Hi, ZomBieMann~,

I posted that link to the Microsoft tool, and have been messing with it a bit recently. I get the message that the audio will not work properly but all I need to do is go to the Windows Update site and get the latest driver for the onboard sound chipset.

Joe & Moira; my experience with Windows is that it is not too concerned with processor speed. Taking Windows ME as an example, I run it on boxes from PII/266 to P4/1.7GHz. The difference is barely noticeable.

I have had the same with NT 4.0 (SP6a). A PI/166 with 64Mb of EDO RAM booted 2 seconds slower than a PIII/667 with 128Mb of PC133. Performance wise you couldn't really notice a difference with normal office applications. Take an industrial grade project management app and tell it to rework the project costings and the difference was enormous

RAM does make a difference, and can be the most cost effective upgrade, depending on circumstances. Last week someone brought me a PIII which they had loaded XP onto. At first I thought the monitor was dead............then after a while a little light appeared in the top corner of the screen. It turned out it had 64Mb of PC133 and an onboard graphics chipset sharing the memory..........

The comments from the Dell exec. were interesting to me..............do they suspect that Vista suffers from memory leaks like ME and to some extent NT 4.0???????????