Eric Gave in, replaced Win7 on old netbook with Linux Mint. It's not longer a chugging mess now. I will miss the useful features on having Win though.

Mark Dain What sort of features? I'm sure you can find good replacements.

Eric More the games, and not having to *find replacements* - as a simple browser/work mule it will do okay. But I've found myself regretting linux before.

Mark Dain I know that feeling. I ended up buying a Mac as it was as close as I could get to Linux while still having high quality apps. Although I'm building a gaming PC soon which will run Windows 8.1