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rick.ca:

--- Quote ---it really comes to life when you register and add tv shows to your watchlist and use "stuff to watch" link.
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Yes, I noticed. I like it almost as much as "Babe of the Day." ;)


--- Quote ---If you use directory OPUS (even if you don't) Teracopy is the best copy program there is.
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It looks like I'll have to wait until McAfee figures out it doesn't contain a trojan—it won't allow it to be installed. :'(

I don't have issues with copying files—why might I need this?

CAD:

--- Quote ---It looks like I'll have to wait until McAfee figures out it doesn't contain a trojan—it won't allow it to be installed. Cry
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One reason (of many) why i don't use MccrapforaFee,. Lots of false positives.


--- Quote ---I don't have issues with copying files—why might I need this?
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Its really (really) fast. If you copy multiple files it will queue them up rather than copy them all at once.
Lots of choices on how to handle copies, ability to pause etc.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---One reason (of many) why i don't use MccrapforaFee,. Lots of false positives.
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I'm not getting a lot of false positives, but I was surprised I was unable to override this. There probably is a way to do that, but I couldn't be bothered looking for it in the crappy interface. To be honest, I'm not real happy with security system that behaves like a virus. It came dirt-cheap with my Dell system, so I feel like I'm stuck with it.

You may be amused by this aside: I was livid with Dell because they lied about delivery when I ordered, and delivered 4 weeks late. Then the pre-installed McAfee refused to recognize the included 3 year subscription, and began pestering me to register. Dell online support acknowledged the problem and referred users to McAfee. McAfee's online support acknowledged the problem an referred users to Dell. So it required yet another "WTF are you doing!" call to Dell. In the end, it took a McAfee tech 45 minutes to resolve the matter over the phone. And that didn't involve any troubleshooting—just working around a known problem in registration system designed by lunatics. >:(

When I bought my first Dell 20 years ago, the experience made me wish I could afford to invest the same amount in Dell stock. I was right—that would have been an excellent investment. Now I wish I could afford to short Dell stock. A business model based on shameless lying, bundling crappy software and leaving it all up to some ill-informed guy in Mumbai to explain to customers is surely not one that's likely to work for very long. ::)


--- Quote ---Its really (really) fast. If you copy multiple files it will queue them up rather than copy them all at once.
Lots of choices on how to handle copies, ability to pause etc.
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Hopefully I can resolve the McAfee problem and give it a try. While it doesn't make much difference to me, I do notice a copy process can slow down—almost to a crawl—in some situations. You seemed to indicate there was some way of integrating it with DOpus. Are you referring to simple shell integration, or is a script available?

CAD:

--- Quote ---You seemed to indicate there was some way of integrating it with DOpus. Are you referring to simple shell integration, or is a script available?
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When/If you get Teracopy installed  ;).
Click on More button,
then Menu button. Inside Menu button, Select Options.
In here you find information on how to integrate it into Dopus and also Total Commander.
Also other options to integrate into windoze shell.

I never rely on out of the box stuff. Especially software. First thing I do is reinstall everything to the way I want it.
Usually I mount a separate partition as a folder and point all my personal info to it.
My setup is 2 sets of drives striped in raid.
1 raid set has:
Main C drive partition - Holds all program files.
Data partition mounted under c: drive as C:\Data\ (This hold all personal program DATA)
2nd Raid set has:
D:drive partition - This holds swap file and temp files are also pointed here.
Storage partition  mounted under c:\ as c:\storage - This has tv shows, programs for reinstallation etc.

When ever I do crunching or moving of data, I always try to move the data between the 2 raid sets.
eg dvd rebuilder extracts video data from c:\data\movie location (raid set1) and saves modified data sets to d:\temp (raid set2)
Then after crunching it saves final video_TS structure from d:\temp (raid set2)  back to c:\data\movie location (raid set1)
This way there are no bottle necks caused by the system reading and writing to the same volumes.
 
All applications are installed to specific locations.
eg
Utils\security\Virus scanner
Apps\DVD\Videodb\

That way I can find stuff easily.
I also use acronis home image to backup system regularly with a few rollbacks. This is separate from personal data (mail, videodb database etc etc).
(It is the first program that gets installed (even before drivers.)
I install windows - Install acronis. - Back up my system with a "clean windows" image.
Then create progressive images as I install stuff.
If I get a virus or some crappy software stuffs my pc up. I can be back and working in about 10 mins.
Data is backed up separately and I don't bother with sotage as I can always get it back from other locations.

Dell sucks BTW - they buy the cheapest possible hardware they can at the time. You can have two identical models with completely different hardware inside. I like to build my opwn systems from scratch. Even if you get someone else to put it together, every single componant is specified. The advantage of this is you get a "feel" for hardware. You can quickly figure out if issues are caused by hardware /drivers or crappy software. I always specify everything from the case down to the version of memory.
It is a legal requirement here that all electronics have at least a 1 year warranty so i don't have worries about warranty issues etc.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---When/If you get Teracopy installed...
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Further efforts seem to indicate it's impossible to do so with McAfee enabled. I can't wait to get a false positive with something "mission-critical." Maybe I will have to dump McAfee. ::)

I tested Teracopy with McAfee disabled. I observed only a 10-15% improvement in speed moving large files to another partition on the same drive. Maybe DOpus has already optimized copying. This is the only scenario were it might make a difference in my single-drive environment. I have an external drive, but it's used for backup only (using Windows Backup, but I wouldn't care about speed anyway). I also maintain a daily multi-version backup of all data files to a separate partition using CopyTo Synchronizer. It seems fast, but there too, I don't really care whether it is or not—it runs while I sleep.


--- Quote ---Dell sucks BTW - they buy the cheapest possible hardware they can at the time.
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In delaying my order, Dell gave me lots of time to consider what I might have done differently. For me, building it myself is not a good idea. I did discover, however, even in my relatively small community there is a reputable shop that assembles and services computers. Had I ordered from them (they even have an online "built your own computer" ordering system), the same components would be versions 3 to 6 months older than those going into the Dell (and none, as far as I could tell, "better"), and the overall cost would be about 25% more. This, I concluded, would have been worthwhile for the peace-of-mind that comes from dealing with people of integrity—who will also be available for local servicing should anything go wrong. A small shop like this, of course, can go out of business at any time. But the way it's going, I think that's more likely to happen to Dell.

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