[squirt-gun]

They way to do this is to have two hard drives with the windows system on drive A and everything else on drive B.

Then just disconnect drive B during the "interrogation"and downloading on drive A.

End of worry about Microsoft spying.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Gee - you could probably do something like that with a 200+ gig hard drive sitting in an external case on USB.... ;)

[glorgau]

Then just disconnect drive B during the "interrogation"and downloading on drive A.

This supposes that nothing is happening in the background while the B drive is connected. It could be sitting there doing a scan every X minutes and storing that to Drive A. In fact, it probably is.