My 2 cents. I installed WinXP Pro in December after everyone was telling me I'm too biased and it's great and sooo stable and better at memory management and.... it has collapsed in a heap no less than 5 times since, the last time (2 days ago) it took the harddisk down with it. I mean DEAD as a doornail. So, I regret my decision to the tune of around $150 because it murdered my SATA drive. Not to mention I am sitting there, with a dead PC at home until the new drive arrives. (Tomorrow) Prior to December I ran Win2K Pro, without any glitches, problems or mishaps, stable and clean - for nearly 4 years. I give you 3 guesses which OS will go on my machine tomorrow. And I run 2gb RAM on an AMD64 FX51. Another note... Those CD's you write on XP Pro? You know, the "Send to CD" ones? If you don't finalise the CD - they can't be read by anything other than an XP machine. (One of our governers here overruled me to insist that 700 PC's shall be running on WinXP Pro. The machines vary from Celeron 400's (ya right.) to various P4's. None have more than 512mb RAM but they want to do graphics on them. (Ya right) He made that decision because "XP will let me write a CD without a program" throws hands in the air)

Silke