Between 2001 and the arrival of service pack 2, it was a horror due to virus and worms for sys admins and end users.
The ignore the problem thing was a resident resource hungry program called &quot;virus scanner&quot; 
Com &amp; co were great, ms used it,the rest abused it.  And Xp feels fast too, it wasn&#x27;t, 7 was faster, but it felt the other way.