- hubby and I (as in he looked after this until I got home from work last night) ran Windows Update last night as much as it took to get my copy of Windows fully up-to-date and protected with all the latest security patches; all seems to be well on that front now
- my video card and sound card are working well with their new drivers (hubby installed the video card; I sort of installed the sound card, but Windows Update actually did it for me)
- I have re-installed Norton Antivirus and it has recognized that I already had a subscription to the updates service, so I didn't have to pay anything
- I have re-installed Firefox and it is working well (though soon I will have to go through the advice some people left me on the MozillaZine forum to figure out how to configure a particular aspect of it--to do with bookmarks and tabbed browsing--the way I want it...hooray for open source software that can be freely "tweaked" like this :)!); I have also gone through all the bookmarks files I had found on my computer pre-wipe (and saved to go through), deleted duplicate entries between those files and re-bookmarked the very essentials; I will decide later what non-essentials will earn the right to be placed back in my new bookmarks file.
- I have reinstalled both my spam blocker and Mozilla Thunderbird and they are working with each other just fine; it looks like I managed to keep pretty much all my e-mails and settings for both from their pre-wipe stages, and I've also implemented a new way to organize my e-mails (and I think I am liking it so far).
Saturday, July 8, 2006
Phase 2 complete
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