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Main Forums => Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap => Topic started by: xolik on January 29, 2010, 05:59:29 PM
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I wanted to kick off a thread that we can use to post general tech tips we've come across in our lives. Simple tricks you've learned to optimize systems and unusual fixes you've stumbled across for problems.
I'll get this trainwreck started!
If you're running a Windows OS, like me, and like to keep your "C" drive as lean as possible, one good way to trim up about one gig of disk space is to relocate the Windows\ServicePackFiles folder.
You could just flat out delete the folder, but that's not recommended because if Windows needs to repair a system file, it'll try to pull a copy of it from that folder and if it's not there, it'll ask for the service pack CD, which you probably won't have handy.
What I've done is a cut and paste job on the ServicePackFiles folder and dumped it onto my secondary hard drive. Then you'll need to make a small change to the registry to point to where you moved the folder to. The value you're looking for is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SourcePath" and yes, this can be a UNC value. You'll want to update the ServicePackCachePath and ServicePackSourcePath values as well.
Of course, if you'd still like to get rid of it entirely, you could just burn that folder onto a CD or DVD and use that if Windows ever requests it.
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Anyone know how to make Chrome play an mp3 link instead of trying to download it when you left click on it? I download with right-click>Save As; but all of a sudden left-clicking an mp3 link tries to Save. I don't want that; I just want to listen. No idea what I may have done to change anything; I havent done anything intentionally.
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I need office 2007 for a class, and it wont install. my computer came with a trial version, but I got rid of that months ago, and now that Ive actually bought the stupid thing it won't install. it just says it encountered an error during setup, no error code or anything. I hate MS.
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I need office 2007 for a class, and it wont install. my computer came with a trial version, but I got rid of that months ago, and now that Ive actually bought the stupid thing it won't install. it just says it encountered an error during setup, no error code or anything. I hate MS.
I suspect you have some leftover registry entries on your comp that thinks the trial version is still hanging around. Have you tried a registry cleaner on it? I've used Abexo free version and it worked pretty well. Of course you should always back up your registry before messing with it. Fortunately the program will do that for you as well.
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CCleaner is a good one! Also backs up your registry before cleaning it up a bit. It has some other features that clean up old browser / Windows files.
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tried ccleaner. didnt work. lots of other crap cleaned up though.
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format and reinstall windows then office '07
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my sisters boyfriend emailed me yesterday about the exact same thing!
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format and reinstall windows then office '07
...yeah...like that's an option...
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I've found that if your using DOS 6.0 you can make a batch file. I called it d.bat and put it into the c:/dos The contents were something like dir /w /p
So to get the contents in a nice orderly listing I'd just type d where ever I was instead of wasting my time typing out dir
I hope that helps someone out there. :lol:
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Oh, for corn's sake.
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Tool.bat
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My thoughts exactly.
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hehe... Im gonna start using that term.
"You're 'bout as fucked up as a toolbat" instead of football bat.