nLite helps with reinstalling my OS.

My work computer has been out of commission for the last 1.5 weeks. The motherboard died. Dell came out and replaced it for me which I'm glad I decided to have them do because, as it turns out, there's more problems with it. I'll be getting a brand new computer with a week or two.

In the mean time I get to use my computer but I had to start fresh with a new hard drive. It's a good thing I made an image cd with nLite.

Have you ever wanted to remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger...
How about not even to install them with Windows ?

nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components.

Features

• Service Pack Integration
• Component Removal
• Unattended Setup
• Driver Integration *
• Hotfixes Integration **
• Tweaks
• Services Configuration
• Patches ***
• Bootable ISO creation

Using nLite to make an image cd BEFORE the emergency was smart. I configured my install cd to include the install of CCleaner, Firefox, Defraggler, Recuva, Mediamonkey and others.

nLite worked so well I will be making install cds for all the computers here in my office. I suggest you at try it out.

Tracking web site statistics.

As you can see I have not had any visitors to this blog since February 2009. I feel lonely.

I use Statcounter.com to help me keep track of the activity of my web sites. Here's how Statcounter.com explains each way it tracts data.

• Returning Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person is returning to your website for another visit an hour or more later. 
• First Time Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person has no cookie then this is considered their first time at your website.
• Unique Visitor - Based purely on a cookie, this is the total of the returning visitors and first time visitors - all your visitors.
• Page Load - The number of times your page has been visited.

Any way you look at it I'm not popular. Statcounter is free and can hide the counter from the web page you decide to place the tracking link on.