As Jackie Chan said (and Falcon2000 under his avitar)
That way we will all flow together to make a river rather than a whole bunch of little drips.Quote:
Be Like Water
Yeah Yeah I know - who you calling a little drip. :D
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As Jackie Chan said (and Falcon2000 under his avitar)
That way we will all flow together to make a river rather than a whole bunch of little drips.Quote:
Be Like Water
Yeah Yeah I know - who you calling a little drip. :D
HI arty62, I suggest starting a build thread at the point you are at and you will be helped on your build. Your only responsibility is to ask questions when you need to.
You might start by posting your specs and at what point you are at and then a question or questions after that. :)
Hello all!
I've got absolutely nothing to add, that hasn't already been said, much more eloquently than I could hope to anyhow. :p
But, I'm just thrilled to pieces to see the Delta threads resurrected. And all these familiar faces. Good times....... good times.
Daizy
Hi Nix,
Or better yet - flow with the stream.
If their are enough drips a mighty river forms - :D :D Like it I do.
The point I am trying to make is to take this one step at a time, ask questions, plan your action and then implement. What has not been said is how each computer on the net is coming under increasing pressure good and bad. And each one of us can contend with what is out there and our computing experience will be enjoyable when we take a little time with oyr computers. :)
He sort of has go here
Daizy,
Great you are here. The Delta Crew is arising once again to the call. Kinda nice to see it too. :):)
I see that Nix, thanks. :)
Howdy ya'll... and good to see the Delta Threads back again :)
Security: A Firewall and Anti-Virus, it's kept up to date and running all the time (except when Gaming (Gaming PC is behind a ICS Gateway)).
OS Backup and Maintenance: Just my most recent Ghost Image... and a small 'Ram-Disk' for 'TIF's, History & Cookies' (when I reboot the contents of Ram-Disk are gone).
All i have on my C: Drive is my OS and small app installs, so it's small and all completely disposable for me (all my other data is on other partitions like others have mentioned)... so rather than having a heavy cleanup/maintenance schedule i can avoid it completely and just dump the OS and junk by restoring my recent image......
I only create another 'up to date' Ghost Image when i have enough useful programs to install to make it worthwhile... when i want to 'update' my image i always restore the recent one 1st then install new programs, tweak stuff and then make another NEW Ghost image for use next time i need a restore... this way my OS never ages or picks up unwanted clutter... and one maintenance plan (restoring my Ghost Image) is all that's needed for me to do whenever it needs it, a restored Ghost Image is also fully unfragmented too saving another job...
By having a Healthy Ghost image to restore to which has no junk programs, no clutter, no usage history, no spyware/addware or other forms of Temp files, but it has everything I need installed, there is no need for all these different kinds of maintenance/???ware removal etc... just a couple of Min's to restore my Ghost Image of Drive C: and i've always got a perfect OS.
That's my way, but like i said, everything on my C: is disposable, it's the way i like it...
All my other Data is on other partitions spread throughout my Drives, for data backup i categorize everything in folders and burn them to CD when they are 700MB worth, any important stuff i personally create or modify i keep another copy of on another drive and update it when i make changes... but my download folders arn't so important, so all i do there is catalog what's on the disk, that way if i do lose it at least i know what i've lost so i can d'load it again...
Another thing i've been experimenting with recently is XPlite, it's not exactly maintenance as such, but it sure gets rid of a lot of junk from XP and makes backups smaller, if u want ~500MB install size of XP for gaming or something then it's a real neat program (but, it's probably nothing that can't be done manually for the hardcore tweaker's).
Regards :)
Guess not, I haven't heard a peep about this. ;)Quote:
Did anyone tell Photolady that the only way to become a Delta Crew member was to post on a Delta Thread.
Anyway, I do almost all of what peeps have posted in here. scandisk about every three days, defrag once a week, "backup" nothing to backup on this 1.5gb hdd. I keep it streamlined. :D
I do scandisk in DOS, in my opinion, DOS does a better job. I still haven't figured out why defrag works better in safe mode than windows, but that is where I run it.
I also use Spybot Search & Destroy after a few days hard internet activity. And I use Norton Antivirus once a week, then Housecall about once every two weeks. I use cookie jar to contain those silly things. :D
Guess I'd better say hello....haven't got time to read it all yet.. :D
Good Morning All,
Hi LotusAstra - nice write up on what you do and why. The idea you and others have on what you put on "C" drive is good. Keep it smaller and more manageable. On the larger sized drives you certainly have the room to break up various catergories of data by putting the data chunks on various drives that you can make up by using one of the third party programs available.
Hi photolady - The Delta Crew info resides somewhere in the early Delta archives. Just cain't rightly remember where this morning. The sun is not even up yet here. :D :D Your method of how you back up, handle your security, and maintenence is nice. The idea of running in DOS or Safemode while doing certain of these tasks had not occurred to me. Interesting.
Anyone else do this and why?
Hi Kallikru, Hope you find time to catch up so we might be enlightened by some of your in depth knowledge of "stuff" you have. Sure glad you showed up. :) :)
I think we might let this part of finding out what people do for tasks on their computers go a bit longer so as to gather a bit more input. There has been some interesting talk.
If you, the reader, have not posted or have a question be sure to jump right in. We need all inputs as it helps all of us get better at this "stuff".
Later. :) :)
Goose...you had better start admitting somethings....a picture is worth a 1000 words....
I'm a Bit L8 but here @ last........Nice to see the Delta Thread up n running again....Before I begin......Everyone here has been a Great Help to me in the Past n Recent, THANKS ALL, have learnt quite a bit (albiet, i'm a slow learner)...Where Has DRMDJ gone, not seen him around for a long time!....
OK then------Hard Disk C:40Gbt> is Partitioned into Two.(1) is 14.7Gbt (lost 7 for some reason) & has my WinXP Pro + programs on it..
(2) E: is now Empty as from today, has 22 n half GBt on it..<this is for Odds n Sodds till they get Moved or Deleted.....
Hard Disk D: is a 20Gbt & is on an PCI ATA100 as a Master on it's own...<has got Downloaded Files, Gifs, CD Covers, n all sorts of litle files.....
Hard Disk F: is an 80Gbt non partitioned...<Has All my Music Files(MP3s) And Tones of Photos as JPGs & Tiffs.......These are Saved to CDR periodicly, (but not done 500 recent photos yet)...40Gbt Full...
I Do Not Ghost or Back-Up any Drive except what I save to CDR...reason: If n When worse comes to worse, I like to Put All my programs +OS on Fresh cause I might not Re-Install some progys.....
I DO NOT do Any Micro Updates EXECPT the Recent Virus Patches, to be on Safe Side....I did ALL the "Black Vipers Tweaks" n System Runs Great for It..(Highly Recomend anyone with XP Pro to use it).
I use Adaware, SpyBot, SpywareBlaster, Nortons 2003 Utilities, Nortons Internet Security (run an online scan twice a week as backup) Nortons Anti-Virus....Updates once a week....
CleanUp + defrag of C:Drive once a week n the others if n when they need it.....I Do NOT use NTFS, I use FAT32 on ALL my Drives...Why do I do that You Ask!!......I used my New 80Gbt Maxtor with NTFS n it went back to RAW after a week, plus some of my old progys would not work........
was a slight prob with the drive so exchanged it......Downloaded "MAXBLAST" from Maxtor n I recomend this to anyone who has a Maxtor Drive....It's Easy Peasy to Follow n Use for Formating etc.,....Downloaded a progy called "Paranoia 2002" n it gave ME Paranoia as i find it very complicated....Anyone Recomend it, if so how does it work!!....
That Will Do for Now Folks..........Keep Up the Good Work...
regards, Dennis...
I would say that was a problem with the hard drive. And I've never heard of any program that cared about what file system it was stored on. I think you should reconsider that decision, NTFS is a far more robust file system, and will allow you to access many more features of Win2K or XP.Quote:
I Do NOT use NTFS, I use FAT32 on ALL my Drives...Why do I do that You Ask!!......I used my New 80Gbt Maxtor with NTFS n it went back to RAW after a week, plus some of my old progys would not work........
NTFS vs FAT, which is right for you?
Oh and lot's of handy stuff in regards to tweaking comes from Axcel216
Hi All, Loks like we were a bit slow today - if everyones as busy as I was three is good.
Hi scarecrowdr, As a matter of fact DrMDJ is alive and very much kicking. He is aware of this thread. Just finish talking with him. He will be around - never fear. A good write up you did also. Black Viper site is good. But why no updates?
Supersparks, could you expand on NTFS and how you use it and a little more on the personal reasons why? We said early on all we use we use differently. And we are seeing some big differences. But the results seem to be good whatever method is used.
Nix, AXEL216 has a tremendous amount of material. Lots to digest there. :
GREAT THREAD GUYS (and LADIES)!
I've been reading with great interest and taking notes. I think I've posted and received helpful advice from almost all of you at one point or another (Train, Ridgerunner, SuperSparks, Photolady, and others) MANY thanks!
Well, I just built my 5th PC this year (this one for my folks) and I learn a little more with each build. I'll pass along a couple things I do now to help the "less geeky". For my friends & family that I build for, I create a folder called Maintenance and hang it off the Start Menu (so it's really convenient) and put them in order so they don't have to remember too much. They don't have huge HDDs, but I create 3 partitions. C drive is the OS, D drive is the Apps (programs), and E drive is Data. They're all setup like this so when they call me, I can tell them where to look. I also like a separate drive for Data (MP3s, Pictures, Word docs, etc) so they can easily be burned to a CD.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll save my fingers the wear and tear.
briefly:
these are some of the utilities I occasionally run for specific tasks:
Icon Lock - great for saving your Icon locations, in case your desktop gets corrupted (I hate when that happens!)
Belarc Advisor - a great tool for documenting your "current state"
Bootvis - optimizes your startup
Probe - (specific to ASUS mobo) for monitoring temps, etc.
COA2 - Change of Address2 - great tool for move a program folder and re-pointing the registry (good for moving stuff from your Program File (on the OS drive) to your App drive.
FOSI - for finding BIG files/folders (this will tell you where your HDD space goes)
these are the utilities I run for actual maintenance:
EndItAll – I think RidgeRunner turned me on to this, for shutting everything down
Ad-Aware – for doing away with those pesky Ads
Spybot – for removing spyware
HDValet – another RidgeRunner recommendation, for cleaning up temp space and others
Cookie Jar – sorting good cookies (and keeping them) from bad (and blocking them)
RegCleaner – to make the Registry all pretty and orderly
RegScrubberXP – to make the Registry prettier and orderlyer (??)
And finally:
Mehul’s Backup – for selectively backing up my data files to another drive
I also run Norton SystemWorks 2003 for Anti-Virus and a quick Check-Up
And ZoneAlarm keeps the bad guys out.
The really cool thing is, (with the exception of Norton) these are all free/shareware utilities!!!
:D
Here's another thousand words.
This is my system, a dual-boot (I'm looking forward to that delta) with 2 - 80gig HDDs partitioned as follows:
(I name the drives so I can remember them)
OK, I have 2 questions too.
1. As I said, I maintain all of my Data files on a separate drive and back it up, but I don't know what to copy from my "Documents and Settings" folder and where&what to backup for Outlook 2002.
2. Can someone explain Ghosting to me a little more? When I ghost my OS drive, does it copy/image everything? If I've been running this setup since Feb., it's probably too late to ghost it (?) I don't to re-create my OS later from this ghost with all of the old registry garbage that has accumulated since then, do I?
Thanks!
Ghosting (here not only restricted to the program called Ghost) can mean you create an exact replica of the drive(s) in question on your media of choice (HD, CD, DVD, Tape) for the purpose of later being able to restore this replica in case of an emergency - often this is a process you initiate by way of floppydisks made necessary by the fact that you cannot restore a system drive from within that same system you're trying to restore...naturally :D .
But not only system drives can be ghosted - you can ghost whatever you choose to....parts of - or all of - a drive or several drives - individual folders or subfolders.
Another use of ghosting is to create exact images of a freshly installed system, to roll out to other similarly configured systems and thereby save time for individual installations....and how boring that would be... ;) . Imagine if HP or Dell had to employ people just to sit and install WinXP on each machine they assemble....nope, they simply smack a standard (ghost) image onto the harddrive of the newly assembled machine - or rather, the image was placed on the harddrive before it was ever installed in the system.
Symantec's Ghost and PowerQuest's DriveImage are good examples of ghosting SW.
Ghosting a system like your's now will of course take all the junk with it that you've collected since installing the system, so it''s probably not a bad idea to do some housecleaning before you ghost it. Otherwise you will take with you the "garbage" in the registry. It's an exact replica...
Normally you would want to avoid that. BUT, I learned that it pays to have those image files anyway. As something could happen that you absolutely have to have is in it. So, you use the image view for the program and go get it. And yes, you can restore just one item.Quote:
Originally posted by MPTech
OK, I have 2 questions too.
I don't to re-create my OS later from this ghost with all of the old registry garbage that has accumulated since then, do I?
Thanks!
Flexibility is one of the reasons that I use both Ghost and Drive Image.
Sometimes I like to install an OS from scratch just to stop me getting rusty.
Or just for the hell of it.
Installation Progress Bars - I like to Watch.
Who else gets enjoyment out of watching defrag running ?
Come on now.
Ok, so maybe I should get a life.
Yes....sometimes I spend hours here just running the cursor over the text to watch it turn red....:D
Good Morning All,
Nix, I really enjoy watching the defrag screen pick up speed and start flshing through the windows. :D
Bistro - How do you do that. I can't get the red. Shheessshh!! :D :D :D
Nuff of that, but these guys. :)
Hi MPTech, Thanks for posting in this thread. Yes the images are worth how many words? :D But alot yes. Interesting about the Maintenence Folder off the Start Up Menu. Had not thought of that. Your apps selection is good for those who like free.
One question though. How much problems have those computers had with the procedures you put together. And is there any things you don't like about how they do "stuff"? You have three in the list I am not familiar with and will take a look at - Icon Lock, COA2, and Mehuls Backup. With so many many utility programs out there I usually wait until someone comes up with one they like. There just isn't enough time to check them all.
Kallikru did a nice job of explaining the subject of ghosting briefly and Train added to.
Ghosting is an important part of being able to back your drives up. As Train pointed out you can retrieve any file if you fully ghost your system by whatever third party software you use. And if a virus or some other thing crashed your computer, you are back up and running in minutes as opposed to days for manually reinstalling all of what you had. (I know from experience, oh how well I know, and some of you know just how much but we really don't need to go into that dismal subject at the moment do we? :D:D )
Think of this, ghosting can help with backing up as well as security and maintenence. Saving time. It is all tied to gether.
We are off to a really good start and keep your "stuff" coming. Let's see we are seeing what people are doing and getting some explanation on the why and how. For people to do this they certainly have to know "how to". :)
My reasons for preferring NTFS (it sounds like a school essay :D ).
Some useful features of Win2000 & XP are only available in conjunction with the NTFS file system:
File compression - you can use this individually on files & folders or you can set an entire drive or partition to compress anything that is saved on it. The compression / decompression is entirely transparent to the user, you just save/open the files in the normal way and Windows does it all. The compression isn't quite up to the level of a .zip file, but it's still pretty good.
File encryption - as above it can be used individually or on entire volumes just as with compression. The only caveat with the Encrypting File System is that you need to create a Recovery Agent Certificate top enable the Administrator to decrypt any files if Windows has to be re-installed (a new security identifier is created each time). The certificate is created by default in Windows 2000, but not in XP - a fact that MS neglected to make clear. I found that out the hard way :(
File and folder sharing - in Win2000 & XP Pro permissions can be explicitly set as to exactly who can access files and folders and who can't. This feature is completely hobbled in XP Home unfortunately.
The NTFS file system is more efficient than FAT - for a start the default cluster size is 4KB regardless of the size of the partition. Also very small files will be stored directly in the Master File Table itself, and so won't use a cluster at all.
And perhaps most important of all NTFS is far more robust when it comes to data security. It's a journalled file system and can often recover from data corruption, unlike FAT.
To sum up I can't see any advantage to FAT over NTFS. I do have one small FAT32 partition on each PC, just in case I want to mess about in DOS, other than that it's NTFS all the way as far as I'm concerned.
Here's another good article:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfs.htm
Hey realize I am a bit late here, but here goes:
Zone Alarm 4.0 146 as my firewall, best I've used and is really easy to use and control
SB Search and Destroy + Adware 6.181 at least 4 times weekly to keep me nice and clean
Grisoft AV runs + updates automatically, catches email virus's and d/n's autochecked
Defrag about every 3 months
Thats about it for maintenance, although I have noticed a strange effect. One would logically think that the more 'junk' you clean out the more efficeient the pc would run. Apparently not.
If I use SB, Adaware, ZA Cache Cleaner, IOIO System Mechanic, all within close time proximity, my pc actually tends to slow down and get a bit 'rusty'. So now I just stick with SB and Adaware, which cleans out most stuff anyway, and my AV keeps me viral clean.
Oh, one last point, I do have Kazaa-lite on my pc, but lucky me, no infections yet!
Hows that?
Gp
As for backups... well all my important stuff is burnt onto CD, otherstuff is 'at risk'. Just laziness really.
[edit] I also went to Black Viperspage and disabled any unused services, although I have not noticed a system performance increase, it must've done some good as it certainly aint done no bad!
Good point. I've noticed over the years with tweaking programs that you often reach the point of diminishing returns and can even decrease performance if you have too many running (read: "conflicting"). Best to find one or two compatible ones and stick with them.Quote:
Originally posted by gizandpop
Thats about it for maintenance, although I have noticed a strange effect. One would logically think that the more 'junk' you clean out the more efficeient the pc would run. Apparently not.
If I use SB, Adaware, ZA Cache Cleaner, IOIO System Mechanic, all within close time proximity, my pc actually tends to slow down and get a bit 'rusty'. So now I just stick with SB and Adaware, which cleans out most stuff anyway, and my AV keeps me viral clean.
Gotta watch those scheduled programs. I do...very carefully: I turned them off. Just got into the habit of running them manually every few days.
What other Delta threads are around, or will be started soon?
The original Delta threads were from 2001, here's the very first to whet your appetite:
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...ighlight=delta
For the rest just serch the desktop hardware forum for "delta" and go to the last page of results.
2001? Wow...has it been that long? Then come along with me, dear reader, back...back...back in time...to the days of yesteryear....back when this forum (on a "hot" day) had only two or three posts...back to those heady times when bistro still tested his power supply by hooking it up to the cat....
Oh, he's going into Retro Mode, call the vet. :D
SuperSparks just had to bring it up he did. An amazing memory or he dang well knows how to search. :) Nice rundown on NTFS - thanks.
Hi gizandpop, Thanks for your input on what you do. I will have to agree with Bistro that you can overdo it. Believe it or not if and when you try to do to many things at once your computer will act up. I may download more than a program a day, but only install one in a days time. One other thing - overload the ram and you can have some interesting things happen up to and including windows freeze/a full crash. No fun - No Joy.
Now for your question on what is going to happen with the Delta Threads. With the inputs and reactions from all that have viewed and/or posted we will in all probabability continue. As long as there is a need. We have a ways to go in the present thread - how tos and creating a generic model for all to reference. It will be the best all of us together can come up with. Then thare has been some thought of going to hard drives again and catch up on them. We would want to get in depth on them so the following thread will be more understandable. And that thread will be on Multibooting. From the simple multiboots to the complex. This will be another biggy and will require seatbelts I'm sure. :D D
Soooo, that is the tentative plan. Got better ideas or thoughts, please post them. We can use all the help we can get. Most all the original Delta Crew is present and accounted for and I want to wish all of you a big heartfelt thanks. All of us, each and everyone who has posted helps to make this the best it can be. So to all, keep it up, we are doin' good. :) :)
Here, for everyone's delight and delictation, is tthe entire set of the original Delta threads up to Delta 3 - 013. The first member to read them all will win the valuable GreenGoose's Speedreading Award, as well as much kudos :D :D
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It would look like that. ;)
Wow there are SO MANY of them!
By the time I read all of them I will be old and grey and we will flying around in spaceships!
In regards to my comment on running too much...I think I mis-explained it. I meant that I am not neccesaryily running all these at once (i rarely run more then 1 of these at the smae time). Even if I run one after the other, or even one each day in consecutive days I will still xperience a slow down or crash.
So is it possible to 'overclean'?
Nevertheless, it isnt a major problem. Just one od those wondeful Microsoft Mysteries. I bet someone could write a book or two on those!
A Thread on HDD will be very intersting, and very knowledgeable as well i think. As for Multibooting, I cant wait for that coz there are a ot of ppl out there that have heard of it and want to try it, but just keep putting it off for the simple rreason that they feel that they aren't educated in it...so dashing te confidence to go ahead. I'm one of them.
Well, lets see what we have from here. As long as I can keep posting (supersparks knows what I am going on about) then I shall be regularly giving my input. I have learnt a lot from this forum, so i want to feel I can give something back to the world!
So long for now!:cool:
I did not realize we were doing history in this class. My gosh, that's the start of it all. Nice digging guys but a bit much for one nights read. :)
Train, I hang my head in shame and bow before the master :D
Hi!
Good to see these threads back again :-D
I just thought I'd share one quick point on the system maintenance subject that's not been said by someone else already.
I backup my "SystemState" data every night and then keep the most recent 3. Having access to those has quickly got me out of problems that other repair options such as booting with "Last Known Good Configuration" have not helped with.
Best wishes,
Andrew
How to save the thread
Should you wish to save or print the thread in totallity instead of the various pages, drop down to the bottom of the page and in the middle is a box with "Show Printable Version" as one listing.
Click that line of words.
When the next page opens up, note in the upper RIGHT corner is a page listing. Well under the listing is a line saying "Show all xxx posts from this thread" {xxx is replaced by the actual number}.
Select that line.
Now you have all the post on one page.
If you wish to print it, do so.
But if you want to save it to your hdd, then go to File and select Save As:
Select where you want to save it in the applet that opens
Then drop down to File name and you can change it if you wish.
Save AS Type - I select "Web archieve, single file (*.mht) which downloads everything and does not require a internet access when you open it.
Last besure to click the save button.
The page will be download and saved on your hdd.
Train - a heck of a "how to" on the mechanics of saving a thread. Many thanks. :) :)
Hi Cantoris, thank you for your input. Need to reseach that one. :)
How to Use Command Line Parameters With the "Ntbackup" Command
Switch: systemstate
Description: Specifies that you want to back up the system state data. When you back up the system state data, all of the system state data is backed up, so the /s switch does not apply. Also, the backup type is forced to normal or copy.
I do believe that is what is being refered to.