Mark, I'm dying laughing at the visual you presented about your habits re: your 'book... And, no, the two who warned me are hard core Mac folks who had bad problems at some point in the past and told me I was making a serious error in leaving it this way. But, sounds like the experience of the list says to ignore them. So, I will. Pat On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Mark Kippert wrote: > Are these people telling you about the frequent need to reinstall, > Windows > converts? Perhaps they're so used to the need to do a complete > reinstall the > Windows OS, that they assume the same need for their new Mac.