I am impressed with XP. It was less bother to install than previous Windows. Especially to get fully up and running. Windows 95 and 98 came up in 640 by 480, 16 colors. I needed to install modem drivers and find and download video drivers from the Internet, this was inconvenient because the text on some sites is not easy to read in 16 colors. Windows XP came up in 800 by 600 high color, with the modem driver already installed. XP also installed a printer driver as soon as I turned on my printer. Windows ME had detected my printer (an Epson Stylus color 500) and installed a driver for it, but only if I had the printer turned on while I installed ME, and ME’s driver didn’t work good. I hade to uninstall it and install a downloaded one. XP’s driver worked fine.