reinstall windows xp on an old dell

[engineer]

hello. here i go again. just want to make sure. i am going to reinstall windows and i want to know if i save the files or appliactions or move them to an external hard drive so i can reinstall them to the clean os system?

[conexion]

With your personal files (pictures, videos, music, documents) there won't be any problem if you do the back up you can move wherever you want, but with the applications (programs) I think you just cannot move them like that unles you use a program like Norton Ghost. I would suggest you to save your files to the external hard drive and install your programs in your old Dell (windows Xp, media players,etc...)

[engineer]

okay thanks conexion,i will give it a try.