Microsoft creating more problems with updates. Surprise Surprise!
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When I copy drives for Windows I usually use Norton Ghost or Casper XP. I have used these for many years and I could not do my job with out them. When I started playing around with Ubuntu I was wondering how I could do the same. I searched around the Internet and found that the best program to do this is Acronis True Image 11 Home. My setup on my system is I have 2 hard drives. One has Windows XP installed on it and the other drive has Ubuntu 7.1. I use my BIOS utility that allows to decide which drive to boot from. This setup eliminates the need for boot managers. My 80gig Ubuntu drive was starting to get full. (Virtual Box with several clients can really eat up the drive). So this is what I did: First I booted into my XP. Installed Acronis True Image software (will only run under Windows XP,2000 or Vista.) Then I shutdown my PC. Attached the new bigger drive to copy my Ubuntu drive to. Rebooted back into XP and ran the Acronis software. I selected the clone option and selected my Ubuntu drive as my source. Made sure I did not select delete source after cloning. Then select my new drive as the destination and specified to use the entire drive. After about an hour later it copied the drive. I then shutdown and detached my smaller Ubuntu drive and put my newer Ubuntu in place and tried to boot the new Ubuntu. It did not boot properly so then I decided to check the new drive. To do this I rebooted my PC with my Ubuntu DVD disk. I then went into the partition editor. Selected the Ubuntu Drive and selected check drive. After this is said the drive was completed. I shutdown the PC, took out the Ubuntu DVD, selected my new Ubuntu drive and ta-da it booted fine. After installing IE7 or if you start IE7 for the first time it goes to a runonce page for you to configure a few options in IE7. Sometimes it does not work or you would like to get rid of this. If you download this registry fix it will prevent the runonce from coming up. (right-click and save as, save the file and then double click and allow to modify registry). If you want to manually go into the registry then you will have to add 2 keys. If your browser prevents you from downloading the .reg file then you can copy the following lines and save the text as a .reg file and run it from this. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] Here is an article that describes how to log into Vista automatically with a password. I found that going to MSCONFIG and removing NMBgMonitor (which is a Nero Essentials component) from Startup, removed the WMS Idle failing to quit. More importantly removing that Nero file from startup, allowed Windows XP to shutdown ten times faster. I have removed Nero from my computer and it runs perfectly now. Perhaps only a corrupted file, who knows, but bye bye WMS Idle. When I tried and login to logmein.com from Ubuntu I get an error that can’t load page. It works fine in XP on the same network. If I was running IE or Firefox in VirtualBox it still would not work for me. It seems to be caused by the MTU value under Ubuntu. I found the following on Ubuntu Forums but for mine to work I had to lower my MTU even lower for it to work. So I had to use the following in a terminal window: sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1460 Now this only works until you restart you PC. If you have a static IP you can use the following: sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces For DHCP you will have to do something different.
I tested this myself so I know it works. First you have to download the YouTube Video. First you go to the video in YouTube. If its the correct video then copy the URL from your browser. You copy this to the clipboard. Edit Copy or CTRL-C Now you will have to go to the following website. http://www.savevideodownload Paste the URL (edit paste or CTRL-V) into the Video URL Then Press the Get Download URL. OK this is 1/2 way through. Now that you downloaded the YouTube video to your PC you now have to convert it. to do this go to the following address: http://media-convert.com Here you will select file and then browse to the .flv file you saved earlier. Now below you will select the .wmv output format. Click the I accept the terms checkbox and then OK. View products that this article applies to.
This article was previously published under Q132668
Important This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure to back up the registry before you modify it. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
256986 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986/) Description of the Microsoft Windows registry
SYMPTOMS
Some icons in My Computer, Windows Explorer, on the desktop, or in the Quick Launch toolbar may randomly change.
CAUSE
This behavior may occur if the icon cache is not properly updated.
RESOLUTION
Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.
• Using Registry Editor, add the Max Cached Icons string value with a value data of 2000 to the following registry key, and then restart your computer: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Explorer If the icons are still incorrect, delete the ShellIconCache file. The Max Cached Icons value data range is between 100 and 4096. The default value is 500. The location of the ShellIconCache file is as follows for XP: C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Local Settings\ Application Data\Iconcache.db I really like VMware. I have used VMware workstation under XP for along time and recommend anyone who wants to use virtual OS to use VMware. I have tried Windows PC Virtual software and VMware blows away Microsoft. When I have started playing around Ubuntu I figured the VMware Server (which is free!) should be good. It is in compatibility. It works! The video,sound, usb, network works great BUT its extremely slow in startup and closing the vmware client. I started playing around with VirtualBox. An open source virtual software that is starting to compete with VMware. It also is free. Install was good. There were some more tweaking but it does work well. The only thing that does not work is the sound. I have seen others having similar issues but the XP client does work well. The screen, usb and everything else works well. It starts and closes extremely faster than the VMware server. If I had a working VMware workstation it might be closer in starting and closing but so far I (except the sound) am liking the VirtualBox. If anyone using Ubuntu and need Windows compatible, try it. UPDATE: I reinstalled my XP Client with a fresh XP cd and the sound worked right of the bat. So it was my copy of XP I had (that was a modified version) that caused my problem with the sound in VirtualBox. Yaaaa!!! |
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