Well - I've just done the last XP updates so, presumably, that will last for a month. I have now managed to get a new hard drive installed in my main machine with a working, fully updated copy of XP on it and the Linux Ubuntu or maybe Linux Mint disc is just waiting to go in. If it all goes pear shaped then the old hard drive goes back and the opinion on the block seems to be to shell out for Win 7 until Microshaft issue an OS which everybody likes - er like DOS 6.22!.
P.P.