I'm thinking of quiting windows and go with linux

ubuntu is so much faster booting - and the c drive seems to struggle with vista

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@warnec: Burn your Product Recovery Media before you do anything else.  You may not want WinX on your machine, but the next owner might.  You can make the recovery media now for the cost of a few pieces of plastic, or $$ later.  Or you might want to take a walk on the dark side and give '7 a try...
@EVERYBODY: Burn your Product Recovery Media immediately on opening the box your new StinkPad came in.  NOW! (and don't fidget when I'm yelling at you...)
Z.
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