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GC,I don't understand your problem?Obtain a decent hardrive, partition it, put the system of your choice on one & your files on 'tother. Better to have a 'back up drive' for your files. Am I fick or summat?
Here we ago again. A new wonderfull operating system from Microsoft.What a RIP OFF! £99 just to upgrade to the most basic version, which lacks most of the new features Vista is supposed to porovide and to me looks not much better than an updated XP.I have just checked if my system is compatible. It is (should be it was sold as 'Vista ready), however several of my programs wont work with it, including Norton Internet Security 2006! Kind of an important bit of software i am sure you'd agree.No sorry Microsoft, i will NOT be upgrading to your fancy new baby, and wil be sticking to XP. I just wonder how long they will continue to offer support and updates for XP now its no longer the latest model.To me all these new upgraded programs are just a way of getting money out of us. I see no other benefit
But like many others, I don't want the bloated all bells and whistles OS. My webmaster, photographic and communications requirements could easily be handled on a computer of five years ago running a GNU/Linux OS.
Edit: I see that Dell have jumped in with an advert, I would not recommend Dell as they tend to limit their installation to run certain software. I have run a user group for 18+ years and never seen a Dell at our meetings.
Oh, and as for backing up files on another computer with file sharing enabled - I need permission to copy these, aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhh.Vista seems just incredibly slow.