Hi all, Thanks a lot for the excellent suggestions! As soon as the machine is in, I think I'll go for additional HD space and make sure to install Windows on a FAT32 partition rather than an NTFS one (good suggestion regarding the FAT32 one, it slipped my mind that FAT32 can be written (and read) by Linux as well, without any issues). Then a further question: for some of our communication we use MSN Messenger. When looking on the Internet with Google, I came across AMSN (a SourceForge "freeware version of MSN"). Does anyone have any experiences with this Messenger? Does it work (equally) well as the more recent MSN versions and can it work successfully for chatting with people using MSN, or is it just the so-manyth Messenger that uses their own channels? Also, if this isn't the most ideal Messenger to use for communicating with people using MSN Messenger, can someone suggest me a better solution? Cheers, Olafo