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Because I know none of you got any sleep last night (like me), wondering what the fate was of my little Compaq Presario…LOL.

I successfully reformatted the hard drive, reinstalled Windows XP and effectively erased the last 3 1/2 years from it’s memory. Along with the formatting went our Microsoft Money file, 3 GB of photos and all of my home emails from Outlook.

This morning, after a solid six hours of sleep, I have a new…er…outlook on the situation and am actually grateful for the opportunity to scrape the hard drive clean. Most of the emails I didn’t need, I had old applications that just refused to uninstall, and I really enjoyed talking to the guy at Symantec today, who told me where I could re-download Norton Internet Security since I just upgraded it last month. He almost spoke passable English! I am hoping the folks at Intuit are as amenable when I try to re-download It’s Deductible.

Microsoft Money was the least of my worries, but the greatest for Capt. UberHusband. I was able to reinstall Money and download transactions for the last nine months from most of our financial institutions. I didn’t realize just how much money we were spending until I had to reconcile over a thousand transactions. Zoiks.

As for the pictures, 99% of them are uploaded to Ofoto so if I get an urgent need for electronic copies of the pictures, I can always order an archive CD from them.

The emails…well, here’s the funny thing about those. I have Outlook set up on my work laptop to also download my home emails during the day in case I can’t get over to the home PC…so anything critical over the last 5 or 6 months (it’s my work computer, I delete nothing), I was able to send back over to the home PC. I just realized that about ten minutes ago.

This is just so funny…I swear to God I was going to back everything up today. Well, guess I can cross that task off my list since at this point, there isn’t much to backup. Except…all the various application install files and Microsoft Money, and those files are safely tucked away on my thumb drive.

And can I tell you…that little PC is full of vim and vigor this morning! I just need to add another 256 MB of SDRAM and it’ll purr like a kitten.

{{deep cleansing breath}}

Time for coffee!