Found something I really don't like about Windows 7. In Home Premium it seems that there is no ability to backup to network locations, it was present in Vista, I know, I did a backup of the laptop to my external HDD attached to the desktop machine before doing the Windows 7 install. In these days of home wireless networks, this would seem to be a significant shortcoming. When my network and all three machines are properly configured I'll have nearly 2.5 Tb of total storage available, of which just 160 Gb are on the laptop and backing up to another partition on the laptop is just not worthwhile.