the only things that i'm not confortable with are the services. there are 3-4 dozen potential (some running, some stopped) services in my comp. what the heck are those?! also, what's up with this XP. the only thing that needs an access (from zonealarm) to the internet on my win98 is the isp program. now, on xp i had to grant access to 4-5 things before i could connect to the internet.