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I subjected my hard disk (C drive) to a disk scan and found that there was 12 KB of bad sectors. I now consider that disk to be unreliable, and am looking forward to transferring all my data to another file. The problem is, I want to clone the complete drive (including the apps, OSes, files…
Does a program exist to record all upload / download usage for a personal computer? So I can reset it at some stage, and then use the internet, and then look at how much data has been sent/received? Solution: I use a little Delphi program I found for specifics like this, appropriately named Network Traffic…
When I start up my computer Windows XP sees my DVD drive, but as time goes on, at some point, it no longer detects the drive. If I reboot my machine, then my drive is detected again for some amount of time until it disappears again. What could be the culprit here? How do I…
Free Software for the Partition Manager on Windows XP/vista? Solution: Try GParted Live. You can create a Boot CD and use that to work with partitions.
I would like to monitor all and any Internet traffic from my home PC to see what programs installed on my home machine are accessing the Internet. I thought I could use Fiddler for this, but I noticed Firefox traffic doesn’t show up by default; you need to do some setup. What options do I…
When opening the Services control panel applet it opens on the Extended tab by default. I find that tab wastes a great deal of real estate for no real value-added. All the same information is available on the Standard tab already, without the superfluous whitespace. Can anyone tell me if it’s possible, and how, to…
Can anyone recommend a disk access utility, preferably free, that will allow me to see what percentage of my hard drive access bandwidth is being used? Windows Task Manager shows CPU usage. That was fine, back in the day, when the CPU was the bottleneck, but these days it’s typically the hard drive that slows…
On Windows XP, when I try and delete a specific file it says: Cannot delete blah.blah: Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. How can I go around this warning and delete it anyway? Solution: To successfully delete a locked file, you will…
Part 1 is here if anyone is interested:Clone or Image a PC I’ve got 100 PC’s to setup. Is it possible to set up 1 of these PC’s with software, drivers, settings, configs, licenses etc, then clone/image exactly the same setup onto the other computers where each computer would have a different computer name,…
I have six MP3 files I would like to put on a CD. They should be playable in all stereos so I guess I would need them in WAV format(?). I have Windows XP. What is the easiest way to make my CD? Solution: You don’t need to do any conversion. You can use CDBurnerXP:…
