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Which ATi Drivers Support What?

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Adam

There’s been a little bit of confusion over some of ATi/AMD’s Catalyst drivers and what each one supports, so I’ll go over them here in the blog briefly. Catalyst 5.11 is one of the older “safe” driver sets, and one of the last to come with the ATi Control Panel, rather than the .NET Catalyst…Read More »

Convert OGG files to MP3s

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Adam

It appears that there was some confusion over the mention I made of free OGG files and how to convert them to regular MP3s in the PC Mechanic Newsletter #162. I tried to be as brief, yet as informative as possible, so I’ll go into OGG files and the conversion process in more detail. Basically,…Read More »

Convert Files to PDF

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Adam

PDF (Portable Document Format) files can be fairly useful. They’re standardized so that no matter what Operating System or reader software you use, they are all displayed in the same way (you can use FoxIt, Sumatra, or Adobe Reader). For instance, if you have an MS Word document, but the person you need to show…Read More »

Create a Simple Backup System: Part III – Automating the Backup

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Adam

Scheduling an automatic backup will be the last step in this series of the Simple Backup System (be sure to take a look at Part I and Part II before diving into this one). Through the course of both articles, in order to perform a backup, you have needed to do it manually. The downside…Read More »

Create a Simple Backup System: Part II

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Adam

You should have had the chance to give the “Create a Simple Backup System” a whirl by now, but if not, you should probably at least read it first because I’ll be pressing right ahead with the next step of the process: backing up multiple directories with one .bat file! So, last time you should…Read More »

Create a Simple Backup System

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Adam

If you’re like most computer users these days, backups are nearly non-existent in your little digital work area. Here’s something that will take maybe 15 minutes of your time to figure out, which will allow you to backup a good portion (or all; if you want to go that far) of your stuff. The time…Read More »

How to use AutoPatcher

Posted on June 18, 2006 by Adam

It appears that there has been some interest in using this handy tool instead of relying on MS for Windows updates, especially if you may have use for the updates again on other machines or because of a reformat. However, there has also been a bit of confusion on how to get it and install…Read More »

Data, Where Art Thou?

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Adam

As mentioned in my previous blog entries, I was working on getting a fresh installation of XP SP2 up and running on my primary workstation. For those of you who were interested in the unattended installation process, no, the drivers did not install. Apparently, the *.inf files needed to be in the root of each…Read More »

Finishing the Automation Game

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Adam

In my last blog entry, I wrote the generalized process I had to go through to create an unattended install CD for Windows XP SP2. Today, I’ll go through that in more detail. Before I do, let me point out the site I used as a primary reference: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/1/ Unattended install The first step I…Read More »

Starting the Automation Game

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Adam

As I mentioned in the newsletter and a past blog post, I felt it was time to reformat my Operating System and start fresh. I was currently running XP Pro SP1, which remained more or less untouched by hotfixes (aside from some of the really critical ones). I’ve always been wary of applying significant Operating…Read More »

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