Thanx nihil....you have cleared most of my doubts.

But do you still think that having dual boot with Win98SE and WinXP is the best option I now have?
My computer is quite new. I bought it in Nov 2004 so i guess that the grphics and sound cards are good and new.

Suppose I go in fr dual boot, should i upgrade my RAM to 512 Mb? I currently have 256 Mb only.

Thanx.