Lots of great advice and it all sounds right to me after my last three days. Making sure you remove your personal files off the C drive is a good idea, I forgot about some of them --- oooppzzz --- the owners complained a lot. Oh well. Some I did back up to a network drive, my documents, my downloads, my whatever.

I was given a WinME machine to upgrade to XP. Noway! Not only would the XP hardware wizard take hours to get its list, the C drive lost 4 gigs of space. We counted about 2 but could not find the rest.

Insert a Bootdotcom floppy and format.

With some help got the XP to run like 98 so it looks familiar. It is different, reminds me of early versions of KDE for Unix and Linux. Course I know the MS people will deny that one. But if I added the 'eyes' and the dragon as background then I bet any KDE user would be fooled into thinking this yet another 'brand' Linux OS.

A bonus for me was installing my first Netscape V 7, here in XP, and great happiness in finding that Netscape includes in this version the option to switch the appearance back to V 4.8.