
Hey Dave,
Don't worry about the format of the favorites files, they are not designed to be read outside of a browser environment.
As to your email information, the files I am talking about are only if you use Outlook to read and store your emails. If you only use the web based version, you won't need to worry about saving those.
Also, you didn't answer my question about which files were corrupt, if it is just the icons and the program files, let it go, it doesn't matter. Just get your pictures, and the contents of your My Documents that you want to keep, (great time to do some house cleaning :wink: )
Trust me, you are going to be SO much happier once you have upgraded to XP. You are going to be your wifes hero.
Now here's the thing, you have a ridiculously small hard drive, if the information you noted was correct, 13.9 G? Hard drives are really inexpensive, and if you are going to go the XP way, I would highly suggest getting even just a 40 G. I'm in California so my suggestions for sites are going to be different than my brethren over the pond, perhaps we can get
one of them to suggest where best for you to go.
Look forward to your reply,
TTFN
T