Well I know, I know! I said I was NOT getting a new computer, that we were just doing a really good house keeping on my computer. Well the morning of the big reformat my son shows me this really good deal on computer parts @ Tiger Direct. I had been thinking this already myself. It is a lot easier on my nerves to know my old stand by is waiting in the wings just in case anything goes wrong. So I took the plunge and ordered the parts. I never buy a pre-built computer anymore. My son builds all my computers for me. So I can get the latest and greatest hardware without having to pay an arm and a leg for it. Which brings me to my next point. Computer hardware prices are LOW right now. If you can afford to build a new one, I would suggest do it NOW! I paid half of what I paid for my old faithful 3 years ago.
 
So YES I got a NEW computer. I also made that notorious jump to Widows Vista! I got the 64 bit so I can run an insane amount of ram (memory) and it will all work. LOL So almost everything made the switch fine. I did say almost. I had a Paint Shop program that is about 8 years old that would not work Plus my embroidery iconizer is not working. The developer is working on that one though. So hopefully I will have that fixed in a day or so.

So it seems all is well in new computer land. For now! LOL