: That's great , if you don't want to connect the computer to the : Internet. I wonder how long Windows98 security updates will be : available. I would be surprised if you can still get them now. the computers all connect, can't see why they wouldn't And since the big problem with connecting to the web is the browser which brings in all the viruses/trojans/web bugs I have moved to Opera, still bug free after all these years :) Security updates (in fact all updates) for 98 stopped some time back. good thing too, now I can run things without being pestered :) Actually if you want to see how simple an OS can be that connects to the web with no configuration and no bugs, have a look at menuetOS. Imagine a whole 32/64 bit OS with a GUI, browser, graphics package, smpt mailer, word processor etc etc etc - that fits on a floppy! http://www.menuetos.org k