quote:Originally posted by Sol System: I don't really get the whole MP3 thing. Which is to say that most of my music is still solid. I do own a copy of Like Swimming.
Ug. Their least amazing album (it's still amazing, just not...amazing like A Cure for Pain was).
I too have the whole "physical music" thing for the most part- everyone I know has lost songs by keeping everything on their harddrive.
Still, it's fun to stea...er....legally-downlad-from-legitimate-sources-and-follow-the-law-so-the-RIAA-does-not-sue-me....more music.
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Am I the only one who obsessivly backs up data, burns to DVD, sets up mirrored disks sends stuff of to offsite storage in radiation hardend bunkers under the Alps...?
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Haven't posted here in a while . . . shame on me.
I'd like to second Topher's comment above and also ask:
quote:Originally posted by Nim: Not long, 20-30 seconds maybe, that was not the point. I wasn't sure if the NOGUI-option in the startup config did anything substantial. Maybe it would make a difference for others.
How the fuck do you get your PC to boot up in 20-30 seconds!!! Like what the bloody hell kind of system are you running man!? Jesus H. Christ! I'm sitting here absolutely, totally fucking gobsmacked! How do you do it?
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Even with graphics programs, the de-frag and lots of shit saved on my desktop, mine cant take more than two minutes...tops.
What can you be running that takes so long?
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akb1979: Most of the gain comes from the fast BIOS startup of my Dell, it's a Dimension 8300 so my monitor won't even have gotten its glow on before Windows has started booting.
As for the Windows part, I've blocked as many things as I dare to in the Windows startup queue, all the little crap like Quicktime Update bots and Office Startup, I use MSConfig for that.
After clocking it, I see it's more like 30-40 seconds from cold start.
Here's a thing, though. After I installed Adobe Reader, its folder opens every time Windows starts, showing C:\Program Files\Adobe. It's irritating to have to close it every time I start up, does this happen because I moved the Adobe folder around in the start menu? I've read the solution at work like four years ago but I forgot.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: akb1979: Most of the gain comes from the fast BIOS startup of my Dell, it's a Dimension 8300 so my monitor won't even have gotten its glow on before Windows has started booting.
Oh, not got a Dell . . .
quote:As for the Windows part, I've blocked as many things as I dare to in the Windows startup queue, all the little crap like Quicktime Update bots and Office Startup, I use MSConfig for that.
MSConfig - yeah I know that for the same thing, I'm sure that there's more I could "remove" from startup, just can't be arsed! Oh, it's also the first term in this topic that I recognise!
quote:After clocking it, I see it's more like 30-40 seconds from cold start.
Ah ha! Smudging the facts were we? Mmmm . . . I see your game . . .
quote:Here's a thing, though. After I installed Adobe Reader, its folder opens every time Windows starts, showing C:\Program Files\Adobe. It's irritating to have to close it every time I start up, does this happen because I moved the Adobe folder around in the start menu? I've read the solution at work like four years ago but I forgot.
Never had that before . . . maybe it's a Dell thing . . .
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No, just a Windows thing. Start your favorite registry editor and look for any orphaned Adobe-stougkk at the following key:
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Ha hah, yeah well if I had a penny for every day I'd lived in my life, I'd have about...95 dollars.
_That's me in a nutshell. And a very pretty __nutshell it is. ___95 dollars for a life time. ____You can get a one-day weaving class at Luxury _____Fiber Yarns, ______a state-of-the-art GPS system from _______SlickDeals.net ________but not love...never love _________you can buy yourself time, for a while, but never enough __________time...to die
(I just came home from viewing "Howl's moving castle", so yeah)
Ah?!, I seem to have put an end to the blasted folder-popping now, thanks a lot you gays.
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As long as we're on the subject, there's a computer at work (running Win98) which opens Internet Explorer every time it boots up. There's no reference to IE in the Startup folder or the Run entries in the registry. It's been a while since I looked at it, but I'm pretty sure I checked the startup entries in msconfig, as well.
Anyone happen to know of some other obscure place where such a thing might show up?
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The "load=" and/or "run=" lines in win.ini, typically.
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replacing explorer.exe with iexplore.exe? Logon script?
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Also, can anyone explain to me this most queer of XP phenomenomenons, that some files in a folder, say filled with mp3:s, get their filename in blue color, and others doesn't? I tried to work it out but the blue filenames aren't the most recent, nor the most played, nor the ones with the highest bitrate, etc.
Three quarters of the mp3 filenames in my main music folder are blue and I don't know why nor how to turn it off. Anyone?
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XP has a tool (Disk Cleanup) that by default automagically compresses files which haven't been accessed in some user-defined amount of time to save disk space. Explorer just color-codes those in blue.
Disabling it is left as an exercise to the reader. B)
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