There is a cheat way to get all of the programs into Longhorn. If you clone your primary os partition and load it onto your longhorn partition then update from xp (I'm assuming) to longhorn. Then when later releases of longhorn come out all you have to do is reload the clone omage and update again.

This is providing Longhorn supports the updating funtion.

-dalsim

I'm not sure if i've got hold of the wrong end of the stick here but when a newer version of Longhorn comes out its a case of format the current Longhorn partition and then install the newer version. Plus both of my partitions are 20GB. One has XP and software and is full. The other Longhorn and is about 4GB full. I'm just gonna use Longhorn as my primary OS now and i always have all my software with me just in case Longhorn goes down. I will look into the cloning idea more though. I've never cloned HDD's as i've never had anything important enough to back up. Time to learn i think