This anology is a good start; now to extend it a little . . . After you take your car to the garage you drive it for thousands of miles without doing *anything* with it. If it was a computer with any modern OS you would have to stop at every light and fiddle under the hood. Any time you pulled out on the freeway you would see dozens of cars lining the road with poor hapless souls trying to get something working. Shame on any OS that forces the user to deal with it when they are just trying to get things done. This just IS NOT good enough. Mark Browne <snip> One of the problem with computers (but Linux and Windows, heck all other OSs) is that they are simple things that people can "just plug in" and it works. I blame MS for this. And frankly, it's not true. I like to use the car analogy. It's pretty "simple". Almost everyone has one. But how many people work on their cars? Not many. Heck, I don't even change my own oil. I take it to a _professional_ and they do it right, they do it in 20 mins or less and it cost me $21.95. I'm not a car mechanic; a car repair professional, so I take my car to a professional. The time and effort it would take me to chain my own oil would cost me for more then $21.95. Why should you do any less for your computer? If you aren't an admin (car mechanic) take your computer (car) to a professional (Real Time) for service. <snip>