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For your purposes, yes after you delete the files and empty the Recycle bin they are gone. I'm sure the NSA could recover them from your drive but you don't need to worry. :)

I recently bought a Presonus Audiobox USB interface. Two inputs, which are a universal XLR / 1/4" type. I had planned on using it both with two microphones and also with a small 8 channel mixer, plugging the line level outputs of the mixer into the inputs of the interface to do some live 2...

You might also look into using a Noise Gate, either hardware or a software plug-in.

The above are all good ideas. I'll add one: if your PC has a network card, either wired or wireless, disable it before you start recording. I would think your PC is plenty fast enough for what you are doing.

LDS is correct, programs will (usually) open on whichever monitor you last had them on. Its also worthwhile to check which monitor is set as your primary monitor. As you've probably already figured out, dual monitor setups are managed through the Control panel / Display / Advanced tab. When...

It doesn't sound like there should be any issues relating to the computer hardware. Your laptop may have a newer CPU, but a lot of laptop hardware is optimized for power usage, weight, and temperature considerations. So their may not be much difference in their speeds, hard to say without...

Whether my PC is on the floor or on the ground, I like to isolate it by sitting it on top of a piece of foam or Styrofoam. Or a rubber mouse pad. And I often do the same thing with speakers, but that depends on their type & placement.

You might want to look into something like these guys: Quiet CPU Fans, Quiet PC Fans, Quiet PC Power Supply - AcousticPC.com

You answered your own question. A company like Dell has a designer who comes up with the PCs, its basic specs, then has someone build the PC to their specifications. Also (in theory) they have people who follow the process to insure quality control.

Acer isn't really a computer company, rather they are a Taiwanese distributor. They will slap their name on almost anything, but all their stuff comes from the same couple of factories in Taiwan. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this, because of the way they do business their...

I've always used Nero for CD / DVD burning. But the software with the best database of released CDs is iTunes IMHO. I HATE iTunes as a player / organizer, but I used it to rip my CD collection (several hundred) in part because it identified the CDs much better than anything else.

A second hard drive is critical if for only one reason: to back up your data. You can always go through the hassle of re-installing your OS - although I recommend making a complete backup of your PC periodically in order to save you the grief. But data can't be replaced, and drives are cheap...

Its a 4 gig limit (actually 3.5) for all of those operating systems if 32 bit.

Sorry, but AVG is pretty much useless against the most common viruses these days. Many programs are. I would recommend the following trio of programs for virus / malware protection / removal under XP: * Microsoft Security Essentials. Its a free download from Microsoft, it does real-time...

FAT 16 (also commonly refereed to as just FAT) is the file system used by PCs back in the dead dark ages of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, when a decent sized hard drive was 40 megs - note I said MEGS, not GIGS. I have no idea why anything today would still be using it. FAT32 goes back to the days of...

XP computers without SP3 installed can no longer download updates through Windows update or Microsoft update.

I would suggest installing XP Service Pack 3 if you have not, XP without any service packs is pretty rickety. However given your problems it might be a good idea to back it up before installing SP3

One thing to check for about your eSATA issue is a BIOS setting, with most newer Dells it will be called "SATA operation". You want to make sure it is not set to "ATA" or "Legacy". Doing so switches off the "hot swap" capability of SATA drives and can screw up external SATA connections...

Install order should not matter. And making a backup image - several actually, one before you install all your music software and one after - is EXCELLENT advise.

It doesn't really matter if you use an internal drive or an external drive, although an external USB2 connection will be slower than an internal SATA or PATA connection. A program like Ghost is going to see them all the same. If your RAID is done via hardware it should see your two-drive RAID...