More or less of a footnote from the last year regarding Win7 and the installation process
So, it was the time that my hard disk in the laptop was almost full again, and what do you know, the freaking thing was bloated despite me moving the files to my outer disk. I have to admit, JARVIS as I named the 1TB Western Digital disk, was one of the best investments from the last year, becasue otherwise, I would be one very sorry writer right now.
We writers, by definitions, are pack rats, so my disk was chock-full of the text, pictures and whatnot, and in a dire need of good old reformatting and reuploading.
Thing is, I haven't had a clue on how to do the freaking thing, as up until now, the go-to person for this was my brother. Sad, sad world. And I considered myself tech-savvy. /ashamed shake of head./
So, I've done several things.
1 - Did the list of programs I used on the soon-to-be croaked-OS and saved it on my outer disk Jarvis - from here on, called J -
2 - Did the backup of the licenses used. Believe me, this is dead useful to have, otherwise you are stuck in a deep, deep shit and the entire installation/uploading shtick can take two or three days
3 - Did the same for the wireless data. I am impressed, the Microsoft techies saved me a plethora of a headache and brother-begging with that particular feature.
4 - Rooted around my CD and DVD's for the installation disk
5 - Read and wrote/copied the instructions on how to do the entire thing.
The result?
OS (operation system, aka Windows 7) done and spiffed up in the same day, with no help from brother dearest, aside from his nagging for me to take the furball on a walk. I swear, I could've strangled the bastard for that idiocy of his. I dislike being interrupted when I work, and he did just that.
Windows 7 was successfully installed - there was some trouble with booting the entire thing I I experienced the moment of enlightenment when the program practically pointed out that MB is less than GB - fuck it, I never paid enough attention to those prefixes when in Physics class, but never mind, I got by without knowing that. Formatted both plates, and then, ran the whole thing.
I use around 11 programs, and the list helped me to keep on track what I need, so the uploading of the programs went fast from here on. I still remember the horror days when I and my brother had to get 2 whole days to get the now prehistoric XP working on the main computer. I am so grateful for the SSD disk and the better uploading routines that it's not even funny.
But the disk in question nearly ganked me into an early grave with the amount of space it gobbled up. Usually, that wouldn't have been a problem, but SSD is still relatively small in comparison with their older brothers, so the space is real problem if you have heap-loads of data. It doesn't help that the computer has to be updated, and updates for Windows and Office can really gobble up the space.
I solved that with wiping out the personal data on the computer, and leaving on the SSD only the OS and some bits and ends that I don't need at all times. So right now, the programs take a little bit more than 33 GB, with additional compressing of the files already on. This leaves 25,2 GB of freedom for the next... say, two or three years. Depends on the tech.
Tip:
It's good to have two things when you are doing that. Or better, two programs. One of those is Driver Booster. This little program, especially pro edition, is dead useful when it comes to updating the host of the other programs on the OS. I am not a fan of manual updating of the things as they can take a good amount of time that could be spent - at least for me - reading - so when I found this one, it was a godsend.
Second one is TreeSize Free. It shows where your system got too fat, so to speak, and then you can go to the why's and how's on slimming those files down. But do be careful with that process, so that you don't do any oopsies with deleting something vitally important to the system. So double and triple checking is more than advisable in this case.
... that brother of mine just said I remind him of a popcorn. Heat it enough, and it explodes. Gee, what a charmer.... /deadpans/ Popcorn, of all things....
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Aim To Misbehave - Wahoo, an update!
Well, shit.
Instead of readying for my course exam like crazy, I once again poked at my keyboard in an attempt to get another story out.
Maybe you do, but perhaps you don't know, that me updating became somewhat of a rarity these times, and I have two good reasons. First one is, I have the exam and *derp* sessions. Whodda thunk that being a masseuse can be so very exhausting? Not me, that's for certain. Second one, and more important, is that MHB had to say to her router goodbye, courtesy of her parents' carelessness... I know that the older generation isn't particularly tech savvy, but to damage a router.../stares/. Well, suffice to say, it ain't pretty, no matter from what angle you are looking at the deed. Myself, I more or less destroyed one too, but that was courtesy of unprotected wires on the router than anything else, and my carelessness with moving the laptop. I didn't have my own laptop then, and I had been working on some ancient lappy that still demanded router and all that, so the disaster was more or less unenviable. Still. Ouch, ouch and ouch.
Back to the story, this time it's another of the Scrapbook Jewels, this time it's Aim To Misbehave,
the courtesy of my nagging beta whining for her Christmas present and my brain-fart, courtesy of Mal's legendary phrase and his floral bonnet /snickers/. Anyway, did the thing - found it by chance on my driver and got around to editing it - and I am seriously thinking about getting an editor for this kind of shit, because I still get some mistakes sometimes in stories, just because I am not attentive enough on the wording and the likes.
Still got a reality check in the shape of my mom that wanted to know how goes the writing of my thesis. /Whistles innocently/. What thesis? But still, I am on an unofficial schedule to get the darned thing done with the deadline of of the end of February, and hopefully with a colleague to check over the little monster and me doing the practical work, I will manage to do it quite thoroughly /slumped shoulders/. Although I got to admit I don't know where's the head and where's the tail of the entire damned thing, because it's so humongous. Seems I will have some work to do to shape it into mean and lean piece of thesis that would steamroll the professors' opinions and questions into dust. /Sigh/.
On the laptop side, I finally got the outer shell for my drive - in my last post I wrote about me swapping the drive - the old one went out for SSD, however I still need the former, because having additional place for saving data and songs is never bad idea... if you have appropriate outer shell for it, of course. I briefly entertained the thought of outfitting my previous 1 TB disk with an outer shell, but discarded the idea because the outer shell for 2,5 disk is cheaper than 3,5 and besides, I still have enough place for anything and everything my crazy mind needs to save on the laptop drive, outer drive, USB key or CD-R - and I am thankful I have enough of the media to actually save the data on. Now if I could get the attic straightened up /mumbles/... There is where the majority of my paper-backed data is and I really gotta get it in order, because it's a nuisance that is cluttering the otherwise innocent place. So, one of my projects for summer is to clean up the place and get some money out of it. And space, don't forget the space /maniac grin/.
Right-oh. And I have another maniac plotdragon on my proverbial tail.... courtesy of the Eiffel 65 song, Another Race . /Twitches/. As if I don't have enough of''em. This time, it's FFVII fandom, and really, this is getting ridiculous. I already have a small mountain of 'em to burn through... and at this rate I really have to find some notebook to keep the track of all the ideas I have.
Now, where to find something with more than 200 blank A4 pages...? /ruffles through the assorted notebooks/
Wish me luck for the exam and see you (hopefully!) soon,
Eirenei
Instead of readying for my course exam like crazy, I once again poked at my keyboard in an attempt to get another story out.
Maybe you do, but perhaps you don't know, that me updating became somewhat of a rarity these times, and I have two good reasons. First one is, I have the exam and *derp* sessions. Whodda thunk that being a masseuse can be so very exhausting? Not me, that's for certain. Second one, and more important, is that MHB had to say to her router goodbye, courtesy of her parents' carelessness... I know that the older generation isn't particularly tech savvy, but to damage a router.../stares/. Well, suffice to say, it ain't pretty, no matter from what angle you are looking at the deed. Myself, I more or less destroyed one too, but that was courtesy of unprotected wires on the router than anything else, and my carelessness with moving the laptop. I didn't have my own laptop then, and I had been working on some ancient lappy that still demanded router and all that, so the disaster was more or less unenviable. Still. Ouch, ouch and ouch.
Back to the story, this time it's another of the Scrapbook Jewels, this time it's Aim To Misbehave,
the courtesy of my nagging beta whining for her Christmas present and my brain-fart, courtesy of Mal's legendary phrase and his floral bonnet /snickers/. Anyway, did the thing - found it by chance on my driver and got around to editing it - and I am seriously thinking about getting an editor for this kind of shit, because I still get some mistakes sometimes in stories, just because I am not attentive enough on the wording and the likes.
Still got a reality check in the shape of my mom that wanted to know how goes the writing of my thesis. /Whistles innocently/. What thesis? But still, I am on an unofficial schedule to get the darned thing done with the deadline of of the end of February, and hopefully with a colleague to check over the little monster and me doing the practical work, I will manage to do it quite thoroughly /slumped shoulders/. Although I got to admit I don't know where's the head and where's the tail of the entire damned thing, because it's so humongous. Seems I will have some work to do to shape it into mean and lean piece of thesis that would steamroll the professors' opinions and questions into dust. /Sigh/.
On the laptop side, I finally got the outer shell for my drive - in my last post I wrote about me swapping the drive - the old one went out for SSD, however I still need the former, because having additional place for saving data and songs is never bad idea... if you have appropriate outer shell for it, of course. I briefly entertained the thought of outfitting my previous 1 TB disk with an outer shell, but discarded the idea because the outer shell for 2,5 disk is cheaper than 3,5 and besides, I still have enough place for anything and everything my crazy mind needs to save on the laptop drive, outer drive, USB key or CD-R - and I am thankful I have enough of the media to actually save the data on. Now if I could get the attic straightened up /mumbles/... There is where the majority of my paper-backed data is and I really gotta get it in order, because it's a nuisance that is cluttering the otherwise innocent place. So, one of my projects for summer is to clean up the place and get some money out of it. And space, don't forget the space /maniac grin/.
Right-oh. And I have another maniac plotdragon on my proverbial tail.... courtesy of the Eiffel 65 song, Another Race . /Twitches/. As if I don't have enough of''em. This time, it's FFVII fandom, and really, this is getting ridiculous. I already have a small mountain of 'em to burn through... and at this rate I really have to find some notebook to keep the track of all the ideas I have.
Now, where to find something with more than 200 blank A4 pages...? /ruffles through the assorted notebooks/
Wish me luck for the exam and see you (hopefully!) soon,
Eirenei
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Green Eyes And Further Drive Stuff
I am jealous.
No, really. Today, I found out that my cousin will defend her thesis tomorrow, and while I have my thesis in works - I am almost at the end, I just lack the presentation of the questionnaire's results - she already defended Sociology, and tomorrow, she will defend Geography - yes, she chose two courses to do, and what's more, she's expecting a kid at the beginning of February. A little girl, I am told, and there's a big chance she would be Aries by horoscope /snickers/... then poor her. I am Aries too, and I am incredibly stubborn and driven - whatever it takes. I am still on my thesis, and really, it scares me a little, because it's... so... big. I'm not kidding, because it already has some 64 pages, and I suspect it will, when finished, be over 100 - which is already a prerequisite for a magisterial degree. I really pity the beta who will have to get through all the stuff, because even if it isn't most boring reading in the world, it's certainly a little difficult - I went through many of the fields - Medicine, Logistics, Physics.../sweatdrops/. However, it's also true it took me three years to write it up to the shape it is today - I began in my second last year of school, continued another year, because of questionnaire style, and the third year was just because I fucked up and lost almost half of the already written material via faulty disk, and had to begin anew. Gee, ain't I lucky? /sarcastic/. Let's cross the finger the thing will be done and over with properly, as I am aiming for the highest scores possible, both for the thesis and the defense of thesis.
Anyway, I wish my cousin good luck with the defense. I will root for you.... just a little .
Now, continuing on the SSD drive. In the last post, I mentioned I switched my ordinary drive with a SSD one, got a whole host of programs working and was happy with the speed. However, it baffled me that in the evenings, the drive was as lazy as ever, and I set on finding on what was wrong. The chewing out of the disk courtesy of Zone Alarm Antivirus did nothing, but then I remembered I had to upload a whole heck of a updates for Windows 7 - I think it was something of a 127 - and I set on kicking the updating program in the question in order. I deleted the appropriate files, bit the uploading program for a time, and then uploaded both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro and Tune Up Utilities 2013. For those not familiar with the two programs, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro is a program that chomps on any malware or bad code that dares to enter your computer or laptop and crunches 'em in smithereens. I had Spybot Search&Destroy before, and while it does it's job (and it's free), Malwarebytes does the same job, without snatching too much of a memory resources, and it discovers some of the more clever bits that Spybot S&D may have overlooked. I used Malwarebytes when I had the trouble with the SweetIM, and it had done it's part brilliantly. So it's a good thing to have it uploaded on laptop or computer and occasionally check the disk for anything that made hiccups in otherwise smooth working of programs. As for Tune Up Utilities 2013, the name tells all - it's a number of tools or utilities that help you tune up your lil' beastie - for example, clean up registry, straighten up - metaphorically speaking- your disk, and so on. And it also has automatic maintenance of the overall program, so you don't need to be obsessive about checking everything every Saturday or something similar. The end result? My program stopped being so darned stubborn and performed as it should - fast, silent and without any hiccups it may have had before. Yay.
On the 'mom' front, it pisses and confuses the pants off of me how she can't use the Firefox browser, or better, she doesn't have a clue how to navigate the sites. /Sweatdrops/. Really. What has she done at that computer/laptop course, then? or maybe I am just too used to the workings of the computers and laptops and thus a mite bit worse teacher that I would have liked to be to her. Well, we'll see how it goes.
Also, continuing with writing fanfiction. Checked some of my older works, now doing Fire And Ice next chapter, as Among The Hawks And Doves plotdragons suddenly screeched to a stop - have more than a half of the chapter written out there, and also began the next chapter of Crimson Sagittarius. And just for the kicks of it, I am munching on FFVII may-be-may-not-be chapter, just because I was on a reading binge in that particular fandom. Still waiting on MHB to get the router repaired so that I can post the next part of Scrapbook Jewels out. Hint. it's the bitchy one. I moaned and groaned about it some posts back there.
Well, Anatomy went as well as expected, still no results. We all were a mite bit traumatised by that particular exam, but hopefully, I did fine.
Signing off,
Eirenei
No, really. Today, I found out that my cousin will defend her thesis tomorrow, and while I have my thesis in works - I am almost at the end, I just lack the presentation of the questionnaire's results - she already defended Sociology, and tomorrow, she will defend Geography - yes, she chose two courses to do, and what's more, she's expecting a kid at the beginning of February. A little girl, I am told, and there's a big chance she would be Aries by horoscope /snickers/... then poor her. I am Aries too, and I am incredibly stubborn and driven - whatever it takes. I am still on my thesis, and really, it scares me a little, because it's... so... big. I'm not kidding, because it already has some 64 pages, and I suspect it will, when finished, be over 100 - which is already a prerequisite for a magisterial degree. I really pity the beta who will have to get through all the stuff, because even if it isn't most boring reading in the world, it's certainly a little difficult - I went through many of the fields - Medicine, Logistics, Physics.../sweatdrops/. However, it's also true it took me three years to write it up to the shape it is today - I began in my second last year of school, continued another year, because of questionnaire style, and the third year was just because I fucked up and lost almost half of the already written material via faulty disk, and had to begin anew. Gee, ain't I lucky? /sarcastic/. Let's cross the finger the thing will be done and over with properly, as I am aiming for the highest scores possible, both for the thesis and the defense of thesis.
Anyway, I wish my cousin good luck with the defense. I will root for you.... just a little .
Now, continuing on the SSD drive. In the last post, I mentioned I switched my ordinary drive with a SSD one, got a whole host of programs working and was happy with the speed. However, it baffled me that in the evenings, the drive was as lazy as ever, and I set on finding on what was wrong. The chewing out of the disk courtesy of Zone Alarm Antivirus did nothing, but then I remembered I had to upload a whole heck of a updates for Windows 7 - I think it was something of a 127 - and I set on kicking the updating program in the question in order. I deleted the appropriate files, bit the uploading program for a time, and then uploaded both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro and Tune Up Utilities 2013. For those not familiar with the two programs, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro is a program that chomps on any malware or bad code that dares to enter your computer or laptop and crunches 'em in smithereens. I had Spybot Search&Destroy before, and while it does it's job (and it's free), Malwarebytes does the same job, without snatching too much of a memory resources, and it discovers some of the more clever bits that Spybot S&D may have overlooked. I used Malwarebytes when I had the trouble with the SweetIM, and it had done it's part brilliantly. So it's a good thing to have it uploaded on laptop or computer and occasionally check the disk for anything that made hiccups in otherwise smooth working of programs. As for Tune Up Utilities 2013, the name tells all - it's a number of tools or utilities that help you tune up your lil' beastie - for example, clean up registry, straighten up - metaphorically speaking- your disk, and so on. And it also has automatic maintenance of the overall program, so you don't need to be obsessive about checking everything every Saturday or something similar. The end result? My program stopped being so darned stubborn and performed as it should - fast, silent and without any hiccups it may have had before. Yay.
On the 'mom' front, it pisses and confuses the pants off of me how she can't use the Firefox browser, or better, she doesn't have a clue how to navigate the sites. /Sweatdrops/. Really. What has she done at that computer/laptop course, then? or maybe I am just too used to the workings of the computers and laptops and thus a mite bit worse teacher that I would have liked to be to her. Well, we'll see how it goes.
Also, continuing with writing fanfiction. Checked some of my older works, now doing Fire And Ice next chapter, as Among The Hawks And Doves plotdragons suddenly screeched to a stop - have more than a half of the chapter written out there, and also began the next chapter of Crimson Sagittarius. And just for the kicks of it, I am munching on FFVII may-be-may-not-be chapter, just because I was on a reading binge in that particular fandom. Still waiting on MHB to get the router repaired so that I can post the next part of Scrapbook Jewels out. Hint. it's the bitchy one. I moaned and groaned about it some posts back there.
Well, Anatomy went as well as expected, still no results. We all were a mite bit traumatised by that particular exam, but hopefully, I did fine.
Signing off,
Eirenei
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