At last! My laptop finally got back about four days ago. I was saddened to realize that although Staples had fixed my hardware, the operating system was too corrupted to save most of my photos and stuff. However, I keep my important stuff elsewhere, so my music is safe.
Anyway, as I write this, I’m reloading all my music onto my data partition after reformatting and installing a customized version of Windows XP, modified with possibly one of the greatest programs ever to happen to (not by) Microsoft – nLite!
You can read about it on the site, but quite simply, nLite takes your current, in-tact Windows installation and makes an installer out of it. It then allws you to strip away all the parts you don’t want. At last, Microsoft haters can be rid of crap such as Internet Explorer and that laughable software suite, Microsoft Security. You can also disable everything from themes to tooltips to those moronic sounds that windows has that seem to always play way too loud right in the middle of class, coffee shops, etc. You get the idea. MSN doesn’t work anymore, but I’m using Miranda IM, which is better anyway.
So yeah, that’s the latest update, and I will make a concerted effort to get back into production. Probably some time midweek. Later today or tomorrow I will be reinstalling Traktor and I’ll start mixing again during the week. Until then, take it easy, and check out nLite!
