glass, nothing. Somehow I got downgraded to a non-privileged user, unable to even see anything in the Control Panel. To add insult to injury, every "zone" in IE 7 became locked. I was locked out and not given any options to do anything about it.
This is where I said enough. Big thanks to the author(s) of VistaBootPRO who made it very easy to get rid of Vista from the dual boot.
I'd say it's one of your hardrives, mine worked fine XP loaded slow a month later it died from to many bad sectors. Since you say check disk freezes. I'd go to your disk manufactures website, they have software tools to download that will test and report any problems with the drive.
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