Of course, if it just stays open in the computer shop compared to your working on it all day, it is not surprising that it does not freeze up in the shop. I am no expert in these matters, but it sounds like you may be running out of resources as you work and or surf chat rooms during the day. Do you have plenty of memory?
That alone can make a HUGE difference in the performance as long as it is useable memory for the mb. 512 megs of ram for running Windows XP smoothly is not an exaggeration.
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