Sandy, The difference is that we've experimented enough to have learned a bunch of tricks to making things less 'painful' than the average user. For instance, get PSP as set up as you need it to be. Then, using WinZip, WinRAR, 7-Zip or some other decent compression program, compress the entire plugins folder and put the compressed result away for safe keeping. If you ever have to reinstall, just uncompress that big file to the correct place and all of your plugins will be back to work in one shot. Those that need serial numbers will ask you for them when you first use the plugin. Other than that, you've just saved yourself from having to reinstall each one manually. :O) If you have a lot of third party brushes, fonts, tubes, etc., do the same for them. Peace, Gman "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 1:27 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless > Well at least you know what the heck to do to get stuff back up and going > without having > to call your "geekette" lololol. I'm always amazed when people have > crashes > and within > a day or two they're back up and running, have programs installed and > everything. One of > the things I hate to do the most is install programs and the hundreds (it > seems like) Paint > Shop Pro plugins. That's probably why when over 2 yrs ago my Me machine > crashed > that I never installed any plugins and it was about a yr before I even > reinstalled Paint Sho > Pro. > > Sandy --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk 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 the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------