I like staying on the trailing edge of OS updates. Stability MAY be an advantage of some upgrades (so I hear), but that is also something to be said for "tried and true". I'm still using 98SE on this machine for the very reason that it works. And I don't want to spend my time doing what you are now doing :-) I did run through the Win2k hardware qualifier, only to find I would have to gut the machine.

How many reboots so far?

>Yea, they sure did!
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>I bought WinME a while ago (18 months or so) specifically to 'fix' PWS problems I had been having with Win98SE's PWS. I was not a happy camper when I loaded WinME up, went to install PWS and found it absent. Eventually, on some MS page somewhere, I found tht it was NOT part of WinME and not supported there. Yes, I KNOW, it's not in XP-Home either.
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>It as the above that prompted me to ask about NTFS before jumping forward.
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>cheers
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>>Glad to hear your NTFS concerns got lost in the noise ;-)