>If my new box is any indication, it looks like the standard new box around her is a 933 running Win2K. Most folks are still much below that, and are running Win95B.

I'm running W2K SP2 on a Dell 450MHz box with 128MB of RAM. Very fine combo!
While it still does crash on occasions, it is MUCH more stable than any other WinXX or NTxx. Believe it or not, my biggest problem comes from IE 5.x. That's why I'm at SP2 and the latest of everything else. On occasions, when I close IE, an error msg box appears saying:

"Application popup: IEXPLORE.EXE - Application Error : The instruction at "0x6a87f157" referenced memory at "0x6a87f157". The memory could not be "read".
Click on OK to terminate the program"

but the hex number varies.

I click "OK" and IE closes down. About one out of three times, if I don't reboot, performance starts to degrade, icons begin disappearing off the desktop and pretty soon I have a Blue Screen (Because I don't use wallpaper and Blue is my favorite color) with nothing (icons, taskbar...nothing) showing and only the Task Manager operative. So, I have to reboot. But, W2K protection software apparently does it's job, because so far I haven't lost anything.

BTW, if you do a internet install of SP2 and subsequently, after every reboot, you keep getting the file protection scan, you can go to a DOS prompt and issue "sfc /cancel" to kill it. Nothing else works. :)

JLK