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I'd get a Dell. It may sound hokey, but they are good machines that run well. On the Dell website you can pretty much choose any options that you want. I used to build my own PC's, and if I needed a no compromise machine to do a specific task I might still, but these days from the major vendors the prices can't be beat.

Sounds like you need a pretty basic PC. Nearly anything that you buy these days will come with XP and be able to do what you want.

The only question that I have is what do you mean by streaming video? That's the only thing that you may have to customize for. If you are doing something really intensive with the video then you may have a harder time getting a prebuilt with a video card that you want. In that case you may just want to buy a PC and then upgrade the card.

Get plenty of ram, 512Mb min, preferrably a Gig. Get plenty of hard drive space. Get a good video card.