There are about fifty applications or tools installed on this PC. That's quite a bunch to recover from just about a standing start. And ensuring that everything is up-to-date and taking as many measures as possible to ensure that the sources are clean means a lot of work.
Even so, there are some oddities: Whisper, used for password management, at first refused to install. It seems that I have about four different variants lying about. I eventually found one that does at least install, but it's windows behaviour deviates from the norm - the minimize and maximise buttons are weird, and the frame certainly doesn't meet Vista expectations. Forte Agent wouldn't recognise my legitimate key at first, but a downloaded version of the same files suddenly decides to work.
On the other hand, reinstalling does seem to have fixed some problems. For six months now, the network configuration wouldn't automatically connect to my wifi link. All the settings were perfectly OK, and manually forcing the connection worked 75% of the time (the remaining one time out of four, I'd have to delete and recreate the security settings). Now it just connects each and every time, without problems, so I have no fears about rebooting.
It will probably take a month or so to get the box bedded in again, and get rid of the occasional crash or other hiccup. It's clear that PCs do require a running in period from a new install of software - I don't know what it is, it's not hardware related at all, but any system will eventually settle down and become more reliable after a few weeks. Of course, that's just before it goes over the other end of the graph and starts to fail, indicating another rebuild is necessary.
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