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Off Topic Discussion => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM

Title: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
Hey, im thinking of reinstalling windows 7 on my main pc to make it 1faster, 2 to clear space.
I will use maher's windows 7 disc.
I need to install it on 1 harddrive which has 2 partions(2x 500gb), a clean installation (nothing left from my old OS) How can i do this, is it just to select custom and it will install on first best partion and clean all partions??.
But! there are a few things i want to be here, that i dont want to remove (critical)my Firefox browsing history, anyone knows how(I can put it on a flashstick, but what directory is the firefox history??) And will my drivers be left installed, or do i need to reinstall them too?(I want them to be gone)
Thanks in forehand.

OH!! almost forgot, i can safely use the Legal windows 7 key on my Packardbell chassi, right?(Prebuilt pc)

Thanks, looking forward to have it reinstalled to my birthday =D
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: BLADESHARK on April 16, 2012, 10:42 AM
Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
Hey, im thinking of reinstalling windows 7
:) :)

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
to make it 1faster, 2 to clear space.
Good, you should always run with the Running Modern World.

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
I will use maher's windows 7 disc.
Great :D

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
I need to install it on 1 harddrive which has 2 partions(2x 500gb), a clean installation (nothing left from my old OS) How can i do this, is it just to select custom and it will install on first best partion and clean all partions??.
500gb for C drive ???
Believe me C drive doesn't require soooooo much space, until & unless you are going to flood it with loads of Software.
Maximum 50gb will do for Windows OS and rest for basic Software's. If you are installing heavy software's then install them on the D Drive to minimize the load on the C drive, the reasons for PC running slow or crashing is the amount of things you install on C Drive, just install basics in C drive and the rest of the big software's on D Drive. :P

Yes a clean install will leave nothing from the previous OS.
You have to select Custom and then after that you will be asked to choose in which Drive you want to install the Windows OS, select the one which you want. If you want to format the drives then there are options below the listed partitions in More Options Menu.

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
i dont want to remove (critical)my Firefox browsing history, anyone knows how(I can put it on a flashstick, but what directory is the firefox history?
There is a small program called MozBackup. It will backup every bit of your mozilla products.
It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, passwords, cache etc. It's an easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup ...
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
And will my drivers be left installed, or do i need to reinstall them too?(I want them to be gone)
All your drivers will be gone :o. Everything will be washed away as if you bought a new PC. :)

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
Thanks in forehand.
Welcome. :)

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
i can safely use the Legal windows 7 key on my Packardbell chassi
Of Course you can use the Key
But beware that such keys are allowed only for 3 Activations, You don't wanna activate it multiple times, otherwise it will be Blacklisted.

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
looking forward to have it reinstalled to my birthday
Enjoy your day :D
By the way when is your Birthday.
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: Ahmad on April 16, 2012, 01:33 PM
I agree with BLADESHARK ;;;
50GB is more than enough for Windows OS.

Regarding Firefox folders, Firefox saves its work in these 2 folders in Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Mozilla
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla

But I think the program that BLADESHARK mentioned is enough.
I mentioned the 2 folders just for information.

Good luck.  :) :D
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: Shadow.97 on April 16, 2012, 05:29 PM
I will make the 2 partions the same size, as i somehow always fill C:, when alot free is on D:.

Thanks, i ran the mozbackup, i need it again to back it up on the new os later, right?

Do you know any bypass way on the windows activation key?

18th of april is my birthday :p.

Found something interesting from Microsofts webpage: "You can reinstall Windows 7 using Recovery in Control Panel, under Advanced recovery methods. This method reinstalls Windows 7, either from a recovery image provided by your computer manufacturer, or from your original Windows 7 installation files. You need to reinstall all of the programs that you added, and restore all of your files from a backup. For more information, see Choosing an advanced recovery method. "
I shouldnt care about that, right?
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: BLADESHARK on April 16, 2012, 06:37 PM
Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 16, 2012, 05:29 PM
I will make the 2 partions the same size, as i somehow always fill C:, when a lot free is on D:.
Note:- While installing any software, while installing it go to the Advanced Installation option and select the drive as D:
Most software's ask you in which drive you want to install the software, but all people are in so hurry that they do not pay attention while installing the software.

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 16, 2012, 05:29 PM
Thanks, i ran the mozbackup, i need it again to back it up on the new os later, right?
Right. :)

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 16, 2012, 05:29 PM
Do you know any bypass way on the windows activation key?
Use Daz Loader [God bless him for making such a hilarious activation program for windows 7, I hope he makes the same program for Windows 8]
http://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=483.0

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 16, 2012, 05:29 PM
18th of april is my birthday :p.
Advance Wishes. :P

Quote from: Shadow.97 on April 16, 2012, 05:29 PM
Found something interesting from Microsofts webpage: "You can reinstall Windows 7 using Recovery in Control Panel, under Advanced recovery methods. This method reinstalls Windows 7, either from a recovery image provided by your computer manufacturer, or from your original Windows 7 installation files. You need to reinstall all of the programs that you added, and restore all of your files from a backup. For more information, see Choosing an advanced recovery method. "
I shouldnt care about that, right?
Yeah you should not care about that, if you are not going through the recovery console. :)
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: humbert on April 20, 2012, 03:22 AM
Quote from: BLADESHARK on April 16, 2012, 06:37 PM
Use Daz Loader [God bless him for making such a hilarious activation program for windows 7, I hope he makes the same program for Windows 8]
http://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=483.0

Let that be the very least of your concerns. Bill Gates' strategy, which has made him a multi-billionaire, is to create a situation where Windows is the OS of choice on every computer on this planet, legal or otherwise. I firmly believe it's no coincidence that, historically, official releases of Windows and Office have found their way to pirated sites weeks before the ship date, cracked and all. By comparison, when Crapple comes out with a new iOS version for their iPhones, it may take months before a jailbreak is developed for it -- and take into account that jailbreaking is legal while piracy isn't. Excuse me, but I smell a rat.
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: BLADESHARK on April 25, 2012, 01:17 PM
Quote from: humbert on April 20, 2012, 03:22 AM
Let that be the very least of your concerns. Bill Gates' strategy, which has made him a multi-billionaire, is to create a situation where Windows is the OS of choice on every computer on this planet, legal or otherwise. I firmly believe it's no coincidence that, historically, official releases of Windows and Office have found their way to pirated sites weeks before the ship date, cracked and all. By comparison, when Crapple comes out with a new iOS version for their iPhones, it may take months before a jailbreak is developed for it -- and take into account that jailbreaking is legal while piracy isn't. Excuse me, but I smell a rat.
Yeah that's true ::)
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: humbert on April 26, 2012, 06:09 AM
Quote from: BLADESHARK on April 25, 2012, 01:17 PM
Quote from: humbert on April 20, 2012, 03:22 AM
Let that be the very least of your concerns. Bill Gates' strategy, which has made him a multi-billionaire, is to create a situation where Windows is the OS of choice on every computer on this planet, legal or otherwise. I firmly believe it's no coincidence that, historically, official releases of Windows and Office have found their way to pirated sites weeks before the ship date, cracked and all. By comparison, when Crapple comes out with a new iOS version for their iPhones, it may take months before a jailbreak is developed for it -- and take into account that jailbreaking is legal while piracy isn't. Excuse me, but I smell a rat.
Yeah that's true ::)

Of course it is! It is this strategy that has made Windows the world's standard. Everybody and his brother knows that the Mac OS and Linux are superior to Windows in every way, and when it comes to the graphical user interphase used today, the Mac OS came first -- Windows is basically a horribly hacked copy of it. It is Crapple's insatiable greed that did them in, compared to Bill Gates' strategy of spreading Windows like fire which has clearly succeeded.

I am also firmly convinced that it's no accident that all these working loaders for Windows and Office are out there. I even believe that, under direct orders from Bill Gates himself, someone at Microsoft secretly leaks just enough information about Windows to enable hackers to easily develop loaders and hacktools and put them online everywhere, and often the official release of a new Windows or Office finds it way to TBP even before it's available for sale at the stores.

When has Microsoft ever complained publicly about piracy, just like the MPAA or RIAA do? If they lose so much due to people like us who don't pay for their stuff, they why are they the world's 4th most profitable company? As I said before, for all these reasons, the fact that cracked working versions of Windows 8 will be readily available is inevitable -- Bill isn't stupid enough to change a strategy that has made him one of the richest men who's ever lived.
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: BLADESHARK on April 26, 2012, 12:10 PM
Quote from: humbert on April 26, 2012, 06:09 AM
Of course it is! It is this strategy that has made Windows the world's standard. Everybody and his brother knows that the Mac OS and Linux are superior to Windows in every way, and when it comes to the graphical user interphase used today, the Mac OS came first -- Windows is basically a horribly hacked copy of it. It is Crapple's insatiable greed that did them in, compared to Bill Gates' strategy of spreading Windows like fire which has clearly succeeded.

I am also firmly convinced that it's no accident that all these working loaders for Windows and Office are out there. I even believe that, under direct orders from Bill Gates himself, someone at Microsoft secretly leaks just enough information about Windows to enable hackers to easily develop loaders and hacktools and put them online everywhere, and often the official release of a new Windows or Office finds it way to TBP even before it's available for sale at the stores.

When has Microsoft ever complained publicly about piracy, just like the MPAA or RIAA do? If they lose so much due to people like us who don't pay for their stuff, they why are they the world's 4th most profitable company? As I said before, for all these reasons, the fact that cracked working versions of Windows 8 will be readily available is inevitable -- Bill isn't stupid enough to change a strategy that has made him one of the richest men who's ever lived.
Never knew this man ???
Thanks for this information. :)
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: humbert on April 28, 2012, 01:35 AM
Quote from: BLADESHARK on April 26, 2012, 12:10 PM
Never knew this man ???
Thanks for this information. :)

Always keep in mind that what I've told you about Microsoft amount to a theory, which is a belief based on hard facts but cannot he solidly proved. To analogize, before 1995, the very existence of extrasolar planets was just a theory, again based on hard facts. Still, since no one since then had a method of seeing them, there was no solid proof they even existed. And of course the fact living things exist all over the universe is exactly the same situations -- no scientist disputes it, but so far no one has found an extraterrestrial being -- unless governments are hiding something. ::)
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: BLADESHARK on April 29, 2012, 09:03 AM
Quote from: humbert on April 28, 2012, 01:35 AM
unless governments are hiding something. ::)
NASA
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: humbert on April 30, 2012, 01:01 AM
Quote from: BLADESHARK on April 29, 2012, 09:03 AM
Quote from: humbert on April 28, 2012, 01:35 AM
unless governments are hiding something. ::)
NASA

NASA is part of the Department of Defense. It was created that way in 1958 when it's main purpose was, not so much space exploration for science, but rather as a counterweight to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, which the military feared gave the Red enemy the "high ground" of space as an advantage. The problem is that NASA has stayed that way with no plans to ever change it, meaning that since "military secrets" might be involved, they are under no legal obligation to reveal anything they find. While I realize all this is speculation, I've seen some footage released by NASA of objects twisting, turning and changing speeds in ways nothing in our technology is able to do -- and in nature nothing can do.

Let's never forget Winston Churchill's statement: "The truth is so precious it must be cloaked in a web of lies".
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: topdog on April 30, 2012, 01:10 AM
Knowledge is power, guard it well.
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: BLADESHARK on April 30, 2012, 12:22 PM
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Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: topdog on April 30, 2012, 01:29 PM
Quote from: BLADESHARK on April 30, 2012, 12:22 PM
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It's not what I think people should do, but what I think people/organizations with power do to protect their power.
We're probably straying to close to politics, so will abandon the subject.

Oh, and also  "Knowledge is power, guard it well." was worded this way as a joke.
Guess it didn't work.
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: humbert on May 01, 2012, 12:48 AM
Quote from: topdog on April 30, 2012, 01:29 PM
It's not what I think people should do, but what I think people/organizations with power do to protect their power.
We're probably straying to close to politics, so will abandon the subject.
Oh, and also  "Knowledge is power, guard it well." was worded this way as a joke.
Guess it didn't work.

What's wrong with discussing politics? Although I'm not an avid follower of the news, I do enjoy a political discussion every now and then.

And yes, you're absolutely correct -- knowedge is power. Anything that puts you in and, more importantly, keeps you in power must be well guarded. Any leader will tell you that getting into power is one thing, the hard thing is staying there.
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: topdog on May 01, 2012, 02:38 AM
Quote from: humbert on May 01, 2012, 12:48 AM
Quote from: topdog on April 30, 2012, 01:29 PM
We're probably straying to close to politics, so will abandon the subject.
What's wrong with discussing politics? Although I'm not an avid follower of the news, I do enjoy a political discussion every now and then.
I was misremembering this forum rule
"1.4 This is a politically and religiously neutral community. No discrimination of members because of their ethnic origin, culture and religion, no proselytizing."
Many of the forums I visit completely ban discussion of current politics.
And also this statement
"The forum rules are a guideline of how to act in here. If necessary, we can deviate from those rules. Decisions are met internally, vindication to the member(s) isn't necessary. Some decisions are met from case to case, depending on whether it is more sufficient to go after the forum rules or find an individual solution."
So even if comments go outside a strict interpretation of forum rules, they can be allowed if relevant.
I'm guessing the "we" here is yourself, Maher and Ahmad.
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: BLADESHARK on May 03, 2012, 04:38 AM
Hmmmmmmmm...............
A session of Politics going on here.  ::)
Title: Re: Hey have i understood this right?(Reinstall)
Post by: humbert on May 03, 2012, 05:56 AM
Quote from: topdog on May 01, 2012, 02:38 AM
I was misremembering this forum rule
"1.4 This is a politically and religiously neutral community. No discrimination of members because of their ethnic origin, culture and religion, no proselytizing."
Many of the forums I visit completely ban discussion of current politics.
And also this statement
"The forum rules are a guideline of how to act in here. If necessary, we can deviate from those rules. Decisions are met internally, vindication to the member(s) isn't necessary. Some decisions are met from case to case, depending on whether it is more sufficient to go after the forum rules or find an individual solution."
So even if comments go outside a strict interpretation of forum rules, they can be allowed if relevant.
I'm guessing the "we" here is yourself, Maher and Ahmad.

Let me clear this up. First of all, we are like guests at Maher's home, and we must behave accordingly and follow all his rules. I'm sure none of us would purpose violate a policy our great leader has dictated. However, I firmly believe what he meant by this rule is that he didn't want debates or anything what would purposely deviate from the purpose of the forum -- computer tech. It's precisely for that reason the he created a forum called "Chit Chat" for non-computer related matters. When he was here more frequently, I was constantly asking him about non-computer matters, and he replied. He knows all about the questions I've asked Ahmad regarding his culture and religion, and neither Ahmad or I have been told to stop.

When I made some comments about Microsoft and Crapple, I specifically said what I had was essentially a theory, which is an unprovable belief based on hard facts. I also mentioned a few simple things which so far nobody has told me they disagree, and why. I like to hear different opinions because I never rule out that there's something about what I said that might be wrong. Notice that the very last thing I want is a debate, it's just a matter of exchanging information. I think this can't possibly be compared to something like posting spam, which is a blatant violation.

I only wish our great leader were here to read this post. I'd love to have his input and, most importantly whether or not my interpretation of the no religion-no politics issue is basically correct.