I strongly suggest upgrading to XP. It's been working great for me. I previously used Windows 2000.
Be sure to download free service packs when it informs you some are available. This is important to safeguard you from security threats over the internet!
TradeStation 6 offrs 30+ years of daily data and nearly 1 1/2 years of intraday data (1 minute and above). The misunderstanding might be that it offrs 2 weeks of time and sales data. So you can bring up a tick by tick chart for 2 weeks, however a 1 minute (or any interval built from 1 minute)...
:) Stocks 1.2 cent per share (includes all ECN fees). E-Mini futures $3.99 per side. TradeStation 6 just $99.95 per month and waived for very active traders. I just got this info from www.tradestation.com
Looks like IB has some serious competition.