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godricgalLe upgrade is complete. Obviously, my internet connection and network is back up. It only takes a minute to restart (not 15). Google Talk works, I've finally managed to download IE 7 and Messenger Live (which I have already abandoned in favour of Trillian, for now). I must say this tabbing business in IE7 is a bit disconcerting. It's why I really wanted it but the urge to go down and launch a new browser every 5 seconds is going to be tough to kick. My task bar looks decidedly lonely now that I've only got one instance of IE running.
I had my first moment of dawning horror when I discovered that I hadn't backed up 'My Pictures'. Luckily, I use the big ole desktop for most picture related things but I did have a few good ones on here that, sadly, I think, are toast.
Thanks tomolly_coddles, I've a shiny new (and free) anti-virus solution. It's stayed away from me so far so I think we're going to get along just fine;)
I tried to download the new Office beta but was thwarted because they think they know my credit card billing address better than I do. Think I'll borrow the old man's credit card tomorrow and do it. I'd rather have the beta than reinstall the MSDN copy that I had before. I've got through about a quarter of all the pieces of software to download from the list that I made before I wiped, it got a bit tiresome so I've given up for the night.
The day's project has been a success - it's like having a brand new machine and I'm mighty pleased with the results.
ETA. I made one more download attempt. That was to download the lunabar that all R/T writers should be equipped with.
ETA 2 - I was just about to go to bed to an episode of 24 when I realised that I don't have the factory-installed DVD player anymore. Does anyone know of a free DVD decoder that doesn't install advertising software and works?
I had my first moment of dawning horror when I discovered that I hadn't backed up 'My Pictures'. Luckily, I use the big ole desktop for most picture related things but I did have a few good ones on here that, sadly, I think, are toast.
Thanks to
molly_coddles, I've a shiny new (and free) anti-virus solution. It's stayed away from me so far so I think we're going to get along just fine;) I tried to download the new Office beta but was thwarted because they think they know my credit card billing address better than I do. Think I'll borrow the old man's credit card tomorrow and do it. I'd rather have the beta than reinstall the MSDN copy that I had before. I've got through about a quarter of all the pieces of software to download from the list that I made before I wiped, it got a bit tiresome so I've given up for the night.
The day's project has been a success - it's like having a brand new machine and I'm mighty pleased with the results.
ETA. I made one more download attempt. That was to download the lunabar that all R/T writers should be equipped with.
ETA 2 - I was just about to go to bed to an episode of 24 when I realised that I don't have the factory-installed DVD player anymore. Does anyone know of a free DVD decoder that doesn't install advertising software and works?
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Date: 2006-08-26 09:35 pm (UTC)I occasionally think about cleaning my computer up some but then I realize I can't even clean my email inbox (it has something like 800 messages in it right now) so I think it will be awhile before I get around to cleaning up the hard drive.
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Date: 2006-08-26 09:40 pm (UTC)I think they need cleaning every once in a while. One of the main reasons I needed to do this was because I want this machine to become my mail client machine and Norton was blocking smtp access. I've over 4000 messages in my Outlook but I'll have to extract the .pst file and copy it over here. Could you not do that with yours?