It seems I was indeed lucky, Hans. Oh well. Am on XP Pro now.
That is much better anyway.

Really Rob? Do you have any recommended tweaks to make things run more smoothly with XP Pro? YOu can email instead of using the forum if you want.

Hey Josh
 

Check out the two articles linked at the end of this web page

http://www.videoguys.com/WinXP.html

No, I am not one of the videoguys but I found these articles very handy when juicing up my PC.