This weekend I had some time so I decided to wipe my PC and start from
scratch. I wiped off my current XP Pro build and installed it
from scratch. This time however I created an image of my clean
install once I had downloaded and installed all the updates, security
patches and service packs for Windows. I installed a minimum
number of drivers so that I can use the build if my devices
change.
All in all it is a pretty smooth transition. I keep all of my
data on a seperate drive from my OS so the transition was pretty
straight forward. I need to start doing this every few months
just to keep things clean.