[jyl]

Hardly seems worth upgrading such an old PC. By the time you add new hard drive, more DRAM, new video card, Win XP, antivirus, you'll have spent $250 or more, plenty of hours (installing hardware, setting jumpers, installing Windows, downloading patches and service packs, etc) and it'll still be an old PC. It'll also be hard to move the HDD and video card to your next machine if they are for the getting-obsolete parallel ATA and PCI buses.

Considering how cheap a new no-frills PCs are, is it worth it?

If you are on a really tight budget, or just enjoy doing things as inexpensively as possible, drop by your local used computer store and see what they have.

Or get a Mac mini. Tiny, affordable, and it's a Mac.

BTW I can see WMV files fine using Windows Media Player for Mac OS.

I guess I just got really sick of futzing with PCs. Our last home PC finally choked its (3rd?) hard drive, I'm going to toss it in the trash. I have formatted c: and reinstalled Windows for the LAST TIME.