Before you reinstall Windows checklist ___My Documents (ie anything you've made yerself, letters, graphics stuff, gradients, textures etc) ___Email ___Address book ___Email settings (prefrences, pop/smtp info etc) ___Bookmarks (IE and Mozilla) ___Dreamweaver configuration folder (Any programs personal settings, that you don't want to redo) ___Saved Games ___Downloaded "stuff" (programz, DirectX, Media Codecs, Program updates, service packs, etc.) ___Driver info (would be handy i guess) ___FTP (sites, logins ect) ___IRC (prefrences ect) ___Desktop (Stuff that's there, files, webpage shortcuts ect) ___Passwords to sites etc ___dial-up settings ___home networking settings Also download Belarc advisor, for a quick rundown of whats loaded, etc. on your machine. This is a fairly complete checklist. Print this out if you are planning on reformatting/reinstalling windows. Check off each thing as you back it up, so you don't forget anything. (Hopefully) Mykilx