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Mondavi

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7. That's what I'm pretty much thinking ... Mint

Reply to L0oniX (Reply #6)

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 07:28 PM

Apr 2014

but as I posted elsewhere Microsoft is becoming really annoying with "at risk" messages and many other ridiculous msgs so I'd like to move on this fairly soon but don't think I've read enough about doing it yet. I will partition when I do it. Should it be 50/50?
I don't use all the space on my computer anyway.
Also, I'm very concerned about picking up a virus on Microsoft end either before I do this
or after. Or on the hard drive? Is that possible? Thanks for the info.

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