Hi I'm about to set up a computer for a friend and since she's on a (very) tight budget I suggested that she should spend her money on the best hardware she can afford, then run her computer on freeware for now. She can always buy better software later, right? I've drawn up a list as follows: Firewall: Zone Alarm Antivirus: InnoculateIT or AVG Download Manager: Download Express System Protection: SystemSafe Gold Compression Utility: PowerZip Graphics Viewer: InfranView Browser: Internet Explorer Uninstaller: Windows' Add/Remove Mail Client: Outlook Express News Reader: Outlook Express PDF Reader: Acrobat Reader What do people here think? Please feel free to add to/ modify/critisize this list or add suggestions for the above or other catagories. Or tell me if you think this whole thing is a bad idea. She'll have to buy Windows of course though I did think of using Linux since I have a copy of Corel Linux from a cover disk, except I have no experience with this OS. Thanks. Cathy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode