new me, same as the old me

After having hints of virus seem to be gone then suddenly recur (and reading reports of other people having a lot of trouble making this particular bug go away permanently) I decided to be safe, wiped my C partition and reinstalled Windows. (Well, that is what my drive structure was designed for... and one reason why I complain about limited installs!) Then we had a bit of trouble finding the ethernet drivers to get the computer back online, and now I'm still remembering bits of software or OS tweaks that I need to apply to make everything Just Like It Was.