Thanks, sickoflibs. Perhaps I’ll hit you up for some advice once we get the laptop running.
One thing really cool about windows 7 and 8:
They both come with built in digital audio recorders meaning you can easily start and end recordings of everything that (before it) comes out of your headset adapter or speakers into (digital) wma files to replay.
So if you listen to online radio like pandora, shoutcast, AOL, etc radio you can easily record it for later listening.
All built in,
XP didnt have that.