New Computer

Wednesday, July 17, 2002

After having my laptop for 16 months - that has to be a record! - I've finally got upgraded. The big difference is the screen; it's the same size, but the new one actually shows colors correctly. I didn't realize it at first, but the UXGA screen on most Latitudes completely loses really light colors, making things look really different than on a regular monitor. The new one also adds a CD-R and is a 2 Ghz P4.

For the record, my installation log:

My installation log:

1. Windows XP Professional, single NTFS partition
   • Remove MSN Explorer, Add Fax, IIS
   • Load Dell Resource CD, and load all the drivers
   • Intellipoint drivers
   • Windows Update, grab all the Security, XP, and Drivers updates
   • Copy local files off the old computer
   • Map drives:
     B: to work desktop
     K: to Krista's files, make available offline
     M: to MP3 collection, make available offline
     W: to web folders, make available offline
   • Reroute My Documents to work off of W
2. Hardware
   • Printers:
     HP 2100 (home)
     RALP19 (work)
     PhotoSmart (anywhere)
     HP 1000 (church)
   • HP ScanJet
3. Connections
   • Setup O'Neal Dialup and VPN
4. Music Match 7.2
5. Access 97, SP2
6. Office XP Premium with Frontpage
• Get updates from office.microsoft.com
• Connect to my home email server with Outlook
• Open Krista's, Antonio's, and Carmen's mailboxes, too
• Profiles: David, David at work, O'Neal
• MSDE 2000
7. Macromedia MX and Flash 
   • Setup all site definitions
8. CorelDRAW 9 Suite
   • Set timezone to Taipei (wierd workaround so patches will apply on Windows 2000/XP)
   • SP1 & SP2
   • Reset timezone
9. AOL Instant Messenger
10. Publisher XP
11. Winzip 8.1
12. Online Bible 9
13. WinDVD 3
    • Reactivate online
14. Quicken 2000
    • Turn off background downloading, so Windows 2000/XP will standby without COM1 driver error
15. Canon Powershot G1 Photo Tools
16. Quicktime 5 Pro
17. Wordperfect Suite 8
    • Wordperfect & Quattro Pro
    • SP7
18. MapPoint 2001
19. Palm Desktop
    • Hotsync only
    • Email sync
20. Adobe Acrobat 5
21. Trendmicro Officescan
22. MSDN
23. 3D Home Architect
24. Microstation SE
25. Roxio CD Creator
26. SQL Server Manager
    Create ODBC connections
27. DiddleEx
28. OpenOffice.org 1.0

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