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I had to wipe down Windows XP on my Dell inspiron and start over. It's been 18 months* since purchase and the system has become completely unstable and very slow. Getting a new motherboard recently probably didn't help any. There was scads of software installed (4 columns deep on the start/programs list). All of it seemed needed. So, after reinstallation, the system seems stable and faster. Here's what was installed aside from the drivers. This should come in handy the next time I have to do this. WinZip Cygwin Emacs 21 IDEA Andale Mono Araxis Merge Gaim Thunderbird Firefox Ultraedit MS Office WinSCP NewzCrawler iPodder Subversion TortoiseSVN A folder of Java stuff (jdks, jini, ant, junit, etc) Python 2.4 Apache iTunes WinAmp WinDVD Acrobat Reader So far Start/Programs is one column deep. I'll probably put MS Project and Visio on when I get back into the office along with OpenOffice. * 18 months is the longest I've gone without reinstalling Windows. 8-12 months has been the norm in the past....
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