Down to the bare metal

[BigV]

Well, I *did* load Firefox first, (third, after MS Office, Symantec AntiVirus Corp Ed v10). I loaded XPSP2 from cd, and after a couple of warmup trips through Windows Update, I am making a Microsoft Update haul of 43 updates at >100 MB. *sigh*

I think I overlooked the step where I exported all my bookmarks from Firefox, but so far, so good. The system is way, waaaay faster just getting on it's feet. It was really a case of picking the pepper out of the fly sh*t in my case. That was fairly funny and dead accurate.

I haven't installed many old apps yet, including the wirelessness for the home network. It feels weird tethered to a network cable on the couch. Old skool. But many of the preliminary updates have required a restart, which is normal, and the system comes right up right now. It feels like a whole new system. I hope to keep that lovin' feelin' as the apps get installed.

But as of now, I'm a very happy camper.