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20030712 Saturday July 12, 2003

Speeding up my computers In an effort to speed up my Windows XP machine and stave off the urge to buy a new computer - I'm re-installing Windows XP. I've installed and re-installed Windows quite a bit in my lifetime, but this time I'm doing it different. Rather than risking my data, I bought a new hard drive. Can you believe that the smallest hard drive you can buy these days is 30 GB?! Everything installed easy enough and the machine (1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM) is much faster, now I'm only going to install the apps I actually use. This means that I'll install them only as I need them. Hopefully this will result in a leaner, meaner machine.

I am strongly considering a new G5, but I need a new (better paying) contract to justify that. And if I do get this $6000 dream machine (23" monitor, 1 GB RAM), it won't be a replacement for my Windows machine - it'll just be a new primary machine. I don't want to have to buy Quicken or Quickbooks for the Mac, it's much easier to just keep the old machine around.

As I write this, I'm on my second attempt at installing XP. The first attempt worked fine, but for some reason - the new hard drive was given a drive letter of F. Maybe it got confused with the new slave drive. So I'm in the midst of a 2nd attempt, this time w/o the slave drive connected. Wish me luck. Posted in General at Jul 12 2003, 11:04:10 AM MDT 4 Comments

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Good luck!

Posted by Paul Rivers on July 12, 2003 at 04:10 PM MDT #

Matt, I want to wish you a happy birthday. I think it is officially on the 14th or 16th. I can't remember exactly even though I used your ID in college as my fake! Happy Birthday!! Burke

Posted by Brian Burke on July 12, 2003 at 06:34 PM MDT #

I format and re-install all my Windows machines every 2 months no mater what. That is why I have 2 paritions, C: I format, D: has my data and install files. .V

Posted by Vic on July 13, 2003 at 07:25 AM MDT #

Some of my friends use Norton Ghost to create a image of their computer after they do a fresh install of everything. Then every couple of months they backup their machine and restore it from the Norton Ghost image. This way it saves you the time of reinstalling all your basekline apps again.

Posted by Kurt on July 14, 2003 at 01:24 PM MDT #

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