I wanted to update, I just read here about an open office program, but from reading that, I am now worried my old doc need to be all converted to the new office 2007. I saved money buying the student version so it only like 120 dollars on Amazon, but the full version with outlook is super expensive. I never liked outlook. I use gmail and windows calander. It's a new calander on vista. Any suggestions will be appreciated. When I get the new office 2007 student can I help my friend out by reading her old apple files? Will it be able to read apples files, because I heard the newer windows and apple would be compatable. She has some old apple files, she can't read on her new apple computer.

sometimes it depends on which type of email client you use but my guess is that you do probably have a lot of your mail stored on your pc. Keeping things in mail form is not a good idea any way if you find them important. I would save all of those pictures off to DVD's or flash drives or external drives, at the very least set up an online storage for them to get them off the pc and in a safe place. You can use photo album sites or you can use a back up site like Adrive which I use, they give you 50gig of free space which is a lot and you can purchase more. http://www.adrive.com/ it is super easy to use. you can move batches of files from your pc to the site for storage. For the pictures you have in your emails you need to actually save them to pc by right clicking on them and save as and then put them in a folder on your pc, then from that folder you can move them to DVD or online storage etc and then delete the folder and contents. You could set up different folders to do some organizing of the pictures at that time too. so you have a 300 gig drive but have partitioned it to only have a total of 61.2 GB? If that is the case your other partition can be used to store a lot of that kind of stuff, however of course should you have a drive failure you would lose it no matter which partition it was on so having them saved off the pc is a good idea too. Why was it partitioned that way and how many partitions are there and what sizes? I am assuming this is xp? I don't remember. go into your event viewer and look for red or yellow flags if you see any double click on that entry to get more info, see if you see any that say something about saved users registry because something was still using it, I don't remember the exact wording but that is close. I think you may benefit from running the hive cleanup tool. User Profile Hive Cleanup Service Definition of what it is from online: What's User Profile Hive Cleanup Service "Frequently, a driver or application leaks registry handles, which means the driver or application opens the registry but doesn't close it. The open registry isn't a problem until you log off, when the profile of the logged-on user tries to unload the user's registry but fails because it's still in use. An open registry connection is a major problem if you use roaming profiles; because the system can't unload your profile, Windows can't copy it back to the profile storage server. If the system doesn't unload your profile, when you log on the next day you'll receive an error stating that your local profile is newer than your remote profile. Typically, with this problem an administrator will see event ID 1517, 1524, or 1500 in the event logs. Microsoft provides a service called UPHClean, which checks for leaked connections to the registry and cleans them up, thereby letting a user's profile unload cleanly so Windows can copy it back to the remote profile storage area. You can download UPHClean at Web site. Your best option is to download file UPHClean-Setup.msi, which you can then deploy through Group Policy or--if you need to deploy UPHClean on a large scale--Systems Management Server (SMS). You need Administrator privileges to install UPHClean interactively. I've used UPHClean many times, and it has always fixed the profile-locking problems." another download location for it User Profile Hive Cleanup Service 1.6d give that a shot and see if it helps, as always I suggest creating restore points before installing anything so that should you need to revert you always can. I have had to use the hive cleanup tool on some of my xp machines.

one good program that I use that will do a good uninstall of anything you may have on your pc you want to get rid of but ALSO has a feature to show you what is running at startup and with simple clicks lets you change those from on to off and vice versa is Revo uninstaller, it is free. Revo Uninstaller on their site you can click on some screenshots to show you exactly what it will look like and they have good step by step directions on how to use it. User's help Auto Run Manager Junk Files Cleaner it does all that and more, if you go to any of those links then look to the right it lists all the various tools built in, just click on any one of those then at the bottom of that page's text there will be another link that says go to user guide page, that will give you the direct instructions and pictures to how to use that aspect of the tool Here is the list of the tools and utilities included in Revo Uninstaller: Auto Start Manager - Stop programs that start automatically on Windows startup; speed up loading of Windows! Windows Tools Manager - Handy and useful tools bundled with every version of Windows; easily find useful system tools and options! Junk Files Cleaner - Find and remove unnecessary files from your computer; free up disk space and delete files you do not need! Browsers History Cleaner - Erase web browser history, visited pages history and temporary internet files of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera web browsers; free up a lot of disk space by deleting temporary internet files like temporary saved videos, temporary flash files, temporary pictures etc! Office History Cleaner - Remove the history of most recently used files in MS Office; remove your tracks by deleting the list of last opened MS Office documents! Windows History Cleaner - Remove the history of recently opened files, delete temporary files, remove usage tracks and other history items that are saved by Windows; remove your tracks saved by Windows for a lot of operations! Unrecoverable Delete Tool - Erase files and folders forever; be sure that nobody could recover your files and folders after deleting! Evidence Remover - Make sure already deleted files, folders and other data are unrecoverable; securely erase your data!

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