Well, I've used them all, and they all suck in greater or lesser degree on my laptop, I downgraded from Win2k as there wasn't a lot I could get to run on it properly, (games, freeware, etc.) so I installed Me, which as noted, has it's problems, so I trashed that and installed Win98, which is now toast and requires a re-install, (again!) Thank God for BeOS, that's all I can say, saved my ass every time, (every time the M$FT OS has snuffed it that is :) The question is, do I go back to Me, (with Rambooster) or sacrifice functionality for stability, and re-install Win2K? Another day wasted to rebuilding my FAT32 partitions... later jb