My company laptop is getting reformatted by IT with their standard install, as a security requirement for it getting networked into my new office location. They also gave me a Desktop, which I've slowly been moving stuff over to for the last 2 weeks. Now I'm ready for the reformat, but am worried I'm forgetting something. Anyone who can remind me of something i'm forgetting to grab gets repped. This is what I've grabbed so far: OS = Windows 7 Pro Licensed software that required a d/l. Most of this is re-downloadable, but not all. Email not necessary, can re-download via the server. Firefox bookmarks via Firefox Sync entire \users\kevin folder all p*rn hidden in other folders I think i got my Skype chat logs, but not 100% sure btw: how do I know if I grabbed my Skype chat logs for loading on another machine. also, Full backup of laptop is done. But full backups are not the way to reload stuff like bookmarks, configuration files, etc. Also, for those who are IT or Software Developers: ...most everything for work is installed by IT, but those are fresh installs that will lose configurations. I have installed VS, Java and LAMP environments (sans the 'L'). I'm a Java developer, but for legacy reasons and testing I need the other two. .NET and Java are setup on my new desktop by Support, and all company property (code, dbs) is on the Dev Server. I know I got the .NET/Java environment running to my liking on my desktop. That said, I haven't fully tested the LAMP env yet. I'm responsible for that. I grabbed the ini's, conf's, so's, dlls, etc that don't come with the apache, mysql, php installs. Should have everything, but maybe not.
Off the top of my head- Are you sure that all of your email is on the server? If you use outlook, you may have .PSTs that you accidentally created or that IT made for you for offline use...they will be listed as Personal Folders in Outlook. Also, if you use Outlook and open documents straight from email, there may be some that you didn't find in user/name/appdata/microsoft/windows/temporary internet files/content locations. Are you worried about them sniffing out your browsing habits (goofing off, wacking off)? Or are you just concerned with backing everything up?
Yup, like Xerobull said. Grab your PST's and OST's. Grab your startup folder as well if you don't feel like setting all that back up.
Our MS Exchange policy is to keep everything (including attachments) on the server, until double-deleted, so the sales staff doesn't shoot themselves in the foot. I'm confident I got all documents from email attachments. thx, rep anyway. no. just concerned with reconfiguring everything the fastest...and getting historical stuff (e.g., skype logs).
I'm still on my first cup of coffee, but if I think of anything else when I'm done, I'll put it here. Rep wasn't necessary, but thanks. Oh, when you're re-installing, hit www.ninite.com - it should automate all of the tedious little installs like firefox, itunes, etc.
My new Desktop successfully d/l-ed everything and synched with the corporate email server 3 weeks ago; Laptop will too. Nothing appears stored only locally. Actually, I don't care if the Laptop gets email anymore. my personal email is web-based. good to go.
Ah, you're pretty much good to go if you're on MS Exchange. Do you RDP or VPN into anything? Grab the configurations for that. Seems like you're good to go though
