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Windows does have its history of being able to trash the OS partition, doesn't it :>)Does it? Never happened to me on NT... the only times I've had bad corruption has been when writing my own (buggy!) kernel mode drivers, using flaky hardware, or 3rd-party unstable drivers (ATI and Creative, I'm pointing at you!)-phillfri (February 11, 2010, 08:35 AM)
On installing Windows 7 I redirected the C:\Users\ folders to my D drive. All of them, including AppData for each user. I left the original C:\Users folders intact for those few programs that can't handle redirected folders. I found that Windows 7 networking and Media Player have some quirks that seem to cause issues if one doesn't redirect the entire C:\Users structure to the D: drive. And don't rename the core folders, e.g. "\Users", "\My Documents", etc.How did you do this redirection? Unattended setup scripts, vLite, ... ?-phillfri (February 11, 2010, 08:35 AM)
No. Between 0001 on Feb 1 until 0500 GMT today.Ah, phew-Markham (February 11, 2010, 05:23 AM)
) correct: you open the virtual COM ports with CreateFile, specying a name of \\.\COMx (for ports less than 10 you can use COM1, .. COM9 directly, but you might as well make the code generic).maybe he's tested it already.Nope, but it looks like it might be worth testing - I indeed want v2p-nudone (February 08, 2010, 06:06 AM)
That's fair trade.Not to be confused with FairTrade, which means paying more for less, for all those smug bastards.-Stoic Joker (February 06, 2010, 12:12 PM)
huh? pondering? i think the only reason you do not ponder is the fact that windows doesn't even give you a frickin' choice in the default setting.This is a perfectly fine default Windows Update setting, considering the majority of Windows users aren't techies. And the rest of us can set the update policy to "download and notify" or "notify only".
"there's updates to be installed, you have to reboot". pardon me, what kind of updates? ohh, i see, keep protecting the stupid user from too much info :/-gjehle (February 07, 2010, 07:40 AM)
anyway, i haven't managed to break a linux system beyond usability or anything i wasn't able to fix myself right away in ages.You haven't managed to break a system beyond usability, but you got your gentoo stuck in un-updatable dependency hell?
hell, i was even running a un-updatable gentoo system stuck in dependency hell for a year (neglecting updates on gentoo for more than half a year is no good idea) without problems.-gjehle (February 07, 2010, 07:40 AM)
Chrome is just so much quicker and snappier, especially on my low-end netbook and even more so on my high end x64 dell laptop.I find that with FireFox 3.6, much of the speed gap has been closed between FF and Chrome.-Josh (February 05, 2010, 08:53 AM)
I've noticed that going through a junction does cause a speed hiccup- and it doesn't always refresh the directories.Hm, interesting - I can't OTOH think of a reason junctions should cause speed hiccups... they might involve an extra ACL lookup, and the need to read FS metadata for the destination could introduce a little disk seeking. But enough to cause a hiccup? Hmm!-wraith808 (February 04, 2010, 09:27 AM)
Why delete any files in any folder or drive? Why not ask the user to point to an empty folder and make it there responsibility to provide the clean folder. CircleDock checks the folder provided to make sure its empty, if not popup a warning that the operation could not be completed.QFT.
CircleDock is not an application that a user would expect to be deleting anything from their drive, regardless of warning boxes.-Veign (February 04, 2010, 09:50 AM)
. All versions previous to 1.4 saves directly to your executable, which means a crash, network failure, pesky antivirus application, (...) can cause the save to fail, and our old data being overwritten. Newer versions save to a temporary file first, and only overwrite the original once the temporary file is fully saved.i can use recuva, butthen i dont want to copy te recovred data backto the drive since then it's too late to try another one to seeif it could do better.Never, never EVER restore to the same partition! Always restore elsewhere, if you want to have a decent chance of getting your data back. I know this can be a major problem, but it's the only way to get reliable recoveries. Heck, I'll go as far as saying you should image the "bad" partition, so you don't get any more changes to it (and the you can of course restore from the image to the "bad" partition).-thegipper (February 03, 2010, 05:12 PM)
So if you point this application, with both options checked to a drive letter (say: I:/) It will promptly go ahead and wipe the entire drive of all data!Not having any confirmations before deleting files is bad-sgtevmckay (February 03, 2010, 06:16 PM)
- why does the app even have such a feature in the first place? I'm trying to create a SymLink now, but it won't let me create one for a directory that already exists.Indeed not, that would be pertty disastrous-Deozaan (February 02, 2010, 09:29 PM)
. You can make a junction for each application you're going to install, but this is obviously going to be a bit painful.Another example is that I keep my documents and other profile information on my D drive, but Windows won't let me remove the C:\Users\ directory, all the real data is in D:\Users\To do this, you'd have to boot from BartPE or similar, move the folder to the destination, then create the junction. I'm not sure it's a good idea trying to move C:\Users this way, though.-Deozaan (February 02, 2010, 09:29 PM)