Oh. That's why I prefer untouched installations!

You never know when you get any viruses.

I think he is trying to get at the fact symantec is not the best antivirus software out there.
Or there is better things out there for free...

1. Activate for Vista and above.
2. Install drivers
3. Install updates
4. Install Office
5. Install Visual Studio

6. Set up desktop/etc.

I can tell you a little bit about AntiVirus programs (what I think)

* Avast - doesnt work on my computer (odd).
* AVG - I don't use that because I dont like it.
* Avira - Doesn't work.
* Panda - Blocks almost every site i go into.
* Norton - You'll have to buy it! (otherwise, good)
* Symantec - My dad had a version that worked and wasn't really used quite often, so I could have it.

Couldn't remember any other programs...

For goodness sakes, people! There's always pros and cons to every antivirus!

1. Install Drivers (and activate)
2. Install AVG
3. Install uTorrent and torrent some videos
4. Think "What was I thinking...Windows (insert version here)?"
5. Find another OS disk, Format, go back to #1

Are you serious? Get rid of it after you install it?

Um, yeah? Finding the other OS disks isn't limited to Windows, and freedom in choice (and indecisiveness)(?) is FUN!!

Not as 'FUN' if you could install it in a VM.

1. Get Drivers ( my pc cards need drivers thats not on the disks )
2. Retrieve Backups
3. Install Games And Software
4. Set Up User
5. Start Using PC.

I don't really get steps 1 and 4. What's a pc card and how can you set up programs and backup before making a user account?

depends on which system I use

on my windows machines:
1. Connect to my WiFi network
2. Download antivirus software
3. Install and update drivers
4. Download other apps (Steam, iTunes etc.) and run Windows Update
5. Copy my personal files from my external hard drive

on my Macintoshs I don't do step 2 and 3 because it's unnecessary and instead of runing Windows Update, I just open Apples software update and I'm ready to go

Download a new theme and uninstall this ugly bad stupid mess of KDE Oxygen. The rest is irrelevant. But this is the most important step. And move the taskbar to the top

1. Install drivers. On my laptop, I skip this - all the devices are autodetected and drivers are autoinstalled
2. Install the latest nightly of Chromium.
3. Install games.
4. Install mIRC.
5. Install Avast.



Shift+F10 to open a command prompt during OOBE, plug in a external hard drive/insert a CD, and install away.

I do things differently for Windows 9x:

1. Install Drivers (Sound, VMWare Tools, etc)
2. Install Microsoft Plus (if any)
3. Customize away!
4. Try to Setup Networking (and fail epically because networking just won't work no matter how hard I try)
5. Install some software and/or abandonware.

1. Install Firefox
2. Update things
3. Drivers
4. Download Notepad++
5. Program some useless website

1. Get aditional drivers if needed,
2. Activation (if needed),
3. Antivirus (usually MSE),
4. Windows updates,
5. MS Office and other software (other ms programs are updated at later time)

standard procedure that i've got used to...

1. install firexox
2. forget about activation (if needed)
3. find some pointless hack / mod on the internet
4. screw up os with said pointless hack / mod
5. reinstall os

my normal install procedure

Forget about activation? When the time's up, Windows won't let you use it.

There's also NOD32, Bitdefender, kaspersky, all of them are really good.

yeah, well... i'll leave it til windows complains that it has like 3 days for activation, then ill activate it or go find a crack (and i usually use mac os x anyway)

1. Install Drivers
2. Update everything
3. Hit up Ninite.com
4. ???
5. Done

1. Install Drivers
2. Activate
3. Update
4. Install Firefox
5. Log into betaarchive