Ejbdesk1-maintenance-log

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

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

Print shares for MAC OS X

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.