I forgot to mention, I use a hardware firewall, that helps keep both of my machines more stable and cleaner. Also, probably overkill, but I upgrade the AV on both machines twice a day. Robert At 08:18 PM 9/20/2003, you wrote: >XP (any flavor, Pro, Home, or Standard/Student) is more stable than ME. I >have +never+ had XP give me problems, save one, and it was not XP's fault. >(I allowed a kid to write his school paper on my Word, and he brought his >disks with him, one of which had a Dumaru virus.) I am also using a RAID >system, which works well. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk