Sir Lemming posted:

I'm pretty sure it was just "copy". Honest.

_aaron posted:

I've got a Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OEM disc that I bought for my desktop. I'll be ordering a laptop soon (with the same OS), but the manufacturer does not provide an OS disc. Can I use the old disc with the key from the bottom of the laptop to do a clean Windows reinstall?

Essobie posted:

Quoting this for a new page, since I would like the answer as well. Samsung makes a nice laptop, but the amount of garbage they install before you get it is insanity.

big mean giraffe posted:

It's instant on my girlfriend's laptop just now. It doesn't take time if your poo poo's already indexed, which it should be.

Fuschia tude posted:

I'm almost certain you can. After my laptop's install of Vista got borked, I burned a new ISO of Vista and reinstalled it with the CD key printed on the bottom. I can't imagine they've changed their policy in two years; what would be the alternative?

spog posted:

How big is this 'itunes' file? Same size as your library, or just the 15-20mb of the itunes library file?

beuges posted:

Yes, if you do something like 'copy c:\source d:\backup' and there is a folder called d:\backup then it will copy the files from c:\source into the folder called d:\backup. However, if there is no folder called d:\backup then it will create a file called d:\backup and copy the contents of all the files in the c:\source folder into that destination file.
Either way, it will only copy files from the c:\source folder, and not include any sub-directories.

Sir Lemming posted:

About 18 MB, which is what I expected. The library file itself is all I need, not the music files/folders, which are on a separate drive.

Okay, so I'm not crazy then. Is there any known way to "de-file" (heh) the copied folder? Hex editor or something? Google hasn't really turned up anything because I'm not sure exactly how to phrase the inquiry.

(Although my intent was to also copy the subfolders, they're probably not necessary. The library file would be in the root "iTunes" directory.)

Sir Lemming posted:

AlexDeGruven posted:

Don't forget that's the first "performance tweak" that all of the guides recommend (turning off indexing).

Essobie posted:

The alternative would be the capitalist practice of charging you to have someone come out and reinstall "their" version of the OS on your machine. Samsung's support basically told me that the first thing I should do when I boot up the laptop for the first time, I should use their backup software to create the two DVDs needed for doing restoration. One of them would be bootable (likely what Win7 is actually on) and then the other would be all the secondary garbage that they install on it... such as their "backup software".

The second alternative would be that the product key doesn't work with any other copies of Win7, in which case if you wanted a completely clean install you'd have to purchase another copy of the OS.

Veinless posted:

Is this legitimate? Those guides are usually so full of half-truths and misconceptions that I never actually implement any recommendations.

AlexDeGruven posted:

Precisely the point I was trying to make.

He was stating that it only takes a split second if you have indexing on which, if you follow the 'tweaking guides' is one of the first things they tell you to turn off because it "thrashes the hard drive".

spog posted:

Okay, maybe I am being a bit thick, but I don't see what the problem is here.

You wanted to copy your itunes library file and you have. What's not right?

AlexDeGruven posted:

Precisely the point I was trying to make.

He was stating that it only takes a split second if you have indexing on which, if you follow the 'tweaking guides' is one of the first things they tell you to turn off because it "thrashes the hard drive".

Sir Lemming posted:

I copied the iTunes directory. Yet it magically transformed into a file. That's the issue.

LooseChanj posted:

Directories are files.

baka kaba posted:

Anyone know what this update's about?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976902
It's popped up in Windows Update recently as an important update, which isn't automatically selected, and it says there's no going back once you install it - which makes me a little wary. Apparently it's been around since October too, it's only showed up in the past few days on my machines though

spog posted:

If so, it is easy to solve, just go to the command prompt in the relevant folder and type 'ren itunes *.xml'

Roving Reporter posted:

For some reason, MS Word decided to make itself the default program for opening HTML shortcuts and .URL links in my system directory. I managed to change the .HTML back to Firefox with the 'Open with always' setting.

However, .url extensions(like when I click 'Launch Dropbox website') still open with MS Word. Any idea on how to change that? Clicking properties on .URL files doesn't give me an option.

Sir Lemming posted:

So this wasn't quite it, but you did put an idea in my head. When I opened the "iTunes" file in Notepad++ I saw a big garbled header followed by what appeared to be two full XML documents. So I cut and paste the first XML document into its own file and renamed it as appropriate, and imported it into iTunes, and I believe I'm basically back to where I was! So thanks for the XML idea. I'm still not sure why there were two of them. (Also, the header somewhat resembled what an ITL file looks like when I open it, but I'm not sure.)

Roving Reporter posted:

Excellent! Worked great, thanks!

spog posted:

Now, if anyone can help me sort out the right click menu for items, that would be great. I am fed up with 'Scan with Malwarebyte's Anti Malware' and 'Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials' on every bloody thing.

spog posted:

Now, if anyone can help me sort out the right click menu for items, that would be great. I am fed up with 'Scan with Malwarebyte's Anti Malware' and 'Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials' on every bloody thing.

spog posted:

I am still a bit unsure how you managed to do this. If I understand, you've managed to copy two files into a single document. I believe you can do this from the command prompt, but it's not something you can do as a simple mistake.

Anyway, glad that it is all working again.


Happy to help.

Now, if anyone can help me sort out the right click menu for items, that would be great. I am fed up with 'Scan with Malwarebyte's Anti Malware' and 'Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials' on every bloody thing.

kode54 posted:

Sounds like a newer version of the Windows Installer or other such crap runtime, and that page does claim that it will be required for future service packs. Eh, can it really hurt?

Factory Factory posted:

On my Server 2008 R2 box, I have a 4-disk Dynamic Disk RAID array. Whenever I connect after the drives have spun down for power-saving, they spin up again in sequence rather than simultaneously. Any way to change this behavior?

Factory Factory posted:

Errrgh, is it? I don't recall seeing any options like that, and the thing's running headless, so it's a pain in the rear end to get to the BIOS.

EoRaptor posted:

It seems 7/2008R2 SP1 is now final, and should be turning up in the next few days. This is why that previously mentioned patch from october suddenly became required.

Final build number: 7601.17514.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850

Mr. Clark2 posted:

Pretty sure that it is. Usually called staggered spinup or similar.

kode54 posted:

Plus, uh, don't hard drives use a lot more current when they're spinning up than when they're running steadily at full speed? Thus, wouldn't spinning them all up simultaneously cause a larger sudden current load on the 12v rail? Just saying.

Then again, I have a pair of drives installed now, and I can't even hear them spinning up on startup, so I don't know whether it's happening simultaneously or not.