since you said that, you can get a program called Acronis. Install XP, install al programs, drivers, updates, etc etc. Once you get that done, you make an Acronis Secure Zone that makes an image of the entire system. It makes a hidden partition only viewable when rebooting if when you activate the secure zone or you can see if using diskmgmt.msc. Say a virus wipes the pc out, just reboot,press F11 for the Acronis Secure Zone, 10 minutes later, you are back up and running to where you first made the image. The only bad part is, it formats the whold hdd so all data after the image was taken, will be lost, nice feature thou