Thankyou all my new system

Many thanks to those of you that have answered my calls for help

special thanks to adrynalyne, musksnipe and thos eof you that started this site and look after it i am amazed by all the stuff in it and how helpful people are.
the different opinions for and against are excellent.

i have a new system with xp

i have sound

my system is as follows

box-superflower sf707 blue 450w
motherboard-asus p5kc s775 1333fsb
processor-intel core 2 quad q6600
ram-3 of 1gb 240 pin ddr2 800mhz
hdd-western digital 500gb sataII 16mb cache 500ks
graphics card-asus 512mb en8600gt pci express
firewire card-gigatech 2 port firewire 1394
xp home
card reader-gigatech all in 1 cared reader
burner-2 of lg 20x dual layer sata dvd-rw

i am very happy with it.

home computer and video editing and photo editing is what i will be doing and a teenage daughter on myspace of course GREAT!

all i need now is a good editing program and some wayu of fixing my duplicate file problem



my old computer is almost excatlly four years old

 

I am assuming you mean a photo/picture editing program. Here's some great free ones:
PhotoMeister http://www.majorgeeks.com/PhotoMeister_d5034.html
Paint .NET http://www.majorgeeks.com/Paint.NET_d4548.html (they have a beta available too: http://www.majorgeeks.com/Paint.NET_Beta_d5576.html)
For video editing, I know of only one free one. I haven't used it personally, but I have a friend who says it's great; it's called ZS4 and it's free, right here at Major Geeks:
ZS4 http://www.majorgeeks.com/ZS4_d4825.html

I need some clarification on this. Which files are duplicates? I have two external drives that I use for backing up videos and downloads and such. It got to the point where they both had many of the same files, and some different files, and both were almost full, and it was a nightmare. Between the two drives, I had over 160gb worth of data to be wrangled and organized and cleaned up. I ran a file 'sync' type of utility. I set it up so that that both drives ended up exactly the same, then I simply formatted one of the drives to erase it. I did this about a year ago and I don't remember which app I used, but you should be able to find something here at Major Geeks in the Drive Utilities section http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads8.html
Good luck!
:major
(And please post any future software questions in the software forum. You'll get faster and better answers that way )