Doug, If you check the options on your installation disk, you will find that one option allows the installation of a bare-bones OS while applications and files are left 'in situ', if you pardon the expression. I was quite happy recommending the 'bare-bones OS', but then you hit me below the belt with your power bar. That leaves me stuttering now. So let me say that I will go with the odds. Karl ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------