dreamsosweet, I'm a bit fuzzy from a cold. I didn't catch how much memory you had before. I have 512MB of RAM with a lowly Celeron 533Mhz processor. I do just fine. I have to recommend Windows XP Home Edition. You can find some potential problem if you have Windows 2000 Pro. I was a Technical Support Engineer (semi-retired only because my employer went bankrupt!), and fairly proficient with all versions of Windows except Windows 2000. We didn't handle Win2K as a part of our jobs. We had instructions to refer customers to the Windows 2000 Tech Support team, and they charged a significant fee. In the past I had Win2K on my computer, and looked for some help in the newsgroups. The attitude there is "You're a Pro, you should know this stuff." Windows 2000 doesn't have some ease of use that we've found in other versions of Windows, including Windows XP. I didn't find the help I needed, so I jumped on Windows XP and never regretted it. I ran in dual-boot mode when I used the Preview version of XP. I never had a reason to boot back to Windows ME. I bought Windows XP and have been happy ever since.