[dba-Tech] Petulant PC

John and Arthur,

The system admin here at work thinks that my registry needs to be
rebuilt from the registry hive.  I'm first going to try to start with
the Last Known Good Configuration from the Windows XP install disk
tonight.  If that doesn't work, I'll pull the drive and bring it to
work for him to do his magic on it.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On 6/4/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Arthur,
>
> I think the first thing to do is determine what you want installed and then
> install the OS and all of those programs, THEN ghost.  If you ever need to
> restore all of the programs are preinstalled.
>
> After installing all of my required programs my laptop sits at about 40gb.
> That includes everything though from Spy sweeper AV and Comodo firewall, to
> Adobe, VNC, UltaEdit and 3DFTP to Office 2003, Streets and Trips, Visual
> Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.
>
> It is amazing how quickly it all adds up, and how long it takes to install
> it from scratch.
>
> John W. Colby