Difference between revisions of "Ejbdesk1-maintenance-log"

Revision as of 01:17, 7 December 2011

This page links to a record of stuff I have done to maintain ejbdesk1, my core i5-based windows 7 machine

Great tool, but sometimes it loses its way.

Setting up my email servers right.

MOZY online backup works great, but issues come up sometimes.

The latest issue is that they blew out their prices to the point that it is not cost effective to use them anymore. Now I use Crashplan.

Adding a button to go directly to switch user

Using LPD to serve my WIN7 printer shares.

A poster child for having a backup strategy!

Things were getting messy, and I needed to re-do print drivers from scratch. Surprisingly hard to remove multiple drivers for the same hardware.

V drive showing SMART errors. No real failure, but SMART errors indicate failure soon, and are enough to justify warranty replacement.

C: drive seems to have failed, and the untested drive image I had created did not succeed in a bootable replacement. The saga of the re-build.

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 ==[[Removing Print Drivers]]==
+Things were getting messy, and I needed to re-do print drivers from scratch.  Surprisingly hard to remove multiple drivers for the same hardware.
 ==[[Context Menus and File Associations]]==
 ==[[Replacing V drive]]==
+V drive showing SMART errors.  No real failure, but SMART errors indicate failure soon, and are enough to justify warranty replacement.
 ==[[Lost MBR on C drive]]==
+C: drive seems to have failed, and the untested drive image I had created did not succeed in a bootable replacement. The saga of the re-build.