Thanks for the info. It's beginning to be amazing what you can find out on this thread. All my stuff works fine. I'm trying to think if any family members are using 2000 and might have the cd if it's a good idea to upgrade the OS.
I have one old computer that's still using windows 3.11, but haven't tried going online with it in awhile. It runs a program that's not compatible with win98, so I keep it around rather than pay the $600 the software folks wanted for their upgrade. 'Course I keep my cars forever, too. I hate replacing stuff that still works.
Are you a mac user, since you don't like Microsoft?
Have you heard that the Dem primary in Florida tonight looks to be a repeat of the 2000 presidential election, with tight results, improper closing and opening of the polls, election irregularities, hand counting of votes, and all? The Freeper number crunchers best guess is that McBride will win by a margin of about 4/10's of a percent up to 1 percent. .5% or less means an automatic recount, if it is more than that, there could still be a recount, or even more voting, depending on lawsuit results.
Gads, no, Sam, I'm no Macster! To paraphrase Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, I wouldn't touch a Mac to scratch it!
But that 23" screen is durn fine, ain't it???
I've been working with Microsoft since some so-and-so surreptitiously set a Zenith Z-120 on my desk back in 1984 or 1985 with a note that read "Fix this, please?" I used to prefer NetScape to IE ... but I have to use IE now, and it's not so bad. It's the Bear who has gotten all stubborn.
< sliding into Granny Rose mode, leaning back in my rocking desk chair, lighting my corncob pipe to scandalize the children >

For the children present who don't know what a Z-120 is, it's the one with the screen on it. Yes, children, it was a monochrome screen, and those are full-height, 5.25" drives that held 360K (that's kilobytes) of information. However, the one I had had been specially modified, and had a < fan yourself now, children > 5 megabyte Winchester drive! < slapping knee and cackling > Hoooowee! The Air Force thought these critters were pretty cool, back in the day!
The idiot who snuck this behemoth on my desk had loaded WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase on the hard drive, all in the root directory. It was running a version of DOS that would only allow 256 files in the root. By the time I discovered this, I was, most reluctantly, hooked.