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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Some of these are legal work documents that I'd rather did not leave the actual computer (not because I think someone is going to look at them, but I would technically be violating some confidentiality clauses), so DropBox isn't much of a possibility. It would be my advice to not complicate it. A combination of an xcopy batch script and a configured scheduled task to run that batch script should be all that you will need.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Some of these are legal work documents that I'd rather did not leave the actual computer (not because I think someone is going to look at them, but I would technically be violating some confidentiality clauses), so DropBox isn't much of a possibility. Synctoy: a windows download, so commercial use is okay http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155 Syncback: $35 for commercial use. http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/compare.html madmaan posted:It would be my advice to not complicate it. A combination of an xcopy batch script and a configured scheduled task to run that batch script should be all that you will need. A good idea: but hasn't xcopy been superceeded by robocopy? spog fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Oct 19, 2012 |
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madmaan posted:It would be my advice to not complicate it. A combination of an xcopy batch script and a configured scheduled task to run that batch script should be all that you will need. Well, the whole point is to keep daily backups. If I'm reading/writing 2gb (or more, not really sure) worth of data from one mechanical drive to another every day, aren't I just inviting a hard drive failure?
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spog posted:Synctoy: a windows download, so commercial use is okay Touche! I will admit that wrote one thing while having something else in my head all together. Great catch.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Well, the whole point is to keep daily backups. If I'm reading/writing 2gb (or more, not really sure) worth of data from one mechanical drive to another every day, aren't I just inviting a hard drive failure? How about you make a virtual hard disk and keep the files in it? After making the virtual disk, you can then setup a windows backup the normal way. I haven't done it myself, but I don't see why you couldn't if you have at least windows 7. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee872416.aspx
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Basically the issue I am having right now is that Windows refuses to reinstall, I have the drivers for my SATA controller on the USB pen drive with the installer and when I tell Windows where they are it finds them, looks for a bit then says nothing found. This despite the system actually being able to see all my drives (When I hit browse to find the drivers I can see all my hard drives listed). Its basically this issue here : http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/14831-63-windows-driver-install and I had tried every suggestion from every website I can find to no avail. Windows installed FINE the first time I installed all this hardware, I have no idea what could be causing this besides a hosed up download. Any ideas would be welcome.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Well, the whole point is to keep daily backups. If I'm reading/writing 2gb (or more, not really sure) worth of data from one mechanical drive to another every day, aren't I just inviting a hard drive failure? 2GB a day is nothing.
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sheepdemon posted:Basically the issue I am having right now is that Windows refuses to reinstall, I have the drivers for my SATA controller on the USB pen drive with the installer and when I tell Windows where they are it finds them, looks for a bit then says nothing found. This despite the system actually being able to see all my drives (When I hit browse to find the drivers I can see all my hard drives listed). Its basically this issue here : http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/14831-63-windows-driver-install and I had tried every suggestion from every website I can find to no avail. Windows installed FINE the first time I installed all this hardware, I have no idea what could be causing this besides a hosed up download. Any ideas would be welcome. I don't know if you're having the problem I had, but I found out Windows 7's installer cannot see USB 3.0 controllers (not really a surprise, but the failure state makes no sense until you realize it). Before you ask, it doesn't matter if the stick itself is USB 1.1; it's a problem on the controller end. Find a USB 2.0 port and plug the install stick into that, then try again. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Oct 19, 2012 |
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Well, the whole point is to keep daily backups. If I'm reading/writing 2gb (or more, not really sure) worth of data from one mechanical drive to another every day, aren't I just inviting a hard drive failure? Robocopy has a million options for what it does and does not copy. I think /xo is what you want, it will only copy newer things and leave old files alone. http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html is a complete list with some comments.
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Is there something other than MS Project or Visio that can create the organizational charts? This is for a class assignment, so I can't really plunk down a grand-plus on a new software suite. I've tried to do it with MS Word, but the amount of detail I need to include causes the boxes and text to shrink to microscopic size, and it doesn't seem able to enlarge past the dimensions of an 8"x10" sheet of paper. (Of course, if someone knows a way to get around this, that would also be greatly appreciated.) EDIT: In case it isn't completely obvious, my level of computer savvy is slightly above "Dotty Grandma", but below "The Nine-Year-Old Next Door". budgieinspector fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Oct 20, 2012 |
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budgieinspector posted:Is there something other than MS Project or Visio that can create the organizational charts? This is for a class assignment, so I can't really plunk down a grand-plus on a new software suite. Powerpoint has a template for org charts.
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My SSD died and while I wait for it to arrive, I want to do a clean install of Windows 7 and SP1 and setup all my programs on it so I can make an image of it using Acronis, then image it onto the new SSD when it gets here. What would be the best way to do this? Make a new partition on my storage drive, install Windows 7 on there and do whatever I need to do? Or is there some other, more convenient way like using a VM? (I have no experience using these) and is there any way to list changes I've made to Windows settings? I've had this install since Windows 7 came out so I doubt I remember all the stuff I've changed uhhhhahhhhohahhh fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Oct 20, 2012 |
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If you're in college, you could probably get Visio or Project for super cheap. Otherwise get the 60-day trial of Visio here: http://visio.microsoft.com/en-us/TryBuy/TryVisio2010forFree/Pages/Try_Visio_2010_for_Free.aspx
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Lately I've been getting quite significant and visible tearing on videos in VLC regardless of format. I haven't updated codecs or drivers recently. Anyone know what might be causing this?
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GreenNight posted:If you're in college, you could probably get Visio or Project for super cheap. Otherwise get the 60-day trial of Visio here: Thanks! Doing the trial, which should last me through the rest of the class. If I need it in the future, though, is there a legit site in particular that sells it at a student discount? Not seeing an offer in the Office store or Amazon. Google turned up some sites I've never heard of, but that doesn't mean an awful lot, as until this semester I hadn't been a student in a long, long time.
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budgieinspector posted:Thanks! Doing the trial, which should last me through the rest of the class. If I need it in the future, though, is there a legit site in particular that sells it at a student discount? Not seeing an offer in the Office store or Amazon. Google turned up some sites I've never heard of, but that doesn't mean an awful lot, as until this semester I hadn't been a student in a long, long time. Oh, go to the school book store. I know here (Madison), the University book store has Office 2010 for like $30.
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SplitSoul posted:Lately I've been getting quite significant and visible tearing on videos in VLC regardless of format. I haven't updated codecs or drivers recently. Anyone know what might be causing this? This poo poo is a nightmare, it took me hours to get 24fps films to play smoothly. It could probably be so many things that it's kind of hard to point to a specific without knowing what filters (renderer, decoder, etc.) what encodes, what screen refresh rate and probably more.
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:This poo poo is a nightmare, it took me hours to get 24fps films to play smoothly. It could probably be so many things that it's kind of hard to point to a specific without knowing what filters (renderer, decoder, etc.) what encodes, what screen refresh rate and probably more. Running CCCP on a HD5750 at 1280x720@60Hz through a Sony BRAVIA KDL-32BX300. It has just started happening out of the blue, like I said I haven't changed anything recently. It happens on old DivX3 AVIs, XviDs, ancient MPEGs, MP4s, MKVs, everything I throw at it, both windowed and fullscreen.
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SplitSoul posted:Running CCCP on a HD5750 at 1280x720@60Hz through a Sony BRAVIA KDL-32BX300. It has just started happening out of the blue, like I said I haven't changed anything recently. It happens on old DivX3 AVIs, XviDs, ancient MPEGs, MP4s, MKVs, everything I throw at it, both windowed and fullscreen. CCCP  Does VLC have a Direct3D Fullscreen setting? I've not used it in a long time. Honestly can't imagine any reason for not using Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and then grabbing madvr to render When you say anything do you mean 'anything on the entire computer'? (video drivers etc.) or 'anything to do with VLC' uhhhhahhhhohahhh fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Oct 21, 2012 |
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sheepdemon posted:Dammit, thats the one that keeps erroring Maybe your download is corrupted, which edition are you trying to get? Microsoft's got hashes on technet, but I can't find it anywhere but on the page to actually download stuff behind the paywall. I'll post the sha1 hash they list and you can compare to what you've got.
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Is that not the go-to package anymore? It's worked fine for me until now. uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:Does VLC have a Direct3D Fullscreen setting? I've not used it in a long time. Honestly can't imagine any reason for not using Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and then grabbing madvr to render I'll give that a try then. I've stayed away from it because VLC has always served my purposes and it fucks with my master volume levels for some reason. uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:When you say anything do you mean 'anything on the entire computer'? (video drivers etc.) or 'anything to do with VLC' Both.
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Having codec packs all over the place just causes problems, especially when you can use MPCHC which comes with all the decoders you need. If VLC has an option to choose a different renderer, madvr specifically, you might not need to change to MPCHC. You can just change to that and use madvr's built in decoders. Since I haven't used VLC for such a long time I don't know what renderer it uses by default, but if its one of the EVR variations that MPCHC uses then no matter what I tried I couldn't get anything to play without tearing in that, madvr was the only thing that worked for me.
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What is the easiest way to get applications to output their sound to a specific audio device? For example, I would like Chrome to output sound to my HDMI audio device. However, it will only output to whatever is selected as the Default device in Windows and I don't want to set HDMI as default because I use a different audio device 99% of the time (my computer speakers, which I do not want to output the audio to if I am watching a video on Netflix in Chrome and instead want that audio output to the TV the HDMI is hooked up to). I know one workaround is to switch the default, start the application, then switch it back and it will stick that time while it is running, but instead is there any free software that would let me force a program to output to a certain audio device? edit: http://www.indievolume.com/ this is basically what I want, except free because I am a cheapass
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GreenNight posted:If you're in college, you could probably get Visio or Project for super cheap. Otherwise get the 60-day trial of Visio here: This is a bit of a licensing question. I have Office 2010 installed on my laptop however when I installed it I had the option to choose which applications to install and I didn't need Visio so I left it out. If I was to use that link to download and install it would it automatically detect the license key and work? Or would I need to find that key, or even further would that key no longer work because I've already used it but on different products. As I recall when I installed it the first time there was a massive iso which you ran and chose what programmes you wanted and only had to enter the licence key once for all of them. \/\/\/\/ Looking where you said showed me it was a Visio viewer I recalled not the programme itself. Thanks for the help. Sri.Theo fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Oct 21, 2012 |
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Visio and Project aren't included in the Office install. You can confirm this by going to Add/Remove Programs and customizing your Office install. It will tell you if you can add Project or Visio. At work, I manage our Office licenses and Project & Visio are completely separate apps with separate keys.
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:Having codec packs all over the place just causes problems, especially when you can use MPCHC which comes with all the decoders you need. VLC isn't compatible apparently, it doesn't show up under renderers at least, but it seems to have done the trick in MPCHC. Thanks for your help. Now I just need to figure out how to keep VLC from re-associating with my files constantly.
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Sir Unimaginative posted:I don't know if you're having the problem I had, but I found out Windows 7's installer cannot see USB 3.0 controllers (not really a surprise, but the failure state makes no sense until you realize it). Before you ask, it doesn't matter if the stick itself is USB 1.1; it's a problem on the controller end. This was the issue, thanks a million.
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TwoKnives posted:http://www.ispyconnect.com/ Soo from trying to find the thief earlier, realized it was every monday night so I ran it again with candy left out (no thief can resist candy). Look what it caught:    Now to send to a manager who has had items stolen off her desk at night too 
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Meta Ridley posted:Soo from trying to find the thief earlier, realized it was every monday night so I ran it again with candy left out (no thief can resist candy). Look what it caught: I hope you get the fucker fired. I'm sure if I'd try this in the Netherlands though, HR will do nothing, say I breached someone's privacy and I'd get in trouble instead.
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Grawl posted:I hope you get the fucker fired. I'm sure if I'd try this in the Netherlands though, HR will do nothing, say I breached someone's privacy and I'd get in trouble instead. People who will steal like this will also be more likely to do worse when nobody is looking.
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How do you launch your software? I don't like typing so a mouse-oriented interface suits me best. So far I've been using folder toolbars in taskbar, like this: But that approach has one problem: it's often slow as hell. Ideally the list would open when I click it, but often it takes forever to display and during the wait explorer.exe is completely unresponsive. I have no idea what causes that, probably it's just Microsoft's crappy implementation from 1995 which they haven't bothered to fix yet. I know Windows 8 kind of solves the problem with the new start screen, but what to do with Windows 7 when you have loads of apps&games? 
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Hit start button, start typing name of program. That's all it takes in Win 7, give it a try.
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Ihmemies posted:How do you launch your software? I don't like typing so a mouse-oriented interface suits me best. So far I've been using folder toolbars in taskbar, like this: I'm not understanding why you aren't using the plain old start menu for this. It's more responsive to put folders in the Start Menu then on the taskbar toolbar thing.
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Install Gentoo posted:I'm not understanding why you aren't using the plain old start menu for this. It's more responsive to put folders in the Start Menu then on the taskbar toolbar thing. Because the taskbar toolbar thing is 2 clicks to launch something. I don't know what's even happening with my start menu, it's probably a long long long unmanageable messy list, just like my bookmarks.
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Ihmemies posted:Because the taskbar toolbar thing is 2 clicks to launch something. I don't know what's even happening with my start menu, it's probably a long long long unmanageable messy list, just like my bookmarks. You can rearrange it you know, and have it be 3 clicks to something but without the lag you mentioned. The biggest problem you seem to be having is that latency, organizing your Start Menu and using that should work to avoid it.
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Install Gentoo posted:The biggest problem you seem to be having is that latency, organizing your Start Menu and using that should work to avoid it. I suppose that is probably the best way if there aren't any cool apps which would solve the problem without me having to put any  into it. -------------- Anyways, I counted I have collected over 3000 bookmarks (most probably are dead links nowdays) in 12 years or so. Firefox has terrible bookmark mangagement features especially if you want to categorize the bookmarks into folders:  In FF16 they made that poo poo transparent so it's even more awful than before! I need to try Evernote or something like that and see if they put any thought into bookmarks. It would only take a month to reorganize if I went through 100 bookmarks a day 
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Ihmemies posted:I suppose that is probably the best way if there aren't any cool apps which would solve the problem without me having to put any You might be better served using that time to seek a therapist for your compulsive hoarding problem.
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Check out launchy. It's like Alfred/Spotlight on Mac.
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I got a better multidisplay manager, DisplayFusion. It has among other stuff jumplists for other monitors' taskbars too, so I got my most used apps pinned now. I also rearranged the start menu and got rid of the laggy folder toolbars. Vertical taskbars seem to make more sense on widescreen monitors since they take up less room that way.LeftistMuslimObama posted:You might be better served using that time to seek a therapist for your compulsive hoarding problem. And you would be well advised not to make
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Ihmemies posted:And you would be well advised not to make Except that my Mohammedan brother is right, there's no reason for any one person to have that many bookmarks, organized or otherwise.
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