Next, take a look at my signature block and you will notice I have several versions of the same software - I did this deliberately to help with troubleshooting issues on this Web Board. So you can imagine that my hard drive, split into 3 partitions has already used up a lot of valuable space by supporting 3 operating systems. I log into it when needed to perform the odd task that Vista can do better than XP (Not very often!!) Vista Home Premium This was pre-installed when I bought the laptop. On Start up the Windows Task Manager reports 12 running processes and very little RAM being used. The only software installed is that which is needed to perform Video Editing or Photo Editing. No Internet, No anti Virus and all non essential services and background stuff turned off. XP Service pack 2 - also specially tweaked for Video Editing. I on the other hand have a triple boot system where on start up I can select between My laptop has a 160GB Hard drive, which for most people is perhaps large enough. Yes you can, and in fact I do this sort of thing with my laptop. I'm thinking it would be nice to have the program and the files together on the portable drive so I can work on any Windows XP machine with a USB plug.
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