Q.
A. When you format your hard disk run Fdisk to create partitions.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348
If you want to partition a drive without formatting you will need a partition editor.
Gnome Partition Editor (free) Support Vista: Yes
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data
http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
http://gparted.free.fr/screenshots/VISTA/Howto_move_VISTA.html
Partition Logic (free) Support Vista: Yes: Some limitations
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/manual/vista.html
Norton Partition Magic (buy $69.95) (Support Vista: NO)
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80
http://reviews.cnet.com/disk-management-and-compression/norton-partitionmagic-8/4505-3684_7-30911285.html?tag=prod.txt.2
Acronis® Disk Director Suite 10.0 (buy $49.95)Support Vista: Yes
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
http://reviews.cnet.com/utility-suites/acronis-disk-director-suite/4505-3690_7-32305676.html?tag=prod.txt.1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B000BB46JY/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_top/002-6499297-7988049?ie=UTF8&n=229534&s=software#customerReviews
Partition Commander (buy $49.95) Support Vista: Yes
http://www.v-com.com/product/Partition_Commander_Home.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/desktop-management/avanquest-partition-commander-professional/4505-8055_7-32305622.html?tag=prod.txt.1
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Partitions are a big waste of time. Get more ram, a faster video card, another hard drive. The only reason to use partitions is if you are installing more than one operating system.
1) You disk will not be measurably faster. You will waste a lot of time setting the partition up, readjusting partition size later as I guarantee you will not correctly guess the size you need. In addition when you need to find something your will need to search all 3 drives. Check, scan, clean, and defragment 3 drives.
2) Some people claim that your data is safer. If you are keeping data on a hard drive with no external back ups , with or without its own partition you are taking a foolish risk.
You can reformat the operating system without altering the program and data partitions. The newly installed operating system will require all the programs be reinstalled. You are also taking the assumption and risk that the spyware/viruses did not infect all the partitions.
Myth 7: You have to partition a large hard drive and/or defrag it often to get the best performance.
http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=4868943&page=4
Storage: Partitions increase speed?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7588_102-0.html?forumID=70&threadID=131867&messageID=1487511
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/make-run-faster-ftopict234885.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348
If you want to partition a drive without formatting you will need a partition editor.
Gnome Partition Editor (free) Support Vista: Yes
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data
http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
http://gparted.free.fr/screenshots/VISTA/Howto_move_VISTA.html
Partition Logic (free) Support Vista: Yes: Some limitations
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/manual/vista.html
Norton Partition Magic (buy $69.95) (Support Vista: NO)
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80
http://reviews.cnet.com/disk-management-and-compression/norton-partitionmagic-8/4505-3684_7-30911285.html?tag=prod.txt.2
Acronis® Disk Director Suite 10.0 (buy $49.95)Support Vista: Yes
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
http://reviews.cnet.com/utility-suites/acronis-disk-director-suite/4505-3690_7-32305676.html?tag=prod.txt.1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B000BB46JY/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_top/002-6499297-7988049?ie=UTF8&n=229534&s=software#customerReviews
Partition Commander (buy $49.95) Support Vista: Yes
http://www.v-com.com/product/Partition_Commander_Home.html
http://reviews.cnet.com/desktop-management/avanquest-partition-commander-professional/4505-8055_7-32305622.html?tag=prod.txt.1
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Partitions are a big waste of time. Get more ram, a faster video card, another hard drive. The only reason to use partitions is if you are installing more than one operating system.
1) You disk will not be measurably faster. You will waste a lot of time setting the partition up, readjusting partition size later as I guarantee you will not correctly guess the size you need. In addition when you need to find something your will need to search all 3 drives. Check, scan, clean, and defragment 3 drives.
2) Some people claim that your data is safer. If you are keeping data on a hard drive with no external back ups , with or without its own partition you are taking a foolish risk.
You can reformat the operating system without altering the program and data partitions. The newly installed operating system will require all the programs be reinstalled. You are also taking the assumption and risk that the spyware/viruses did not infect all the partitions.
Myth 7: You have to partition a large hard drive and/or defrag it often to get the best performance.
http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=4868943&page=4
Storage: Partitions increase speed?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7588_102-0.html?forumID=70&threadID=131867&messageID=1487511
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/make-run-faster-ftopict234885.html
Screen Shots?
Q. Is it possible to set up the computer so it regularly saves screenshots that can be retrieved later (ie to make sure employees aren't doing anything they aren't supposed to). if so, where do these screen shots get saved? or would i designate it myself when i program the computer to take the screenshots?
A. You can set up a simple Scheduled Task that takes a screen shot and saves it to a network drive somewhere.
But wouldn't it be easier to use Group Policies to lock down the PC and prevent the users from doing anything the SysAdmin doesn't want them doing? That's what we do. Internet access is by manager approval only and is limited by a GP at our proxy server. Only necessary network drives are mapped. Even for the employees who can get on the internet, they do not have local admin rights, so they can't install software (like games and stuff) - they have to call in to the Service Desk for installation assistance. Plus our installation routines leave out the games normally installed with Windows - with the users not having local admin rights they can't bring them back. Also without local admin rights, users can't bring in their USB flash drives from home and install software.
But wouldn't it be easier to use Group Policies to lock down the PC and prevent the users from doing anything the SysAdmin doesn't want them doing? That's what we do. Internet access is by manager approval only and is limited by a GP at our proxy server. Only necessary network drives are mapped. Even for the employees who can get on the internet, they do not have local admin rights, so they can't install software (like games and stuff) - they have to call in to the Service Desk for installation assistance. Plus our installation routines leave out the games normally installed with Windows - with the users not having local admin rights they can't bring them back. Also without local admin rights, users can't bring in their USB flash drives from home and install software.
i dun goof'd up?, found computer on floor. virus?
Q. Hi, i blacked out last night, and i found my computer on the floor, it was about desk height, now, i turned it on, and the moniter showed nothing, i disconnected the wires and the moniter said no cables connected, i reconnect it, it just shows like the power is off, so i turn it off, unplug everything, took out my videocard, put it back in, turned it on, and it was working, so i started to play WoW, it crashed on me, it gave me a error 132 it showed, i sent the info and checked their support, i got the link below, and it said something about my memory, maybe my ram is fooked? idk, so i continue try playing and then my computer starts acting up... i retried playing and my computer froze up, so i restarted, and it showed a bluescreen really quick and restarted,
so i was more confused, and it kept doing that, i couldnt get into safe mode, I am in safe mode networking right now, it just kept restarting before, so i clicked on last configuration instead of safe mode or normal, it started up. so i was back running, and i wanted to check what i was doing online last night, because i know how not to get a virus or torjans, i never get them unless i want one. all i was doing last night was on youtube and facebook when i restored my session, so i know i didnt download anything, and i do not have a anti-virus program, i checked with hijackthis and saw nothing out of the ordinary, my OS is even downloaded free off the net, its XP sp2, i didnt update the software because, i didnt buy the software, the only thing i bought on my system is a few games. everything worked yesterday,
so i took a screenshot when i restarted, its on photobucket if you want to see, idk how to link them, but i hope you can see them, anyway, after i loaded windows normally again it did auto shutdown under a minute, i tried taking a screenshot but i accidently didnt paste the image into ms paint, so im gonna try again, my question is,
Is it my ram? because of the fall?
Is it a virus or trojan?
and is there any programs to find out why its restarting and not allowing me to play my freakin games, i need my wow and bf2 fix, im high and i cant play them... any suggestions?
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21027&pageNumber=1&searchQuery=error+132
pics
http://s1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd362/castortroyxxv/?action=view¤t=untitledw.jpg
http://s1216.photobucket.com/home/castortroyxxv/index
ok i put the ram in the other slot, took out my wireless card and put it back in, so i boot windows, everything seems to be ok, but i play Starcraft, then it'll shutdown and restart. only when i play my games,
so i was more confused, and it kept doing that, i couldnt get into safe mode, I am in safe mode networking right now, it just kept restarting before, so i clicked on last configuration instead of safe mode or normal, it started up. so i was back running, and i wanted to check what i was doing online last night, because i know how not to get a virus or torjans, i never get them unless i want one. all i was doing last night was on youtube and facebook when i restored my session, so i know i didnt download anything, and i do not have a anti-virus program, i checked with hijackthis and saw nothing out of the ordinary, my OS is even downloaded free off the net, its XP sp2, i didnt update the software because, i didnt buy the software, the only thing i bought on my system is a few games. everything worked yesterday,
so i took a screenshot when i restarted, its on photobucket if you want to see, idk how to link them, but i hope you can see them, anyway, after i loaded windows normally again it did auto shutdown under a minute, i tried taking a screenshot but i accidently didnt paste the image into ms paint, so im gonna try again, my question is,
Is it my ram? because of the fall?
Is it a virus or trojan?
and is there any programs to find out why its restarting and not allowing me to play my freakin games, i need my wow and bf2 fix, im high and i cant play them... any suggestions?
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21027&pageNumber=1&searchQuery=error+132
pics
http://s1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd362/castortroyxxv/?action=view¤t=untitledw.jpg
http://s1216.photobucket.com/home/castortroyxxv/index
ok i put the ram in the other slot, took out my wireless card and put it back in, so i boot windows, everything seems to be ok, but i play Starcraft, then it'll shutdown and restart. only when i play my games,
A. I would turn your computer off, unplug and reseat your ram, and all other cards in your computer (except for the video card since you already did that, then try again.). It's not a virus.
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