Re: [H] Vaporware or..

2010-09-03 Thread Gary Jackson
It hasn't been released yetnext year is a long ways away. :-) At 01:58 PM 9/3/2010, It was written by CW that this shall come to pass: Gearbox says they will release Duke Nukem Forever next year. Does anyone care? Kind of sad the greatest vaporware story of all time may end..

[H] Backing up Win7 woes

2010-09-03 Thread Soren
Hi, I recently bought my mom a laptop with Win7. Fine. Not so fine is that the C: partition seems to occupy +34 gigabytes. What I want is to be able to make a ghost image within reasonable limits. +34 gigabytes doesn't seem so. As of yet unexperienced with Win7, is this the normal disk

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes

2010-09-03 Thread tmservo
Win7 install footprint is nowhere near that. Not even remotely close. But most oems load it down with things, swap file and a hibernation file can add a couple gig, etc. Win7 has most of the basic drivers built in for the most part. A 32bit win7 install can be done in a 16g drive. A 64 in

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes

2010-09-03 Thread Josh MacCraw
It can appear to be that large depending the method used to check volume usage because of all the symbolic links. On 9/3/2010 2:02 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Win7 install footprint is nowhere near that. Not even remotely close. But most oems load it down with things, swap file and a

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes

2010-09-03 Thread Gary VanderMolen
I just installed Win7 64-bit Ultimate on one of my partitions. It's taking up about 20 GB, which includes a 3 GB hibernation file and a 4 GB pagefile. No OEM apps or utilities. Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail) -- -Original

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes

2010-09-03 Thread Soren
Inline.. tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Win7 install footprint is nowhere near that. Not even remotely close. Nope, I figured that out pretty quick :) But most oems load it down with things, swap file and a hibernation file can add a couple gig, etc. Oh yes, tons of useless apps, but these

Re: [H] write protected thumb drive ?

2010-09-03 Thread Soren
Mr. Fred, maybe using one of the so called live-distros, e.g. knoppix.org, would help? The util Gparted will tell u which properties the drive has, including write protection. Enable/disable is then just a flag away. HTH. FORC5 wrote: Have a flash drive my son got at ASU, has the school