I was getting along just fine with WinME and switched over to XP mainly because Best Buy gave me $400 of rebates and goodies to buy a $200 program. It worked just fine until I installed a firewall, not knowing there was already a firewall in XP. Boy, you talk about a lockup! Of course, Microsoft didn't bother to tell early users that ME had to have a small upgrade to utilize System Restore, so I also lost everything because I couldn't get control. Now I make sure to have backups of backups. Complain we will, but we still don't want to give up our computers. Has anyone tried Linux?