XP with early Alzheimer?

[Peterwolfe]

Having installed XP, a fresh one, I notice that both my Outlook Express connection and WMP 11.0 sometimes just "are gone" as if they never were there.
OE6.0 asks me for all the info to put in to get the software to connect to the Net/provider again and WMP 11.0 asks to logout and log in again before it will play the music...a problem I dont have with the VLC palyer...
Lately even the usual IE7.0 starts to do the same as OE6.0....just disappearing...and when starting up again, the desktop shows the following: busy installing the personal prefs in Inter Explorer 6.0??while I installed 7.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!it takes some time and after a while the rest of the desktop is active again and when looking for 6.0 it's NOT THERE!!!!???
Is this XP getting Alzheimer symptoms too soon? it includes SP2 plus all the automatic updates...