Do you know that feeling you get within a week or two of Christmas, when you know you'll be getting something new to play within a few weeks, but you can't mess with it now?

That's what I'm feeling right now.

Sometime this week, I'll finally have an upgrade to XP in my hands. ("Upgrade" is a relative term, but it'll fit for now.) Up to now, I've had Widows 2000 on my PC: stable, easily diagnosed, and, best of all, free. It's a lot better than the WinME the PC originally came with ("SSHHHH.... don't breath too heavy... I'm trying to do my homework on the computer... don't want it to crash..."), and everything worked with it.

Unfortunately, times have changed too drastically for me to run it any more. Every new piece of software I try comes up "must have Windows XP or later..." and refuses to install. XP and 2000 are practically the same OS, so it shouldn't make a difference, but it does.

I'm also looking into a laptop for school. It was fine while I only had one programming forbidden>