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General Software Discussion / Re: Can you recommend Selkie Rescue Data Recovery??

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2007, 02:49 AM »

Curt - one other option on your broken CD drive is find an external CD drive (I used to have one of them - you've probably seen them) and change your boot settings to 'USB device'. That should allow Selkie to take it from there. Unless you need to get the CD drive fixed regardless. 

-Selkie (September 30, 2007, 09:53 AM)

curious:
Could he put it onto a usb as well stick then?

EDIT of course he'd need to copy it from a cd drive but could possibly do that on different pc

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2007, 02:48 AM »

Amando,
would you install that as a seperate Evernote install?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2007, 02:46 AM »

might get something on partitioning in this thread
alternatives to partition magic/paragon?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2007, 02:40 AM »

Thanks guys for all the replies, but I have been there - done that (no t-shirt). Cute partition Manager really is cute, but no resizing capability. Ranish Partition Manager (seems to be abandoned years ago) and partition resizer (also abandoned) can both do the job, but only on FAT partitions.

Yes, I know about UBCD4WIN - I made a combination of UBCD and UBCD4WIN. It is great, and it can do anything - except making coffee and resizing NTFS partitions.

I guess I will have to learn to use LINUX boot disks. I only get a strange command prompt, and then I have no idea how to get started.

-heinziten (October 01, 2007, 01:04 AM)

I used Parted Magic as recommended by Amando (I think!)

Have a look at documentation here:
http://partedmagic.com/docs/gparted.html

Boot disc starts up a dream -
it does take a little while to load everything but interface is with GUIs and *fairly* easy to use (fairly=good mark in my book!)
i.e. no command prompts necessary for partitioning at any rate.
You do have to remember to click on apply after telling it to do something ...

There was a very good tutorial for use in this forum thread
http://radified.com/...num=1187446572/15#18
but for some reason pages 2 & 3 (& tutorial) gone

EDIT: it's been reposted:
http://radified.com/...l?num=1191223327/4#4
It's for a blank drive or one you dont mind formatting, see documentation link above for use resizing

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General Software Discussion / Re: How Can I Globally Rename the File Types in WinXP Pro (SP2)?

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2007, 02:31 PM »

DOpus 8 I'm using &
it's a royal pain to change all to same layout

Settings(menu)> Preferences> Folders> Folder Formats:



You've got to select each one & click on edit

then change relevant settings - here the display &columns tabs



and it's the "Extension" column you want as oposed to "Type"

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2007, 01:48 PM »

keeping one number out
here's #801



from Nothing to see here :/

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General Software Discussion / Re: How Can I Globally Rename the File Types in WinXP Pro (SP2)?

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2007, 01:42 PM »

there is somewhere out there is a little plugin (I presume) that will
allow you to have a column with just the file extension .exe/whatever in Windows Explorer
(an extra column)

I even downloaded it at the time but using dopus never bothered with it & cant find it now
did a google search too - no luck, but maybe someone else knows about it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nothing to see here :/

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2007, 12:42 PM »

don't forget to reboot now y'all 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nothing to see here :/

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2007, 12:21 PM »

thanks Curt!
seeing as there's no danger of me going off-topic here 
here's another...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nothing to see here :/

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2007, 12:07 PM »

I guessed it was that desktop thread ..
but it's hard to resist a "nothing to see here" 

that's right, move along now folks


here's another one:
http://www.intuh.net/
dont know any more how I came across it but saved it at any rate...

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2007, 05:07 AM »

look ma, no icons!
i also prefer using my own photos as wallpapers since kinda hard to get dual-screen wallpapers i like

-gjehle (September 29, 2007, 04:32 AM)

looking nice...

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2007, 05:32 PM »

here's a different science fiction post -
a really nice japanese sci-fi story (a bedtime one for me ) from Ampa @ #199



click on screenshot for link

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General Software Discussion / Re: In need of "desktop icon folders"

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2007, 03:18 PM »

what about mousers Launch Bar Commander
I've not used it myself but...

An article about moving Quick Launch bar around - sounds interesting (but I'm happy with mine so havent tried it)
again the comments prob more informative than the article
Reposition Windows XP’s Quick Launch toolbar

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2007, 04:04 AM »

Can I add another task that needs a freeware program:

When buying a new computer, it will probably be one (NTFS) partition occupying the whole hard disk.  If you want to partition it, you need a commercial program such as Partition Magic to resize the existing partition to make space for the new partition - of course without loosing  data.

I can not find a free Windows or DOS program to do this. There are LINUX programs to do it (parted, gparted, NTFSresize), but I don't know how to use them. I want it on a DOS boot disk, or Boot CD (such as UBCD).

Can anybody help?

-heinziten (September 27, 2007, 01:34 AM)

check out UBCD4win -
they have a very good range of programmes, easy to make too - may have something...
http://www.ubcd4win.com/contents.htm

-Partition Boot Build 1.0              Create, import, or export your boot sector, useful when damaged by viruses or physical damage MbrFix    1.0.0.5          Fix or create Master boot record MBRWiz    1.52            Master Boot Record Wizard TestDisk 5.9 WIP         Tool to check and undelete partitions

then again maybe not...
-
I've used gparted to resize a partition with stuff on it - was reasonable intuitive but came with a warning that it couldnt handle big changes (size increase/decrease - which it didnt define more than that) - so prob not a great choice

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 20$ off XYplorer and lifetime license

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2007, 03:49 AM »

I guess what would be missing without dualpane would be some type of synchronisation?

EDIT

Look at the fact that his implementation of tabs...
as easy to use as a dual pane manager - easier in some respects. You can have two (or more) tabs open and drag a file or folder from one tab onto another and the file will be moved there, or you can select a file and bring up the context menu and select "move/copy/send to" - and then select the open tab or a folder from a list to send it to. Nice. Simple.

-Darwin (September 27, 2007, 04:22 PM)

well, thats reassuring to hear -
would still miss some form of compare contents or basic synch possibilities

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Living Room / Re: Requesting new organization ideas for fresh windows installation

« Last post by tomos on September 27, 2007, 09:06 AM »

After a fresh install of XP,
I was a bit shocked how much *junk* MS had installed into the Program Files folder - it would have been really nice of them to simply have put all MS stuff in a microsoft folder...
I was tempted to install other programmes elsewhere but didnt bother in the end

I leave some icons on the desktop but mostly throw them into a shortcuts folder which FARR reads
So, I guess I'm probably not much help in terms of organising stuff 

And the start menu, well you might just inspire me to organise that !

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General Software Discussion / Re: CDBurnerXP 4 released

« Last post by tomos on September 27, 2007, 03:28 AM »

PS. I never found it very good at multisession & I'm afraid after not being able to update the first multisession disc this time round I've given up on it...

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General Software Discussion / Re: CDBurnerXP 4 released

« Last post by tomos on September 27, 2007, 03:26 AM »

they say at the forum it is related to reboot after install.. and now theres a NMSAccessU loaded all the time...

-legion1978 (September 26, 2007, 10:37 PM)

?? same here - should that be stopped/closed down?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Pro says Zaine

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2007, 12:59 PM »

Goodsync is made by the Roboform people...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wrong language displayed for some dialogues and other features in XP Pro

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2007, 02:14 AM »

This is caused by the fact that your Windows XP CD contains updates that will be automatically installed when you run setup. This type of CD's will usually be from larger OEM suppliers (like Dell, HP, or others).

You cannot use this type of CD to create a slipstreamed SP2 install

The above quote, from this http://www.helpwithw...inxp-sp2-bootcd.html, speaks to why I can't slipstream Sp-2 onto an XP installation disc. What a steaming pile of... sorry, folks, not a good day in Darwin's little world - though Cranialscopical did fix my other, and more pressing, problem 

-Darwin (September 25, 2007, 12:33 PM)

I wonder would you be able to use a different copy of XP & your own registration number ??
I had a look for that forum post saying someone slipstreamed SP2 & XP from a HP oem disc but unfortunately couldnt find it.
You could always give it a go & see - probably wasting your time but you never know...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open/Save Dialog Utilities - response to Nudone's Blog from May

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2007, 12:06 PM »

url is broke there Mike 
oh the pain of cut & paste 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Acronis True Image OR maybe not ???

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2007, 12:00 PM »

Yes, DriveSnapshot is a wonderful program.  I don't like bloated applications and so I never liked Acronis TrueImage or O&O DiskImage.

-ad-min (September 24, 2007, 01:08 PM)

yeah,
I was a bit shocked by the Acronis download - 100+MB
install is 36MB + 196MB in common folders....
what is in there ???!!!

For the moment I4W doesn't propose incremental/differential backups.  Also, backups are not encrypted whereas drivesnapshot also has encryption.

The strong point of I4W is its direct DVD burning engine that can create bootable restoration DVD.  I try to backup all my main partitions with it every month (I manage 4 PC at home).

-MerleOne (September 24, 2007, 02:11 PM)

did I miss something here (?)
whats 14W? 

to console myself for having bought such a monster (Acronis 11) I can point out that incremental backup is (hopefully) more of a space saver than Differential

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for an E-Mail Client which can be run on an USB Stick

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2007, 12:18 PM »

have a look at thread
anyone tried i.Scribe email client?

iScribe & Koma-Mail

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General Software Discussion / Re: anyone tried i.Scribe email client?

« Last post by tomos on September 23, 2007, 07:39 AM »

Koma-Mail looks interesting

Some other interesting stuff there too
http://www.koma-code...p;id=5&Itemid=39

Software Alarm Timer Command Line CPU-Control DevWiz eBoard Koma-Mail Help file Miri's Recipies SC-Tool Scan2PDF Shutdown Tool Snow-IRC TableCalc USB-ToolBox 2 Win-Control

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General Software Discussion / Re: Acronis True Image OR maybe not ???

« Last post by tomos on September 23, 2007, 05:21 AM »

Personally if I were to buy it now I would buy TI 10 and not go for TI 11 (even if you can find a cheap copy). IME Acronis will take 3-6 months to make TI 11 bug free.

As a company it has an interesting approach. The corporate versions are at version 9.1 (I use TI 9.1 Workstation) and hasn't seen any sort of update since February. Basically they only seem to move on the corporate versions after home users iron out all the bugs. In other words home users pay to be beta testers!

-Carol Haynes (September 23, 2007, 04:34 AM)

oops too late, I got the "Beta" 
Interesting,
at no stage was I asked the previous registration number -
11 is installed now, its possible it picked up on the older installed version, installed to a different folder though
("True Image Home" as opposed to True Image)

It claims to check/verify the image - was very quick about it so dont know how dependable that is...
(wouldnt like to be that much of a beta tester..)