Written by Umang Saini
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Saturday

9:00 p.m.
  1. Backup Desktop, My documents
  2. Insert Win Xp OEM CD, Format C:
  3. Reinstall Win Xp Home
  4. Win Xp SP 3
  5. Dell Drivers
  6. Restart
  7. Chrome Beta Channel
  8. Evernote (for my Office 2010 Keys)
  9. Net Meter
  10. iTunes 9.0
  11. Adobe Flash
  12. Office 2010 Tech Preview
  13. Reboot
  14. FF 3.5 with DTA, Throttle and Xmarks
  15. Copy back Desktop and My Documents
  16. Done
10:30 pm: Basic re-install completed in 90 minutes.


US Computer Inspiron 6000
Since Saturday - Adobe Air, Tweetdeck, Picasa 3.5, Update Evernote, Windows Update (84 MB, 51 updates), uTorrent, Audible Download Manager, Google Apps Offline, Chromium Dev Channel, Foxit Reader, IrfanView, Silverlight, VLC, WinRAR, Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu Updates, Google Updater, Spyware Doctor, Microsoft Security Essentials.

Complete - 180 minutes (Re-installing Ubuntu took ~25 minutes).


Umang Saini at his desk in #7, Computer Inspiron 6000
p.s. - The system is Dell Inspiron 6000, Feb 2006, 1.73GHz Intel Pentium M 740, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 60GB 5400 RPM HDD, Intel 915GM graphics with 128MB memory, Win Xp Home.

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