I installed winxp to take a look at it.
I didn\'t like it., best thing about it is the boot up screen.
But you have to keep up with the times, especially if you are going to trouble shoot other peoples PCs which they have bought, messed about with for 2 months, looked up some dirt,
bought an internet bride and screwed it up when they installed
some crappy demo software for the world cup.
For all its failures win98 is the easiest to use for home computing.
I wouldn\'t pay for XP. If you are smarter than the average user, use you brains, install linux. Windows is for babies.
PS if you buy a new computer the vendor should give u OS cds!!