For anyone interested, the SP1 notification for Vista appeared in the System Tray this evening, so I thought "Oh God," and decided to go for it. Well, it's updated without any difficulties, and all appears (touch wood), to be running smoothly. It rebooted a few times and made the hard drive do a lot of rustling, but it's done and JFW 9.0.whatever talked happily afterwards. So if anyone gets the notification in their tray, just go for it, but leave the computer for a while as it busies itself. Jackie Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx Skype Name: Cairnsplace