I'll let the more experienced people answer your questions about moving
your data.  But I will say that yu could download the firewall and
antivirus programs now (on your Win98se system), burn them to a CD and then
install them on the new machine before you even connect to the internet.
That's what I do when setting up new machines.


Good Luck :)


Tnoy Mayer


>Also, would the firewall that comes with XP be enough to protect me for
>however long it takes to get online and download a third party firewall,
>and any necessary XP updates?
>Carol Hanson

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