It wasn't a lark, it was the garbagemen
Well, not really.
My PC has a fresh copy of XP installed, and I'm now downloading and installing 127 security updates. That takes a while. I rather wish Microsoft would come up with an omnibus edition every so often so that those of us who have to start from near-scratch don't have hotfix installation logs all over the place. Yes, I know CCleaner will get rid of them all, but part of the goal of this project was to have a computer that wasn't clogged up with four years of detritus.
(Thinking) I could have -- probably should have -- got a copy of Windows 7 and installed that instead, but one reason I did it the way I did (with OEM recovery disks) was to make sure I got all the right drivers for my machine. Next time, I'm building a box from scratch, with the help of some hardware-minded colleagues. They've already spec'd out the perfect programming machine (as of this nanosecond in time), but I can't justify buying it for myself until my savings account comes back up a bit. At least not while this one is more-or-less adequate to my purposes.
The only reason I can do this at all without going mad is that I have this little netbook to do stuff on. Yay for the netbook!
My PC has a fresh copy of XP installed, and I'm now downloading and installing 127 security updates. That takes a while. I rather wish Microsoft would come up with an omnibus edition every so often so that those of us who have to start from near-scratch don't have hotfix installation logs all over the place. Yes, I know CCleaner will get rid of them all, but part of the goal of this project was to have a computer that wasn't clogged up with four years of detritus.
(Thinking) I could have -- probably should have -- got a copy of Windows 7 and installed that instead, but one reason I did it the way I did (with OEM recovery disks) was to make sure I got all the right drivers for my machine. Next time, I'm building a box from scratch, with the help of some hardware-minded colleagues. They've already spec'd out the perfect programming machine (as of this nanosecond in time), but I can't justify buying it for myself until my savings account comes back up a bit. At least not while this one is more-or-less adequate to my purposes.
The only reason I can do this at all without going mad is that I have this little netbook to do stuff on. Yay for the netbook!