This post tries to provide me (or anyone interested) with a checklist of items that should be backed up when reinstalling and reformatting your system. I always forget the same kind of things, so this is a reminder to not forget them again.

• Personal Internet Favorites
• Personal Outlook PST and Archive files
• Local Document and Settings files (any software license I bought may reside there)
• Windows Fonts Folder
• All the documents and data in the My Documents folder
• Personal Certificate Store and custom Trusted Certificate Roots
• Personal Disk Encryption Keys
• Desktop Files and Backgrounds
• Export Outlook Configuration, so it can be easily restored

And also, it's important to remember the software I really use in order to reinstall the system again. So here it's a list of the most common software I use to perform my work (lot of small tools missing, but they are no essential to get up to a working state):

• Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite
• SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
• SQL Server 2005 Management Console
• Visual Source Safe 2005
• Visual Studio Team Explorer
• Office (actually 2007 Beta)
• Flexwallet 2005 (nice Smartphone wallet to keep some secrets)
• ActiveSync (now it's not needed with Vista RC1)
• ImgBurn (free CD/DVD Burning Software and ISO Creator)
• Windows Live Messenger
• Windows Live Writer
• Red Gate SQL Bundle 5

The next system is going to be reinstalled this weekend. I'll update my Vista preRC1 to VistaRC1.

• Keep in mind not to use any accent in the name of the user.

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