I'm rebuilding my personal laptop - which is my main machine for development while away from work and personal things personal. I thought it would be nice to have a list of everything I put on a fresh machine. This is the base - depending on the purpose, I go down a different path.
Core
Windows XP Professional SP2 with IIS and IE7
The Windows XP 909095 hotfix for the infamous Hiberation problem for laptops with more than 1GB of ram (that's only available from Microsoft by phone) - email me if you need it.
.NET Framework 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP1, and 3.0
Zune...
This morning I rolled back Vista on my new laptop. I'm kind a surprised I did it - it was on a whim. It was the 5th time my wireless connection had dropped - forcing me to surf through the cluttered Control Panel trying to find how to disconnect and re-connect (no you can't do this from the system tray). Vista claims it can fix itself in this case, but never succeeds. After all that, a couple of my apps crapped out of me (that I know work well in XP). Next thing I know, my XP disc is in...