What makes you happy ?

I was going to reinstall XP today having assembled what I believe are all the parts – key, drivers (missing the AMD64 one right now but haven’t really looked for that yet), backed up files but I thought a day or two delay would be good. I just know that as soon as I agree to the reinstall that I will have that lightbulb moment and recall something I should have kept. So slow could be good.
I recommend running the Belarc Advisor first too.

And once that’s done it’s games. music and images only.

As for why install, I want to tune it up from a fresh start. Use one of BV’s guides and go to a minimal setting for services. I could install Ubuntu – but as games don’t run as well and as the image management I want is not there – I won’t.