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

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2007, 02:33 AM »

just for the record edited post above about Parted Magic.

Also found their comment about limitation

Shrinking an NTFS filesystem and its partition is a safe operation for GParted, but moving a large partition has proven to be fatal in too many cases. Moving large partitions with GParted also proves to be slower than just backing up the data and creating a new partition instead. GParted is a great program, but its move feature is too buggy to be trusted.

(also from http://partedmagic.com/docs/gparted.html )
me,
I used it to increase first partition on drive but I erased other partitions first which worked fine

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General Software Discussion / Re: alternatives to partition magic/paragon?

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

Ok thanks.
Actually, I should discuss my partitioning strategy here.
I have a OS partition, a data partition, a music partition and 2 HDs. Right now, OS and Data are in the same HD. These are the two most accessed partitions.

The idea is to put the music partition together with the OS partition on one HD and then the Data partition (pretty accessed) in the other HD... this should give me some faster boot times (well, not boot, but the entire HD activity frenzy once you log in) and general a faster-feeling system.

I'm not sure how much speed improvements I should expect or if it's worth the trouble. Any idea about this? these are 2 160 Gb 5200rpm drives (laptop).

-urlwolf (September 30, 2007, 11:26 AM)

I had that idea too.
Seeing as they say moving paging file to second hdd is faster, it seems logical to move your working files there too..
But I havent done it (yet) & dont know if it's worth the trouble
(I mentioned it at another forum & got no direct response to idea)

Also, any other recommendations for faster HD access overall? Is it true that you should leave 20% of disk space empty? I have a defragmenter running periodically already.

-urlwolf (September 30, 2007, 11:26 AM)

I put the paging file on first partition of second drive*,
a FAT32 partition & on the same partition I now have tempfiles & internet caches for IE & Opera (havent looked at FF yet)
Paging file is fixed size so no fragmenting

*(I also had small one on C drive but was having difficulty with some programmes &
hibernation till I got rid of the one on C..)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bunchd.de - Multi-site search

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2007, 01:16 PM »

could you do a german & english/international one?

Na klar: Google De, Google Int, Google De+Int

-kingding (October 01, 2007, 12:42 PM)

Dankeschöne 
English is my muttersprache but I living here in Germany so
I tend to do a lot of chopping & changing

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bunchd.de - Multi-site search

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2007, 11:47 AM »

but get same bar again - NO - in fact it never went away!

Try to manually add http://cumulatm.googlepages.com/ to your allowed pages.

-kingding (October 01, 2007, 11:29 AM)

works after FF restart

When I search for music then I just get the Last.fm page in new tab with a very long url

Strange. Works just fine for me.

-kingding (October 01, 2007, 11:29 AM)

  didnt understand the mouse tips (now why didnt I ask)
maybe helpful to make those images a bit bigger?

what I would love would be a way to change languages easily

You might want to add several Google keyword searches for every language or use Bunchd to combine them all in one page: Bunchd - Google International + Google Slovenija

-kingding (October 01, 2007, 11:29 AM)

I'm sorry I've no idea how you did that.. could you do a german & english/international one?
or explain..?
thanks, tom

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bunchd.de - Multi-site search

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2007, 09:26 AM »

it works, but I keep getting bar top of page
"firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window"
the result then opens up in a new tab

I add site to Allowed Sites - Popups
but get same bar again - NO - in fact it never went away!

sounds more like a FF problem.. 

When I search for music then I just get the Last.fm page in new tab with a very long url
http://cumulatm.goog...c/?m=tracks&q=$2

I dont use search a whole lot, & then only in a very basic manner
so I'm probably not much help to you.
But,
I do have a "searchwish" though
what I would love would be a way to change languages easily -
in google you have to go to properties, select, [EDIT: i forgot save preferences ], confirm, back to search page - its a pain

maybe there's a way there already !?

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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...