After spending the last 36 hours restoring my laptop with countless updates, patches, software installations, database restorations arghhh… But its a new year and optimism is in the air. So here is the list of applications I installed – in order:
- Toshiba Restore CD (w/ version 1.0 of Microsoft Windows Vista)
- Windows Update and 6 reboots
- McAfee, Update, Update, Update (OK I’m safe – continue)
- Microsoft Office 2003 (w/o Outlook)
- Windows Update and 6 more reboots
- Microsoft Outlook 2003
- Windows Update and 5 more reboots
- Microsoft Visio
- Windows Update Vista SP1 (3rd time was a charm)
- Windows Update Vista SP2 (see the trend here)
- Google Calendar Sync
- Pogoplug Software
- Tweetdeck
- Quicken 2010 (log into online account – download – restore back-up – done!!!)
- Adobe Acrobat 9 (upg from 8. something)
- Several Web Services
- Mozilla
- iTunes
- Skype
- Google Chrome
Did I miss anything?
CW
