I could not work it out this morning when I installed Apple iTunes. iTunes had picked up exactly where I keep all my music files on the Network, and I could not work out how. After all, the area I keep my files is not a normal place to store music files. It was on a server I had never even contacted with this newly installed laptop. I was beginning to think that maybe Apple was storing my settings on their server or something.

After a lot of thinking I worked out what I had done. When I finished reinstalling everything I copied the files back to My Documents. And this included important things such as the My Music folder. And of course iTunes had recognised this and used the settings when it restarted. Apple was not trying to be big brother… Things just worked.

What I am finding with this computer newly installed is that software is working as it is supposed to… Well, mostly. My Vodafone 3G card works well. Outlook is running well. InternetExplorer is only using 140 MBytes of RAM. The world is good. Much over due I think…