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Subject: [Shop-talk] OT: Windows Vista
From: "David C." <cavanadd@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:46:31 -0700
It's about time to upgrade to a new computer.  My old desktop is about 5 
years old and only has 1/2 gig of ram and a 60 gig HDD, although I 
haven't even used half of it.  I'm going to get a low end desktop box 
because my home computing needs are pretty modest, mostly web surfing 
and a the occasional word processing, spreadsheet or PP application. 
I'm not doing video editing or gaming, so I don't need a high end machine.

A few of the on line retailers still sell XP machines for a couple 
hundred bucks, less monitor.  However, the local Fry's has a weekend 
special on an E Machines PC with everything I need for $249 (after the 
inevitable rebate), with Vista.

A couple of questions.  I have everything on my current computer backed 
up on a 500 gig Maxtor USB external hard drive.  If I get a Vista 
machine, can I plug the Maxtor in and drag and drop the My Documents and 
  the Program Files folders (or at least the sub folders in Program 
Files that have the apps I normally use, like Office, etc) into the new 
Vista C drive?

The other question is security.  I run current Norton on my desktop 
machine and I'm pretty sure it's clean, but you never know what kind of 
sneaky malware is hiding on your machine.  If I pull files and 
applications off my Maxtor drive, am I taking a chance that unwanted 
malicious files could also hitchhike?  The alternative would be to load 
the apps on the new machine manually, but for some, like Office, I no 
longer have the disks.  (I do have a DVD for Office 2007; tried it; 
hated it.)

Thanks
Dave C
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