xp is pretty big hog on a system harddrive, if you download lots of files you may need a second harddrive real fast. your c p u power is more than enough, grab 256m of memory and a bigger hard drive and you will be rocking, especially if you get a 7200 rpm hard drive with 8 or 16 meg of cache. about 100 dollars for a 120 gigger. consider using the 20 gigger to back up with, get a program like ghost 2003 to do it with. make the 20 gigger the secondary harddrive in your system. buy the same manufacture as the original harddrive. bill -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx