Actually I have had to set up almost a dozen XP PCs in this office over the last 15 months. It has only gotten harder, especially since Microsoft fragmented Networking setup from a single place in Control Panel to several places - some of which are not obvious! (My Computer to set up Networking stuff??? NOT accessible through Control Panel? My, I must have a different idea of what the CONTROL panel should do). Unfortunately my company does not have budget for me to take classes or buy books, and I haven't the time.

I'm sure it works just as well as everything else Microsoft... weak and dim. Still, if it wasn't for cheap, quick and shoddy, the personal computer would have taken much longer. (Actually that would be: if corporate executives weren't such tight-ass bottom-dollar quality-ignorant...)

Okay - maybe XP is fine. I have yet to find any reason to like it, and many to dislike it. It is supposedly more secure, but I am at the point of posting the administrator password so that all users can fully and properly access every XP PC in case of an emergency. Naturally I am not talking about the NETWORK administrator password, just the one I am using for the administator user on new XP machines. On the latest XPC, I could not even set up a password for the computer's admin!

If anyone can show me how XP is an improvement I will be happy to change my mind. Until then, I can only be suspicious. Now who has my coffee cup? And what's that strange smell? Oh no, the squirrels are after my cupcakes again.