I sure do appreciate all the free downloads offered here to improve W98, but after pouring through a lot of these stickified topics, I am still not sure how to proceed. There is some ambiguity I think, and some downloads that aren't installers but only "builds', and several links that don't payoff. So let me ask explicitly. I have an older laptop that I wish to refurbish a bit and lend to some kinfolk. It is running W98 FE (version 4.10.1998). I have IE version 6 on it and I am generally quite content that it is a fully capable system. I may or may not have all the necessary security updates, but probably do, since I had visited Windows Update regularly back (years ago) when I was using this laptop every day. Really, I have only ONE single complaint now, and that is the fact that this machine handles removable USB storage devices so poorly. I have succeeded in getting an MP3 player/multi-device to operate OK but only because I explicitly installed the W98 driver that came with the device. Yet even so, I have to always reboot the dang machine, with the device plugged in and powered on, before my system recognizes and mounts it. Then, there is no way to remove it safely, and I have to either shut down to remove or do a risky live yanking of the plug. But even this is acceptable to me. The REAL dilemma is that (generic?) flash drives don't take AT ALL, and I've tried everything. The little power indicator light comes on but the system doesn't "see" the device at all. I've tried a couple of amateur touted generic drivers, such as the one offered here, but it doesn't do the trick (yes, it claims to work under W98, as well as W95). Now, I don't care if I have to download 30 megabytes, just to improve this one little problem. But if the download will transform my system into W98SE, then one concern of mine is will I have to start searching the internet for new drivers for the machine's OTHER peripherals, such as an external CD-ROM I sometimes use, and a SCSI PCMCIA adapter that I sometimes use, etcetera!? One of the bigger packages touted on of the stickified topics here (not sure which) mentioned inclusion of "updated USB drivers". I think that's all I need, but I'm willing to download/install MUCH more, so long as I don't then have to face a multitude of further adjustments to my hardware configuration database. Get me? Thanks!