Software Installed

Spent most of the weekend installing software on Diane's new machine. The OS installation appeared to have a problem at first because it didn't have a network installed (ARG) but this turned out to be that I needed to install the software that came with the motherboard. The network drivers were there.

I then copied the Thunderbird and Mozilla (FireFox) profiles from %APPDATA% from the old machine to the new one. Then I installed Thunderbird and FireFox and, like wow, all of Diane's settings came over without a hitch. (This is what happens when you DON'T hide things in the registry.)

From there I installed McAfee and it went without a hitch. Then I installed Acronis, and everything seemed to be going well. Too well. I tried to restore Diane's last backup into an empty directory so she could move over files at her leisure, and the restores kept messing up with odd messages about being out of resources. I then tried to copy the backup files off the NAS and got a similar message. Finally I tried a good old fashion COPY command. Still no Joy. I finally decided a 109GB backup file can't be handled by a 32-bit version of Windows. So, we're going to just copy files individually from the old machine via USB if necessary.

After I gave up on restoring the backup, I moved the machine into Diane's computer desk and removed the old machine. The only problem that I had was some of the USB ports weren't working. Googling the issue lead me to "uninstalling" the malfunctioning USB ports (in the operating system sense of uninstalling) and rebooting the machine. The OS then reinstalled the drivers for the USB ports and they all started working.

So, Diane has now installed Civ 5 and I think that it is working.

If I get a chance, I'll put up the final build parts soon. I took a lot of notes and meant to create a Build blog entry, but when I installed the new motherboard, I didn't bother taking notes, so I'm not sure how useful the instructions are now.