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New PC, same hard drive.
Most PC users normally backup all of their files and reformat their hard drive before they put it in another PC
that they built.
Thes is not needed, I have tried using the same hard drive on many
different computers.
All you have to do is take the hard drive out of your old PC and put it in your new custom PC. It will
look for drivers and find nothing. After it is finished looking for drivers, take the cd that came with your motherboard and
install the drivers that are on it.
After that, reinstall sound card and video card drivers and your done. You may need to restart 2-3 tmes
because there will be more settings that you need to change to have everything running at top performance.
PS this has a low success rate when going from one motherboard, to another one of a different brand.
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Virus scan auto protect have a low success rate.
I have done many tests to see how well the auto protection works and the results were horrible.
The virus scans I have tested were Mcafee antivirus, Nortons antivirus, and AVG antivitus.
to test the effectiveness of the scaners, I went out to multiple P2P networks and downloaded multiple viruses and trojans.
For mcafee, I downloaded many random small data files (100% chance of them being a virus) I downloaded 10
of them and by right clicking on the folder and going to scan with mcafee, it detected them all as infected. So i preceded
to run each one. most of them showed no warning from the auto protect the the 7th one (a 120KB file with the name of
a movie) mcafee auto protect showed a warning then mcafee crashed (the otrojan was able to kill the process for the virus
scan and prevent the virus scan from even opening) at that point, I restored my backup partition of windows xp (using partition
magic) then moved on to test nortons.
My nortons test did not go well. after runnng the infected files, nortons went into a endless cycle of reloading
its self making windows unresponsive and when i did a hard reset, windows kept giving me a blue screen at startup so i restored
the partition again and tested AVG antivirus. AVG did the worst of all by marking some of the files as clean
(if i was only relying on AVG i would be infected and not even know) but i was able to make it through all 10 files, the 7th
file (120KB file named pokemon which can be downloaded via kazaa lite) killed the task of avg and avg failed to
run.
If you are a P2P user, I recommend manually scanning all files before you run them. The auto protect will
in most cases not help you and the infections the virus scans do pick up are usually unknown in the virus scans
website for virus information. Also if you are going to do something risky, buy your self a copy of partition magic then make
a back up copy of your drive c partition which you can restore quickly incase the worst happens
Partition
your hard drive
If you have a custom PC, then it is good to partition your hard drive. Partitioning your hard drive into
Drive C: and Drive D: will make your life a lot easier.
Make your drive D bigger then your drive C. All installed files will
go to your C:\program files folder.
All downloaded files (mp3's, install files that you click on to install a
program, and all other files that don't go in your Program files folder) goes into your drive D.
This makes disk defrags go a lot faster, and keeps your pc from slowing down due to drive C having
too many files in it.
And if you ever need to reformat your hard drive, you can just reformat drive C.
All of your install files will be in your drive D so when you install windows
again, all you need to do is click on all of the install files backed up in your drive D and really soon, your pc will be
running normal with all of your files.
(it is easy to just install all of your program then to look all over the web and redownload the files then install them)
Connecting your PC to a TV that does not support
S-video.
You will need 5 things.
- S-video cable
- S-video to RCA converter
- Y adapter
- RCA coupler
- Quality RCA wire (incase the S video wire isint long enough)
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