Same with the Gateways I've order --Not my old HP though which I gave to my Grandchildren. It only had a restore disk. It was a pain in the tush clearing all my data off it as I did not want my daughter (who is not all that computer literate) to have to update Win 98 with all the security and such updates I made over the years. It's one of the reasons I changed to Gateway and because PC World gave this computer model I ordered the very best marks for Graphics and the only one at the time which had a 500 GB Hard drive with 1 GB of RAM. Judith I've been buying Dell computers for about 6 years now... always get a Windows installation disc. One reason I keep buying Dells. That is an installation disc. NOT a recovery disc. Not a restore disc. But a full OEM version of Windows. Don -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> 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/