Recent content by JKoltner

Agreed -- AMD and nVidia have pretty robust drivers these days that do a lot of chipset probing and figure out the exact features and memory you have. This makes their lives much, much easier whenever they bring out a new graphics chip... Certain manufacturers -- Sony comes to mind -- like to...

Actually you can just boot the Windows install DVD and boot into a recovery console. I'd grant you that it might not be as useful as a Linux Live CD -- precisely because so much of Windows' configuration tends to be stored in the registry, and often the only tools available to manipulate...

I hadn't heard that one, so I Googled it. Here's the result, for anyone who cares: http://austinist.com/2008/12/10/aisd_teacher_throws_fit_over_studen.php Absolutely amazing. One of the teacher's quotes is exactly the same as what "friend #2" in this thread believes: "No software is free...

Every time you install their software, it has to be activated via the Internet. If you clone a hard drive to another and then boot from the clone, the copy of True Image on the clone "knows" that it's not the original and wants you to activate again. (Without activation, the more advanced...

Wirednuts: The prices actually aren't that bad, IMO -- when DVDs first came out, I remember routinely paying ~$20/movie, and that was with dollars that inflation-adjusted would be worth more like ~$30 today! What bothers me more is the constant effort on the part of the MPAA (and similar) to...

I'm not sure of the exact licensing details regarding True Image Home, since you're of course correct that in general you might like to restore to a physically different machine than the one you backed up. However, if you check out its product page here...

At least in Windows XP, I thought that the activation program itself would give you the phone number? -- That had a bazillion of them, based on which country you were calling me. My (one) experience with the phone-based activation people was pretty good -- they just ask you a couple of...

JSedlak: I have PowerDVD 11 Ultra on Windows x64... and I'm almost positive it still disables Aero during playback. I take it you're looking to have PowerDVD windowed for playback so you can (attempt) to do other things simultaneously, and hence would prefer that Aero was still active?

Could someone recommend a piece of software (that either boots from its own CD or operates under Windows) that allows one to backup, and resize partitions... but that is licensed *per user* (i.e., me) rather than *per machine?* I've been doing a lot of hard drive shuffling in my PCs lately...