Though I've had a pretty good run, I know in my heart that I really ought to reinstall Windows. As anyone who has gone though that particular ordeal knows, however, it's much easier said than done, and getting back into your carefully-tweaked workflow after a reinstall can take, quite literally, months, and the day you realize you forgot to backup that one Really Important File is a sad day indeed. So how can you reinstall Windows without the risks? Virtualization. Now, we featured a similar tip a few months back, but Márton Anka has written a handy tutorial that teaches you how to back up your entire system to a VMWare image that you can load, without a reboot, every time you need something from your old Windows install. Now, if only I had the spare hard drive space for this...