[Dr. Sivana]

I’m not a cloud guy yet. I use apps on the local drive.

I am NOT a cloud guy and will do my darnedest NOT to be (unless it is my own personal "cloud". We used to call them WANs or off-sire storage.)

I do NOT have a Microsoft account or a Google account. I did get Skype and Linked In before MS bought them out. I do NOT use iCloud on my iPod Touch, despite constant hectoring from Apple. I will not use Google, and will probably use a non-iOS/Android solution when a decent one is available for portable devices. (HP was the last to make a serious try, and it bombed).

Yes, I do use the downloaded Win OS on a bootable USB drive with the code. I reinstall apps from DVD, unless I had to buy as a download. I always get a physical version if possible (usually for $20 or so additional).

[RinaseaofDs]

Very much appreciated.

I’m going to begin the process of doing that with all my machines.

The old ones ran very nicely and then they didn’t.

When you do a reformat, are you doing a command line reformat, or do you let the Windows installer handle that for you?