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I dunno -- but it sounds like you hate Ford and are going to show them by sticking to your 95 Ranger! Each iteration of the operating system has had it's problems, but each step has brought improvements to the computing community. I can recall grudgingly stepping from DOS to Windows 3.0 -- and then slowly migrating up to 3.11 and beyond.

Wow, was I ever impressed when we moved on to Win98SE and left behind the hassles of 95. NT 3.51 was super! I almost -- but not quite -- regretted moving to NT 4.0. Now that was an operating system! Then along came W2K and it showed promise.

XP was an attempt to bring together the 3.x - 9.x - crowd with the 2K crowd. It has it's faults, but it's a single OS that can now move forward. I expect -- and anticipate -- problems along the way. I too do not like the registration process and all the "crap" MS makes us go through -- but I voice those concerns to MS along with requests and suggestions.

What problems were you experiencing (before shooting yourself in the foot?) with XP. As many posters pointed out the proper way to install an older OS on top of an existing OS is to reformat the drive. That way you insure yourself of a clean installation.

Do you expect third party providers to continue to support and older OS (?) or do you think they will devote their resources to the current one? If you are prepared to support the system yourself, then so be it.

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Do you expect third party providers to continue to support and older OS (?) or do you think they will devote their resources to the current one? If you are prepared to support the system yourself, then so be it.

I'm sticking to NT 4.0, since I don't use it for gaming or other nonsense. I watch TV on the TV, play music on the stereo, pop popcorn on the stove, and develop software on the computer. If Microsoft would quit playing "new OS this month" and refine whatever they now have I would upgrade. I just don't see any reason to buy the new one just because it was released. There has yet to be a feature wotrh the upgrade expense.