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One impact the recession has had on the software and hardware industry is that PC users are sticking to using Windows XP rather than upgrade. This Reimage review details how one PC maintenance software solution is keeping XP running & viable as time goes on.

Even before the recession started taking hold in 2007 many PC users were already making do with Windows XP long past its best-before date.
- Service packs were regularly appearing making the OS secure and stable.
- PCs from 2000 onward were already fast enough for the majority of users needs.
- Vista was a critical flop and its adverse publicity had discouraged many XP users from upgrading.
- Decreasing RAM costs meant older PCs were cheap to upgrade.

The real downside to this is that with time the XP machines can become more prone to faults as more applications are installed (over-writing files/settings which other applications were dependent on).

The team behind Reimage were already creating PC maintenance software for Windows XP from the earlier part of the decade so were fortunate enough to be already building up their repair service.

Reimage runs as an online service within a browser to scan and repair faults. Key to its success has been the fact it repairs third-party applications, operating systems and registry faults. The repairs reset faulty/poorly set registry keys based on their knowledge base of healthy XP systems while it can download missing/faulty files from a repository of 20 million application and OS files (everything from device drivers to product revisions are covered).

Using Reimage should help XP users keep their computers running better for longer. It shouldn’t completely replace your own maintenance tasks scheduled tasks to back-up data and registry files and keep using the Windows update should still be performed. In this scenario, Reimage slots into your toolkit for repairing XP when Windows updates and your own manual attempts at repairs have failed.