Sharkey, I'm not claiming to be any super user, but I worked for a company a little over a year ago where we supported over 2000 machines. Also, I have built several machines, and fixed a bunch of machines on a freelance basis. If you are looking for stability, you might consider switching away from Windows 98 to an operating system with less problems. Here's what I've found in several different cases on Windows 98 machines. If you install Win 98 to a formatted harddrive it will work for several months with no problems, but if you are a hardcore user who transfers alot of data to and from your harddrive, installing and uninstalling software, or downloading and creating files (image files, doc files, etc.), you have to constantly defrag your drives in Win98 to keep your system error free. The only problem is, scandisk stops running in Windows 98 after awhile, and you won't be able to defrag your system when that happens, so the system slowly degrades into dysfunctionality. If you don't plan to play any games on your system, NT is still one of the most reliable systems, and Windows 2000 is also great if you can tolerate downloading and installing a patch for every single program.