Hmmm I had put off even looking at XP. I used to be a sys admin and got too used to NT/2000. And I understand about the tech support biz. Do you have a bottle of aspirin by the phone? lol The icons looks good as well as the grass background. That's pretty neat. I guess it's just the blue task bar that threw me off. I'd rather have a solid running OS than a good-looking OS any day. Thanks for the input Ron!