Hi Tim, yes I do intend to upgrade Windows, or alternately have a new computer and use that for most of my graphics programs, whilst using the existing one for the Internet connection. I know many that do this, so if you should be unfortunate enough to catch anything nasty on the net, which is not impossible even with all precautions taken, you are not so likely to affect your important stuff. The other benefit of that is I would still be able to operate my old Meta Creations Painter 5 which I like a lot, and other older graphics programs on the old computer, as I have been told that some programs like Painter 5, will not run on XP, and maybe 2000. This time though I shall take a bit more time to look at set-ups more geared to graphics, when I moved from conventional sculpting to computer graphics 3 years ago, I didnt know how to even operate a computer. I just bought a system all Hewlett Packard, at the time with a reasonable sized processor, AMD Athlon 850, upgraded the memory to the maximum it will take 512. I had hoped that software would take care of itself, and to be honest, most of it has. I didnt really want the hassle of changing this and that to try to suit individual software, and then finding it had messed up the operation of something else. At age 57, I really wanted all my time to be devoted to developing my abilities with the graphics programs, and have spent little computer time doing much else. Hence my posts are all in one lump, as I havent even got round to learning how to use HTML properly.:) Thanks for your suggestions Tim; I shall keep them in mind. Dave