I thought you might say that. Damn... I hate reinstalling the os. Especially since there is so much to reinstall after that. Maybe I'll try Norton first... I used to use it but haven't tried it in a couple years. Have you had good luck with it?

I'm not using any of the "special" features and I've uninstalled a bunch of stuff. It came loaded with a lot of garbage so a fresh install wouldn't hurt things... would just take a lot of time. The computer didn't come with any cd's... instead it has a recovery partition and you can burn cd's from that. I'll have to check to see if they included a regular os image or if it's just restore images. Would be nice to install a vanilla copy of Windows XP on here... but even the MCE version would be fine... without the extra HP crap... other than drivers.