In Windows XP, users at first go to an expanded "start" menu to pull up programs, instead of clicking on icons for common programs such as e-mail, Internet browsers or audio players.

Operating systems should be invisible according to some, yet Windows XP is anything but. Visually, it's Microsoft's most innovative OS since Windows 95, making more use of graphics than ever.

Now when I open the folder every icon is an "unknown file" icon and then, at a rate of about 10 icons/second, they all change, one by one, to the PhotoShop icon.<BR><BR>In WinXP when you double ...