Keep your important files on a flash drive for easy transport to a new system. My home Vista died suddenly in December. The motherboard went. But the Techs who built me the new Win 7 desk top were able to capture all of my files — lots of family pictures, Christmas card address list, etc. They can’t always do that, but I was lucky.
I’m planning on it.
Looking for the right device(s) to save stuff to.
Not sure how to save old emails from Outlook.
Whenever I do get a new ‘puter, I want to forego saving and transferring EVERYTHING from the old laptop to the new desktop(to avoid the bugs and IE crap on it now).