On Friday I repaved my laptop again. As many of you know, I do this about every 6-8 weeks, but now that I return to Redmond once a month, I’ve started aligning my repaves with my trips to take advantage of the corporate PXE installation services. This one was after two trips, which was about 8 or 9 weeks.
It is amazing how fast I’m getting at this. The more you do it, the more you organize yourself to make it easy, the easier it gets.
Within three hours I had my machine back to usable. In the few days since then I’ve installed things as I’ve needed them, using my previous repave notes as a guide for things I might’ve forgotten.
Here’s the list this time (so far):
- IT Supported Vista SP1 x86 + Office + eTrust
- Configure Bluetooth Mouse
- ISA Firewall Client
- Office Communicator
- Configure Consolas as System Font
- Wow
- Flash Player for IE
- Ventrilo 3.0.1
- Zune Player
- HotKeyPlus
- Firefox 3.1
- Java Runtime
- Powershell 1.0 for Vista
- Sidebar plugins:
- All CPU Meter
- Wired Network Meter
- Wireless Network Meter
- Woot!
- NcFTP
- PasswordMinder
- GnuWin32
- Chatzilla
- Live Messenger
- Vim 7.1
- 7zip
- ctrl2cap
- LiveWriter Technical Preview
- Flash Player for Firefox
- Firefox Profile
- Launch and Setup Outlook
- ooVoo
- My Profile Stuff (Desktop, Docs, Music, etc.)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Twhirl
I blogged about this process once before over here: Another Agile Computer Repave Done
