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I need some help with Windows scripting. I have a bunch of DVDs rips stored on my PC that I watch with my Patriot Box Office (PBO) hardware media player. Unfortunately the PBO doesn't support symbolic links properly so I've had to create directory junctions instead. I've been typing the...

Best Buy has been selling this drive for $139 for a few weeks now.

I've tried USB 2.0 external drives and they aren't fast enough when there are more than 2 or 3 shows recording at the same time. USB 3.0 is kind of flaky on my HTPC as the speeds on external drives varies all over the place depending on the USB 3.0 chipset the external drive uses. I have a...

I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and I'm using Windows Media Center to record TV shows. I'm running out of hard drive space on the HTPC and adding more drives or swapping in larger drives isn't an option. But I have another PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 that I use as a...

I have a old 2 bay external hard drive case that I connected to my PC (NOT a Mac) via Firewire 400 to record video. The case held 2 IDE hard drives and a IDE to Firewire bridgeboard. I'd like to reuse the case but update it to use SATA hard drives. So I need a new bridgeboard that supports two...

I have a Maxtor Shared Storage Drive (MSS) which is a NAS connected to my wired Ethernet network. And I can no longer access the info on it and there are some files I need from it. I think that the hard drive may have been corrrupted. I pulled the hard drive out of the case and it spun up. The...

I'm building a storage server in a Norco 4224 case. I need to connect the SATA ports on my motherboard (MSI FM2-A85XA-G65) with 8 SATA ports to the Norco's 8087 ports. I know I need 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables in order to do so. I bought 2 Norco 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables but...

I have a XBox 360, Sony S-1100 Bluray player and a WDTV Live Plus all of which only offer wired Ethernet that I wanted to connect to my wired gigabit Ethernet network. But my network wiring doesn't run to the room that the XBox 360, etc are in. So I bought a Engenius ERB300H wireless N bridge in...

I'm buying a Norco 4224 case and I'm going to use the replacement fan mounting plate Norco sells that holds 3 120mm fans. Does anyone have suggestions for 120mm fans that are quiet ut still can do the job? These fans are going to be used in a environment with a good deal of static pressure. Some...

I have a PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 set up as a media server where I store my DVD rips. I play them with my Patriot Box Office (PBO) media player. I have the movie Alien ripped as files in the directory named Alien which is in turn stored in a directory named SciFi. I also want to...

I'm new to tablet computing and I'm looking at buying one of 4 different tablets: Sero 7 Pro with 8GB, Acer Iconia 8GB A1-810-L615 Tablet, Asus ME-102 Memo Pad with 16GB, Dell Venue 8 with 8 GB of memory. These are all Android tablets. I have no interest in a tablet running Windows and I can't...

I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64. From a Administrator account I created a new Standard account with a password. But when I tried to login to the new account I got the following error message: "This User Profile failed the logon. User Profile cannot be loaded". Following...

Is it possible to make certain shares invisible to some user accounts but not others? I know that by adding a $ to the share name I can make the account invisible to everyone but I don't want that. I set up an account on my PC so that my WDTV Live media player could access my DVD/Bluray rips...

I have a wired network but I want to use a couple wired media players in a place where I can't run a Ethernet cable so I want to use a wireless router and wireless bridge to connect them to my network. I was using two D-Link DIR-601 routers with one of them flashed with DD-WRT to act as a...

I have a WDTV Live Plus and I use it to watch Netflix and DVD ISOs. Now I'd like to use it to watch the TV shows recorded on my Windows Media Center 7 machine. All of the TV programs are recorded as copy freely so that's not a problem. I know that the WDTV can't view WTV files natively. But I...

I can't ping the router that's connected wirelessly to the rest of my network. It just times out.. My Linksys BEFSR41's IP is 192.168.1.1. The DIR-601 that has the stock firmware and has a wired connection to the Linksys has a IP of 192.168.1.250 and the DD-WRT equipped DIR-601 that's supposed...

I have a wired network with a wired Linksys BEFSR41 router which handles PPPOE for my DSL account and acts as a DHCP server. I want to add a wireless bridge to this setup so I that can use a older media player that only supports wired Ethernet. I also have two D-Link DIR-601 rev A1 wireless...

I have a wired network with a wired Linksys BEFSR41 router which handles PPPOE for my DSL account and acts as a DHCP server. I want to add a wireless bridge to this setup so I that can use a older media player that only supports wired Ethernet. I also have two D-Link DIR-601 rev A1 wireless...

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I have a Visioneer OneTouch 7100 USB scanner that I was using with my Windows XP computer. I was using the software bundled with the scanner. Now that I've moved to a new computer running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 the bundled software doesn't work properly. Does anyone know of low cost or free...

Could you provide a link to the adaptor? Also have you used the adapter extensively or only just long enough to see that the computer booted? Thanks.

I had been using a 64 GB SSD on my HTPC running Windows Home Premium x64. I then used Clonezilla to clone it to a 128 GB SSD and then used Disk Management to extend the partition to the rest of the drive. I've now realized that the HTPC doesn't really need a 128 GB SSD (the 64 GB SSD was only a...

Is there a way to list all the junctions and symbolic links used on a computer running Windows XP and save that listing to a text file?

I'm thinking about putting together a new PC to act as a media server as my old one is failing. I won't be doing any gaming or overclocking or web surfing. I may run software RAID like FlexRAID or unRAID on it. I want to have as many onboard SATA ports as possible so I can add lots of hard...

I want RAID because the 1st time I ripped my DVD collection to disk I had a hard drive crash and I lost all my rips. I was so discouraged it took me over a year to work up the nerve to try it again. The next time I ripped them I had bought a 3Ware PATA RAID card (this was back in 2005) and setup...

I don't care about PCI slots. I want to retire my 3Ware RAID card. I was thinking of using this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138366 Also I'd like to break the RAID array into two RAID 5 arrays instead of one big one I'll look into these. Thanks...

I wanted to use Windows because I don't know anything about Linux and don't really want to learn. I've also heard that Linux is picky about driver support and what hardware it runs on. Once I've done the DVD rips I back them up to USB external drives formatted NTFS under Windows. Would the...

I have a old media server to hold my DVD rips and TV recordings that I built back in 2005 using a CoolerMaster CM Stacker case and five 3-into-2 drive cages. It has a 2.6 ghz P4 with 1.5 Gb of memory running XP Pro SP2. It has a 3Ware 7506-12 PATA RAID controller with 12 PATA drives partitioned...

I've set Windows 7 dpi to 125% at 1280x1024 and it seems to have helped. But I'd still like a larger screen. I've found the Acer S271HL at Best Buy but not the S275HL. Is the S271HL as good? Unfortunately the nearest Microcenter is hundreds of miles away from me. The Benq sounds good but they...

I used to have a 25 inch CRT which I loved. When it went bad a friend gave me his 22 inch Acer AL2216 LCD monitor. Then my computer running Windows XP which I could run at 800x600 broke so I built a new one running Windows 7. Windows 7 has a minimum resolution of 1024x768 and text looks really...

I do a lot of reading online and my eyes aren't the best so I run Windows 7 at 1024x768. I'm looking for a monitor that's good at displaying text at that resolution. I don't play games at all but I do do a little video editing from time to time. I see that Best Buy has the AOC 27 inch E2752VH...

I have a HTPC running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium and I'm using WMC7 to record TV shows. Unfortunately I've run out of hard drive space on the HTPC. But I also have a media server which holds all my movies and it has plenty of space. So I'd like to record TV shows onto my media server instead. My...

I bought a Windows 7 Upgrade Family Pack which is good for use on 3 PCs. The first PC I used it on had it's motherboard (Intel P67) bricked by a bad flash from Intel. I replaced the motherboard and re-used the same CPU and got Microsoft to activate it online. I then built another computer and...

I have a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD and I'm trying to find a way to secure erase it. I looked on Kingston's web site and couldn't find anything. So I called Kingston and they recommended a program called HDDErase. But I had already found and tried that program and it failed. It hung up when...

installation on my newly built computer and I don't want to do the double installation trick. I tried using these instructions http://blog.chriskankiewicz.com/post/10/windows-7-activation-hack/ . But when I went to make the registry changes I couldn't find "...Setup\OOBE" under the...

First off thanks for your help. My system is as follows. 3 Ghz Athlon II X4 640, no graphics card as I'm using the built-in graphics adapter though I may add one later. Since I'm not a gamer it won't be a powerful one. Two 4 GB Kingston HyperX Red KHX16C9B1R/4 1600MHz memory sticks. 1 optical...

I have a MicroATX case with a PSU in which the motherboard went bad. I ordered the BioStar A730LC3 AM3 motherboard (http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/...?S_ID=612#spec). The case is equipped with a 400w Seasonic Super Silencer (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817151007) ATX v1.3...

I'm open to using a Sata 2 card instead. Any recommendations?

I'm running Win 7 Home Premium x64 and am using the Intel DZ77BH-55K motherboard with a 3770k CPU which already has a Marvell Sata 3 chipset on it as well as the built-in Intel Sata ports. And yes even with 8 Sata ports I need more and I can't afford a server motherboard and associated parts. I...

I'm already using up all the Intel motherboard ports. I just need a few more SATA 3 ports .