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[plonq]

I'm more-or-less back in business again. I have Windows installed on the new disk array, along with the bare essentials (like World of Warcraft). Over the next few days I'll spend some time importing things from my old drive - like some of my Firefox plugins, favourites, and a few essential programs that I don't want to live without.

On the other hand, I'm going to see what programs I can live without and see if I can avoid some of the clutter this time around.

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[feren.livejournal.com]

I heartily recommend installing ljArchive if you haven't already given it a whirl.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check that link when I get home. Our corporate firewall blocks Sourceforge.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

There's nothing quite like the feeling of having a nice clean system again, which I guess is a bit of a reward for all the aggravation you've had (maybe?).

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Not just clean, but fast! Who would have thought that going from an 80gig IDE drive to a SATA II RAID 0 disk array would make such a difference?

[tamarik.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to reinstall XP... But not just yet. :)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Installing (or re-installing) Windows is not a real problem for me. The initial install was a bit quirky, but I was expecting that. Once I finished the install and updated to the latest drivers everything settled down nicely.

It's nice having a virgin system to work with again, but I have a bucketload of things that I need to re-install and customize again. Until I went back to a clean install, I didn't realize just how deeply I had personalized my version of XP.

[tamarik.livejournal.com]

Until I went back to a clean install, I didn't realize just how deeply I had personalized my version of XP.

I think the issue I have is that I know just how deeply my install of XP is personalized. :)