I used a dual system back when commercial computers were coming with Windows ME (that was a piece of junk but it had the drivers for a lot of my computer's peripherals) and Win2000Pro. I work at a university and was able to get that for a few dollars and I set up the Win2000 for work and used the ME for other stuff. It took HP and others a while to finally release the drivers for the peripheral equipment so they could be installed on the 2000 side. When that happened, I got rid of the ME crap and shifted my partitions so the ME side simply went away. Those were the old days when some of this stuff was a little harder to do and drivers weren't everywhere for download.

SRS