At 11:17 AM 10/25/1998 +0100, you wrote: >Ira, I support your dropping the Win 3.1 version. I took a long time myself >before switching to Win95, but everything has its time, and in this business >it is quite short. The problem today is when and if to switch to Win98, to >Win NT, or wait a little longer. I have recently upgraded my windows 95 (first version) to windows 98 and find the installation very smooth and worth the price. I get many fewer crashes and hang ups, and CFTW works at least as well. It does eat about 100Mb more of your hard drive, and does some more things that are not wanted. I have pruned some of the extras that I don't want or need to save space.These are easy to do so long as you stay within their menus. My policy has always been to use software other than Microsoft's for my applications when possible. The only software that was obsoleted was my Norton Navigator, which had some features that are no longer needed. NN is no longer supported and is not supposed to work on win98. However, once you delete its quick launch directories and put your icons on the win98 area, all works ok. I continue to use their multiple tabletops, though the multiple users is likely cleaner and does not interfere with their "My briefcase." The only software I have had to upgrade was that for my tape Seagate (Conners) backup unit. I would recommend that you not worry about upgrading to win98. They include a way to go back to win95, which I recommend . It stores the win95 system, which you can keep for a few weeks until you are comfortable that all your applications will continue to work ok. I assume it would do the same for 3.1. I have windows NT 4.0 workstation which came with our office machine (no CFTW there) and it works ok, but I can't see the big deal about it other than the fact that it has never crashed in the month we have had it. It seems to take longer to boot up and If you are contemplating NT, our computer support people recommend waiting for 5.0, which is presently yet in beta test. So far, I would prefer windows 98 to NT. NT does have some "security" that makes it a little harder for multiple users to mess with each other files, but these are easy to get around. It may be that the NT server is better, but I have no experience there. NT takes more system fussing around and I believe more hard drive. ________________________________________________________________________ Joseph Cain cain@quartz.gly.fsu.edu (850) 644-4014 (office) FAX (850) 644-4214 (850) 385-0227 (residence) http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain