Hi buddy,I would suggest you encrypt the whole drive. There is nothing on the system recovery partition you can't download again from the Dell website.It's really good to see you're taking your safety seriously but do bear in mind you can be compelled to hand over your password in the US and UK. I would suggest you also use Truecrypt to encrypt a USB drive and keep your Tor Browser and GPG software on there in a hidden volume.If you're not familiar with hidden volumes, please don't worry, I will be posting a thread shortly on this subject!V. Quote from: RIPDonnasummer on May 24, 2012, 03:04 pmLOL I appreciate the advice but I would really like to figure out how to fix the problem on my current laptop. Does anyone else have input on this topic? It would be greatly appreciated. Is it because I am running windows vista? Do I need to run Windows XP and that will solve it? Anything else I can do and keep Vista on my computer?