Hi team

Firstly - this is about a PC - but I'm sure the lessons apply just as much to a notebook.

I've just bought a new PC for home - a Dell 9150 with Windows MCE 2005, 2 x 250Gb HDDs, 2 Gb RAM. My previous experience with Dell PCs is that they ship with heaps of bloatware, so I'm thinking about formatting the primary HDD and reinstalling the OS, followed by Firewall, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware then apps.

Any tips on getting the best performance would be appreciated - should I have a separate 20Gb partition for the OS, format NTFS, what size page file (and where) and so on.

We do intend at some stage to use this for home video, HD PVR and movie purposes (Mrs willyroo likes the Philips 37PF9731 1,920 x 1,080 LCD), which I can imagine will be a big workload...

You help (as always) greatly appreciated!