I'm simplifying my computer life. I am just now finishing up a clean install of Vista HP on the laptop. I'll install MS Office and AVG Security Suite 8.x and run updates tonight and decide what else I need to do with it tomorrow. No more XP MCE on the laptop. Vista is the Express Upgrade version that was free with XP computers when Vista first came out so I have to keep the old XP disks just in case. My HP desktop will still dual boot (XP Pro and Vista HPrem). I gotta tear it apart tomorrow and inspect and find (I hope) the problems with the hard drives and also shift hard drives around with the old Dell from Hell. It will be hard to do but I plan on getting rid of the Dell after all the swapping around is done. Hopefully at Christmas I will get a new laptop (Toshiba Satellite P505-S8945) and the HP will become the hub a home entertainment center and eventually get the power supply and video card upgraded to Hi Def capable. Don --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------