ery often it is used to underpin an application that requires relational object / data storage of some kind.
If you aren't using it, or aren't using any applications that use it, then you could un-install it all.
- aye, Saab - there's the rub - I know what it is but not if I need it! It is knowing which "applications require relational object / data storage"! Is there an easy way to tell apart from uninstall and see? I assume from what you say that there is no core function in XP that requires it?