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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Laptop Spring Cleaning

Just wiped out my entire hard disk with system restore, and reinstalled all my programs... Here's my installation log for future reference.

28 Apr 07:
Copied entire "My Documents" folder.
Copied entire "Installers" folder.

28 Apr 07:
Configured Internet Explorer -
LAN Settings >
Automatically connect to:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/proxyconfig.pac

28 Apr 07:
Installed Thunderbird.

Configured Account following instructions on
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/muasettings/mozilla.html

Configured local email archives folder.

28 Apr 07:
Installed Firefox 1.5.0.6.
Configured LAN Settings.
Downloaded Firefox 2.
Installed Firefox 2.

Configured download folder.

28 Apr 07:
Downloaded Windows Live Messanger.
Installed Windows Live Messanger.

Configured Live Messanger:
Group offline contacts together.
Hide Tabs.

28 Apr 07:
Downloaded Google Desktop.
Installed Google Desktop.

Configured gadgets.

28 Apr 07:
Downloaded itunes.
Installed itunes.
Music and Podcasts already existing, as organised in the "itunes folder".

28 Apr 07:
Downloaded Filezilla 2.2.32.
Installed Filezilla.

Need to recover account usernames and passwords for:
1.srcf
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/faq/basics#upload
Username and password in old email.
Configuration successful.
2.home
need to recover infomation in summer.


CREATED RESTORE POINT


28 Apr 07:
Downloaded Open Office 2.2.0.
Installed Open office.

28 Apr 07:
Downloaded Skype 3.1.
Installed Skype 3.1.


Now my laptop feels brand new!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

whoo hoo did u make a clone of ur HD? U should haha