The issues being faced in that thread are a PITA for you and others, and for RT, because they have not yet been able to replicate the issue and therefore fix it.
I paid a few hundred dollars for my WinXP a few years ago, but the damned thing was shot through with holes.... i've had to download patches and updates since. Considering they put a few hundred million dollars into developing
and testing WinXP ... you'd expect it to be flawless.
Luckily, there is a replicant 1 you can use until the bugs in version 2 are ironed out