Well I’ve got most everything up and running again. Just Photoshop, setting up my PDA, and the little dumb stuff that you can take a little slower. HEHE

On the bright note, the best of all? Get this. When I got the laptop I threw office onto it. I love my outlook. I’m so tied to my planner and everything I liked having stuff all together. Email, addresses, calendar, etc. So I go in and set everything up and I tell Outlook that when I hit “send” on an email after writing it up, I want outlook to go ahead and send the email. well it never worked. We tried and tried to figure out why and could never figure it out.

Guess what it does now? From the get go? It was 2:45 in the morning and I was doing a jig because it was doing this again! Not that manually hitting “send and receive” is that gruelling, but I’m lazy and like automation! ROFL.

So you know what, aside from the whole explorer shell that was freaking out, and all the software issues from installing/uninstalling over almost a year and a half, THAT WAS WORTH IT. Right there. WORTH EVERY SECOND OF the reformat. WOOHOO.

I know, simple pleasures… ROFL

So what have I done?
Wireless working – check
Windows Updates – check, just need Direct X now
Slimbrowser (the best browser!) – chec
Firefox – check
Extensions to get firefox to work right with tabbed browsing – need help, can’t locate, stupid broken firefox
Antivirus – check
anti-spyware – check
MS Office – check
loaded up Outlook backup file to get my calendar and etc – check
Dumped the factory CRAP off laptop – check
Semagic (the best LJ blogging tool evah) – check
Trillian – check
Videloan for viewing vids – check (the best tool, no searching for codecs for me! Yipee! everyone should use videolan!)

That’s it. On board for today:
Photoshop
Acrobat Reader
iTunes
HTML editor
Direct X
PDA stuff
Audible stuff
Stupid little stuff like flash and etc

First up… Direct X. need to get that out of the way. let me know if you think of something else I need! 🙂 i’m so tired from being up till like 3 AM… LOL

Oh and i decided not to listen to state of fear next. Hubby told me to listen to what he’s listening to. The Prometheus Deception. OK, I’ll do that and then go back to State of Fear. 🙂