Dito, Dito, Dito.
I have been working on PC's since the early days (1981) & have long believed the following...
* No "normal" person can keep a PC running. “Normal” meaning you have a real life with real people outside of computers.
* Has anyone noticed that the phrase "User friendly" has long disappeared in reference to PC’s? I have never seen a truly user friendly computer (especially my own or any of my friends). Maybe a MacIntosh?
* Keeping a Windows PC working over a long time without problems is next to impossible. Change one little thing here & something (days later) will be found to be messed up & you have absolutely no idea why it is suddenly acting screwy.
* Many problems take 10 - 20 days to find & 10 - 20 seconds to fix.
* If Microsoft says the latest version is “Faster”, “More reliable”, etc, don’t believe it. It’s still the same old unreliable Windows with or without DOS (and that includes XP). I have been running Windows since 1991 (3.0, 3.1, 3.11 for workgroups, 95, 98, 98SE, XP Home & XP Professional).
* XP is nice but not quit there yet. Even without DOS it has its own set of problems & the learning curve is much higher then previous versions (are you ready to be a network Administrator even if you are a single user running on a single computer at home?). XP was designed to be run on a network & many network items get in the way of a truly "User friendly" XPerience!
Otherwise... HAVE FUN, you insane person.