I had to act quickly to avoid infection after reinstalling WindowsXP on my office computer. Fifty critical updates. I got it updated and the next thing I installed was a decent web browser. It's been good to start over, and most importantly, the shell is not crashing every time I try to open Windows Explorer to browse the files on my computer. That was so annoying. I partitioned the hard drive so I could try and install Linux on the other half. I tried, but as Home Simpson says, trying is the first step toward failure. And I failed. I can't get it to work with my video card and monitor, so it will boot into Mandrake Linux just fine, but I can't see anything because it won't send a signal to my monitor. Now that I have the hard drive split up it should be easy to wipe that partition and try again.