Today is rebuild day for my primary machine, a Lenovo x61t. Moving to Win7 RTM and Office 2010 Tech Preview.

First up is pulling all the Data off my C drive.

This mainly means the data out of my profile folder. A key thing to remember here is to check your filesystem Virtualization folders for stuff that’s been put there by poorly written software. I usually backup to a hard drive but today I’m going to just push it across to my D drive partition- I made the decision last build to run two partitions again which is a move I’m pleased with.

Then it’s time to do an audit of the Program Files folder to determine which of the crap that I’ve installed over the past 7 months I actually need to install again. here is my list, not necessarily in order. Hopefully it might give readers a few pointers.

Polar Pro Trainer
WKO+
Lightroom
Life Cam
Intelli Point
WinRAR
7-Zip
iTunes
Live Mesh
Office 2010
VS2k8 + SPs
Expression Studio 3
Twhirl/Tweetdeck
Star Alliance Travel Desk
IIS + other goodies via Web Platform Installer
SQL 2k8 inc Books online
DevExpress Controls + Addins
Azure SDK
.NET Services SDK
Process Explorer
Sony Vegas
TortoiseSVN
Live Writer/Messenger
eTrust + RAS Bits
K-Lite Codec Pack
Zoom H Series Driver
SnagIt
Camtasia