Thanks for all of the imput. I have a Dell Dimesnion 2400 and I checked with Dell and they told me that it would support XP Jes' fine.My Cannon printer is only 3 months old, so I have to believe I'll have no troubles with it, but I'll check it anyway, along with my Hewlett Packard scanner, which is about a year old. I'd be happy to deep six my scanner, or anything Hewlett Packard makes... I've had nothing but headaches with both their scanners and printers.

I'm moving slowly on this. I am pre-neanderthal when it comes to computers. I bought a Microsoft XP, but have not yet installed it. What do you mean, Mark, that I shouldn't use XP as an upgrade? Do you mean that I should uninstall Windows 98 2nd edition before installing XP? Sounds like leaping off a tall building to me. Will I lose my Mircosoft Word folders and my scanner folders?

My oldest son is a computer specialist and tries his hardest to explain all them terms to me. Kinda like explaining quantum physics to your dog.

After all, I'm just a folk singer..

Thanks for all the help.

Jerry