besides what Sail says you can also have just a server on your machine to test you code. That way you don't have people connecting to your computer. I wouldn't recommend winMe for a web server. if you want that then go with Win2000 or Linux. but just set it up so you can test scripts then it is not so bad. I have mine on win98se and Apache with php, perl, and Mysql. I use this to test my scripts and then up load them to my ISP for my site.