Moving PCs

Over the weekend I will, with luck, be moving stuff over (at last) to a new PC. It’s not confirmed yet, as it depends on a couple of checks, and making sure the sodding thing works this time, but well, I’m optimistic. No idea why, but I am.

Anyway, as part of this process I was looking at what stuff I’ve got on the old PC, and what I’ll actually be wanting to move over. And quite honestly, the answer’s “Not Much”. I’ve got a whole load of stuff on there that I’ve used, or experimented with, and have then never used again. It’s just that I’ve also either a) never bothered to remove it, or b) removed it and been left with bits of unwanted crap that the uninstall process left hanging around.

There’s also a fair amount of stuff that I just don’t use any more. For example, DreamWeaver. I used to use it, and found it useful in a lot of ways – particularly for removing all the code cruft that Word puts into HTML pages. (At this juncture I should point out that various clients have given me Word documents with content in, or that they’ve had as “their website”, and which have then been converted by me into something that actually is a website. I’ve never used the “Save as HTML” option from any Micro$oft product.) but that’s the only thing I use it for.

Yes, there are programs and files I’ll be moving over to the new PC – TextPad, TopStyle, Crimson editor, that kind of thing. As well as all my photos, and all my music. But there’s one hell of a lot of stuff too that’s going to be either left on the old PC, or simply deleted when I format the old one later on…