By chance do you have disk compression enabled? this will slow the WHOLE comptuer down..
I wouldn't count on emailing yourself the photo's/files to an online mail box; unless your online mail account has anti-virus, to have them scanned. If you are talking about saving or backing up emails.. depends on what application you use for email..
For email backup, best bet is to search google for "how to back up emails from (put in your email program here)"
You are correct, burn them to a disc, or two, or however many it takes..
It's not a bad idea to burn your disc's at speeds below half of the maximum write speed of your burner, it takes longer, but it ensures that you do not burn coasters, or dangerous frisbee's.
If you have a 24x burner, burn 8x or 16x if you are burning a cd.. If you got a 8 or 16x dvd burner, use like 4 to 8x for DVD.
You can use your new media, on another computer, but only if that computer has the exact same version of windows "xp" or "vista" etc.. and the other computer has it's own windows product key "matching opperating system" and Certificate of authenticity.. You use the product key from the certificate of authenticity that is on/with your old computer to install the computer with the new media.
If the other computer doesn't have a valid product key, then no, just one computer...
If you use ONE CD key from the new media, on two computers, that might not be legal.
I remember reading something about some software versions being legal to have it installed on two computers with one CD key, for instance you own both of those computers and one computer is a desktop PC and one computer is a laptop, the text said something like: if you are not using them at the same time for reasons other than updating work files between computers, IE you use the computers for the SAME tasks and applications, and have to keep your files the same on both computers, you synchronize them. That way you can do the same work at home/at the desk and on the laptop/mobile off-site.. This does not apply to the opperating system, only certain applications have that in the user/license agreement, you will have to look through your application or opperating system's license agreement to see what is legal
RE backing up.. getting ready to restore you PC to factory spec..
My recommendation: "remove the hard drive" connect it to a clean/already booted computer via a USB drive adapter/enclosure thingy.. Then scan all the files for viruses via a non infected computer, then open disk managment on the new computer, right click on the USB mounted hard disk, then select delete volume, then create new volume, then format/uncheck quick format to perform a complete reformat of each sector, this helps clear possible infected data that might remain on the disk without a complete format. Otherwise you may wind up with viruses on your backed up data, and may leave virus code on the drive, waiting to be picked back up by ad banners, or other malicious scripts/browser helpers.
Consult Dell.com support for backing up and restoring your files and PC OS.
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