hi Dedworth, lucky you managed to use the schools disk , is this the one your looking to upgrade to w7,
i installed i explore 9 (for w7) last night, much leaner and faster, a little different to use but so far seems good,
had a scare though after i installed it, i remembered there was a pending update so i installed the update, and lost use of my internet explore and firefox,,,, i figured it had been an update for i explore 8, which messed up my comp, so fingers crossed i ran restore point recovery and all seems well again