I've had to reinstall WinTrash 98 at least six times in the past two weeks due to network problems and Robert is correct. Not only do you have to manually input all that stuff but you also have to tell it to add drivers for MODEMs, network cards, Video cards etc etc etc and you have to insert and remove their driver disks frequently along with repeatedly swappin the Win install disks in and out. Further WinTrash frequently can't find the drivers on the disks so you have to search for the files manually and manually enter the full path name for the files. THEN you have to reinstall all of your applications and reset all your favorites, server names and addresses, remove the trash MS applications that WinBlows installs, configure the desktop, add virus protection, firewalls, etc etc. It takes at least a day to get a DECENT system configured and running. However from what I've seen of Linux and most other Unixs, WinBlows is still faster and easier to install for 99.99% of the people. ?NIX is just too cryptic and it seldom comes with hard copies of documentation. (Exactly how are you supposed to refer to documentation or help files when the application/system isn't running? Both ?NIX and MS are lousy in this regard!) Joe At 08:22 AM 5/7/02 -0600, Robert wrote: