PC update

Format and reinstallation of my desktop PC went swimmingly.

Dell’s OS and driver CDs helped a lot. I don’t know if they still include those disks, but they should. Made reinstallation of drivers for onboard video, Intel chipset and modem very simple.

A complete format of my hard drive was necessary because trying to repair the Windows installation had errors. I think they were malware related: setup couldn’t copy a couple of dll files from the CD to the hard drive; it had an error trying to copy over iexplore.exe too.

So I started from scratch. Besides, a full format makes me feel cleaner. :)

Right now, it’s slogging through all the downloading and installing of Windows updates.