From: don penlington 
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  But if your current system does everything you require, and works well, I'd
  stick to it as long as it's feasible to do so.

  Have I been missing out on anything of importance over all these years?
Yes, If you never patched DUN/RAS you are missing features (and
improvements) that you don't even know about. Lots of other things
are like that too...  (AND I am "sure" you are doing fine without them...)

But it gets worse from now on...
Look into the way WinXP handles DLLHell...
They now ALLOW programers to be sloppy and use older
(or newer) DLL's and install anything(~) they want.
             (This is an "obvious" over simplification...)

The new system is called something like "Side by Side"
and is "slightly and/or much more than" going back to the
way DOS programs had their own files for themselves.
The big difference is that WinXP keeps those files in a certain
directory and handles (controls) the whole shooting match...
It even lets different versions of DLLs run at the same time for
different programs.
The old "new way" of modular programing and backward
compatable DLLs did not work out as well as they had hoped...

As you put newer programs on older systems, you "will"
have "Automation" problems if they are not very careful.
(OLE and DDE problems...)
(Been there, done that, TWICE so far...)

This is just the tip of the Iceberg...

And I "love" my Win95B machines...  I considered it
"perfectly normal" to boot a lot to get rid of problems...

With XP-Pro, the only time I "need" to reboot is when I
tell ZoneAlarm to "not allow" something I need later and
have to "reset" it with a reboot... (I give few programs
"always OK" rights...)

Hope this helps.   Rick Glazier

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