I have a whole bunch of perfectly good hardware that doesn't work with Windows XP, so that's why I have a dual boot system. Ye old laptop that runs Windows 98 doesn't have enough memory to run XP, but it is good enough for the kids, listening to the radio on-line and participating in forums- which is what I'm doing now on it. Thank you Karen1573, did you know you look remarkably like Karen1572 (would you be by chance related?), I'll try that when the wife has finished her word processing. My wife is also incompatable with Windows XP and has to use Windows 98.