Setting Up The New Laptop
Published by Toronto Mike on April 9, 2009 @ 17:08 in Technology
I managed to leverage an issue with my work issued laptop into a new one. It's a LATITUDE E6500 from Dell, and since it's been a while since I've set up a Windows machine, I'm documenting what I do here so I can reference the details next time.
Firstly, it came to me with Windows XP and Microsoft's Office Suite installed. It also had the company install of McAfee and Power DVD DX. The rest was up to me.
I have licenses for three commercial apps I use regularly. These are Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Acrobat. I started by installing these programs.
I use portable versions of Firefox and Filezilla, my preferred browser and ftp client, so I simply copied these off of a flash drive and didn't miss a beat. I can't tell you how sweet this is. All my bookmarks, add-ons, preferences, passwords and cookies in tact. Damn.
All my music, pictures and source files reside on an external hard drive, so it was plug and play on that front. That just left me with a few free applications to install, like 7-Zip, µTorrent, iTunes, QuickTime, Audiograbber and Google Chrome.
That's it. More and more of what I do has moved into the browser. As apps move to the web, there's less and less to install.
What an age we live in.
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Roshan
April 9, 2009 / 23:39
Sweet. I want to sell my pc and get a Dell or HP laptop. But more on the feeling that you just mentioned - I want the kind of situation where you have the computer bring up your specs in any place that you use it. Like the Star Trek world computer. No matter which place you access the computer it's the same - in the shuttle, in your quarters, in any ship - all connected to a main computer.