Well, I’ve got my new printer and mouse up and running.  Have all my anti-virus/malware programs installed, Wordperfect and Photoshop are on and working.  Just need to get Word back on here as far as my writing tools go.  I’m going to wait until I get the old drive on this system before messing with any of my programming stuff, because I see no need to download my code editing program again since it’s on that drive and isn’t something you install.

Not sure if I mentioned it in any of those updates, but I’ve retrieved all my progamming stuff from the ( now even older ) computer.  It’s all on one of my usb drives and ready to go.

Setup backups on the new system, so I’ll never lose anything more than a week old as long as that dedicated usb drive holds out.  I may even set it up to go every couple of days instead of a week, depending upon how much my muse is working.

Looks like this new system is going to be quite a bit quicker than the old one.  Photoshop at least loads a hella lot quicker than it did on the old system.  The real benchmark will be when I go to test one of the slower running emulators *laugh*  If those are running full speed, I will be a very happy camper.

Don’t know what I think of Windows 7 yet, but meh…  Just different.  I can probably find settings to retrograde most stuff that’s too annoying back to look like XP if something really gets on my nerves.  At least everything I’ve tried to install thusfar has worked without a hitch.

Okay — back to the download and install fest.  Fun, fun!