I’m so, SO glad I decided to give this a shot before resorting to anything drastic.

Again, many, many thanks.

But, strooth, we are not computer people, she uses her for picture and music and movies, I use mine for p*rn, video games and virtual grids like second life stuff and what not. Still we both understood this and made it work. Neither of understands any of these discussion comments though, so I have a Q. We didnt keep her XP CD, its lost somewhere, maybe a couple of years gone, should be evident that you keep it, but as I said, not PC ppl. Can we, since we dont have an XP CD, use Unbuntu to access all the XP System files and Hardware files and directory things, to fix the Blue Death screen business which precipitated the need for us to go down this path? Or can we confidently just run Ubuntu on the lappy now, ignoring all the old dogey XP stuff? or can we access XP and delete it ALL now, and still keep allthe other files and stuff.. so that she still has her games anf net and what not, just running it ona Linux OS having killed, as horrifically and viley as possible to teach it a lesson, the Microsoft XP bastard demon of hell?