In message <003401c63b12$66843bb0$14f4e5d4@mypc2> "David Pilling" <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > In my opinion XP is the best version yet of Windows, the home edition is not > that expensive, sometimes cheaper if you buy it with a piece of hardware. > From the user perspective XP is much like '98. [snip] > If You can grab a copy of 2003 Server. All useless features disabled, unecessary services disabled, no eye-candy, non-crippled TCP/IP stack... Needs a bit of tweaking to work as a desktop though. Regards -- Martin Vethake Uffenkamp Computer Systeme snailmail: Uffenkamp Computer Systeme Gartenstr. 3 D-32130 Enger-Dreyen email : martinv@xxxxxx web : http://www.ucs.de/ voice : +49-5224-978075 fax : +49-5224-978076