Hi James,
Thanks for that, it brightened up the day!!
The real reason I was asking- we have a few lightly used desktops, and a few backup laptops. All of our regularly used PCs and laptops will be Win7 by that time, but we will still have a few XP Pro machines in (potential) use.
So I will keep a fire extinguisher handy, in case of spontaneous combustion!
Gene
One thing you can do to hedge your bets is pull an image of those XP machines so that you can do a bare-metal restore if fire breaks out.
Another approach is to swap those machines to CENTOS and convert the XP to a VM on that hardware. In the enterprise space that is the step-wise progression where there are apps/systems that can't move from XP yet. Re-spinning an XP machine from the latest good image only takes a few minutes.
