How much RAM do you have? With a 750MHz CPU, XP Pro should run great, unless you only have 128MB. Given that an Athlon is faster than the equivalent Intel at the same MHz, you've got a significantly faster machine than my P3-500MHz, and XP Pro is pretty snappy for me. I do have 320MB RAM in this thing though. The latest games sorta stink because of my slow CPU and video card, but the ones based on, say, Quake III work ok if I don't expect 60fps+ with high detail. Barring that, when it comes to VFP compile and application development, my system is plenty fast (I keep telling myself that anyway...but after a few hours with the top-notch system I helped a friend put together I know how bad mine really is).

Randy

>Bill,
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>My XP-Home machine is a AMD750mhz. I haven't seen those rumours that XP is a resource hog and I can say that, overall, XP Home is MUCH "snappier" than the old Win98SE that I used to run there. It also boots/shutdowns MUCH faster than Win98SE.
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>Presently I have a friend staying with me. He is a FlightSim afficionado. He installed it on the system, which has a Matrox G400 dual video adapter (only 32 meg) and 512meg RAM on the machine and he is satisfied that he get 30+ fps.
>I don't 'do' games myself, so can offer no other input on the subject.
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>cheers