Tech Talk
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:
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- 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
- Hardware
- Printers:
HP 2100 (home)
RALP19 (work)
PhotoSmart (anywhere)
HP 1000 (church)- HP ScanJet
- Connections
- Setup O'Neal Dialup and VPN
- Music Match 7.2
- Access 97, SP2
- 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
- Macromedia MX and Flash
- Setup all site definitions
- CorelDRAW 9 Suite
- Set timezone to Taipei (wierd workaround so patches will apply on Windows 2000/XP)
- SP1 & SP2
- Reset timezone
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Publisher XP
- Winzip 8.1
- Online Bible 9
- WinDVD 3
- Reactivate online
- Quicken 2000
- Turn off background downloading, so Windows 2000/XP will standby without COM1 driver error
- Canon Powershot G1 Photo Tools
- Quicktime 5 Pro
- Wordperfect Suite 8
- Wordperfect & Quattro Pro
- SP7
- MapPoint 2001
- Palm Desktop
- Hotsync only
- Email sync
- Adobe Acrobat 5
- Trendmicro Officescan
- MSDN
- 3D Home Architect
- Microstation SE
- Roxio CD Creator
- SQL Server Manager
Create ODBC connections- DiddleEx
- OpenOffice.org 1.0