Here is my Realtor Laptop Installation Guide hot off the press from the Queen of Crash in Southern Maryland. Yep, I am the self annointed Queen of Crash in Southern Maryland. Lapops need to fear me. Hard drives, too. I can detonate any and all laptops and hard drives effortlessly. On the spot. I kid you not.
I said this in the Fall of last year. As of May 2011 I have just grenaded another one. This is my FIFTH Laptop install in ONE year.
Fret not, a Mac Book Pro is on its way right about Friday the 13th. Anyway, until then....
What is a Realtor Laptop Installation Guide from the Queen of Crash in Southern Maryland? I am setting up the latest crashed laptop this weekend so I am sharing my Guideline. This is the order I go about it. And since IT means not one, not two, not three, and yes not four times but this is Laptop round FIVE, I figured I would share my very knowledgable action list. Truly, I have it memorized.
I also said: Well at least this Spring I dare all four to go down again.
I should have kept my big mouth shut. HP has been here on one fan replacement. On a second laptop the shut downs and various bugaboos make it fruitless to revive. Oh, and the other one is heating up to shut down again.
It's time to hoist the white flag and take a bite of the Apple.
But if any Realtor could rise to the occasion, it would be me. They say you are only given as much as you can handle. I love tech gadgets and tech info and tech everything. But this is over the top even for this Golden Gal cone round FIVE??? Land sakes alive!
Laptop Load Installation Guide 11/14/2010...Save for future reference or pick up some pearls...Did I ever mention I am a Tri Delta and Pansy and Pearls are special to Tri Deltas...anyway, in the TRUE Hokie spirit of I will never give up, But at this point, the NEW Mac Book Pro has been ordered.
Here you go:
Revised More Lean and Mean Realtor Laptop Installation Guide May 2011
Computer Store: Install New Hard Drive, Upgrade Operating System, Transfer Data, then update Quicktime, Flash, Java Updates
REMEMBER: Take Extra Portable Hard Drive for Computer Store to do one complete extra DATA Back UP in addition to the data transfer !
Verizon Wireless and VZW or VZ Access Manager and Network Settings
Norton 360
Microsoft Office
Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements
QuickBooks
Agent Office
Set Up Outlook Signature and Settings
Download Xobni, Snag It, PDF Annotator, Avery Design Pro, Add This
Set Up Gadget Bar (Photos, Twitter, Facebook, Calendar)
Set up Desktop Background to Heirloom Photos
Set Up Top 8 Internet Tabs (Active Rain, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Reader, RE/MAX.net, Top Producer 8i, MRIS)
Set up 8i Link and ENeighborhood Link
Set up Sentrilock.com
Set Up iTunes
Adobe Acrobat X
Printers
Fujitsu ScanSnap
Set up Desktop Folders ( Top 50 Docs, Top Web Shortcuts, Top PDF, Short Sale Docs ) plus special photos and Golden Retriever Blog Story Links
Set Up Carbonite, LogMeIn.com
Download Tweetdeck, Adobe Air, Dropbox, Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa 3, REDX, Hootsuite, Stumble Upon Toolbar, GotoMeeting, Evernote
Download Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox
Download VSO Image Resizer, Jing, Paint.net, Debut Video Capture, Aim
Lavasoft AdAware
Flip Video
Turbo Tax
Pro Show Gold Photodex
REMEMBER: Adjust Power Settings, Transfer QB and A2K Data, Test AgentAnyware and MRIS Printouts!
Retrospect....then.... COPY ENTIRE NEW HARD DRIVE SET UP ABOVE!
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