Reboot
Reason #150713 why I love my woman: I'm replacing hard drives and reconfiguring my entire system, and she bought me a better DVD burner on the cheap. It's kicking my ass, I love it. Something was seriously wrong with at least one of my old hard drives if the new equipment continues to perform the way it is.
Minor annoyances in reinstalling the OS on a new drive:
* A while back, I briefly tried EssentialPIM, and I ended up not really caring about it, but it did something to my old C: drive that made it impossible to open when hooked up to a new Windows OS. Like, right-clicking and selecting "Open" yields no positive result. If I want to pull everything off of it - and I do - I'll have to hook that drive back up as the C: drive (i.e., boot from it). It's weird and annoying, but finding everything I want/need (and copying it the heck off that drive) should be easy once I've hooked it back up.
* Miranda used to handle my Google Talk (i.e., Jabber), but the components I needed to make it work appear to be hiding in dead links on the web. Maybe it's a plugin I'll find on that C: drive when I'm back in it.
* And, of course, I have to make sure I've exported as many of the basic settings, fonts, bookmarks, etc. as I can think of before wiping the old drive for recycling. That should be fun. But hey, that's what it takes to clean house around here.
Besides, the benefits appear to outweigh the annoyances already, and the annoyances are all temporary and fixable.
Someone linked me to an article a few days ago about Seagate buying out Maxtor. Personally I've had the best luck with Maxtor's hard drives, so I'm glad I bought two of them before that happened. I sort of wonder whether they'll still make "Maxtor" drives or whether they'll all become "Seagate" drives, because if that happens, my luck might change with the name, and that would suck for me.
Minor annoyances in reinstalling the OS on a new drive:
* A while back, I briefly tried EssentialPIM, and I ended up not really caring about it, but it did something to my old C: drive that made it impossible to open when hooked up to a new Windows OS. Like, right-clicking and selecting "Open" yields no positive result. If I want to pull everything off of it - and I do - I'll have to hook that drive back up as the C: drive (i.e., boot from it). It's weird and annoying, but finding everything I want/need (and copying it the heck off that drive) should be easy once I've hooked it back up.
* Miranda used to handle my Google Talk (i.e., Jabber), but the components I needed to make it work appear to be hiding in dead links on the web. Maybe it's a plugin I'll find on that C: drive when I'm back in it.
* And, of course, I have to make sure I've exported as many of the basic settings, fonts, bookmarks, etc. as I can think of before wiping the old drive for recycling. That should be fun. But hey, that's what it takes to clean house around here.
Besides, the benefits appear to outweigh the annoyances already, and the annoyances are all temporary and fixable.
Someone linked me to an article a few days ago about Seagate buying out Maxtor. Personally I've had the best luck with Maxtor's hard drives, so I'm glad I bought two of them before that happened. I sort of wonder whether they'll still make "Maxtor" drives or whether they'll all become "Seagate" drives, because if that happens, my luck might change with the name, and that would suck for me.