Recent content by riser

i5 is fine or an AMD. Depends on what you're going to be doing. Good luck with anything Mac for $500 though. Best Buy has a Dell laptop for around $450 which would do basic video editing without issue. In fact, it probably would cover most normal video editting. If you wanted to get really...

I wouldn't get a Macbook. They're over rated. :)

Someone else has the file open at the same time. You can't over write an already open file within AutoCAD. You can find out who has the file open by looking on the Server and managing the shares/open files.

Search for Robocopy - its an MS app that you can copy files, same as a backup. It has a lot of switches and I use it heavily to keep pushing out a network share to abotu 50 other locations. Very useful and its free. That might solve your problems for you.

Buy WinZip 11 Pro. Create a job to Zip all the stuff you want backed up. It will also allow you to create a task to run this job on a schedule of your choice. FTP the Zip to your server. Automate again with a Scheduled Task.

www.google.com Free label printing software.

DOS prompt, type: print /? http://www.computerhope.com/printhlp.htm You'll need to share your printer out on your computer and then use the following DOS command to map your printer to LPT1 so you can print from DOS and DOS apps: net use LPT1: \\computername\printershare /persistent:yes...

Boot to CD, go into Recovery Console. You can try Fixboot or try Chkdsk /f if I recall.. all from Recovery Console. That might resolve your issue before you attempt to restore.

Never used Windows Data Recovery, have you?:) Its not that simple. :wink: It will fix Windows related stuff, all your other stuff will be there, just removed from Windows. You'll have to reinstall everything.

Windows Movie Maker in XP might work for you.. depending on how professional you want it to look.

System Restore doesn't overwrite those - only changes system files. I'm guessing the account was corrupted and it created a new user for your friend. If you go under C:\Documents And Settings\ you'll probably see her user account .. say user.computername and then you'll see username. The...

Probably not with any means available to you without heavy financial cost.

You two do realize that you're both entitled to your opinions. I use IE 7 because I like it. It surfs the net just fine for me. :P Regardless, you two can sit here and argue your opinions but I will tell you.. if you spend more than 3 minutes trying to convince someone else of your opinion...

Microsoft put Virtual Server 2004/5 up for free download. You can load a variety of other servers with it I believe.