I exactly agree hairless sweety! Burning up? lol On my system P4 was horrible with win98. then in XP home it was no problems at all. All my same hardware too. XP is a TRUE change for the positive all around anyway. TWO months and NOT ONE crash by XP. It is a dream of ease compared to '98. If you get the upgrade however, DO burn all of your personal work onto discs, then uninstall ALL programs. Then and only then do the upgrade. Make sure that all that is on the drive is '98, nothing more. Spend the money! Alex