Reinstalling Windows

So I just went through the pretty painful process of reinstalling Windows 7 on my laptop. I decided to buy a SSD drive and thought the best option would be a clean install. Sadly it took 2 days for Windows to install all its updates. I think I must have rebooted my laptop about 10 times or more in total to get it up to the latest patched version. I decided to write this blog entry just to track the software I installed after loading Windows. So here goes:

• Drivers, drivers and more drivers
• JRE
• Chrome
• Firefox
• VMware
• Office 2013
• Dropbox
• Picasa
• Notepad++
• VLC
• 7-Zip
• Gadwin Print Screen
• MobaXterm
• Nitro PDF Reader

Doing this whole process make me realise what a painful operating system Windows really is. Ideally installing all this should not take this long and the Windows update process is just an absolute pain. Going forward lets hope Windows 8 and it's app store can make life a little easier when it comes to reinstalls.