That is one way. An easier way would be to get Drive Image Pro, get you system the way you want it, and then make an image of your hard drive. Drive Image Pro will even compress the image, and also span it across cdr's if you need to. The trick is to do it after a fresh install of Windows and you have all of your graphics programs loaded. I have gone and reformated my hard drive and installed from a back up image and been up and running in under an hour before.