Randy;

That sounds like a system I used in 1994 a 486 with 16 Meg of RAM and NT 3.5. The machine belonged to a company I was consulting at. We were waiting for the release of NT 3.51 with all the new promised features. I learned to love NT Workstation for development! Solid as a rock! Yes - it took "forever" to boot up but when it did you knew the operating system would not be your "limiting factor"! If a program bombed you just killed it with the task manager, and re ran the offending program.

My brother and I started with Windows 286 and 386 (Well, we go back to CPM and the S-100 Bus). We then went to Windows 3.0. There were many "upgrades" which we used including 3.11. One day I bought a computer and it came with a full OEM version of 3.11. That version of 3.11 had none of the problems the upgraded computers we owned had. Our conclusion was "to never do an upgrade of an operating system". Glad to hear that XP upgrade is working well for you. I might just get XP Professional upgrade for my next computer.

Tom


>Just so you know how sick I really am - y computer at the time was a 486/66 with 16Mb RAM. I actually insalled and ran NT 3.5 Workstation on that box just so I could work in VFP3 - Under Win3.1 it was crashing every 5 minutes. Under Win95, every hour or so. under NT3.5 - hardly ever. It might take 2 hours to boot the computer, but once running, it stayed running. Which is why for the most part I stuck with NT workstation varients through the years, because it was always the most stable. I also NEVER did an upgrade install, always fresh installs, excpet recently when I upgraded Win2K to XP Pro - I did an in-place upgrade, and amazingly, it has worked out great, on 2 dfferent systems.
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> Randy
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>>LOL! I can laugh now but I can remember the pain of using 3.11 and VFP 3.0 together. Yes, Windows 95 was a good improvement. It was like a breath of fresh air. Someday all of this software/hardware will work together. :) (Do not hold your breath)
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>>Tom - The eternal optimist (sometimes) I have been known to smile :)