Nothing Like Five Hours of Installing Software. . .
There's nothing quite like the experience of a fresh installation of Windows. You start the computer up, it boots in a matter of seconds . . . then slowly you watch it crawl slower and slower as you layer one driver, one application, one new service on top of another until like some crippled old man it sputters barely into operation.
Somehow my system files got horribly horribly corrupted late last night. Somehow svchost got terribly mangled. Then a couple other services just got up and died. In the end, I just decided that this was windows way of reminding me that I haven't formatted in a long time.
So I killed everything this morning and started reinstalling. I decided not to bother with software that I rarely use -- so visual studio, your bloated ass is gone. Which made room for Adobe CS 4 (even though I don't remotely meet CS4's minimum requirements). Got rid of a bunch of other little apps that I've collected over the years and never used. Decided that the only reason I use open-office is for pdf conversion . . . might as well just use the acrobat for that. . .
In the end, I killed about 15 gigs of software that I don't use. Made a nice backup of all my data files. Organized my desktop icons. I guess this should keep me going for the next couple months. . .
. . . damn I need a new computer. . .
Somehow my system files got horribly horribly corrupted late last night. Somehow svchost got terribly mangled. Then a couple other services just got up and died. In the end, I just decided that this was windows way of reminding me that I haven't formatted in a long time.
So I killed everything this morning and started reinstalling. I decided not to bother with software that I rarely use -- so visual studio, your bloated ass is gone. Which made room for Adobe CS 4 (even though I don't remotely meet CS4's minimum requirements). Got rid of a bunch of other little apps that I've collected over the years and never used. Decided that the only reason I use open-office is for pdf conversion . . . might as well just use the acrobat for that. . .
In the end, I killed about 15 gigs of software that I don't use. Made a nice backup of all my data files. Organized my desktop icons. I guess this should keep me going for the next couple months. . .
. . . damn I need a new computer. . .