>>I understand your feeling perfectly. But Shaw's not too far ahead of the "gummit". Standard is Win95B. We get a new computer from Dell, for example, complete with Win98 or NT or Win2K and the IT department blows the whole setup away, installing everything (network drivers, etc.) from a CD they've burned (we've got licensing agreements to do this, BTW). Sometimes you get some, mmmm, things that don't work quite right. I was an instructor at a training session recently. All the computers in the training room were recent and had MS mice with a mouse wheel. Unfortunately, the wheel didn't work since the proper drivers were long gone. Sigh...
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>I hear you. Each time we get new machines, they send LAN rookies to do the 95 installs (overwriting perfectly good 98/NT/2K OS, it's disgusting :), I have to go around and update mouse & print drivers, etc. The last batch they didn't even copy local user files back correctly, and I had to hook up the old machines and copy the files back through the server...

We're in 100% agreement, I'm just glad I don't have to do that.:-) Our problem is getting our hands on the correct drivers. IT keeps all the disks that ship with the machine.:-(