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Subsonic seems nice, but I can never get the drat thing to recognize my port forwarding for the web address they give you to work, and I can never get the drat thing to recognize a mapped network drive as my media folder.
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Do any of these library streaming services keep metrics on songs played? Having song play counts is important to me to be able to produce good dynamic playlists (like I can currently do with Zune)
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 02:58 |
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Factor Mystic posted:Do any of these library streaming services keep metrics on songs played? Having song play counts is important to me to be able to produce good dynamic playlists (like I can currently do with Zune) I'm not near my pc now so I can't tell you how comprehensive the statistics section is internally but it's there, as it also features a 'most played' section.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 08:53 |
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I'm trying to find out what horrible things may happen under Windows 7 if I disable virtual memory usage. My computer is a i7 960 @ 3.2ghz with 12 GB of RAM currently installed, with a 1.5 GB 580 class nVidia card, running Win 7 Professional 64 bit. My boot drive is a 256 GB SSD that is partioned 80 GB for Windows and the rest for a game drive. As of right now I have ~36GB free on the Windows partition (and that's after a hardcore search and destroy on anything wasting space). 12 GB is 1/2 of the max that my motherboard can have physically installed, and I recently bought another 12 GB when newegg put on sale the memory kit I currently have installed. If I install the other 12 GB, pagefile.sys is going to eat up another 12 GB on my SSD, and that is what i'm trying to avoid. Actually getting 12 GB back by disabling VM would be a plus. My usage profile would be best described as a 50/50 split between web surfing and gaming.
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| # ? Jul 22, 2012 01:48 |
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MREBoy posted:I'm trying to find out what horrible things may happen under Windows 7 if I disable virtual memory usage. You shouldn't have any problems if you manually limit the page file's size to a few gigabytes, but don't disable it altogether. Why do you need 24GB of RAM, anyway?
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I think your use profile would be best described as 25/25/50 split between web surfing/gaming/wasting your loving money.
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Seriously. 24GB of memory isn't going to see any increase in performance over 12, and you'd be better off throwing that money at a 1TB Caviar Blue or something so that you're not tempted to disable core Windows functionality for a few gigs of storage space.
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I'm trying to sell a computer over craigslist but I only have one Win7 license. I was thinking of keeping a fresh win7 install so that people can briefly test it out, but wipe the drive as a condition of sale. However, is there any way to keep a "blank" and unactivated win7 installation? The current install I have still needs the product key entered, but it has its own unique product ID (distinct from key).
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Bouchacha posted:I'm trying to sell a computer over craigslist but I only have one Win7 license. I was thinking of keeping a fresh win7 install so that people can briefly test it out, but wipe the drive as a condition of sale. However, is there any way to keep a "blank" and unactivated win7 installation? The current install I have still needs the product key entered, but it has its own unique product ID (distinct from key). You can install Windows 7 without providing a key. They'll have 30 days to enter one before Windows starts complaining (120 days if they know how to rearm it).
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Bouchacha posted:I'm trying to sell a computer over craigslist but I only have one Win7 license. I was thinking of keeping a fresh win7 install so that people can briefly test it out, but wipe the drive as a condition of sale. However, is there any way to keep a "blank" and unactivated win7 installation? The current install I have still needs the product key entered, but it has its own unique product ID (distinct from key). I'm pretty sure you can just click next without entering a product key. If not, download the official Win 7 image from my digital river: http://www.mydigitallife.info/offic...-digital-river/ and just don't enter a key.
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I did exactly that, but it still has a unique Product ID (different from key) associated with it. It's currently operational and has the 30 day activation window, but I'm wondering if I'm putting a limitation on it by having it "tied" to my installation CD. I think what I should really ask is whether I should worry about selling a computer with my own windows cd (and therefore my unique product id) installed, even though I deliberately withheld the key.
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I believe the Product ID is based on the hardware and not the install media.
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I don't think it matters but if you're really paranoid just download a new ISO and do a fresh install. Have you wiped the hard drive? I wouldn't sell someone a computer without doing single pass of zeros or ones first.
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I'm using VLC media player. How do I get Explorer thumbnails for FLV files? I'm trying to avoid installing codec packs and stick to an only-VLC set-up.
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I have a client that sends out an email everyday in the morning to employees at a company. This email normally has some boiler plate, but also has some "dynamic" content, (quotes, birthdays, etc). What I need is an Outlook / Excel addin(s) that can do 2 things 1. Auto-generate multiple emails (like 5 days worth) with the same reciepent (a mailing list) but pull content from a column of excel data and drop it in the body based on the row. 2. Allow the user to set the time of day all will be sent and then stagger the rest by 24 hours. I have found some macros to do 2. But 1. is slightly elusive. I get a lot of google spam to pull email addresses from a excel workbook and send to all which is not what I need. I am not sure if this is the correct thread, but I think it is. Please direct me if there is a better thread for this question. Thank you.
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MREBoy posted:I'm trying to find out what horrible things may happen under Windows 7 if I disable virtual memory usage. I don't know maybe you should call up alienware or whoever made your computer because 12GB of RAM is more than plenty unless you are doing something intensive like hosting VMs or some kind of enterprise level rendering/graphic design/film editing. 24GB of RAM will add nothing for you with regards to gaming and web surfing. If you had the money to blow on a 256GB SSD and i7 then you can go buy another hard drive. Stop being cheap.
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If this is the wrong thread, lemme know and I'll go elsewhere (started by posting this in the a/t general stupid/small questions megathread): Windows (7)/networking question. I live in a shared apartment and I want to share my media drive publicly on the network. I also have two computers of my own, and I want to share work/other files between my computers only, without them being seen on the network (or, if they're seen, I want them to be password-locked). I put the media stuff in Homegroup, and shared the work folders separately, but as soon as I enable sharing in Homegroup it makes all of my other shared stuff public (meaning, no password to log in). How can I set up these different tiers of security?
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Sylink posted:If you had the money to blow on a 256GB SSD and i7 then you can go buy another hard drive. That wouldn't really accomplish anything, though. After reducing the size of his page file, he'll have like 45GB free on his Windows partition, which is plenty of breathing room.
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My current computer is a 100% self built & customized machine, my 4th such. As to the "Why ?" questions, one of my personal quirks has been to eventually upgrade the RAM to maximum on any computer I have built. Plus getting 12 GB for $75 (including shipping) was a pretty good deal IMO. So based on the replies so far, it looks like outright turning it off = not suggested, but manually setting to a smaller amount (guessing 2-4 GB) would be a better idea.
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MREBoy posted:manually setting to a smaller amount (guessing 2-4 GB) would be a better idea. Do this.
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Naffer posted:Transcription advice Thank you for the help.
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IT Guy posted:I'm pretty sure you can just click next without entering a product key. If not, download the official Win 7 image from my digital river: http://www.mydigitallife.info/offic...-digital-river/ and just don't enter a key. Thanks again for this link, I've always wondered where to get the ISOs.
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Does anyone have a good process on getting WinPE or ERD commander to boot from USB? I've tried about a dozen different ways and it never seems to take.
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This is kind of weird but, what's the best hard drive imaging and copying software for Windows 98? I have an old Windows 98 laptop that uses a 1.8 inch IDE drive that I want a disk image of and I don't have any 1.8 inch hard drive enclosures so I can't just stick it in another computer. It's also not able to boot off usb and has only 48 MB of RAM so I don't think a live usb/cd will work.
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Install Gentoo posted:This is kind of weird but, what's the best hard drive imaging and copying software for Windows 98? I have an old Windows 98 laptop that uses a 1.8 inch IDE drive that I want a disk image of and I don't have any 1.8 inch hard drive enclosures so I can't just stick it in another computer. Make sure to disconnect the internet first to prevent the Win98 install to become infected, I guess.
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Install Gentoo posted:This is kind of weird but, what's the best hard drive imaging and copying software for Windows 98? I have an old Windows 98 laptop that uses a 1.8 inch IDE drive that I want a disk image of and I don't have any 1.8 inch hard drive enclosures so I can't just stick it in another computer.  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16812232002 Would something like that work?
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Flipperwaldt posted:Clonezilla can supposedly image a drive of another computer connected to the network. I've never done this myself, I don't know what the conditions are exactly, but maybe that's an avenue you can explore, if the laptop has an ethernet port (I have a Win98 laptop that doesn't). I'll try that. Also Windows 98 can't get infected if you try these days actually! All the active malware these days requires an NT kernel to run. Pages will try to exploit the computer and all that happens is Windows telling me it can't run the executable. Guy Axlerod posted:
It's one of those weird 1.8 inch ZIF IDE connectors on the drive, and I really don't want to hunt down a proper adapter because I'd only use it once. I now they're out there but I'd rather not spend the money.
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Guy Axlerod posted:
Anecdotally, I bought one of those because it was a few bucks cheaper than the Bytec standard, but it pretty quickly stopped work. Also, Bytec makes one of those that includes a ZIF port: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16812270476
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Any suggestions for some relatively basic TV tuner software for a DVB-T tuner? I tried Windows Media Centre but apparently it doesn't allowed manual tuning for DVB-T tuners and only automatically picks up about a third of free to air channels and won't let me get the rest. (My signal's fine, hooked up to a proper roof mounted aerial - HD channels I did get came through perfect) I had a quick glance at Mediaportal but it looks way too much for my needs, I just want to watch a bit of the Olympics in the background while they're on. Running Windows 7 Pro x64 TV tuner is a Asus U3000 usb tv tuner for what it counts.
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ProgDVB's pretty decent and has a non-crippled free version, too.
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Kerbtree posted:ProgDVB's pretty decent and has a non-crippled free version, too. Thanks looks like the sort of thing I was after - looks like main thing free one misses out on is recording etc.
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Friend's old system (upgraded to run Windows 7) just died (including harddrive) and they are getting a new one. Luckily they have a backup on an external from less than a week ago. Two quick and simple questions: 1. They want to restore their files on a laptop in the interim until their new system arrives. This isn't a one-time restore process, right (ie they can restore files to the laptop and then when the new system arrives they can plug their external into it and restore the same files there as well)? I'm 99.9% certain that you can restore from the same backup multiple times, but they want confirmation from other people before proceeding. 2. If the backup was created in Windows 7 can files be restored to a computer running Vista? The laptop from the above question is running Vista. Everything I find has people doing the opposite (Vista backup to 7), which works, but I know that doesn't mean a win7 backup to Vista will work. Thanks in advance.
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Douche4Sale posted:1. They want to restore their files on a laptop in the interim until their new system arrives. This isn't a one-time restore process, right (ie they can restore files to the laptop and then when the new system arrives they can plug their external into it and restore the same files there as well)? I'm 99.9% certain that you can restore from the same backup multiple times, but they want confirmation from other people before proceeding. 2. Win7 backups are just vhd files, so you can mount it and copy over what you need.
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Armourking posted:1. Yup Thanks for the quick reply. I thought the answer was yes to both, but wasn't certain.
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This is my first time opening this thread and I'm sorry if it's been asked a million times, but are there any decent alternatives to VLC/Media Player Classic for videos? I might just be too picky, but both of them have quirks that annoy me.
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Last Chance posted:This is my first time opening this thread and I'm sorry if it's been asked a million times, but are there any decent alternatives to VLC/Media Player Classic for videos? I might just be too picky, but both of them have quirks that annoy me. It would help to know what annoys you about them.
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Toast Museum posted:It would help to know what annoys you about them. That's true. Well, MPC does a weird thing where it has to blank/redraw the video if I move the window to another monitor (it'll sometimes crash when I do this too). VLC doesn't do that, but it will keep my computer awake if I leave a video/window open (even if paused). VLC will also crash if I run Battlefield 3 or some other games while I have any window open. That might be the games' fault, honestly, but MPC doesn't crash if I run any games. Also, I'm not sure how to normalize audio in MPC in varying degrees like you can in VLC. I prefer MPC overall because it has less quirks, but I'm just curious if there's anything newer/better out there these days that has the best of both worlds.
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Last Chance posted:That's true. Well, MPC does a weird thing where it has to blank/redraw the video if I move the window to another monitor (it'll sometimes crash when I do this too).
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Is there a program that will compare two directories and their sub-directories and spit out where the differences are? I finally got my CD wallet from my parents' house, so I'd like to rip them all to .flac files and leave the existing mp3s in a different place, but when I'm done with the CDs, I want to be able to know what folders I have to copy over from the mp3 directory.
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I know you'll all hate this question... Currently I'm using a Sandisk Extreme 120Gb SSD for Debian which is my primary and only OS. The SSD was a replacement for a 500Gb hard drive which poo poo itself. On that hard drive I had Linux and XP x64. Today the 1Tb WD Green arrived. It's primarily just going to be used as a scratch drive for downloads, movies, music etc. Here's the thing. Besides having some space put aside at the end for a swap partition for linux, I'm not really sure how to partition such a large drive efficiently. It's also going to have XP x64 so I can play the games I have too if I want. All of them run in XP. Hell, half of them probably work in '95. Yes, I'd love 7 but for ~$200+ to play a few games which work in XP they can respectfully cram it sideways. So, how should the drive be laid out? I don't think XP x64 has any size limitations I'd bump into, but I'm unsure about at what point cluster sizes and the size of the FS would bloat out to some horrible size or performance would degrade horribly. It'll be NTFS unless anyone has any reason otherwise. So pretty much to sum it up, downloads etc. will be done in Linux but I want the drive to be Windows friendly for when I play games with XP. Please advise me on not screwing up?
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