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why do you wish to upgrade? What do you wish to achieve?

What you have should be quite adequate for most uses, and adequately fast.

I have built and rebuild and upgraded many computers over the years, and finally given up, as it is a big pain, due to all the various incompatabilites in components and software.

Most good computer systems are made from same era components which work well together. Companies will rarely 'upgrade' computers, it is far more cost effective to just replace them with new systems.

The easiest thing to do, is to buy a whole new system, fully integrated, with the latest operating system and software installed, and a large hard drive, then bring the old hard drive over to the new one, and 'copy' it onto a special partition on your new computer, most particularly your data files.

Then re-install your old hard drive in your old computer and use it for a backup.

If you are intent on upgrading however, it is a great learning experience, possibly far more than you wish to learn. I have lost a lot of hair over the years, trying to figure out the problems. And tech support today is almost non-existent, except at very high prices.

If you do decide to upgrade, I would buy a new hard drive, copy your old hard drive to the new one, and take out your new hard drive, and proceed with the upgrade. Large Hard drives are very cheap these days (about $1 per gigabite).

Lastly, windows 95 and 98 have many bugs, especially when you run out of memory - they do wierd things. Windows 2000 is currently the operating system of choice for the most stable, bug free operating system.

The biggest problem with upgrading is the major chance of losing all your important data, which probably took you hundreds or thousands of hours to collect and generate.

I wish to achieve faster speeds, especially when using Photoshop and Flash, etc.

Is what I have adequate for graphic-intensive stuff?

I use Windows 98SE, but would definitely consider 2K -- although I had that at work and it didn't seem all that more stable.

I'm not terribly worried about losing data, since I back-up (on CD-R and CD-RW) just about everything important every week or so.

Thanks. :)