It took 5 hours from pressing F10 to restore to accessing the Internet. Thankfully, there is almost no intervention required, just let it copy from the DVDs to the fresh hard disk.
I have this 200 GB drive so it will be my new C: since it will only record TV shows and access the Internet I want the machine to run at top speed. I deleted most of the toy software that comes with the new machine.
I am installing the following applications in this order:
- AVAST Free anti-virus
- Brother MFC-7840W LAN Wireless Laser Printer driver
- Internet Explorer 8 upgrade
- Chrome Browser
- Skype Internet Phone
- VUZE
- PrintMe IP printer PrintMe Networks
- DivX 7 for Windows for AVI & DivX player
- FLV Converter V6.7.1 from Koyote Soft
- TeamViewer - Free Remote Access
- Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing
- Virtual drive vdcx
- Quicktime
- Itunes
- SketchUp 7.1
- Google Earth
- Google Chrome FRAME for IE
- Linux as an application Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta Download: PC (Intel x86) desktop CD
- Evernote for Windows
- WinRAR (32-bit) - Free
- Quick Media Converter - Free Makes MPEGs from most files
- DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15 - A FREE compresses DVDs
- Google Talk - Chat online and make free internet calls
- Google voice and video chat
- OpenOffice.org
- Silverlight I'm just not sure about this player.
- AutoStitch it just works; set the options before choosing your files to stitch
- Miro HD Video Player
- HTTrack download for windows makes copies of all pages in cloud based sites to your pc
- Inuktitut aipai-fonts
