http://www.bootdisk.com/ 004 May 2007
HouseCall
Welcome to the 4th Edition of HouseCall
INDEX
1) Get Kaspersky For Free
2) A Nice Set Of Utilities
3) Low Level Realtime Registry Monitor
4) DDR2-800 Or DDR2 400
5) Assign Letters To External Drives
6) Free Backup App
SPECIAL NOTE: As you may know I published The BootLIST from February 1, 2002 to February 23, 2007 for a total of 282 issues. I thank you for your support and readership. After a break I changed the name to HouseCall which will primarily deal with Vista niggles. If you want EVERY BootLIST issue [ALL 282 Publications] complete with a nice search utility to help you find answers to you pc problems you may order ALL the back issues for download in a single zipped 1.3 meg download for $10.00 by clicking HERE. Kindest regards. Ed Jablonowski, Author.
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1) Get Kaspersky For Free
Scraggy posted:
Kaspersky is generally regarded as a pretty darn good anti-virus application.
However, you can get a free version here:
http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp?
1. Ignore the fact that it comes via AOL, it's the most useful thing they've have done. Ever.
2. Resist the offer of a toolbar during installation, it will simply nag you to spend money for something or another.
*** Please remember to use a disposable email address to get the activation code.
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2) A Nice Set Of Utilities
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
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3) Low Level Realtime Registry Monitor
Pennywise advises:
An interesting utility you may want to try out:
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=regprot
It blocks entries into your registry without your ok. No real resources taken up and you never know it's running until it's needed, then it scares the heck out of you :) I always run it and just yesterday I accessed a web page that wanted to put something in my startup - ya it startled me.
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4) DDR2-800 Or DDR2 400
benn686 asked - I paid for " [1024MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module Corsair-Value or Major Brand "
but what CPU-Z shows:
Slot 1
Mushkin DDR2 400 Mhz PC2-6400 1024MBytes correction none EPP no
Slot 2
Mushkin DDR2 400 Mhz PC2-6400 1024MBytes correction none EPP no
Now to the lamen (thats me), I read "DDR2-800" to mean 800 Mhz, but I'm only getting 400 Mhz. Is this the right nomenclature?
Noozer answered:
DDR2 400Mhz = DDR 2 800, because DDR double the clock rate.
*** CPU-Z can be found here:
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
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5) Assign Letters To External Drives
CreloX posted - Is there a way in Windows Vista Home Premium I can assign a fixed drive letter to a specific drive? I have an external hard disc to sync my data as a back-up but the drive letter it gets depends on when it is plugged in and what other drives are plugged in at that moment. Since SyncToy needs a specific path to sync my data, I need my external disc to always be "G:" (otherwise SyncToy tries to put 3Gb of data on my 128Mb USB memory stick).
Neil H. said:
Right click 'Computer' and select 'Manage'. Under 'Storage' select 'Disk Management' Right click the volume and select 'Change Drive letter and paths' Choose the drive letter you want to assign. I did this for an external USB drive and the drive letter I assigned it
sticks okay.
John B. added:
Go into Computer Management and Disk Management and assign a drive letter. I have 3 temporary devices I use and this has worked. If I remember, I had to do it several times for one of them before it stuck.
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6) Free Backup App
flamemoth asked - Can anybody recommend a free / cheap alternative to the Backup and Restore Center, that works more like the NTBackup from previous versions? All I want is to be able to select the folders to backup and save these selections for future backups.
Ray R. answered:
For free, try Cobian Backup:
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
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