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Well everything is better than ME. There is no program in your list that requires NT based software. It depends what you plan on doing I guess. I use the KISS system Keep it simple stupid. Those 3 programs i'd get 98lite but most here will disagree with me. Operating systems consist of no more then about 10 megs of file tops all the rest is bloat slowing you puter down and degrading preformance and security. But Pick you poison after all it's your puter. I haven't found a program yet that can't run on 98 lite but micronot is fast trying to change that. But it still maybe years away.