-=PCTechTalk=- Update: My projects

Finally doing something. 
Copied everything to a safe place.

Copied My Docs, address book and mail store to existing XP Pro.

Replaced XP Home with XP Pro (dual boot).  Installed all Windows updates, 
Security software and updates, plus some other software.

I will continue tweaking this install and also build my VM here.  I expect to 
make it my one and only OS once I acquire a good imaging tool like True Image.  

Right now I am keeping the old XP Pro as my working system while I continue my 
projects.

Interesting note.... I thought the drive with the OS on it was always C: while 
the other drives, including any with a dual boot OS on it would be other 
letters.  However, no matter which hard drive I boot to, the old XP drive is 
Drive C: and the new XP Pro drive is Drive D:.  I did not discover this until 
after some problems...

I was installing drivers from the Dell Resource CD and the default drive to 
extract them to was drive C:, which I thought was the drive I wanted it on.  
Wrong.  

A second problem was the folder tree did not look right since the Dell folder 
was not there.  A couple other minor things added to my thinking I had a bad 
install, so I did it all over again.  Now it is right (it was right before I 
did the second install but I did not know that).

I ended up naming the drives after the desktop wallpaper in use on its OS.  
Waterlillies and Stonehenge.

When I went to update Windows I had a total of 102 updates including new 
drivers and non- critical updates.  Not a problem except it was bedtime and I 
let them download and install over night.  

I forgot that Windows XP is too stupid to recognize WIndows Updates (or other 
non-human interface device work) as "activity" and it went into hibernation.  
All got downloaded but only 32.5 got installed.  The .5 was a new video adapter 
driver and its corruption caused enough havoc to make me think a third install 
was in the works.  Fortunately I was able to figure out the problem and get 
everything fixed and avoided  it.

Lesson:  Set power management to Never sleep, standby or hibernate until you 
finish running a major download such as I had.

Lesson:  Moving the mail store and address book does not move settings, 
accounts, rules and configurations.  AarrrrgH.  I wish I had used the backup 
utility from http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com.  That _is_ why I downloaded it!  

Won't get much more done before my next days off except little teaks and things.

Don


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