I have been backing up my data for years.  I don’t know how much stuff, prior to 2005 I’ve lost because I didn’t keep sufficient backups of my files, but it’s a probably a metric buttload.  I’ve been pretty assiduous about the data — backing up files every two to three months.

Today, I’m backing up programs.  Stuff I either don’t want to lose settings to, like Trillian and Firefox, or programs I can’t find the disk for, like Acrobat Pro 8.  (Going to 9 would cost me, dearly…)

All of this is in preparation for the swap off of this cowpat Vista OS to Win7.  Normally, I’d just update the OS — apparently Windows 7 can do this without requiring you to reload most of your programs.  But my machine has 64-bit architecture, and the bright boys at HP decided to lobotomize my machine with 32-bit Vista.  I have to do a cold install of Win7 to get the 64-bit version.  (And having watched Deb’s 64-bit version of Vista…I would like speed like that.)

So, this weekend, the HP Tablet gets upgraded to Win7.  Stay tuned for updates on this.  (What could possibly go wrong..?)

UPDATE:  The transfer of Acrobat 8, WordPerfect, and Office 2007 was successful!