Hi, "Another free program offline..." to quote Tron :) Well as much as I loathe them, Laurie is right. You only have to pay once for Xp, but you have to ask Microsoft's permission to upgrade your computer... The one you have to pay the rolling fee's for is the "next step" the Behemoth known as .Net One of the more interesting things I noticed today was that MS CEO Steve Balmer was on CNBC Europe, and he openly acknowledged that Xp would only run on about 40% of the world PC's, (those bought in the last two years apparently) if your box is older than that you're stuffed, and they're not interested in you or your money. So, "legacy" kit isn't going to be supported then huh? :) High amusement! later jb