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Krakkles posted:Thanks, but I don't think this is a viable option - last time I opened up the case I seem to recall it only had one HDD slot. As long as you have two SATA connectors (and two power connectors, but you can Y-split those), you can just boot the computer with the case open and the extra HDD hanging out.
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Golashes posted:Is there anything I can use to hide folders only in Explorer? I have an absurd amount of config folders from programs/games in My Documents and I want to hide them, but any program using those folders bugs out if I hide them the regular way. A crude but straightforward trick is to rename or shortcut the folders you do care about and put a dot in front of them (eg ".My Music"), so they will appear at the top of the list.
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Jun 27, 2011 17:02
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Thoom posted:Is there any good alternative to Alt Key Codes for people who don't memorize ASCII tables for fun but only rarely use accented characters? On my Mac, if I wanted to type an è I'd hit Alt-`, then e. The two Windows options I know of are memorizing a billion numbers so that I know è is Alt+0232, or switching to an input method where I would type it as `e, but which also fucks up my ability to type a single `, ', etc. By far the best option for Western multilingual typers is to switch to the US-International layout. You can get the various diacritic-marked letters in two ways: 'dead keys' then letter (eg. ~ then space = ~; ~ then n = ñ; " then a = ä, ' then e = é, ` then e = è) or a bunch of AltGr (right Alt) combinations, although I think only é has one, not è. If you only need a few specific diacritics once in a while, look up AutoHotkey, it's really simple to do that kind of character replacement.
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Jul 11, 2011 10:18
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Hibernation is just a full shutdown where your computer copies the current RAM content on the hard drive; when you turn it on, instead of doing the regular boot it restores the RAM back to what it was before. In terms of energy it's the best since it consumes 0, in terms of HDD life it means you're writing and reading a few gigabytes of (continuous!) data every time you hibernate, which shouldn't be that stressful if you're not doing it more than once or twice a day. That said, as long as your desktop in in any energy-saving mode its power consumption will be minimal compared to when it's fully operative. The best way to reduce your energy usage is to set everything (particularly the screen) to automatically sleep / hibernate / shut down as fast as you're willing to tolerate.
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Jul 11, 2011 18:58
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This reminds me: if I enable the Hybrid Sleep option, Hibernate is no longer available. Is there a way to be able to choose between all three (without going into Power Options every time)?
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Jul 14, 2011 19:43
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Thoom posted:Which almost works. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to apply to the first press after holding the shift key down. So I press Shift+Num1 and it goes to the end of the line. While still holding shift, I press Num1 again and it types a '1' as expected. I can't quite figure out why it acts that way, but try putting a * in front of the very first line (i.e. *NumpadEnd:  .
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Jul 17, 2011 10:52
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What's the simplest way to make Windows automatically dump a camera's pictures to a given folder as soon as it's connected? i.e. without having a clunky piece of bloatware permanently running.
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Jul 19, 2011 17:04
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Squibbles posted:That's a built in function on windows vista/7. When you plug in a camera it should pop open an auto play prompt and one of the options is to import pictures. Once you set it up how you want it you can tell the auto play prompt to always run that action when you plug in that device. Mine imports all the photos to a date-named folder then deletes all the pictures off the camera as soon as I plug it in. Oh, excellent, I had just disabled the Autoplay. Splendid. Thanks.
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Jul 19, 2011 22:27
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some texas redneck posted:I use my laptop in classes regularly, and also take it to the library every day after classes. Due to this, I normally keep the speakers muted. http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/404854-mute-volume-pause-playback-if-headphones-removed.html
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I've got a mildly annoying issue: I have an external USB hard disc that is pretty slow to 'wake up' (6-7 seconds). Which is fine, except that at the logon screen I have to wait until it's done before my USB keyboard can also 'wake up' and I can type in the password. Is there any way to tell Windows to "check" the keyboard first and not wait for the HDD?
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Aug 6, 2011 23:18
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Butt Savage posted:I hate to ask this type of question, but can anyone recommend a better RSS reader than Google's? Preferably something similar to Reeder for OSX. NewsFox for Firefox.
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Sad Panda posted:I'm on Windows 7 and trying to learn Spanish. I am looking for a free piece of text to speech software that has a Spanish voice. The inbuilt Windows 7 one is only Anna and she's just English.
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Oct 5, 2011 14:21
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Crossposting from the monitor thread: Do you have any interesting yet non-obvious tricks to share about dual-monitoring on Windows, in addition to using stuff like UltraMon to handle the taskbar? The holy grail would be a way to toggle cursor locking during full-screen games and be able to quickly answer Skype or whatnot on the second monitor even if the full-screen program refuses to minimise gracefully, but my Googling suggests this sadly just isn't possible.
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Right now, toggling the LAN sharing of a folder or drive requires me to do eight separate mouse clicks (Win7 x64). Is there any way to make it quicker, whether with a dedicated utility, a clever shortcut or a pair of .reg files?
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Nov 12, 2011 17:47
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Shaocaholica posted:The drag to the side thing doesn't quite work well with multi-monitor setups Or yeah, just use Win+arrow keys regardless.
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Nov 15, 2011 16:53
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Occasionally, while using Explorer, I'll get a Visual C++-titled popup with "this application has caused an irrecoverable error etc. etc.", then Explorer crashes (and is harmlessly restarted). I guess that it's probably one of the many shell extension-type programs I have installed that's causing the crash. My question is, is there a way to easily figure out which library is causing the issue? Maybe some of the trillion functions of Process Explorer?
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Dec 7, 2011 03:28
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hooah posted:Why would you make your taskbar so wide, though? Personally I've found that with a vertical taskbar there is narrow "sweet spot" of width at which it doesn't show app names (which I find ugly) but still shows the full-format time and date.
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Daynab posted:Is there such a program that would let me fetch covers of all my music albums over the internet, or would that be considered
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Jan 8, 2012 08:49
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Oh, ok. There are several programs of that kind in this (ctrl-F "album art"), the only one I used was Album Art Downloader a while ago and it was fine. As for fb2k, if you don't want to mess with scripting just pick one reskin you like from this guy's collection, it's what I do and in addition to making them pretty he also gives giant point-and-click customisation options.
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Frankly, I'm going to say that if you already purchased a license to this music and lost access to it through no fault of your own, it would be morally all right for you to download a copy from whatever  source you found most convenient.I know this isn't terribly helpful, but I tried looking for DRM removal tools (including some forum sources I trust) and found largely the same results as you did, so this is what I would honestly recommend.
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The Dregs posted:This link from the OP is good and dead: NeoWin's freeware alternative list is all I've needed for the past year or so.
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It DOES rename them, it's just that the Explorer window doesn't get immediately updated for some reason (so still a bug, but nowhere near as serious). If you refresh the page or check the file properties (Alt+Enter), you'll see that the new capitalisation was in fact recorded. EDIT: Actually, it seems to be dependant on the view. In Details view or Content view it updates immediately after renaming. So maybe it's WAI, to prevent possible confusion from reordering in tiled-style views? NihilCredo fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Feb 27, 2012 |
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Incidentally, who replies to automated expiration reminders? 
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WastedJoker posted:What's a good alternative for windows search? Everything Locate32
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Install Gentoo posted:Yeah but you download them when you need them. Additionally, most of the time a new computer comes with all of those installed by the OEM. Also, there's a reason the term "bloatware" exists. When OEMs install crap beyond the OS and drivers on a computer, it often ranges from the stunningly useless (lovely proprietary assistance or content management software) to the shockingly suboptimal (trial versions of whatever antivirus bribed the OEM, Adobe PDF Reader, horrible media players with 90s interfaces that nobody uses, etc.).
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The inner workings of Windows memory management are pretty esoteric, and in Windows 7 the general advice is "set your page file to 2GB or half of your RAM and don't mess with it any further". And just because PerfMon says 68% used doesn't mean the rest of it isn't being employed for caching or something (get Sysinternals' Process Explorer and look at its View -> System Information window for more detailed data). I'm not sure about how much of that applies to Vista, though. Some things you could try, but do test the effects of each (and use Process Explorer as I mentioned earlier): - Reduce the size of your page file, to like 1GB or even less - Make a RAMDisk and put a page file on it
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Both of those were tips that used to have some effect back in the XP days, when memory management wasn't nearly as efficient, particularly towards the end of its cycle when hardware picked up and huge RAM sizes became the norm. Since I don't know whether Vista's management is closer to XP's or 7's (I skipped that one), I'm figuring it might be worth a try, since if there's no performance improvement it just takes a reboot to go back to the default configuration.
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AnimalChin posted:http://www.shsc.info/UsefulWindowsSoftware (from the OP) is a dead link. http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/934274-freeware-alternative-list/
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System Restore also encompasses the shadow copy Previous Versions feature, which is definitely an occasional life-saver and totally worth granting it a generous amount of HDD space. Windows Search, on the other side, I only ever use to look for stuff within the files of a specific folder. When I need to look for a file name across the whole system, which is far more common, MBR-based tools like Everything are stupidly more efficient.
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Oh! In that case, this page has the basic info about how to use System Image Recovery when booting from an install disc (i.e. when the OS is thoroughly borked): http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/675-system-image-recovery.html If even that doesn't work, that unfortunately suggests that your backup is borked. If only system files are damaged, you could try booting from e.g. an Ubuntu live-DVD (I think Ubuntu can read NTFS?) and then browsing the C: drive from there and look for the documents. In the future, if you need to make backups from you which you want to browse and pick individual files, I recommend DriveImageXML.
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Having those files unhidden shouldn't really cause any functional problems. If you're annoyed at seeing them, just do a search for all files names "thumbs.db" and "desktop.ini", select them all and hide them; outside of the system folders those are pretty much the only ones you're likely to see. That said, if it really were a malware infection that caused the issues (no offence meant but it REALLY sounds like a user accident), I would back up all your non-executable data, wipe the system drive and reinstall Windows, just as standard operating procedure.
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At this point I want to know what Winamp skin Nubcakes was running. I'm betting it was something like this:
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Hey guys, I want to do the following: - Select a bunch of files through various subfolders - Set their "Last modified" timestamp to be equal to their creation timestamp Is there any easier way to do this than hammering out a Python script?
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If JA2 uses DirectX it will not work with Remote Desktop. I see it exists for Linux, so I would just make a live Ubuntu DVD or USB pendrive and put the game on it. You'll have to reboot each time, but there will be no traces of the game on your work laptop.
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Windows 7's mirror is a RAID 1 software emulation as far as I know, and I don't believe it's possible to do a regular RAID between an internal drive and an external one (maybe an eSATA external). I'm sure there's third-party software that can somehow handle it despite the gigantic bandwidth difference. Just to be clear, though, are you absolutely sure that you want a mirror and not a backup?
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Freaksaus posted:I started using F.lux last week (man I should've done this earlier) and I can't seem to get it to work on my second monitor. There don't seem to be any sort of settings for this and I can't find anything on their website either. Does anyone know of a way to get it to work on both monitors?
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Cwapface posted:All I really need is a program that launches on startup and runs in the background and just copy-pastes the whole of drive E: onto drive F: every few days, automatically overwriting whatever's already there.
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I need a defrag program that is (a) able to defragment specific folders; (b) not as ridiculously slow as Defraggler. Ideas? e: never mind, found it already (thanks NeoWin!). AusLogics Disk Defrag, for those who care. Took 3 minutes 24 seconds while Defraggler would have taken two hours at the rate it was going. NihilCredo fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Apr 22, 2012 |
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Apr 22, 2012 20:33
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DriveImageXML can also do partition -> partition imaging, and supports VSS so it can read your OS partition as well.
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IrfanView, press B, look for Advanced Options.
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