Thanks for that Mixture, I'm off to my local trusted dealer soon to get him to sell me my 4th computer along the lines you mentioned above
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For me it wasn't XP but 64bit computing that is the reason fo refreshing my hardware. I'm confident I can run my entire current WinXP setup entirely in VMWare (Note: VMWare 11 will only be release for 64 bit versions only - hence the need to change).