I have XP pro on my laptop and apart from a few nightmares at installation with trying to get drivers for some of my devices and the fact that it decided I no longer required my e-mail address book so it deleted it for me. I have no idea why this happened. I upgraded from 2000 pro. Since then it has run just fine. I did however take it off my desktop as getting drivers for some of my existing peripherals to work was becoming another pain. Also a number of my kids (include me in the kid bit) games wouldn't work so it had to go. I also removed a bunch of the startup items so it would boot up the same day as I switched it on !!!

I agree ME is atrocious. Which is what I was left with on the desktopPC. I simply modified the start up and it seems to have settled down perhaps un upgrade to win 2000 or a downgrade to win98SE is in order there. Any opinions out there on this one?