Alienware Repave Clean Image Install List
I already did my "Inessential List of Tools" back some time ago but yesterday, in the attempted install of the new VS2008 SP1, I found that the so-called Hotfix Cleanup Utility would not work for me. Nothing was really working to remove the Beta 1 bits including manual registry methods, so I decided to repave the Alienware. Several people thought this would be worth posting as to what I installed and what order, so here goes.
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Vista Ultimate + patches
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Vista SP1
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Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite
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Live Mesh (holding files from old image)
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Reflector plus SysInternals stuff
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1/.NET Framework 3.5 SP1
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SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition
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Silverlight Beta 2 released yesterday
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PowerShell
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Resharper 4.0
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E Text Editor
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Office 2007 Ultimate
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Zune software
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Nunit, MbUnit, XUnit, TDD.NET
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Plaxco and Xonbi
Those are the major items, most of the rest can be found on Scott's list or mine.