Oh boy! I’ve done a factory-restore of Windows XP on my desktop system. Windows is all the way back to SP2, and IE is at version 6. A zillion updates are downloading, and they’ll probably take an hour to run. I’m planning to update to Windows 7, so I figured it would be nice to start off with a nice, clean installation.
Follow-up: Well, this is fun. I’m entering this using Firefox, installed on Ubuntu Linux, within a VMware Player virtual machine, running on Windows XP.
Further follow-up: I am very impressed with how this all works. Windows has locked up a couple of times while I was mucking around with the virtual machine settings, but that doesn’t phase me, and I’m tempted to go virtual underneath the covers with this setup.
This is the stuff! Single CPU, 512 MB memory, 20 GB disk, and it’s a fully-functional system. Very impressive.
If I ever said you weren’t a geek (unlikely), I take it back.