Got a couple more...
I took a deep breath & built it n my main work box, having put all the data on my infallibly reliable freecom hdd. It all went in ok, as did the apps which are:
MS Office 2003
Quickbooks 2008
Acrobat reader
primo pdf
Avast
Acronis true image
Windows live mail
firefox 3.5
a few other bits and bobs.
Anyway, I do a lot of faxing from excel. In my business, we are still staring wide eyed at this machine that looks a bit like a typewriter and spits out bits of paper written on hundreds of miles away - we're essentially stuck in 1987.
Windows fax console is now updated to windows fax & scan. Previously, I would click print, then choose fax & select a fax number from my handy list of fax numbers stored in outlook.
Now, Windows F&S happily does the same, but sends a blank page. I have to print my page to a pdf & print that to fax, which adds an irritating step to the process - I send about twenty faxes a day, so it does pinch a little.
Also, windows converts any document to a tiff file by default when you fax & you can't preview it in windows - it doesn't recognise the format! Slight disjoin there chaps.
Windows contacts I have found live in different folders between live mail & any other application that uses them. If I add a contact in live mail, it doesn't appear in my fax numbers for example. They live in a folder under users documents, so I do have to duplicate them on occasion.
Still like it though.