I just reformatted my Fujitsu Lifebook T Series 4215 Tablet PC. I upgraded it from XP to Vista about 14 months ago and recently messed up some licensing files for some products I use daily and figured it wouldn’t hurt to just wipe it clean.  I did the following...

 

·         Copy the important folders off of my machine to an external Hard Drive

o   _Web-Ascender

o   _Doom

o   Temp (I store random things in here, I wouldn’t miss anything if it was deleted)

·         Backed up my mail box, calendar, contacts to PST or CSV

·         Install Norton Ghost

·         Ghost my machine

·         Pop in the Vista DVD

·         Reformatted my machine

·         Installed Vista

·         Configured Dvorak as my default key settings

·         Installed Sharp Keys to remap my caps lock to backspace (it’s so much better than the normal backspace, try it for 3 days you’ll be sold)

·         Installed Office Ultimate from our Empower ISV

·         Installed Office Visio

·         Installed 15 or so drivers for my tablet

·         Ghosted my machine again

·         Setup Outlook and Zimbra

·         Imported all my data from my mailbox

·         Next steps

o   Adobe CS3 Suite

o   Visual Studio 2008

o   SQL Server 2005

o   VMware player

o   Install Firefox

o   Move my files back on

o   Ghost

o   Install Vista SP1

 

I’m sure I have a bit more to do tomorrow, but I’m looking forward to the clean slate!