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I just spent most of the night reinstalling Windows on my laptop.  Both of my computers have been acting up lately, so I've been in the process of making sure that I have everything backed up, so I can take care of this.  Everything went really smoothly with the laptop until it came to Windows Update.  I went out there mainly to get IE 7.  However, before I could do that, I had to install about 200 other updates first.  And of course, you can't install everything, you can only do about 20 updates at a time, because every update requires other, earlier updates to be installed first.  And each set of updates requires a reboot of the machine.  That makes for an incredibly time consuming process.

However, now I have a nice, clean laptop, with nothing on it except the operating system.  I've decided that this time through with both computers, I'm going to try something new.  I'm going to just install what I need on these computers.  I'm not going to play with any more apps just to see what they do.  It's those miscellaneous apps out there that always make a machine run horribly, even if you try to uninstall them.  Of course, I won't be able to resist some new toy I find out there, so I'm going to need another machine to play with those apps.  Which means I'm going to have to scrounge up the parts from the various non-working computers around the house and set up a third computer to rebuild.  Either that, or I'm going to need to spend some money on a good ghosting program, so I can revert either computer to a good working state at any time.  Either way, it looks like I'm going to be spending some quality time with my computers over the next few weeks.