Well I understand about the whole setting myself for an attack, when mentioning Windows XP here. I really do, it's old, out dated, some what obsolete, no real "eye candy", can't do as much as today's Operating Systems, I know, but I'm just a simple little man who I guess is stuck in time, like XP time, I enjoy watching friends & family who own Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers, I think the things are great. But as great as they are, just speaking for me, it's all a bit outside my O.S. comfort zone!

And I know about using 4 gigs of RAM on a (32bit) O.S. like XP, it won't all get read or recognized. That's why a long time ago I opted for the (64bit) version as so all my RAM could get seen and used.

Sorry for setting myself up here, just trying to speak form the heart, without having my ego jump in and make things mucky!

"Thanks for the warning"

Zen, rest assured you are neither alone in your preference nor depreciated by the more expert members of this forum. In my opinion, the world is split between the vast majority of users who have a PC 'for fun' and the tiny minority who use it as a 'tool of their work'.

You (and I) fall into the latter group, which is why we prefer a PC that does not look and behave like a toy.

Surely it absolutely speaks volumes that MS found it necessary to develope and supply the XP virtual system for Win 7? Who, after all, wants that, except most business users?

If you could actually cost the loss of productivity and wasted time learning a new operating system, by all the worlds industry, how much do you feel MS ought to be charged for that? How about 1billion dollars ?