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I have had two WindowsME crashes

Windows ME was a debacle from hell.

I say what ever works for you is best for you. Go for it. I am going to look into using one of my Linux boxes to run a new Tivo emulator software I was reading about. It has all the features of Tivo, but runs on a Pentium 200. i have several of those available. Anyone need an old Dell?

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Windows ME was a debacle from hell

LOL - well I think we can agree on that! The second ME crash actually was so bad it corrupted the 2000 install. Had to rebuild both.

Most of the work I do is word processing, network diagrams and presentations. Most of the stuff comes in from the clients only to be consumed by me. Thus when I respond, I create from scratch or cut and paste from the client documents. I have had very little problem with StarOffice. Though there was on spreadsheet that gave me some trouble a year ago.

Tivo emulator software??? Sounds interesting. Can you provide a link?