On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 Bato001 at aol.com wrote: > PS: I was running ME because my wife is to cheap to buy XP. I'll go without > her though, she'll never know (until we get the credit card bill of course.) If you're just trying to get utility out of your machine and not running any particular piece of MS code out of necessity (i.e., if you want to do bug-free Word-like word-processing but don't _have_ to give people perfect Word docs) and you're cost-conscious, consider downloading a free version of linux onto a disk, esp. if you know a friendly linux-user (who will have you check your wireless card to make sure the driver is available, etc.) Probably people on this list can point you to a good checklist...