Just got back from Iraq, kind of funny, I think my last post here was when I left for boot. Anyways, I need some help, I've been out of the computer loop for a while so I don't know what the best anymore. Can someone please suggest a partition manager that works good. Also how much of a difference in speed would there be if I flipped all the info on my hard drive to 0's and then installed windows, as apposed to just formating it then installing it. Also I have $3,000 I'm looking at spending on a top of the line laptop, any suggestions. One last note, if you could mention any other progams to help speed up windows XP, it would be appreciated.