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Well it’s about time to reformat my computer… I’ve been running on this install of XP for over six months, and the whole system is starting to fall apart.

A big reason for that is a couple of viruses I have acquired recently. I don’t think it’s MSBlast though. It was something called Parite or something. Info about what my computer is suffering from is here and here

My computer started opening up a window that told me it would be shutting down in 60 seconds. Then after 60 seconds, it did indeed shut itself down. I ran windows update and installed some antivirus software, but it doesn’t appear to be helping much. The windows have stopped popping up, but i still can’t open regedit or press CTRL ALT DELETE. They just pop open, then close themselves. DVD’s are skipping or freezing, etc. The system is just falling apart, so I’m backing everything up and reformatting it. When I reinstall I will definitely put in a firewall and some antivirus software from the start. I’ve never had virus problems with windows before, but I really don’t want to risk having them again.

But hopefully by the time I need to reformat again, I will have a Mac anyway.

I thought I would make myself a list of things to remember to backup now and in the future, because I always forget something.

• Website files
• Music files
• Bookmarks
• Emails
• FTP server list from BulletProof FTP
• My Documents folders
• Photoshop brushes, patterns, etc
• My Pictures folder
• Download folder

That’s about it. Since I switched to using IMAP for my email, I won’t have to worry about backing it up anymore, which will be really nice. And the rest of my stuff is just some normal data files, and all my programs that I use. Shouldn’t be too big of a deal, though I normally like to set aside a day to do the whole process from start to finish.

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