Friday, February 10, 2012

Slow Wireless Network Startup on XP

Windows XP was loading all startup programs quickly on a SSD install. Wireless Network Connections was taking forever to appear.
1. Try uninstalling HP printer drivers and reinstalling.

or

2. Change the Network Connections Service from Manual to Automatic.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Copying Huge Amounts of Files with XXCOPY

Ever try to use the copy and paste function to move an entire hard drive worth of folders?

I doesn't work very well. If it encounters an error it will stop, leaving you to start all over again.

XXCOPY

The installation program integrates it with the Widows command line.

To copy an entire folder the syntax would be:

xxcopy c:\somedirectory f:\anotherdirectory /backup

The entire contents (including folder structure) of (somedirectory) will be copied to (anotherdirectory).