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Technical Support 2012

Kong76 Jan 13 2012 08:19 AM

HELP!! I need to copy a .dll file to the Windows system32 folder and it says I need administrator privileges or something. I am the only user account on the computer and I'm logged on and I HAVE ad- ministrator privileges. Any ideas on how to dump that file where I need it?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 13 2012 08:54 AM Re: Technical Support 2012

Sorry I can't help with that. I was about to start a similar thread. Lunchpail knocked Wifey's laptop off the desk while playing games, and it wouldn;t start back up properly. Called Dell who diagnosed the problem (dead hard drive) and set to ship us a new one. Expected to have gotten it by this week, so checked the status of the order yesterday only to find ship date delayed till late February. WTF? Long chat, multi customer service calls later, they say hard drive manufacturing slowed by flood in Thailand. They can give me a 250 gb hard drive now for similar price (we had a 320gb). So I got the specs and ordered a non-Dell HD from amazon (500 gb, same price btw). My question. When this thing arrives, how easy is it to install myself? Question 2: Should we get this "kids laptop" for Lunchpail? [url]http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/satellite/L735-FOR-KIDS

RealityChuck Jan 13 2012 09:22 AM Re: Technical Support 2012

Dell laptops are modular, so installing the hard drive is just a matter of opening it up (the Dell help pages probably give instructions) and swapping the hard drive out. Assuming, of course, it's the right size for the laptop.

Ceetar Jan 13 2012 09:36 AM Re: Technical Support 2012

RealityChuck wrote: Dell laptops are modular, so installing the hard drive is just a matter of opening it up (the Dell help pages probably give instructions) and swapping the hard drive out. Assuming, of course, it's the right size for the laptop. assuming of course you have the right set of screwdrivers/torque wrenches to get at it. But otherwise it's usually pretty simple. plug and play. just keep track of where you put all the screws and laptop pieces as you take them out, and what order they go back in.

metsmarathon Jan 13 2012 09:40 AM Re: Technical Support 2012

am i just an idiot, or is building a complex database in ms access kindof difficult?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 13 2012 09:46 AM Re: Technical Support 2012

Ceetar wrote: RealityChuck wrote: Dell laptops are modular, so installing the hard drive is just a matter of opening it up (the Dell help pages probably give instructions) and swapping the hard drive out. Assuming, of course, it's the right size for the laptop. assuming of course you have the right set of screwdrivers/torque wrenches to get at it. But otherwise it's usually pretty simple. plug and play. just keep track of where you put all the screws and laptop pieces as you take them out, and what order they go back in. Thanks. No more Dell for us btw. Used to have great customer service, now it's a friggin nightmare.

Ceetar Jan 13 2012 12:28 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar wrote: RealityChuck wrote: Dell laptops are modular, so installing the hard drive is just a matter of opening it up (the Dell help pages probably give instructions) and swapping the hard drive out. Assuming, of course, it's the right size for the laptop. assuming of course you have the right set of screwdrivers/torque wrenches to get at it. But otherwise it's usually pretty simple. plug and play. just keep track of where you put all the screws and laptop pieces as you take them out, and what order they go back in. Thanks. No more Dell for us btw. Used to have great customer service, now it's a friggin nightmare. You might have a shot at pulling some of the data off that broken drive if you needed it too with the right setup.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 13 2012 12:45 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

Explain

Kong76 Jan 13 2012 12:54 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

InfoSafe makes a disk enclosure that you put your old drive in and plug it into another computer's USB port and you can pluck stuff off it that way. It's cheap too, and it's saved a lot of crap in my office from getting lost by people unwilling to store their work on network drives.

Ceetar Jan 13 2012 01:02 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

Kong76 wrote: InfoSafe makes a disk enclosure that you put your old drive in and plug it into another computer's USB port and you can pluck stuff off it that way. It's cheap too, and it's saved a lot of crap in my office from getting lost by people unwilling to store their work on network drives. I don't think the one i have is InfoSafe, but yeah. Basically becomes just another drive to read in My Computer, provided it isn't _too_ damaged. You have a windows disk or something? Your Windows-recovery stuff is probably on that hard drive too.

RealityChuck Jan 13 2012 01:19 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

metsmarathon wrote: am i just an idiot, or is building a complex database in ms access kindof difficult? Simpler than in other software. Depends on what you're trying to do.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 13 2012 01:26 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

Kong76 wrote: InfoSafe makes a disk enclosure that you put your old drive in and plug it into another computer's USB port and you can pluck stuff off it that way. It's cheap too, and it's saved a lot of crap in my office from getting lost by people unwilling to store their work on network drives. Interesting. The laptop drive had all Wifey's stuff on it (resumes etc). Of course it broke before we had a chance to back up her stuff through our new network with a shared external drive. We also have another old hard drive (an external) that went bad sitting in a closet. That drive has about 9 months of photographs inclusding the last ones of my dad I don;t have anywhere else. I'd love to try and rescue that too. Because I'm dumb, could you point me to the amazon/staples/google shopping page where one of them doohickeys is? Thanks again.

Ceetar Jan 13 2012 01:27 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

RealityChuck wrote: metsmarathon wrote: am i just an idiot, or is building a complex database in ms access kindof difficult? Simpler than in other software. Depends on what you're trying to do. I just downloaded Microsoft SQL Server and have been tearing my hair out trying to set up some sort of MLB stats database. so I feel your pain.

Ceetar Jan 13 2012 01:37 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: InfoSafe makes a disk enclosure that you put your old drive in and plug it into another computer's USB port and you can pluck stuff off it that way. It's cheap too, and it's saved a lot of crap in my office from getting lost by people unwilling to store their work on network drives. Interesting. The laptop drive had all Wifey's stuff on it (resumes etc). Of course it broke before we had a chance to back up her stuff through our new network with a shared external drive. We also have another old hard drive (an external) that went bad sitting in a closet. That drive has about 9 months of photographs inclusding the last ones of my dad I don;t have anywhere else. I'd love to try and rescue that too. Because I'm dumb, could you point me to the amazon/staples/google shopping page where one of them doohickeys is? Thanks again. I'll leave it to Kong who at least seems to have an idea of what to look for. I just grabbed the extra one my brother in law had. You can just type in "laptop hard drive enclosure" and you'll get stuff like this (http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-2-5- ... 627&sr=1-5)

RealityChuck Jan 14 2012 08:22 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

Ceetar wrote: RealityChuck wrote: metsmarathon wrote: am i just an idiot, or is building a complex database in ms access kindof difficult? Simpler than in other software. Depends on what you're trying to do. I just downloaded Microsoft SQL Server and have been tearing my hair out trying to set up some sort of MLB stats database. so I feel your pain. Are you familiar with the Lahman Baseball Database? Works just fine in Access.

Fman99 Jan 15 2012 06:44 AM Re: Technical Support 2012

I just converted it into MySQL as that's what we use at work. Gives me a nice baseball DB to practice my 'join' skills and such.

Ceetar Jan 15 2012 08:09 AM Re: Technical Support 2012

RealityChuck wrote: RealityChuck wrote: metsmarathon wrote: am i just an idiot, or is building a complex database in ms access kindof difficult? Simpler than in other software. Depends on what you're trying to do. I just downloaded Microsoft SQL Server and have been tearing my hair out trying to set up some sort of MLB stats database. so I feel your pain. Are you familiar with the Lahman Baseball Database? Works just fine in Access. That's the one I downloaded (doesn't have 2011). I dumped it into SQL Server cause i'm more comfortable with it I think. I was able to calculate FIP for the Mets in 2010 and do some adjustments to it. Gotta look into the individual play data next.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 27 2012 01:32 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Kong76 wrote: InfoSafe makes a disk enclosure that you put your old drive in and plug it into another computer's USB port and you can pluck stuff off it that way. It's cheap too, and it's saved a lot of crap in my office from getting lost by people unwilling to store their work on network drives. Interesting. The laptop drive had all Wifey's stuff on it (resumes etc). Of course it broke before we had a chance to back up her stuff through our new network with a shared external drive. We also have another old hard drive (an external) that went bad sitting in a closet. That drive has about 9 months of photographs inclusding the last ones of my dad I don;t have anywhere else. I'd love to try and rescue that too. Because I'm dumb, could you point me to the amazon/staples/google shopping page where one of them doohickeys is? Thanks again. Just to update yous, this all went incredibly smoothly for someone with zero technical instincts. The drive replacement was cake, saw a youtube how-to video. The only scary moment was the right [procedure for reinstalling windows but got through that too. Finally today I was able to borrow one of those drive doohickeys from the tech guy, found all of Wifeys documents and photos, and copied over to a thumb drive I'll bring home tonite. #score

metirish Jan 27 2012 01:34 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

Cool deal , surely worth a Doug Flynn signed poster?

Rockin' Doc Feb 06 2012 06:07 PM Re: Technical Support 2012

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Kong76 wrote: InfoSafe makes a disk enclosure that you put your old drive in and plug it into another computer's USB port and you can pluck stuff off it that way. It's cheap too, and it's saved a lot of crap in my office from getting lost by people unwilling to store their work on network drives. Interesting. The laptop drive had all Wifey's stuff on it (resumes etc). Of course it broke before we had a chance to back up her stuff through our new network with a shared external drive. We also have another old hard drive (an external) that went bad sitting in a closet. That drive has about 9 months of photographs inclusding the last ones of my dad I don;t have anywhere else. I'd love to try and rescue that too. Because I'm dumb, could you point me to the amazon/staples/google shopping page where one of them doohickeys is? Thanks again. Just to update yous, this all went incredibly smoothly for someone with zero technical instincts. The drive replacement was cake, saw a youtube how-to video. The only scary moment was the right [procedure for reinstalling windows but got through that too. Finally today I was able to borrow one of those drive doohickeys from the tech guy, found all of Wifeys documents and photos, and copied over to a thumb drive I'll bring home tonite. #score Well, It looks like I'm the next contestant in the fried hard drive game. The hard drive on my daughters computer went bad (I think "fried" was the technical term of the IT people at thwe college) and of course, she hasn't backed up any of her files since sometime this summer so I now need to replace the hard drive. I'm not too concerned about the hard drive replacement, but getting her word documents and files off of the old hard drive still is mystifying to me. First step is that I need to get a replacement laptop to her and get my hands on her burnt up one. Unfortunately, she is almost 4 hours away, so that road trip for a computer swap won't occur until this weekend. In the mean time, I'm trying to figure all this stuff out for when I get there. If the university IT people offer a decent price for the repair and salvage I'll likely let them take a shot at it and go from there.