Who would have thought setting up a new system would be this troublesome? After the basic Windows settings and the security and anti-virus stuff, the download and installation frenzy started.

Mozilla, Firefox, winamp, flash, java, real player, quicktime, acrobat reader, ACD see, regseek, adaware, NJ Star, winzip, winrar, xnews, icq, icq plus, and of course, the necessary audio/video decoder package.

Then each needed to be configured individually. It took me a whole day! It's nice and comforting to have all these working on the computer, though. Definitely worth the time and effort.