Actually you answered me a lot. Dual moniters with XP is a no no!!! I kow know that someone else will spend the better part of a week setting up XP. And that the moniter setup gizmo made by adobe is caput for you too. Um I'll have to check this mag I have about XP but I know you are gonna have to download the new ACTIVE tecnology program for you zip drive. It may work with XP withought the upgrade but you will have to constantly have to keep re installing the hardware otherwise. Once the active disk program is in there the zip will work fine. BTW you will need JAVA capability to download the program from Iomega. For some stupid reason they won't allow anyone to downlod freebies unless they fill out some java based form. At least the plut and play worked for the moniter. BTW X2. 30 days from when you installed XP you have to register it. OR else it goes caput. And according to my brother they are carting people away who haven't registered MS programs!!! AOL if you use it is all messed up. I lost my modem for about a week. Apparently XP has never heard of a US robotics modem!!! Plus US robotics don't support my modem anymore. I also need a new version of AOL ( Version 7! Not 6 or 5 or 4 but 7 or else things won't work. ) BTW version 3 worked and could detect my modem I have no idea why the later versions wouldn't. Additionally AOL kept track of the number of time I used the older version of aol before supposedly cutting me off. I got three tries to download the new version of aol or have a cd shipped out to me. However during that time the version 5 worked fine!!!!!!!!! As I recal you have a HP scanner like me. That was all messed up. I downloaded the patches from HP but learned that they don't install. I managed to get it to work but... I have no idea how long. Get yourself an installer for winaspi32 if you use a CD burner or you wont be able to make anything other than cd images. I got mine from the Nero website. ( Just search for nero I can't remember the company name. ) The printers work fine though. XP is the ultimat big brother helper. Everytime I get a conflict windows want's to log onto the net to upgrade or generate a report. I assume BB is why MS wrote XP anyway. What I've heard is that there is a corporate version of XP which does NOT have to be registered. Good things about XP. Installed easy. Built in thumbnail browser for pictures!!! That is sooooo cool. Now I don't have to look for browser programs. Pretty quick once things get set up. Better error handling. But I'm used to win 95. Not as good as NT for task managing. Either that or my system is just too much for it. Basically when I am going and installing ect. It locks up maybe four time a day. I admit that is too much but I think that is in the past. The driver rollback can be a good feature. However it did not seem to work. Also you can emulate previous versions of windows to make programs run ( Supposedly! ) Have yet to try out making CD's. Actually I think I did it once. If so that works. BUT there is no simulate and burn. It just burns. If you wind up with a coster...too bad. Well good luck Slynk. Have fun. But I advise you to get all of the XP update stuff while you can. OH and thanks for the info. Bsteph