I had an older computer with '95. A friend pirate/upgraded it to '98. It worked OK until the hard drive crashed.. Well, it worked okay until somebody told me about the deltree command. Then, well, it sorta, ah, got really sick...
They say ignorance is bliss, and, if that's so, I must be the happiest man in the world. I don't know enough about computers to know what's good or bad. This Gateway has XP, and it does freeze up once in a while.
I upgreded the old IE 5.X to 6.0, and don't like it because it only supports hotmail. Seems like a lotta trouble to also enable Outlook Express. I like to be able to compose long emails off-line, then go on and send them. Now that we have a seperate line for the computer, that's no longer a real issue.
Kit has good advice. We used to use it at the Fone Company. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Sometimes the bells and whistles cause more noise...