Um. Personally..? Win2K is a lot less resource hungry than XP and (in my experience) more stable too. Same OS without all the gunk and junk. Yes XP has some features and 'improvements' over Win2K but I have never - and I've used Win2K from day 1 - had a single problem with it. I am still running Win2K on my P3 600. The only reason this box has xp on it is because I need to get used to the OS for work where I was bludgeoned into rolling out XP Pro (instead of Win2K as planned) on 700 machines (some of which are Celeron 400's with 256mb RAM - I leave you to draw your own conclusion as to whether they will survive.) Not fun...

Silke