System Recovery Plans / Important Programs

[pianodude34]

Laptop's been effing up lately. It's been shutting down in mid-type, so a few entries have been lost since the drafts weren't saved properly. I may do another system recovery, but that may not help it. Should help it, because it'll take out the bugs, but we'll see.

I copied about 2.7 GB of information to my external hard drive which I installed this afternoon. That means that if my laptop suddenly blew up into a fiery inferno, I'd be cool about it. I also really think I'm going to ask for a laptop for my birthday/Christmas [11-16 & 12-25].

I may regret doing this now, but this is a list of the programs that would be necessary to install after a recovery:

• Maxtor external hard drive (disc)
• Zen Micro software/Creative MediaSource (disc)
• Epson printer software/drivers (disc)
• Microsoft Word 2000 (disc)
• AIM (app)
• Semagic (app)
• Mozilla Firefox (app)
• Limewire (app; optional)
• LJ Comment Stats Wizard (app; optional)

That's virtually it, though. Before, I had a whole ton of programs. Now, only the ones listed above are programs I actively use. Once I do the recovery--and this is another reason I'm wanting to do it--I can use Adobe Photoshop with their trial version from Download.com or from my application I already have. I'll find some way. Until then, I have some other things to do. Take care, everyone.

~Chris