Thanks George. That URL works OK and I will study the page carefully later. I have a suspicion that the Win 95 which was pre-installed on the machine was an OEM - in which case I can probably forget about upgrading it to XP anyway. Douglas On 1 Nov 2004 at 10:30, George Bell wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > Those infernal equals signs again got in the way! > > http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/upgrade.php should get > you there. Make sure the URL ends in dot php or it won't > work. > > George. > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq