Re: [H] dead drive

a couple drives not even installed yet, back to all this digging, again... FWIW: I have an external I took out of the plastic case to test manually (it did not need it) and was doing this full stream on 6/12/2009 with the desktop ones. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Lubomír Cabla 1

Re: [H] AnyDVD

My answer was too concrete. (And tongue in cheek.) Here is a second opinion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting Rick Glazier From: Scoobydo I think there may be 2 kinds of collectors. Those who leave the seals in tact as a future investment hoping the price will climb over time

Re: [H] MS dot-NET

of it. Rick Glazier From: DSinc Some months back our collective convinced me that MS DOT-NET was painless and may be beneficial in the future.

Re: [H] Insane method for protecting an ethernet join in ahole ofwater

to the older specs of the National electrical Code?) Rick Glazier From: Harry McGregor I am going to throw my recommendation in as well...

Re: [H] Seagate 7200.11 BSY error fix

for my SPECIFIC drives. This was a proactive step to prevent the drive bricking itself. (Hopefully.) Is this the same problem, but a manual repair to un-brick a drive that was never firmware updated? Sure sounds the same... Thanks in advance. Rick Glazier From: Tim Lider Here's a site

Re: [H] Seagate 7200.11 BSY error fix

Of Rick Glazier Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:18 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Seagate 7200.11 BSY error fix I have a quick question (I hope). I used the drive and serial number checking stuff at the Seagate site a while back, (06-12-09) and found a couple drives

Re: [H] Seagate 7200.11 BSY error fix

We are on the same page. I had a much smaller drive than that that needed one, which surprised me... See other message. Rick Glazier From: Naushad, Zulfiqar I still have 2 of those 1.5TB drives that had the firmware bug. I bought them and started using them, after 1 week the firmware

Re: [H] Channels on Hi-Def Cable

That begs the question... I guess a DVR does NOT count as watching? Is that because it may NOT go through the main set-top control box? I have to ask, I have no Cable... Rick Glazier From: Eli Allen And then to fix that they switch to SDV which screws up DVRs. (SDV means only

Re: [H] Old Floppy Drives-Closed

I have a sealed box of new 5.25 disks... (Somewhere close by.) And a Dell combo drive, 3 1/2 + 5 1/4 in. I gave a couple 5 1/4 (single) drives to a tech at Microcenter. He was all excited to get them... One would ONLY do the really older lower density disks too... Rick Glazier From: Michael

Re: [H] iPad

to be generous with covering repairs for their customers. They make good stuff, and get the repair money up-front... How about the newspaper that charges almost DOUBLE to iPad users. WSJ??? or NYT??? (I don't care because I don't have one...) Rick Glazier Brian Weeden Yep, monopoly is the wrong

Re: [H] So many different versions of install media from Microsoft!

need to do a reverse look-it-up. (bummer) Rick Glazier From: Christopher Fisk Annoying as hell their insistence on different versions on different media. I have a client that I have the sticker for their windows server 2003 R2 Standard Edition server installation, but I can not find media

Re: [H] So many different versions of install media from Microsoft!

The plot thickens... (And this is ax-actly why MS does this...) Rick Glazier From: Christopher Fisk Essentially I have determined that the PID for the system is a VLK key. This is not a company that would want or need a VLK version of windows, so...

Re: [H] Old Floppy Drives

I got one about 5 years ago, (or more). They were on clearance then... Rick Glazier From: John R Steinbruner External USB floppy drive is what I use now too at work...

Re: [H] Old Floppy Drives

How about 8in? I even still have an 8 in mailer. Rick Glazier From: gibney Sorry to delurk, but are there really USB to 5 1/4 floppy drives available?

Re: [H] Killed an Old Machine!

-- I would use a Live CD of any kind to drop the file in the root of what would be C in a normal boot. I like BartPE CD, but any flavor of Linux would work as well. If you have more HDs with no OSs on them they can be ignored in the above file. Rick

Re: [H] Killed an Old Machine!

need and what tools you have to work with. Puppy Linux is a good way to boot and add file to the old broken drive. OR you could move it to another machine internal or by a USB adapter. There are lots of ways to accomplish this. Rick Glazier

Re: [H] Killed an Old Machine!

was dusty...) Rick Glazier

Re: [H] eudora in windows 7 ?

I have a guess, but will wait for the real answer... Rick Glazier From: FORC5 art. WTH is it ? lost in tron lan translation I think fp :-D At 06:59 PM 3/13/2010, Bryan Seitz Poked the stick with: clipped

Re: [H] Umm, testing?

I take the position it is GOOD to be notified that you might be hacked. OTOH, it was always EASY to clear up the false positives... ;-( They can't fight you too hard when you are legit. grin Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin I didn't install that patch...just because...you can hide it so

Re: [H] UPS Deals?

, maybe like a different circuit to isolate the surge farther downstream from the protector or computer. I'm assuming they were plugged into the same wall outlet or something? Rick Glazier From: Hunter, Gary February 18, 2010 10:30 PM Thanks for the advice Duncan. Got my new surge protectors

Re: [H] Vista install question

I thought you had to edit (or delete???) one file to get a menu to select from. I use Vista, but had three different types of the correct disks. Rick Glazier From: Thane Sherrington Subject: [H] Vista install question Am I right in remembering that I can use any version of Vista to install

Re: [H] UPS Deals?

I look around on Black Friday sales, or right after Christmas. I try to get at least 4 at those times. Sorry, I buy seasonally like that. Note: They are sometimes up to a year old, (shelf life), so I'm not sure I'm saving as much as I think*... Rick Glazier From: Hunter, Gary Does anyone know

Re: [H] Phone-internal?

that damage occurred, and it would never? involve the entire system and EVERY run of wire. OTOH, it is like formatting a computer. Sometimes a clean sweep is better or easier. My wires are 100% fished, so I have a very hybrid system of wiring... Rick Glazier From: DSinc Phone-internal? I now appears

Re: [H] Phone-internal?

distribution from phone junction boxes in my basement. (Pick a better spot? in your crawl space?) I figured it was stupid to run ALL the wires to the outside, hidden in the bushes (buried in the snow).. Rick Glazier From: DSinc Rick/Forc5, Yes. I recall Cat3. No. I have not tried splitting any

Re: [H] Phone-internal?

We had a room on a slab. Hard to fish. Cordless works great, but we still have our old wired phones from 25 years ago and are on our third sets of cordless ones... Can't win... Rick Glazier From: Bryan Seitz Phone-internal? The way to go: Cordless... phone... 5Ghz... done.

Re: [H] DDO question

it was like throwing good money down a hole in the ground. It is totally amazing it is still running... It has a 1995 6G HD running XP... (Who-da thought...???) Rick Glazier From: Soren Try this one: qtparted.sourceforge.net If you know your way around in Fdisk, this will probably suit your needs.

Re: [H] something is going on at PCPC

sounding name. Interestingly enough it's phonetically Faw Joo which is exactly what they do! Fuhjyyu On 1/28/2010 10:08 AM, Rick Glazier wrote: From: maccrawj all the popped caps were a known crap hu-flung-dung brand. LOL. Can't really say that right? (If you know real bad names, offlist is OK

[H] DDO question

from the SAME physical hardware. As in: they want to clone to a bigger HD NOT supported by the BIOS from one that IS, -- in the same Laptop?) Sorry if this is a buggy whip question, but the person has no money... Rick Glazier

Re: [H] something is going on at PCPC

the exact spec you need to look for... (High stress.) Here is a site for a list he thinks are known looser MBs. He sells cap kits, or pick-em yourself. IIRC, he has instructions/warnings. NO connection, and never bought any there. Rick Glazier From: Christopher Fisk At my company we've been doing

Re: [H] something is going on at PCPC

From: maccrawj all the popped caps were a known crap hu-flung-dung brand. LOL. Can't really say that right? (If you know real bad names, offlist is OK with me...) Thanks in advance, Rick Glazier

Re: [H] something is going on at PCPC

... Lead pipe to copper pipe, with lead solder. There is a buggy whip type of skill... grin Rick Glazier From: Bino Gopal Link please? And how hard would you say it is to do this (change caps and solder on new ones)? I've only soldered once or twice and the trick seems to be how to get

Re: [H] something is going on at PCPC

Maybe they add a lot so no one can complain they bought something too small.. (My wife drives me crazy with the games she plays with adding time to clocks.) R-(name with-held for obvious reasons)grin From: Greg Sevart Power supply calculators are almost universally wrong--enough that I don't

Re: [H] something is going on at PCPC

Thanks, I'm going now to peek through the holes of a couple recent un-installed buys. Rick Glazier From: Greg Sevart clipped I have changed my yardstick measure of quality, though...more than anything else, I look at the manufacturer of the capacitors on the primary and secondary sides

Re: [H] SSD recommendations?

WOW, ~~$1985 vs --- $64 (less on sale.). I'm stuck with mechanical for a long time, grin Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin SSDs get bigger! http://www.tomshardware.com/news/kingston-ssd-now-trim-windows,9510.html

Re: [H] SSD recommendations?

I have more than 2 now, another reason for staying put. Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin It is absolutely worth it IMO. And moving the data off is simple. If you have more apps than will fit, probably better to think about using a second PC for some stuff.

Re: [H] Off - topic

. (The joke was on me...) Rick Glazier From: Neil Davidson I'm sure I've seen this as a powerpoint at one time or another. I tried to google for it, but couldn't find anything useful.

Re: [H] Cores with Different Temps at Idle?

with the boxed CPUs.) Rick Glazier From: DSinc Rick, Interesting share. I missed the X-Ray pix. And, now, I find ...

Re: [H] Is there any point? [phone]

in the basement is a lot easier... Rick Glazier From: DSinc Is there any point? [phone] I think internal phone lines have 4 wires (2 lines). Normally, I see these as Red, Green, Yellow, and Black. No need to further confuse with various White w/stripe wires. I leave this coding to the experts. ATM

Re: [H] Cores with Different Temps at Idle?

... I assume you saw that, but if not it might help IF ONLY a little. Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin Well, google is my friend. It turns out this temp diff between cores is quite common for Intel Core 2 chips. Many have reported about it for quad cores. Here is just one thread: http

Re: [H] Cores with Different Temps at Idle?

Why not go in Task Manager, under view -- turn on watching all 4 cores AND the kernel times. Then watch - (Performance Tab.) That should show if it is a real work difference. Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin BTW, I've reapplied the goop to the CPU at least 4 times since I have had

Re: [H] Odd problem with hard drive

to handle it like a partition backup then restore. (Not direct.) True Image is for back-ups and/or full clones. Hope this helps. Rick Glazier

Re: [H] The Nightmare of 775

be a REAL problem with this design. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin Now what do you do? There must be a better way?

Re: [H] The Nightmare of 775

Nice shots, but it helps to be there... grin Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc11/rogerzoul/PCStuff/

Re: [H] Win7 and Digital Cameras

cheap flash card readers... Opinions only, no proof or links, etc... Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [H] Win7 and Digital Cameras Thanks, I just wanted

Re: [H] Win7 and Digital Cameras

). Not ALL cheap card readers are bad. But 4 out of 4 I got recently were. Two were USB2 and just slow. The others corrupted the pictures, but only sometimes. (YMMV) Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Steve Tomporowski In general I don't install any printer company or camera

Re: [H] SSD question

swap file off C, but I move drives around too much, and then the better Imaging programs started knowing they did not need to keep them in the Image, so I moved it back to C which I also made bigger for it.. I did not really get what your reservations were. Sorry. Rick Glazier - Original

[H] SSD specs.

over three years. The X25-M X18-M: Write endurance: Five years under typical client usage. This time frame only had 80G+ 160G in two form factors I have never done the math myself, and forget where I got the figure of 100G/day for 5 years. Rick Glazier

Re: [H] SSD question

check into it when (if) I get one. In the mean time, others should watch the Intel percentage of wear indicator closely. It is a course measurement, but they claim it is statistically accurate. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Eli Allen ealle...@gmail.com To: hardware

Re: [H] SSD question

There seems to be lots of confusion or differing ideas. Since I don't have one and will not have one soon I think I'll wait till things shake out. I did not mean to put words in your mouth, maybe reservations was the wrong phrase. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7

Re: [H] Test

Duncan, I lied. (I replied to the message I said I did not got.) Opps... Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [H] Test Rick, Odd, but not surprised given all

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

Very little. But yes. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG! You guys still run defraggers? On 1/12/2010 11:46 AM, tmse

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

I've noticed it is better if you pick one and stay with it. Otherwise they seem to try to improve each others works and make lots more work in the process.. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Joe User joeu...@chronic.org To: Zulfiqar Naushad hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent

Re: [H] SSD question

Bad idea, you want to LIMIT writes to those, but if you could afford to wear it out, go for it. It would be faster than a SwapFile on an HD. Intel has a white paper on this IIRC. (I don't have any but might have stored the whitepaper.) Rick Glazier - Original Message - From

Re: [H] Odd problem with hard drive

two messages in the thread.) Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [H] Odd problem with hard drive At 03:03 PM 1/13/2010, Tim Lider wrote

Re: [H] SSD question

It makes sense. Sorry. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [H] SSD question That doesn't make sense. First these are hard drives... not flash drives

Re: [H] SSD question

2009 presentation: Enterprise Data Integrity and Increasing the Endurance of Your Solid-State Drive IIRC (and I have a bad memory for this) the design life is 100G a day for 5 years. So it is not as bad as it seems, but use it more and it craps out quicker. Rick Glazier - Original Message

Re: [H] SSD question

Maybe one old idea we need to keep is that hard drives are for storage. Swap files are for when RAM was expensive. My latest box could have 16G of RAM. (Not in my lifetime.) RAM is cheaper and last longer than an SSD. That is all we are saying. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From

Re: [H] Test

I missed yours Duncan - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:48 PM Subject: Re: [H] Test Odd... ? I got yours. :) Best, Duncan On 01/11/2010 23:36, Stan Zaske wrote: I'm not getting anything..

Re: [H] Test

Mine was late. (grin) Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [H] Test I'm not getting anything.. On 1/11/2010 11:55 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: Checking connectivity

Re: [H] Windows XP Mode

I have used them, but not that way. I think the licence would be like an OEM channel one and be tied to the virtualized hardware in the MS XPMode VM. I'm guessing it would know it was somewhere else, and want to be activated. Let us know how well I guessed. Rick Glazier - Original Message

Re: [H] SSD new Toolbox

that setting. (wow) (DSinc, sorry for your loss, but at least I was not involved, grin) We need to go out and make sure they (the SSD people) spread the word! Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin It is a Gigabyte P35-DS4, Revision 2.0. It's a fairly old mobo, now. Award Bios F14, recently updated

Re: [H] Comparison of SSDs and VelociRaptor

also said Linux has partial support. I don't want to try to be an information consolidator about things I don't use so I'll shut up now... Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin So, you're saying that Windows 7 supports TRIM, but my hardware may not allow it to work, right? then I need the Install

[H] Intel Compatibility Question. CERTAIN CPU + MB

are. Rick Glazier

Re: [H] Intel Compatibility Question. CERTAIN CPU + MB

push the limits and have no great need for speed.) (It will take a couple weeks, min...) Rick Glazier From: tmservo Brief check tells me you need the newest bios to pull that off. No problem. Except you'd need -some- chip to go in it and boot to get a flash done. Kind of a catch22. From: Greg

Re: [H] SSD new Toolbox

. Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin I was reading the white paper on Intel's SSD Optimizer. IN there it says that if you're using Windows 7 and Microsoft AHCI storage driver, then the OS will contain native support support to excute the ATA Data set Management command on the Intel SSD

Re: [H] Dynamic vs Basic disks

It breaks some utilities, but that would be a disadvantage. Acronis (for example) was all pleased with themselves when they got back that type of support... Rick Glazier From: Thane Sherrington Is there any advantage to creating a dynamic disk in XP if you aren't going to span disks?

Re: [H] SSD new Toolbox

Wow, scary was not stong enough a word in your case. At least you were ready for trouble. What MB, and/or whos BIOS? I think I've seen that setting in my new Intel MBs, but never looked it up... Is that something they need to explain better, or... Rick Glazier From: Anthony Q. Martin boy

Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install

I NEVER do any type of *drive work* (including normal generic Images) from inside Windows. (Do I sound THAT crazy?grin) Plus, I would hope you DO have better toys than me... grin Rick Glazier From: Tim Lider Forensic clones are nice, but work in a different environment then I usually do.

[H] Software Question, OT? Acronis TI 2009(+2010)

, after the program has finished and I've re-booted and everything (else) is back to normal. This is a minor inconvenience, and if it is normal or SOP Ill live with it. BUT, I think it should clean itself, right? How does this work for others? TIA, Rick Glazier

[H] SSD new Toolbox

advantage of this free download to monitor and tune the performance of your Intel® Solid State Drive. Also: http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/CS-030992.htm Rick Glazier

Re: [H] Sometimes you have to wonder...

What Type and Model number? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS/6000 Even a ten year old Super Computer is a little slow today... Let us know how you make out. (Thanks.) Rick Glazier From: tmservo Sometimes you have to wonder... Client, good friend, calls me today and says he was 'given

Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install

opinion is that 30 seconds is not enough time to wipe the data off the drive clean. It might eventually come down to how much you have defragged, and how big your files were. Disclaimer: I'm a VERY amateur data recovery person at best. Rick Glazier From: Bino Gopal probably check out TestDisk to see

Re: [H] Sometimes you have to wonder...

Hipaa and does very lite IT work, (but my lips are sealed about this...) Rick Glazier From: tmservo Yep. A data server from a major hospital, which on quick check still has all dbs.. Its called 'hipaa nightmare'.

Re: [H] Sometimes you have to wonder...

I did not take it that way at all. See my other reply to OP. Rick Glazier From: Robert Martin Jr. I believe Chris was expressing his surprise that a server that potentially contains huge amounts of personal data (hospital) would be given out without the hospital IT staff wiping the drives

Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install

bootable medias to autorun. (Sorry.) Rick Glazier From: Tim Lider I looked over TestDisk and it looks interesting. Although, I do not know if it will fix the problem. The problem can be recovered with either GetDataBack NTFS or R-Studio. I would suggest trying R-Studio first, it is a much better

Re: [H] Win7 Super Long Backups?

I read somewhere that a simple DEFRAG will trip up some Incremental backups with some vendors programs and make EVERYTHING touched seem like it was NEW, and then be included AS NEW, making VERY large files and long times. I have (regrettably) no actual links or proof of that. Rick Glazier From

Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install

use TOTALLY different boot procedures, so you may be looking at data recovery only. (IMHO.) Rick Glazier From: tmservo@ Depends. You might find data recovery programs that will run a format recovery and get some back. But anything that has been over-written with the new structures on the disc

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

Thanks, but I don't feel that lucky. Rick Glazier From: Zulfiqar Naushad You could try. But I think the key would not work. Rick Glazier I'm pretty sure it is a bad idea to install the ver 12 and try the old ver 10 key...

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

That link works here. (Thanks.) I had previously found it by looking in their archive section. I'm pretty sure it is a bad idea to install the ver 12 and try the old ver 10 key... Rick Glazier From: Naushad Zulfiqar More specifically here... http://www.oo-software.com/home/en

Re: [H] BSOD puzzle...

) and they don't get beat up too bad... I do not remember EVER formatting to get rid of a problem. (Luck? or talent?...) Rick Glazier From: Bino Gopal Yeah clean installs are such a pain that I have a IBM T42 laptop that I got in 2005 that REALLY needs a clean install...since it's running the same copy

Re: [H] funny stuff

I wish I had even a little of their money. Rick Glazier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt9maknsGJ0feature=player_embedded From: Jim Subject: [H] funny stuff Made me laugh. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/12/16/intel_chime_stunt/

Re: [H] SSD Time.............

I thought Win7 and the Intel Toolkit fixed that. (Trim) Rick Glazier From: Bino Gopal So is the general thinking that the G2 is good enough or are people waiting for the 3rd gen and full implementation of TRIM from the get-go? Really itching to pull the trigger on one but don't want to get

Re: [H] APC Question?

their own filter. With FIOS, that went by the wayside, at least here. Rick Glazier From: DSinc Thanks Mark, Don't understand the question. If you mean the DSL Filter in the phone plug; NO. That filter works fine anywhere in the house. Even so, in/out, this UPS blocks PHONE/DATA/?. Thanks

Re: [H] APC Question?

Filtering the entire house requires new clean lines to the DSL modem. That was easy for me, but is un-common... Unless your security system has a completely different phone line and number it would still need a filter in your situation. Sorry I was no help. Rick Glazier From: DSinc Rick

Re: [H] Test

Business is picking up though... (Last message was the 7th., other than these...) Rick Glazier - Original Message - Christopher Fisk wrote: Quiet? Or have I been unsubbed? Quiet. T

Re: [H] my primary system got hosed

What version of Acronis TI did you use? Thanks Rick Glazier From: Winterlight Actually, the first thing I tried was to recover my one week old Acronis backup. I recovered both the Win 7 and Vista partitions as well as theMBR, but surprisingly, Vista still will not boot? This must have

Re: [H] Win 7 setup not recognizing drives

WIPED the old drive and everything went well after that. Rick Glazier From: JRS I had something similar happen to me once with a drive I had been using for Linux installs, dual booting or some such. If I remember right, I had to use a Win PE or Linux disk to delete the partitions and reformat

Re: [H] Max connections on a router?

My router will let me set the number of connections. In Advanced/system settings on the router itself. Configure number of concurrent users that can be logged into the router: I picked 10. Rick Glazier From: Brian Weeden Is this normal for a consumer device, or does it seem this Buffalo router

Re: [H] Laptop processor

You need ABOVE Win7 Home Premium to apply... But even then, I think you are locked out. XP-Mode is embedded. I doubt MS lets it be used in the way you want. Rick Glazier From: Gary Interesting...does that mean that if I wanted to download the free XP with the P7450, I could not? And use VMware

Re: [H] Max connections on a router?

. (I forced Verizon to support WPA2-PSK.) Verizon says they don't hold up. I'm thinking of putting the next one on its own UPS (upstairs). The basement unit has a built-in UPS, but only for itself. Rick Glazier From: Brian Weeden Which router model is that? Rick Glazier wrote: My router

Re: [H] Physical security - locks?

I think a small bolt cutter would make those a non- issue. (It makes them carry that along, so maybe they would get a little less...) You have to harden the building a little. When we were usually done (for customers), even the Firemen had to chop a hole through the wall to get in. Which is what

Re: [H] Win7 what just happened!

Use Windows Clean-up to get rid of it if you have any trouble. Sometimes that is/was a protected location. Rick Glazier From: Winterlight It's just a folder, I don't think it is protected or tied to anything. I just deleted it. I have had trouble, and read those instructions on the WEB

Re: [H] Win7 what just happened!

it maps out the space where the old stuff was, works around it, and then integrates it into the new filesystem. (That is quicker than moving Gigs of stuff.) Use Windows Clean-up to get rid of it if you have any trouble. Sometimes that is/was a protected location. Rick Glazier

Re: [H] Acronis bootable Rescue CD

, and have a boot F11 key selection. (No CD required at all.) (Not sure what happens if HP/Compaq are already using that... You can add an Acronis recovery partition and keep your Image file there, but that assumes the HD will not fail. Rick Glazier, Former Acronis beta tester. From: Winterlight When

Re: [H] WMP11 opinions sought?

MS (if they do) is anybodies guess... (Tin-hat time...) I hope I stayed relevant to your question... Rick Glazier From: DSinc Rick, Apologize for the lateness on this reply. I've been focused on future medical plan choices (retired)! In any case, I do understand what you shared. I use IE8

Re: [H] bootable flash and DVDs

an install, (but are not), and fits on a CD-R. Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: CW tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [H] bootable flash and DVDs The acronis for Bart comes in handy for instances where Acronis

Re: [H] bootable flash and DVDs

settle down eventually. Remember, the main things you want to accomplish may require constant care (and updating). I got tired of the hassle... Rick Glazier One thing I have yet to do is create some kind of windows bootable media that I can boot into when I need to repair a windows installation

Re: [H] WMP11 opinions sought?

to MS, I never tried to fix that behavior. Rick Glazier From: DSinc I use WMP9. OS is XPpro SP3. Getting lots of pop-ups to update to WMP11. Opinions sought about WMP11?

Re: [H] WSUS in a repair shop environment

://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466205.aspx Rick Glazier From: Christopher Fisk I hope someone has an idea on this one: I want to use our internal WSUS as a patch server for PC's that we repair or sell, but then want to make the machine no longer use the WSUS server when they are delivered back

Re: [H] Free video editing software which will rotate the frames?

to have the codecs below installed on your system in advance.) MicrosoftWindowsMediaVideo9, or Xvid MPEG-4 codecs are good ways to compress the final output. They are both AVI containers, and the Windows one is more compatible most places (but harder to find)... Rick Glazier - Original Message

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