Which software is installed?

9/14:
NOD32 V2.51.30 -- a great antivirus software with very low memory usage
ZHIGUANG PINYIN V5 -- a top selectioin for chinese input
Storm Player -- came with a rather complete decoders to play most format videos
Logitech QuickCam Driver -- just need it for that wonderful Webcam Pro 5000
Creative Audigy2 ZS Driver -- so so software
Ultrakeyboard -- wow! it can recover what you enter, but I have removed it.
9/15:
Flashget -- a classical download tool without AD.
Firefox Extension -- because of extension and tab, firefox became famous

• Flashget-- it is hard to find now
• Tab X - close button on each tab
• Tabbrowser preferences - open firefox searching result in a new tab
• Gmail Notifier -- it would be better if supported multiple accounts
• Forecasefox -- information for Acueweather.com
• Google Bookmarks Button -- replacement of firefox's one
  

9/16:
Bitcomet -- the most popular BT download tool
Adobe Arobat Reader -- Must have for PDF files
Kingsoft CIBA
9/17:
Skype --talk to my wife
Brother all-in-one -- printer mainly
ACDSee Photo Manager 9
Daemon Tool -- virtual CD rom
Nero 7 Premium -- failed...
9/18
eMule -- P2P download in your hand
Nero 7 -- installed again. It try to handle everything, but I decline it.
UtraMon -- excellent software for multiple mointors user
9/19
MSN messenger 7.5-- somewhat lower CPU usage than Skype
10/5
foobar2000 -- better than winamp? no sure. But it's absolutely a good player

Reinstalling XP

After using for one year, it is probably a good time to reinstall OS for my one years and 9 monthes old TOSHIBA-A75-S229, in order to speed up the system. However it is really time-consuming.

9/12: I decided to update system instead of a fresh install. Unfortunately, the installing process stuck at 34% left. No sure what happen, maybe there are some drivers missing or some other defects. I couldnot simply format the disk since I had not backup my data yet. copy, xcopy, xxcopy, nothing can acutally copy a whole folder for me. I wanted to use Partition Magic to seperate a partition from 'C:' drive for installing a linux, and then copy a data out. But I was out of luck, PM messed up the Partition Table.

9/13: I bought a hard drive encloser, put the hard disk in, and connected it to my company's laptop; finally I found all data were safe. But, there was a strange partition left in the hard drive, which cound not be read and formatted even I formated C: drvie and loaded a new operating system. The error message is "Missing Operating System." PM TOTALLY WON'T WORK!!! Fortunately, I found a great software in the world, PARTITION TABLE DOCTOR, which fixed the partition table for me.

9/14: Uninstalled a lot of juck software came with Toshiba's recovery CD. Next, it is a bunch of soteware will be installed.