Yep! The tail's more elongated on the red stripe ribbon.

IF the guy is legit and doing a real business he will expect you to ask for references, people doing business out of their homes must expect that, I would check some references. That is not a guarantee of course. You can have dishonest people working at a big box store as easily as you can someone working from home. All the geeksquad horror stories I have read online keep me far far away from that place and those like it, I know people that have worked there and they are told one thing FORMAT it and get it done. In some cases formatting is the best answer but not always. I would delete completely any links you currently have set up to your bank that way you won't have an easy guide to where you bank on there. Clear out your cache on your browser and you history etc so it won't be as easy to see where you have been going. When you take it in have him give you a ticket showing that you did give him your pc with your pc info on it so that you have some proof later that you actually did give this guy your pc. I am sure he is legit but it is up to you to protect yourself. and if it does come down to formatting make some plan as to how your information will be backed up and not just lost. Just because your pc won't run windows does not mean it won't run, one way to get to a hard drive and salvage the info is to use a free linux live cd, it is put in the cd drawer and the pc is booted to linux from the cd once the pc is up in linux it is possible to use the linux operating system to go into your files and folder on the windows operating system and copy them. One good reason everyone should have at least one free linux cd around. Just in case you should want to discuss that here is a link that might be useful. backup

OJ -- my 94 year old mother got a similar call. They called late in the evening (I'm sure she was asleep) to ask her about her computer. Then they proceeded to ask her if she had a computer! She said no, she doesn't have one and that was the end of the conversation. The caller ID also said Florida. Actually, my mom does have a computer but it's the rest of the family that uses it when we are there. She doesn't go near it. She knows better than to buy anything unsolicited over the phone. I also worry that calls like this are people calling to see if the house is empty so they can break in. I suppose they could be parked in front of the house with a cell phone number from Florida to circumvent the caller id. What a world we live in.

Almost 100GB free... that's more than ample free space. Might leave the windows.old for couple weeks. If you are missing some document or pictures .. you can open windows.old and probably find it. To remove Windows.Old go to Administrative Tools in control panel.. Right click and run as administrator the Disk Cleanup. It will give you check boxes to select stuff,, one will be for the old operating system.