If you ever reformat the hard drive and start over again, you might consider doing what I do: buy a new hard drive and install on that, keeping the old one around to transfer the stuff from. I used to invariably forget something (like fonts) when I did it using the backup/restore method. Drives are pretty cheap these days, so it isn't too expensive.
Hi, John, thank you for that tip. Appreciate it! It's tough to lose stuff we've worked so long and hard to accumulate. :(
External hard drives are very good for that too John. I have three computers going & have two externals that I transfer back & forth.. all except for one computer which simply will NOT interface with it. All are XP & have adequate memory etc..just one of the GRRRR moments with computers