I had Fun

Spent Sunday afternoon helping the hubby disassemble two computers and create a new one using the video card and HD from the old one and putting them into the new to us computer. I like this one since the monitor is much newer(the old one was bought in 1996 and could only do 800×600.) and I have lots of space on the hard drive. Spent all day Monday (fromm 10 am Monday to 1:30AM this morning) installing Windows XP, the service packs, plus the security fixes (about 60+ in all) and getting the majority of the programs installed and moving files. I still have some disk housekeeping to do, mainly defrag, plus set up SyncToy to back up files/folders to the second HD which was the one out of the old computer.

I’ve started back into using Omea Reader for RSS/Usenet since I’m using Gmail’s web interface for my mail. I liked Thunderbird but got tired of the huge archive I was keeping so Copernic could index my emails. I’ve switched back to Google Desktop 4 for desktop search since I don’t have to have a archive on the HD which is not fun backing up.

All in all it was one of the easiest clean installs of XP I’ve done, since I had the files I wanted to move handy on another HD and I wasn’t concerned about settings (well except FireFox since I have passwords saved).