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I did it.
May 29, 2003
Thanks for the AWESOME back up advice and reminders!
I reformatted and reinstalled windows (actually, it was as simple as doing a system recovery from the factory disks...much easier than I had thought it would be). I've had crazy trouble every step of the way, though. Like, when I first decided that I was going to wipe the system and start over, my sound card suddenly became incompatible with XP...or the driver did. And then, as I was going to back up some stray files that I hadn't backed up, suddenly my cd burner didn't work (driver problems, also). Apparently service pack one for xp is totally incompatible with my little old VAIO laptop, but none of the other people I work with had the trouble I did.
Now that I have everything up and running again, the copy of office xp that I have borrowed from work to install has a huge scratch on it and will not install. Sucky!
But, here I am. I was able to restore all of my trillian buddy lists and passwords, and I don't think I forgot anything vital. I'm just really hoping that the archiving I did on my old outlook files retains everything.
I still have to reinstall some stuff like ftp software and some sort of file sharing software...any suggestions? There's a post on randomwalks about good music sharing apps...anyone have any preferences? I've been using kazaa lite, but it's lacking at the more punk end of the spectrum. Of course, I did just discover that punk planet has free mp3 downloads, too...gimme some good sites/apps for music (no spyware!!!) and I'll be yr best friend for life.
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no spyware. really kick ass.