{"id":25,"date":"2006-04-13T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-04-13T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T21:36:19","slug":"computer-rebuild-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/computer-rebuild-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Rebuild Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhhh!!\u00a0 So after my new printer woes (documented thoroughly in a previous post), I decided that it was time to rebuild our laptop&#8230; from scratch.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to get that printer installed properly, dammit!<\/p>\n<p>I pondered this decision for quite a while weighing all the pros and cons (no need to detail those here and bore you even more) and finally made the leap this week.\u00a0 On Tuesday I backed up all data files and programs to my MP3 player, which conveniently has the ability to store data files as well, which took a while, of course.\u00a0 And yesterday, took the plunge and used HP&#8217;s nifty little quick restore to format and rebuild the computer to factory settings.<\/p>\n<p>VICTORY!!! Everything came up nicely, got back connected to my wireless and after a few updates to Windows, tried to install the printer.\u00a0 Bingo, bango, bongo, worked the first time.\u00a0 Ahhhh&#8230; I feel better already.\u00a0 Uninstalled some of the silly programs that came with the HP, got my and my wife&#8217;s profiles started back up and we&#8217;re off to the races.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I just have to transfer back our data files, install Office and then we&#8217;ll be back in business fully as I can add programs I truly used at my own pace.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts now are that I should have done this long ago.\u00a0 In college, I would generally rebuild once a year to extend the life of the computer (and often times, switch operating systems to my latest choice in Linux, remember I am a total geek!).\u00a0 This laptop had been going on 3 years without a rebuild.\u00a0 Now it can go another two or so before we really have to dump it for something new, hopefully; we&#8217;ll see how I feel after Windows Vista comes out.<\/p>\n<p>Well, most of you have probably stopped reading by now.\u00a0 I would have too if I were in your shoes.\u00a0 Have a great day and keep on keeping on!<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/computer-rebuild-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhhh!!\u00a0 So after my new printer woes (documented thoroughly in a previous post), I decided that it was time to rebuild our laptop&#8230; from scratch.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to get that printer installed properly, dammit!<br \/>\nI pondered this decision for quite a while weighing all the pros and cons (no need to detail those here and bore [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/computer-rebuild-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}