Foolestroupe -

My only concern is that some of the problems you've discussed previously may indicate that your current machine is an older one that may be a little short on resources for XP. I still have one old machine that doesn't have enough memory for anything past Win95, and another that would probably not run XP so is still on Win98SE.

Check the "minimum requirements" and double everything - RAM, HD space, etc, against what you have. You can limp along with XP on a 10 GB Hard Drive and with 128 MB RAM, but you'll likely get limited performance.

If you have the machine to handle it, you'll likely get to like XP; but expect some annoyances while the two of you get acquainted.

John