These guys not only provided the HP USB drive utility, but DOS
files to go with it...
http://www.lowfps.com/creating-a-bootable-usb-thumb-drive
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Large Drive Formatting in XP or 2000
To see a larger size hard drive >137 GB in Windows 2000 you must have SP4 installed and the EnableBigLba flag set to 1 in the registry...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098
For Windows XP, you must have SP1 installed with EnableBigLba set to 1...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013
Both O/Ss expect a 48bit LBA-compatible BIOS.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098
For Windows XP, you must have SP1 installed with EnableBigLba set to 1...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013
Both O/Ss expect a 48bit LBA-compatible BIOS.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Remote Desktop
I am always asked for methods of accessing your desktop remotely, some
good programs are...
TeamViewer (easy to use, highly recommended):
http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx
RealVNC:
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/download.html
Windows RDP (included with XP, Vista, 7):
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx
good programs are...
TeamViewer (easy to use, highly recommended):
http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx
RealVNC:
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/download.html
Windows RDP (included with XP, Vista, 7):
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Backup & Restoring of AOL saved PFC cabinet files
Use the following directions backup your Personal Filing Cabinet...
To backup mail in your AOL Saved on My PC filing cabinet:
•Search your computer for a file called "(your AOL screen name).abi".
•If your screen name is "myscreenname", for example, search for a file called "myscreenname.abi".
•You should find it in a folder called organize. A typical location is "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\C_America Online 9.0\organize". You can go to this folder directly, too.
•Go up one directory, to the C_America Online 9.0 folder.
•For other versions of AOL, the folder name may be different. In any case, go up one directory from the organize folder.
•Highlight the organize folder.
•Select Edit | Copy from the menu of the Explorer window.
•Open the desired backup location (a CD or DVD, another hard disk, a network location or a USB stick, for example) in Explorer.
•Select Edit | Paste from the menu.
To backup mail in your AOL Saved on My PC filing cabinet:
•Search your computer for a file called "(your AOL screen name).abi".
•If your screen name is "myscreenname", for example, search for a file called "myscreenname.abi".
•You should find it in a folder called organize. A typical location is "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\C_America Online 9.0\organize". You can go to this folder directly, too.
•Go up one directory, to the C_America Online 9.0 folder.
•For other versions of AOL, the folder name may be different. In any case, go up one directory from the organize folder.
•Highlight the organize folder.
•Select Edit | Copy from the menu of the Explorer window.
•Open the desired backup location (a CD or DVD, another hard disk, a network location or a USB stick, for example) in Explorer.
•Select Edit | Paste from the menu.
How to Restore Locally-saved AOL email
To recover mail and other AOL data from a "Saved on My PC" copy:
•Log on to AOL with your screen name at least once to create the user mail
profile, then make sure AOL is not currently running.
•Search your computer for a file called "(your AOL screen name).abi".
•If your screen name is "myscreenname", for example, search for a file called "myscreenname.abi".
•You should find it in a folder called organize under "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\C_America Online 9.1\organize", although some variation in the path has been noticed from time-to-time.
•Go up one directory, to the C_America Online 9.1 folder.
•For other versions of AOL, the folder name may be different. In any case, go up one directory from the organize folder.
•Rename the organize folder "organize.save".
•Go up another directory.
•Open the folder containing the backup copy of your old organize folder in a new Explorer window.
•Highlight the backup organize folder.
•Press Ctrl-C.
•Switch to the AOL folder window.
•Highlight C-America Online 9.1 or whatever the folder containing the organize.save folder is called on your system.
•Press Ctrl-V.
•Log on to AOL.
•If everything is back in place, delete the organize.save folder.
http://email.about.com/od/aoltips/qt/et042206.htm
•Log on to AOL with your screen name at least once to create the user mail
profile, then make sure AOL is not currently running.
•Search your computer for a file called "(your AOL screen name).abi".
•If your screen name is "myscreenname", for example, search for a file called "myscreenname.abi".
•You should find it in a folder called organize under "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\C_America Online 9.1\organize", although some variation in the path has been noticed from time-to-time.
•Go up one directory, to the C_America Online 9.1 folder.
•For other versions of AOL, the folder name may be different. In any case, go up one directory from the organize folder.
•Rename the organize folder "organize.save".
•Go up another directory.
•Open the folder containing the backup copy of your old organize folder in a new Explorer window.
•Highlight the backup organize folder.
•Press Ctrl-C.
•Switch to the AOL folder window.
•Highlight C-America Online 9.1 or whatever the folder containing the organize.save folder is called on your system.
•Press Ctrl-V.
•Log on to AOL.
•If everything is back in place, delete the organize.save folder.
http://email.about.com/od/aoltips/qt/et042206.htm
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Windows XP Rebuild & fixboot command
If your copy of XP will not boot, and even safe mode or LKGood cannot help you...
Try using the rebuild option...
Boot up from XP setup disk and enter recovery console...
cd \
attrib -h -r -s boot.ini
copy boot.ini boot.ini.old
delete boot.ini
chkdsk
bootcfg /rebuild
fixboot
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185301251&pgno=2&queryText=&isPrev=
Try using the rebuild option...
Boot up from XP setup disk and enter recovery console...
cd \
attrib -h -r -s boot.ini
copy boot.ini boot.ini.old
delete boot.ini
chkdsk
bootcfg /rebuild
fixboot
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185301251&pgno=2&queryText=&isPrev=
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Fedora auto-login
Modify the /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas file to have the following...
AutomaticLoginEnable setting at true
AutomaticLogin set with the actual system login - do NOT use the friendly
or full name
Reboot and the system will enter Gnome desktop automatically.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=220794
AutomaticLoginEnable setting at true
AutomaticLogin set with the actual system login - do NOT use the friendly
or full name
Reboot and the system will enter Gnome desktop automatically.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=220794
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