Epson has drivers for your scanner. You might have to unplug the scanner, remove it from your hardware list (uninstall), then install the drivers and finally plug in your scanner so it can be autofound.

The Visual Basic message may be because of security settings. You should have received VBA with Office XP (Office 2002) but many common viruses are VBA scripts and you may have indicated without realizing it that you didn't want to run VBA scripts. If you just bought Word 2002 and not Office XP, you may not have VBA but I think you can get it from Microsoft as a download. In the U.S. I like to buy software from Vio Software because they have great prices and great service. Often you can buy OEM versions of Microsoft applications from them. No box, no printed manual (documentation on CD), no Microsoft support, but you save quite a bit of money.

Your My Computer icon is inside your Start menu. Click Start then right-click My Computer and select explore from the context menu. When Windows Explorer pops up, right-click on any drive or folder and select Search from the context menu. You'll find your familiar search functions there. It looks a little different but all the features are there.

And don't worry about Word 2003. That's really part of an enterprise application suite intended for corporate environments where everything is loaded on servers. Office XP (2002) isn't going to be left stranded.

      - Mark