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The ssd thing is still kind of iffy as to what is a good one and what is not right now. I still might get one depending on how fast this new rig is without it. You know before I start filling up the new hard drive.
And I got a 500GB and a 250GB seagate that I use for my WDTV player so I am going to make an image and store it on one of those two.
I'm going to keep my old computer as a test dummy for new software before I put it on the new shit by the way!
That's another reason I am going through all these programs. Testing them to at least see if I like them. After tomorrow this old one can burn in hell for all I care so I'm running everything on it. Old one is 32bit and the new one will be 64bit but I can at least get a feel for shit.![]()
marking thread for later use
for me - i use ccleaner, that's the business.
this 7zip may be worth looking into also...right now i use alzip
not really into too many of the others...you get to the point of diminishing returns with all these products on your computer...at a point, it just gums up the works. my m.o. now is to find the simplest thing that works, and stick with it until a clearly superior (and simple) app knocks it out the box
Sure you have.
Perhaps that is true... and not the face-saving ploy I assume it to be.
In any event, I have downloaded hundreds, if not thousands, of files in that .001, .002 .003 format, where the poster expressly instructs one to join the files using Hjsplit, and in every instance 7-zip has rather smugly joined and decompressed the file and then looked at me like, what?
nah leave that crap alone.
go here
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=358028&highlight=easy+cd-da+extractor
and since we're talking software recommendations i suggest you get a program to mount images (alcohol 120%, power iso, iso buster, etc)
I'm collecting shit now. It's supposed to be here tomorrow so I'm doing the fine tuning on what I'm going to put on it. Going to clean it first with PC-Decrapifier and Revo Unistaller. Then running CCleaner. I downloaded a copy of Acronis to make a back-up after I clean it and then I'm starting in with the essentials like codec packs (can't remember which ones I need!) and drivers.
ZT Affinity 7351Ma
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11504954
Processor & Memory:
* AMD Phenom™ II X4 Processor 955 (3.2GHz)
* AMD 760G / SB710 chipset
* 8GB DDR3 SDRAM memory (16GB Max, 4 DIMMS)
Drives:
* 1.5TB (7,200RPM) SATA Hard Drive
* 22x max DVD±RW optical drive
* Front panel 19-in-1 multimedia card reader
Graphics & Video:
* Integrated ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 graphics
Communications:
* 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Audio:
* 8-channel capable audio with Jack Sensing
Sure you have.
Perhaps that is true... and not the face-saving ploy I assume it to be.
Hey nice system their Andey, if you don't mind me asking, but how come you went with the AMD system ? Great Specs nevertheless, should've waited though AMD just released their 890GX chipset, ah well good specs nonetheless !![]()
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So what about installing programs? I mean if I have a program (such as MS Office Enterprise which I will be putting on the new machine) can I install it from Alcohol too?
Cot-damn you. You figured it out. I lied on an anonymous message board to get e-props from people I'll never meet.![]()
Yep. I use Virtual Clonedrive instead of Alcohol, but it does the same shit. When you mount an .iso, the computer thinks it's a disc in a drive.
This is the method that I use to install OSes in Virtualbox, i.e. from an .iso, instead of burning a physical DVD... which is, in 2010, some bullshit.
Actually I was going back in forth with the intel system in the other thread but when I went to check on both of them the intel was sold out and the amd was on sale. All things being equal...![]()
As per usual, I was being facetious.
I Picked Up A Copy Of Maximum PC Yesterday and it came with this cd full of shit I've never heard of.
Supposed to be helpful utilities. Some I know and some I have no clue. Anybody use any of this?
7-Zip
CCleaner
Exact Audio Copy
ImgBurn
Secunia PSI
Audacity
GIMP![]()
This is the shit.
Virtualbox (formerly Sun, now Oracle) I use this to run virtualized instances of XP and various 'nices (i.e. Unices) on top of Vista 64. Any iffy software goes onto a sandboxed instance of XP. If it's dodgy, I can return the virtual XP to pristine condition by recovering from a snapshop image.
This is also very much the shit.
Clonezilla
Last year decided I was only going to use open source and/or free programs. No more hacked or cracked shit on my computer. The stuff listed is essential to maintaining my philosophy
Imgburn eliminates the need for the proprietary nero software. Burns everything nero burns and more and is light as a feather on your system.
For CD ripping, PLEASE only use EAC. Absolutely the best there is on a windows system. None other comes close except dbPoweramp. Which is almost as great too, but MP3 support is not free. So don't fuck with it. If they can charge for MP3, they can charge for all of it. Other (windows) rippers do not compare and are a distant 2nd. WMP is the worse at ripping. You're better off using Winamp
To your list I would add audio player Foobar2000. For archiving, organizing, burning, converting audio files, it's the best. Better than Itunes because it doesn't dump all the bullshit in your registry and is light as a feather on resources. And now it also has ripping capabilities with Accuraterip support which means it surpasses all other rippers and joins dbPoweramp as #2
Gimp is good, but Gimpshop is a little more user friendly.
any program that i currently use i have have on my drive.
power iso with keygen
http://rapidshare.com/files/358603435/poweriso_4.5.rar
if you dont like the speed of copying and moving large files, i recommend TeraCopy. Its blazing fast and easy to use. I drag a 10gb blu ray movies from a usb connected hd to another usb hd in about 90 seconds. if you have esata its even faster.
I aslo use CCCleaner and Keepass
Hey nice system their Andey, if you don't mind me asking, but how come you went with the AMD system ? Great Specs nevertheless, should've waited though AMD just released their 890GX chipset, ah well good specs nonetheless !![]()
Teracopy anyone?![]()
if you dont like the speed of copying and moving large files, i recommend TeraCopy. Its blazing fast and easy to use. I drag a 10gb blu ray movies from a usb connected hd to another usb hd in about 90 seconds. if you have esata its even faster.
I aslo use CCCleaner and Keepass