Oh no. My computer is hosed!

[hazel]

No offence intended, Alphawolf,

Yes I'm running a Win ME system which can only see up to 512k RAM. I only have a PII 400Mhz processor with a Hercules KyroII [64Meg] AGP board, a crappy old Diamond sound card and a rusty old 56k modem. Also have a total of 4Gigs IDE and 6Gig SCSI HD which is plenty for me

Difference is that this load of old junk does exactly what I want it to, as well and quickly as I want it to, without having to worry about thousands of a-holes wanting to crash my system [as with XP] just for a laugh six times a week

I don't play games or run fancy CAD utils, and therefor don't need a gazillion megs of memory or HD, can't use a 3Ghz processor [almost 50% faster data processing than my 400], don't need to employ the latest, smartest, can't work it out applications [like XP] which cause more problems than they solve, and can still produce web fodder to compete with many of the best [okay, I'm trying to]

No. It's personal preferrence in all areas. I can't live with watching for daily updates on the XP anti-virus page myself. I'm content to plod along with what works for me, as you surely are too

Anyway. I do sympathise with you. Have had an HD go POP! before now. All the best for the future

Hugs n Smoochies

Hazel