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Hello everyone............I just ordered a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade. I think I am going to get an external hard drive to backup my current Windows XP Home. I have never done this before so I had a few questions.

I have a 100 GB Hard Drive on my laptop. I am using 50 GB, and have 50 GB free. If I backup everything on my computer now to my new external hard drive, which will probably be a 100 GB, will that keep windows xp, and everything just like it is on my computer?

If I don't happen to like Vista on my laptop, can I just plug the external hard drive in to my laptop and reload XP and my software programs, files, and settings?

Hey I'm using vista home premium 32bit and I have a strange bug happening to me. I use plantronics dsp 500 usb headset and for some reason it will mute the microphone by itself. It seems to happen when I open counter-strike. Is anyone having a problem where vista randomly mutes your mic? It's troublesome to me because I often use Ventrilo to chat and it's annoying when it gets muted and I don't realize it.

Hello this is my first post.I have a 6 year old Dell demension 8100 running XP service pack 2. my hard drive is full so I installed second hard...

I purchased a new computer a couple weeks ago:
HP a1700n
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dual core processor
250 GB hard drive
1 GB ram (expandable to 4 GB)
Windows Vista Home Premium

My problem is with the hard drive space. 250 GB is more than enough space for me, but the problem is that it's started disappearing for no reason. When I got it, it had around 230 GB which was fine, and after I transferred my files/programs from my old computer it had around 200-210 GB. Well lately it's just disappeared without me even saving anything or downloading hardly anything. It went from 200 to 193 to 187 to 183 somehow.

Hey...

I seem to be having a very annoying problem with my start menu! When I hover over items that are supposed to expand (Documents, Music and the like), quite often they pop up in empty boxes!

Has anybody had this problem before? I guess the only slightly unusual thing I'm doing is using a second hard drive as the locations of my Documents, Music, etc folders - But that should be fine.

My system is...

AMD Athlon 64 3400
ATi X800 XT Platinum Edition