Gah. I'm completely blanking on the name of the software I need to buy to have a more detailed look at the mess that is my PC this evening--basically chkdsk on steroids. Help?
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
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§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 1:01:12 pm PDT #5188 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2008 1:07:54 pm PDT #5189 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Norton Utilities? (Or am I showing my age?)
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 1:21:28 pm PDT #5190 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think we're both old, tommy. Wikipedia doesn't even give me a decent current competitor.
What should I be poking around with, then? Other than a bootable Linux CD?
amych - Mar 17, 2008 1:23:45 pm PDT #5191 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No help here -- the linux cd tends to be my first response and not my last ditch.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:26:32 pm PDT #5192 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is there a free (Windows) program to open a zip file? WinZip is pointing out to me that it is not free software.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 4:33:11 pm PDT #5193 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What amount of Zipping does Windows do for free?
Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:37:41 pm PDT #5194 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, I cleverly googled and found FreeZip, which seems to have worked. The other thing I had was on a 45 day trial, and worked some beyond that, but not as far as I was!
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 4:44:55 pm PDT #5195 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right? We need to get everyone to broadband with big thumb drives so we never zip again.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2008 4:48:21 pm PDT #5196 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So by default there's nothing free to compress in Windows, right?
As far as I know, yeah.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2008 5:43:55 pm PDT #5197 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
7zip is awesome.
ita, what kind of checking do you need to do?
recommendation: go to lifehacker.com and search around their archives. I'm sure you'll find what you need.