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Living Room / website maker?

« Last post by techidave on May 20, 2010, 05:44 AM »

is there an easy way to tell what software was used to make a website?  Like if Joomla or Wordpress was used to create it.  I see a lot of fantastic sites but don't know how to tell what was used.

thanks,
Dave

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: run programs first of the month

« Last post by techidave on May 08, 2010, 11:19 AM »

Thanks guys!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: run programs first of the month

« Last post by techidave on May 07, 2010, 05:37 AM »

ok, go for it

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: run programs first of the month

« Last post by techidave on May 07, 2010, 05:28 AM »

Running in the background would be ok if the footprint was small enough.

No Target, I don't have a "firm list" yet but this is what I was thinking.

Malwarebytes
Superantispyware
spyware blaster
empty recycle bin
defrag

Windows updates can run on its own as can Microsoft's Security Essentials. 

At the moment I cannot think of anything else.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: run programs first of the month

« Last post by techidave on May 06, 2010, 09:12 PM »

I have an idea for a coding snack that I put on client's computers who have problems "maintaining" their computers like I think they should.

The idea would be to have a program that would start Malwarebytes, check and install updates, and then do a quick scan of the local hard drive.
Once Malwarebyes is done then it would then it would empty the recycle bin, empty temp internet files and run the defrag program.

I know alot of these could be scheduled but then I would have to set that up and I have no guarantee that it will even run on schedule like it should.  So I was thinking of putting a folder on the desktop that says run this 1st of the month and it would then have the shortcuts in there that they would run.
But the problem is they are technology illiterate. 

not sure how to search google for this but I thought maybe it wouldn't be too difficult for someone to whip something up. 

Any takers?

Dave

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on April 23, 2010, 06:39 AM »

I just found out about SyncButler from Kim Komando today.  But I haven't tried it yet.Link

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General Software Discussion / Re: Meeting minutes/action item software recommendations?

« Last post by techidave on April 20, 2010, 07:53 PM »

What a good idea!  I never thought of looking for something like this before.  Maybe someone will find a freeware offering sometime.

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Living Room / Re: Pure Boredom Post: The 3 Word Story Game

« Last post by techidave on April 18, 2010, 09:33 PM »

then I would

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Living Room / Re: usb hard drive problems

« Last post by techidave on April 12, 2010, 08:14 PM »

Your are correct, Seagate owns them and I have used their software before.

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Living Room / Re: usb hard drive problems

« Last post by techidave on April 12, 2010, 06:50 PM »

I suppose the manufacturer of the hard drive's software would be the best one to use.  I am familiar with Western Digital and Seagate but not the rest so not sure how those might work.

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Living Room / Re: usb hard drive problems

« Last post by techidave on April 11, 2010, 07:53 PM »

I guess maybe I wasn't patient enough with chkdsk.  It went from barely started phase 4 to45 minutes later being almost done with phase 5.

I looked at defraggler but i believe it only checks for errors.

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Living Room / Re: usb hard drive problems

« Last post by techidave on April 11, 2010, 06:38 PM »

thanks for the suggestions.  do your suggestions also fix the errors?

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Living Room / usb hard drive problems

« Last post by techidave on April 11, 2010, 05:26 PM »

I have a Maxtor One Touch External hard drive and now Windows says I should run chkdsk on it to fix errors.  The problem with Windows XP's chkdsk utility is it takes so long that I wonder if it has locked up or something.

Is there a freeware utility out there other than the manufacturer's software that will do this???

Dave

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Living Room / Re: How do *you* tell when your OS is booted/ready?

« Last post by techidave on April 06, 2010, 03:27 PM »

When my foot is stuck in the monitor?

-Darwin (April 06, 2010, 12:07 PM)

 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on March 31, 2010, 05:24 AM »

I will check it out.  Thanks Phil.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on March 29, 2010, 09:34 AM »

I will check it out.  Maybe a checkbox to show this column on the report.  Perhaps everyone won't want to see this info.

thanks for considering it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Page Countster

« Last post by techidave on March 29, 2010, 09:02 AM »

Hey Joker, how is it going.  I just had an idea maybe to enhance this project.  I often times will rescan my printers once a month or so and choose to save the previous scans so they show up in the list.  But I don't remember when I last scanned them.

Is is possible to add the date scanned to the fields of data collected?

thanks,
Dave

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Living Room / Re: Windows doesn't recognize HDD.

« Last post by techidave on March 23, 2010, 12:51 PM »

Thanks for clarifying.  I knew there was 2 different drives but i guess I didn't make the change to the third one like I should have.

I need to try TestDisk since I have been getting more computers in that cannot read the drives.  I had been told to use a linux cd to boot to but hadn't had any luck that way.

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Living Room / Re: Windows doesn't recognize HDD.

« Last post by techidave on March 23, 2010, 05:16 AM »

So how was the win98 boot cd different than using any other kind of a "live cd"?  I was under the impression if the HD didn't show up under the BIOS, it wouldn't show up under anything.  Reply #12 says the BIOS didn't see the HD.

maybe my information is wrong?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on March 22, 2010, 02:51 PM »

Thanks guys.  I hadn't read the gizmo review.  i will also read the article Miles referred to as well.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on March 22, 2010, 02:24 PM »

Well, I still would like compression, but perhaps I don't need it as bad as I think I do?? 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on March 22, 2010, 01:41 PM »

I have just found a program called PureSync that almost does what I want.  The free version does not support compression and it doesn't have the reminder window pop up to ask if you want to copy.  but it does have the option to autostart when you plug the flash drive in.

it looks like it will be faster than the script that was created for me.  But I am on a desktop now and not on the laptop like I was yesterday.

After I setup the job using their wizard, IT WORKED!   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on March 22, 2010, 06:01 AM »

Actually Shades, we only use XP Pro on our network.  With the budget crunch, I doubt that we will be purchasing anything newer in the near future.  I was testing the script on one machine and it took hours to copy the 14gb over to the c drive.  Of courses, i was aware it wasn't going to be quick.

Target:  I was testing it only on one machine yesterday.  I usually use USBDLM to manage flash drives since our network has multiple drives mapped upon login.  I believe I can use USBDLM to give it the same drive letter everytime but will need to check that out.  but the laptop I was testing on does not have USBDLM installed on it.

Since my experience with Windows Backup is limited, not sure if it can do what you say or not. It would be nice to have saved a full backup and then just do changes only.

I cannot say for sure about how often I would do this since part of the problem is the frequency in which I plug it in.  I may go for a week or more and not plug it in and then it may get plugged in to the same machine 5 times in one day.

Which is why I want it to ask me before before it actually backs up just in case I don't have time for it to run.

I did try the one USB Flash Tools that Phil recommended but it cannot open the source file for some reason.  I have selected the correct drive.  Not sure how to fix this one.

I have not tried the USBDumper program yet.

I just thought this would be an easy no brainer for someone to whip out in a few minutes short amount of time, but guess i was wrong.  You know something like the USB Flash tools does... select the source, then select the destination, then select your compression method. Also to select full or changes only since last time(is this too much?) boom!  it starts!  

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on March 21, 2010, 07:13 PM »

thanks for the help deozaan.  I appreciate it.

I didn't realize this whole ordeal was going to be this difficult or involved.  I figured that some of the coders here would whip something up in a short order without me trying to troubleshoot several programs getting it to work.  As you can tell, programming or coding is not my strong area.

I don't know if shades script has the ability to do copy only the changes that were made on the usb drive instead of copying the whole thing everytime.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: usb drive backup program

« Last post by techidave on March 21, 2010, 06:25 PM »

That must have been it... the spaces that is.  now it is working.