[djbikeerrob]

Thanks everyone i was looking for opinions and suggestions and most of you were very helpful I'd like to single out roy and mr. douglas as being exceptionaly helpful. Oh and Skybird I did not need the smart remark, but I appreciate the sarcasm. It is extremely helpful on a community board to have someone get their little digs in when a person is sincerely asking for help. Thank you so much for that useful tidbit. I was asking simply because I was going from an 5 year old XP based laptop to the much newer windows 7 system and I wished to gather useful opinions from folks that were using the new windows 7 based systems. I wanted to learn from others experience. I have gotten things all straightened out now and it is working well. Hoster does seem to have a glitch that trew me for a loop when it tested the new cd rom drive and said it was fine when in fact it was not fine. I purchased a drive from MTU and viola, everything suddenly worked as it should. once again thanks to all of you folks that gave info. I do sincerely appreciate it and hope to return the favor when ever I can be of help