Re: What's the word on VISTA?

Thanks for the great advice. I"m following it, and am going to hold-
off as long as possile qwith my desktop (runing win 98) and wait until
Windows 7. If I can get my wife's Toshiba satellite running better,
she can easily keep using for her job..it's just too damn slow now,
but maybe the reinstall will save it. It's not very old.

I have a question about reinstalling the OS on the toshiba. Aside
form all her documents and photos, I assume I must back up all the
programs she uses fo which I don't have installation discs. (I know
the one's I have the discs for I can just reinstall from disc).

But there are some which I don't have discs for, they were either
installed from someone else's discs, or downloaded, etc. Is it
sufficient (and reccomended) to just save them to a stand alone hard
drive using the COPY feature and then copy them back to the Toshiba
after the OS reinstall? Or must they be uninstalled from the
Toshiba. My experience is verty limited, but it seems like I've
encounered situations where a program/application couldn't be copied
and pasted, but instead had to be installed. Also, if the COPY
function is acceptable and reccomended, after I've copied them to the
satdn alone drive, should thy still be uninstalled from the Toshiba
before reinstalling the OS? IN toher words, will the OS reinstall be
smoother and work better if the Toshiba;'s hard drive is as stripped
down as possible, or will that not matter?

I've also got some programs on their which were purchased with a
finite amount of insatllations and we've used them all up....do you
happen to know if uninstalling such a programs "gives" you another
installation?

Thanks again for this advice. If I can get her Toshiba backl to
resaonable speed, it will be a real coup for us.

Fredo
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