connect the external HD to your new laptop, it will be assigned a drive letter, go to that drive letter and open it to view the contents, I would guess you had your music files in a folder called music or something like that, find the folder, you can either copy the entire folder or open that folder and copy individual songs from it to the new laptop. You can drag and drop them from the external hard drives letter drive into the laptops C drive, I would create a folder to put them into if you do not already have one. You should also be able to right click on the folder or songs on the external HD and choose to send to or copy to and then browse to the proper folder located on your laptops C drive. If you want to leave a copy on the external HD which you probably do then be sure you choose to copy rather than move or cut in the options. this is a great little tip you can do to add additional context menu items that would be most helpful in this situation. Add Copy To / Move To on Windows 7 or Vista Right-Click Menu

Go to: http://www.mrhow.net/s/how-to-run-a-rar-file-on-windows-7.html Scroll down for info on how to open rar files in WIN7...also, there is a link to watch demo on youtube.

Adobe is a corporation, not a product or a file format. PDF, which you states in the subject correctly, means "Portable Document Format" - it is the file format created by Adobe's Acrobat software (and many other programs since Adobe publishes the PDF specification). That file format is actually a meta format of sorts and can contain all sorts of information in it, including illustration file formats, text as well as bitmap graphics in various image formats. You can upload any file to a web host or file hosting service. Not all file types will display in someone's browser and certainly not all files will display inline on one of these forum messages. If you want to just include a text link to the file you can insert a standard HTML anchor tag pointing to the hosted file or you can use the "Optional Link URL" feature included at the bottom of the posting/edit box. If you would like an image to appear inside your post then you should send up a file in a format that will display properly in the majority of people's web browsers and can be used with the HTML "img" tag. Definitely not a TIFF. A JPEG or PNG is recommended. Depending on what software you're using to view or edit PDF files on your computer you may be able to Save or Export the images you want out of the file. Otherwise one very easy way is to do a screen or window capture while viewing the file. The resulting image can then be cropped if needed (to remove any desktop/window graphics that don't belong in the original photo). If this is all Greek to you, you might be better off just uploading the PDF as first mentioned and including its URL in the "Optional Link URL" below. As long as someone has a PDF plugin or viewer they'll be able to view it. Then maybe someone will be nice enough to strip out the pictures you want out of the file. If I see this thread again and you've uploaded the file I can do it if you'd like. Bruno

Maybe go to Options->Advanced and under Save, make sure "Always create backup copy" is not checked?