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Revision as of 09:30, 26 October 2012
This page links to a record of stuff I have done to maintain ejbdesk1, my core i5-based windows 7 machine
Contents
- 1 Thunderbird Issues
- 2 Email Accounts
- 3 Added Backup Drive
- 4 MOZY Issues
- 5 Crashplan notes
- 6 Switch User Shortcut
- 7 Print shares for MAC OS X
- 8 Failed V drive
- 9 Deleting Too Long Folder and its Containing Tree
- 10 Removing Print Drivers
- 11 Context Menus and File Associations
- 12 Replacing V drive
- 13 System Rebuild - Lost MBR on C drive
- 14 Random Blue Screen Crashes
- 15 Uninstalling KB971033
- 16 SMART warning on C drive
- 17 Windows update failing
- 18 Making a system image
- 19 Jalbum Topics
Thunderbird Issues
Great tool, but sometimes it loses its way.
Email Accounts
Setting up my email servers right.
Added Backup Drive
MOZY Issues
MOZY online backup works great, but issues come up sometimes.
The latest issue is that they blew out their prices for large backups to the point that it is not cost effective for me to use them anymore. Now I use Crashplan (details below).
Crashplan notes
I do backups pretty much continuously both to a local drive and to the cloud. The service I use for both of these is CrashPlan. For $120 a year, I back up three computers with unlimited storage. I currently have about 1,100 gigabytes backed up, most of this being my photo collection and family video clips.
Switch User Shortcut
Adding a button to go directly to switch user
Using LPD to serve my WIN7 printer shares.
Failed V drive
A poster child for having a backup strategy!
Deleting Too Long Folder and its Containing Tree
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.
System Rebuild - 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.
Random Blue Screen Crashes
I have not seen these, but I keep finding that the machine has rebooted.
Uninstalling KB971033
Microsoft added this update to help fight pirated versions of Windows, but it is very annoying.
SMART warning on C drive
Windows update failing
Making a system image
I have done this twice before, but did not write about it.
Jalbum Topics
I use Jalbum for my photo and video web pages. Very good tool. Misc topics covered here, including some technical stuff I have learned along the way. jAlbum uses plugins called skins to make nicer pages. I mostly use a skin called "matrix," which has its own complexities. Some of these are covered here.