A couple of points in regards to Quest comments.

• I agree that a UPS is an excellent choice in protecting  you're new investment, all of my PC's at home have individual UPS Units.

• I dont agree with who ever you spoke to at Dell.  Raid 1 may have its flaws, but I rather have some type of redundancy than nothing. The failure of one drive, in the event of a hardware or software malfunction, does not increase the chance of a failure or decrease the reliability of the remaining drives in a Raid 1 system.

• XP vs Win2K  You need to understand what they are based on.

• Windows XP is based on the Windows 95/98 Technology with great support for Hardware and Plug and Playability.  Service Pack 2 and now 3 have done a great job of resolving issues with the first release of XP.

• Win2K is based on NT v4.0 - it was more designed towards the Buisness environment  rather than the Home environment.  Since the core of Win2K is based on NT.  That meant Hardware support is not as robust as in Windows XP.

Dont get me wrong I love Win2K is great and one of the best O/S that has come from Microsoft, however it is now very much outdated, and support for many new hardware has pretty much been dropped.

What I recommend is to follow the super tweak instructions by Dark Viper at http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm  they are safe tweaks and will make you're XP look just like Windows 2000 and more.

I may not go into full detail, why I make the recommendations that I do, but all you have to do is a bit of research on what I've said and you will see that they are good recommendations.