I'm running into troubles from my Windows XP 64 bits OS. I think that's what keeps going wrong. I get to the point of installing Java and things mess up. I uninstalled it successfully using system restore this time and it seems to be back to restarting. But if I want to put Java on I'm going to have to be incredibly careful which version I pick up.
There's a few links here that I need to check through when I'm more awake
http://www.tutorials-win.com/64bit/Java-Runtime-58500/
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=646682
Couple of interesting reviews I should have read first
XP preview
mini review
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Failed installation
Well this is a pain. Something I installed somewhere along the way has messed up the Windows installation I started out with. I spent a lot of yesterday restarting and getting the error message that Windows had recovered from a serious system error. I went through all the troubleshooting but it wasn't clear where the conflict lay. I uninstalled AVG at one point and that really finished it off. Whenever I tried to start I would get masses of error messages as it tried to load AVG and couldn't. Then I tried a system restore and it was upset that I'd changed the drive letters and pagefile settings.
All in all I decided to start today with reinstallation of windows. Ha. It didn't want to put it over the top of the old one, I didn't want to just repair the old one so I've currently ended up with two installations, one on C and one on D.
For the time being I'm setting up D and leaving C alone. Once I feel relatively confident D is as I want it I can reformat C. D is much bigger than C! I hadn't necessarily intended Windows to have such a big portion of my drive as I was going to install things on separate partitions and leave Windows clean. Though actually, it never seemed easy to put things elsewhere what with the X86 section and all. I might end up leaving more with Windows than I thought in which case loads of space will be better.
I'm keeping careful note of what I change and will set up system restore points more often now. I want to try and catch a trouble maker before things get so corrupted!
All in all I decided to start today with reinstallation of windows. Ha. It didn't want to put it over the top of the old one, I didn't want to just repair the old one so I've currently ended up with two installations, one on C and one on D.
For the time being I'm setting up D and leaving C alone. Once I feel relatively confident D is as I want it I can reformat C. D is much bigger than C! I hadn't necessarily intended Windows to have such a big portion of my drive as I was going to install things on separate partitions and leave Windows clean. Though actually, it never seemed easy to put things elsewhere what with the X86 section and all. I might end up leaving more with Windows than I thought in which case loads of space will be better.
I'm keeping careful note of what I change and will set up system restore points more often now. I want to try and catch a trouble maker before things get so corrupted!
Friday, 4 April 2008
diary effect
I was just thinking I should log what I change as I'm setting this up, so that I know what to do another time. Rather than start yet another 'advanced diary' project or such like I realised this is probably the easiest.
What I've done so far then, is update both versions of Internet Explorer to 7.
In trying to install NLite I found that I need the .NET framework. As I started to download version 2.0 I saw 3.5 is available. One of the things I didn't like on this one was how things like .NET and Java keep leaving behind their old versions so I'm trying to install 3.5 without any earlier versions. It's cool being able to set that going and flip back here to update. I don't know if I'll keep my KVM switch long term because I miss the scroll wheel on my mouse (I've had to adapt my USB mouse to PS/2 for the KVM switch.. didn't realise I needed a USB KVM and don't even know if they exist) but for the time being running two comps side by side is kinda fun. Burning up the ozone layer though, despite that I focussed on energy efficiency, so ideally I'll just run the other one most of the time.
What I've done so far then, is update both versions of Internet Explorer to 7.
In trying to install NLite I found that I need the .NET framework. As I started to download version 2.0 I saw 3.5 is available. One of the things I didn't like on this one was how things like .NET and Java keep leaving behind their old versions so I'm trying to install 3.5 without any earlier versions. It's cool being able to set that going and flip back here to update. I don't know if I'll keep my KVM switch long term because I miss the scroll wheel on my mouse (I've had to adapt my USB mouse to PS/2 for the KVM switch.. didn't realise I needed a USB KVM and don't even know if they exist) but for the time being running two comps side by side is kinda fun. Burning up the ozone layer though, despite that I focussed on energy efficiency, so ideally I'll just run the other one most of the time.
Definitive answer on the pagefile
I'm glad I held off, I have finally found someone who's 'internet voice' I find sounds reliable and confidence inspiring. I will follow his advice on most of the issues on the site then at least I'm following something consistent.
Optimise XP is the page that refers to the paging file.
For sorting out my old computer once the transfer has been completed and I know what is necessary I will follow this guidance: Malware removal.
I found out all about this site and other tweaks to do or not do from AMD64 site in one of the forum threads.
I've been cross with myself for taking so long setting this up but suddenly I realise it's that I want to 'get it right' and that takes time and forethought rather than charging in and sticking on the software and then uninstalling things and leaving crap all over the place.
Today I found that there isn't a 64 bit version of Pegasus, the mailer I've used ever since I first started using the internet. I did find a site that offers a conversion addon for Pegasus so I'll be thinking about which mailer to use when I'm on the other computer and might be able to convert my old pmails to something else. Generally I'm considering Thunderbird which is what my husband uses nowadays.
Just to prove how completely random a path my surfing seems to be taking me I will bookmark the WMP 11 slipstreamer here.
Now that I am running both computers and surfing on both this page is becoming ever more important for me to manage to access bookmarks from both places!
Optimise XP is the page that refers to the paging file.
For sorting out my old computer once the transfer has been completed and I know what is necessary I will follow this guidance: Malware removal.
I found out all about this site and other tweaks to do or not do from AMD64 site in one of the forum threads.
I've been cross with myself for taking so long setting this up but suddenly I realise it's that I want to 'get it right' and that takes time and forethought rather than charging in and sticking on the software and then uninstalling things and leaving crap all over the place.
Today I found that there isn't a 64 bit version of Pegasus, the mailer I've used ever since I first started using the internet. I did find a site that offers a conversion addon for Pegasus so I'll be thinking about which mailer to use when I'm on the other computer and might be able to convert my old pmails to something else. Generally I'm considering Thunderbird which is what my husband uses nowadays.
Just to prove how completely random a path my surfing seems to be taking me I will bookmark the WMP 11 slipstreamer here.
Now that I am running both computers and surfing on both this page is becoming ever more important for me to manage to access bookmarks from both places!
Bookmarks
I already use IE and Firefox on this computer. To now have another computer is leading to confusion over bookmarks. I'd recently started tidying up my IE bookmarks. My Firefox bookmarks are online as of yesterday but the old version not the tidy new version where dead links are removed. So I was just looking at bookmark synchronisers.
I fancy Book Kit though I need to check that will work on the other comp... (which is STILL downloading .NET... 118MB and only 5 down, must be a very slow server!).
Sync2It is another possibility.
There's a list of bookmark managers here.
Zinkmo seems a possible too. I found a thread where there was a discussion of this issue and it seems a lot of people are at ease with revealing their bookmarks to the world at large. I've got nothing to hide but somehow my bookmarks feel very personal to me... a bit like a bookshelf of books shows you the interest
Oh darn, there goes one of my favourite utilities to the 64bit compatibility issue. Filenote, now Shell Tools, is no longer giving me options when I right click. All may not be lost, there is some registry editing that may work. Nope, deeper reading shows that's not related at all. Red herring.
I fancy Book Kit though I need to check that will work on the other comp... (which is STILL downloading .NET... 118MB and only 5 down, must be a very slow server!).
Sync2It is another possibility.
There's a list of bookmark managers here.
Zinkmo seems a possible too. I found a thread where there was a discussion of this issue and it seems a lot of people are at ease with revealing their bookmarks to the world at large. I've got nothing to hide but somehow my bookmarks feel very personal to me... a bit like a bookshelf of books shows you the interest
Oh darn, there goes one of my favourite utilities to the 64bit compatibility issue. Filenote, now Shell Tools, is no longer giving me options when I right click. All may not be lost, there is some registry editing that may work. Nope, deeper reading shows that's not related at all. Red herring.
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