From: Colgrove, George (George.Colgrove_at_state.vt.us)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 07:57:50 EST
Well, what I do is put all the drivers and patches onto a CD-R and keep it
in my reinstall kit. When I find new drivers, I make a new CD and trash the
old one. Quite often, I'll also use the CD to make a backup copy of some
applications that don't take up much space. This way all I need is my OS
CD, my Office Suite CD and what I call my "Recovery" CD. I keep these all
together in one place and it works great. Like I said in another thread, I
usually do a clean install every 6 months or so. Probably not practical in
a office setting, but it does a couple things. First, I back up all my work
more than I probably would, and second I clean up Bill Gates poor job making
an Operating System. My system runs smooth all the time and I have very
little issues.
Geo
|-----Original Message-----
|From: David Ross [mailto:ross_at_math.hawaii.edu]
|Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:16 PM
|To: ThinkPad Mailing List; Jane Loyless
|Subject: Re: OT? Software...
|
|
|> didn't want to go the clean install route because the chances of my
|finding
|> all the parts and pieces I needed to reinstall everything that I use
|ranged
|> from slim to none.
|
|100% agree. This is especially a problem with software that has been
|patched a
|few times - not every company does a good job of maintaining a
|complete/historical
|line of patches at their website.
|
|- David R.
|
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