I suppose I'll throw my hat into the ring too. We've had a Light Jocky running in a hot, dusty elevator room on a bottom of the line Dell with XP home for a good two years now without any major crashes or even reboots that I am aware of. It's running a good number of colorblasts all night, all year, at an install at a hotel. It largely sits untouched, but every month or so we add or edit cues for various holidays or special parties. We also use two other light jockey systems for shows and problems are extremely rare. I've not heard any problems with any of PC versions of the major boards, and have done a number of shows with a MAXXYZ PC, thought it's been finicky as far as upgrades, once it's up and running it's been completly solid. Just put as little software as you can onto the machine, close up the network as much as you can if you do need it on the net for remote applications or what not, and DON'T use a anti-virus (though a firewall is probably a good idea).
Just stay off the web, email and file sharing, don't transfer anything but files you need on it and there is no need for an anti-virus program.
Just stay off the web, email and file sharing, don't transfer anything but files you need on it and there is no need for an anti-virus program.
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