Archive for February, 2009
Junction points (NTFS reparse point) to put it simply, are a filesystem folder whose contents have been directed to another folder.
Junction points have many advantages over shortcuts, the main one being programs will treat the junction point excalty the same as a normal folder.
I found a useful program to create Juction Points
Windows 7 doesnt have a quicklaunch bar enabled by default.
I found a way of making a toolbar that does the same thing.
First unlock the taskbar, right click it and select properties…
Then unlock the toolbar…
Now create a new tool bar…
Create a folder called quicklaunch and use it as the toolbars folder..
Now right click the new tool bar and disable “show text” and “show title”…
Done now you can drag it to the left hand side if you want or leave it there.
Just drag and drop folders onto it to create quick launch items.
A client resized a partition using a free piece of software. he found on the net.
He did a scandisk (chkdisk) before he ran the resize, but he should have run it twice.
Because there where still errors on the partition, so the resize stopped halfway through.
So he ended up with a resized partition full of files that are garbage.
Lucky the file recover software I used saw the old partition and is now pulling the files off it, and they seem to be working.
By default Winamp ignores any multimedia keys on your keyboard.
To enable them, go to options, preferences.
Select the general options tab, then Global Hotkeys.
And the click the boxes…”Enable Default multimedia keys”, and “Enabled”
You really check should with your domain registrar.
And make sure your Domain or domains, is locked.
If your Domain is locked it cant be transferred on another owner untll its unlocked. There have been cases of unlocked domains being stolen from their owners
I just brought a old motherboard (MSI KT6V-LSR) to use in a NAS server.
Its on board SATA could not detect any of my SATA drives.
At first I thought great the on-board sata is dead.
Well I had a closer look at the drives and one had a jumper setting to limit the drive to 1.5 gbs per sec i.e Sata 1. Sata 2 runs at 3 gbps.
With the drive limited to SATA 1 the drive worked fine with the boards on board sata.
How ever one of the drives a Samsung, had no jumper setting after some research I found out, you have use a boot disk called ES-tool with allows you to switch the drive to SATA 1. Now the drive works fine.
All data written do a disk is done so in chunks, these chunks are called Clusters.
They are also called File Allocation Units in windows.