Thanks for the informative reply Noguru. It is much appreciated. I have looked at the usp2 subforum. And below I have put some comments and questions in square brackets in your list: - Win98se - IE6 SP1 [how about if I put Firefox and Thunderbird in here instead of IE6? I get rather confused with all the SPs, updates, hotfixes? and/or whatever with IEwhatever] - DirectX9.0c [do I really need this? I am not into anything fancy in the video line. And I note the download can be between 10kb and 162mb! from ms] - Hardware drivers (motherboard, sound, video) - Ms. Office (if you want) [not using this] - Unofficial Service Pack 2.1a - Visit Ms. update for what is missing (IE6 updates mostly) [won't need this if I am not using IE6 will I?] I am wondering if the places I setup for connecting to my ISP are in the browser or in Win98se? And also where I put my pop data in. Is that in my email program or Win98se? And at what stage in the install would I do this? I should be right if I can understand the basic order of doing things and where it is done. (I have installed 98se and IE5 before but it was rather hit and miss and it was quite some time ago). And yes, just as well I am not on broadband. The speed alone would kill me, let alone the computer (It is 733mhz and 256mb).