I paid for my xp home and the wife got xp pro. She installed hers a month or two ago, I put mine in last February as a test. If it worked, she would follow. I haven't had a freeze or a crash, but have noticed that, after 9 months, it's much slower to boot in the morning and very slow to shut down lately. I figure that's typical Windoze. Hers loads and closes three times faster, but it won't last. Our computers have roughly two years left, and we're going with Macs.

In the meantime, the old 486 that we network through, running Slackware just purrs on and on. A year now and never a hiccup. It stays on 24/7 while we shut ours down at the end of the day. I paid less than $30 for the Slack Linux, and total of almost $400 for the 2 Windoze. Something is very wrong with that picture but, I'm the fool who doled out the money, so I guess I'm what's wrong.