It was somewhat begrudgingly that I installed Windows 7 on my new hard drive but here we are.. and I have some questions, having gotten a bit behind on what's what in the windows world.
1) I'm already set to limited user, should I throw AVG on top of that as well?
2) What do people use for docks in these parts? Rocketdock compared to Gnome-Do.
3) Has Windows EXT3 partition reading gotten any better? I need to transfer some files across.
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2) What do you need a dock for? In Windows 7, I don't even use Launchy anymore. I just press the window key, then I type in what I want to launch. WinKey, f, i, r, e, enter. If you need to use the mouse, the windows taskbar is perfectly fine "dock".
3) AFAIK Windows is incapable of reading any file systems other than FAT13/32, NTFS, and ISO9660. If you want to copy files from an ext3 partition, you must mount it with some other means like putting it in another computer and mounting it over the network. If you use a Linux LiveCD you can mount NTFS and transfer files that way.
4) superuser.com
3) I've used a program that will mount EXT3 to Windows but not very elegantly.
4)I have a blank 1TB drive so I want to get on top of defraging as early as possible. What do people here use? I used to use JKDefrag because it ran from just an exe file.
Also: No virtual desktops makes me feel like some kind of digital caveman.
Let's say you are doing three things at once. You are photoshopping some arts, you are writing some blog posts, and you are reading some articles. If you don't have virtual desktops, you're going to have a cluttered taskbar/dock. You'll have to keep switching different combinations of programs in and out.
If you have virtual desktops, you can keep everything related to a single task on a single desktop. Then you just switch to the desktop of the task you want to work on. It's pretty amazing. *nix systems have had this feature for a very very very long time. OSX just added it very recently. Windows never had it. The OSX implementation is kind of bad. The 3rd party Windows implementations are even worse.
Under Windows 7 the taskbar doesn't get cluttered up unless you set it to expand all + window title. Which is a rather archaic thing that doesn't offer any improvements without other problems. Virtual Desktops are a useless feature. Fluff. It's no superior way of managing windows.
And like your CPU, you can only work on one program at a time anyways.
The point of virtual desktops is much like having groups of Windows you can switch between in one go. I've got three windows open just transferring files from the old computer to this one, if Windows had proper virtual desktops I could put them all on one desktop and not have to alt + tab them individually. It's an efficiency thing.
Sweet! Moved across all the files from my other hard drives into one place. Taking up 500giB before I start deleting stuff.
I'm eyeing the Antec P180 case to replace my rickety old chassis. Mostly for it's sound reducing features and smaller size (Already having an MATX motherboard.).
Mind you, I'm only getting this info from SPCR:
Mini P180 review conclusions
The SOLO is only a little bit bigger than the mini P180, in fact.