Operating systems do not take an hour to set up.

General things to do when upgrading an OS or reinstalling it or whatever:

- OS install: 30-45 mins, maybe an hour for a slow system
- reinstall of network card drivers, sound card drivers, etc: 5-10 mins
- software reinstall: who knows how long -- takes me another hour literally, but I have a lot of software. I've shaved it down to 30 minutes by not installing some stuff that can be considered 'bloat'. Wee.


The point is (for Big D) is to play around with installing a network using the usual wizard nonsense that Windows requires (apparently you have to run the wizard or Windows will cry and not work) you to run. Hope you don't run into two computers (98 and XP) both trying to 'own' the network, and go from there.