I grabbed a ZIP file from Bugzilla and once I unzipped it, I ended up with this weird BCD file (like, something like: xxxxx.dvd.bcd) Those two things are tripping me up. I guess the extension is just .bcd? I did some digging online and saw some mentions of Windows Vista, but I don't really get it.
Does anyone actually know what's going on here? It’s kind of annoying when they release stuff in formats that nobody has ever heard of.
I guess you've got a point, but my C drive is small enough to fit on a single DVD since Acronis doesn't bother updating the swap or hibernation files anyway. I actually prefer keeping the "original" Windows files on C so they're part of the backup, while all my programs live on D. Regarding the swap, I left it on C because I'm already dealing with two drives split into three partitions each, plus a CD drive, a DVD writer, a few virtual drives, and some USB sticks. Honestly, I lose track of where everything is, so adding another partition would probably just make things more of a mess. As for the swap, I read somewhere that it's best to put it at the start of a second physical drive (so, my E partition). It doesn't really matter if it's on its own separate partition. I just found Ultimate Defrag—haven't messed with it yet—but it lets you physically place files wherever you want, so I might try using it to move that swap to the beginning of the E partition (the start of the second drive).
I run three partitions: C, D, and E. The C drive is strictly for Windows and any software that forces itself into C:\Program Files without asking. I use the D drive for my main Program Files folder, plus all my games and other apps... Drive E is where I stash everything else—docs, movies, music, you name it.
I use Acronis to back up just the C drive onto a DVD. It usually fits on one disc, but if I’ve been a bit heavy-handed with installs, I might need two or more.
I also made an Acronis boot CD.
I refresh the image on an RW DVD about every 20 days.
If Windows ever completely craps out—like, it won't even boot—I just set it to boot from the Acronis boot CD. It asks me where the image is, I point it to the DVD, and it restores the image to C. That way, the C partition is perfectly back to how it was at most 20 days ago.
As for the stuff on D, I just check if the programs still work since registry entries change over time. If they don't, I just wipe them and reinstall. Not a huge deal.
Look, I'm not saying people aren't browsing sketchy sites, but that's really not the issue here. It’s honestly wild that such a basic feature is missing. I tried using Ctrl+Alt+Del in Google to clear things out and it seemed fine for a second, but then everything just popped right back up. I'll try to track down that software that used to clean up my Edge. Maybe there's a version for Chrome or Google now. If I find it, I'll let you know.
Back when I was using Edge, I had this little tool that let me see every single URL the browser cached so I could just wipe out whatever I wanted.
Now I'm mostly on Chrome and Google, and I need something similar. For instance, whenever I hit up Reddit, my address bar gets flooded with a million variations ending in things like /cgi or /php... It’s the same if I make a typo; that "ghost" URL just sticks around in the history.
Basically, I just want to be able to "sift through" my addresses every now and then and keep only the ones I actually care about.
Look, slycrane94, there wasn't even a RAR in there. It was just those 40 files and a single SFV file. I did a little digging online and found exactly that. I guess I have no clue how anyone even made those files without the r001, r002... stuff, but somehow I managed to pull the BIN and CUE files out using WinRAR. I didn't touch the SFV at all. Maybe WinRAR just handled it in the background or something. Just a heads up, I had to actually open WinRAR manually instead of just using the right-click Context menu.
Thanks for the replies. Just wanted to add this since it might help someone else (maybe): those files ending in 001 and 002 are actually just RAR files. The weird thing is, WinRAR doesn't pick them up as archives from the right-click context menu; you have to manually open the WinRAR app and find them through its internal browser. Once you do that, they'll decompress fine.
So I just grabbed this game and ended up with about 40 different files labeled .001, 002... all the way to 0039, plus a tiny .sfv file Never really run into this before. I tried looking stuff up online, but I'm still pretty lost. I guess it's some kind of archive setup, but I have no clue what type.
Can someone maybe tell me which program was used to pack/unpack this and how I'm supposed to actually use it?
Look, guys, pretty much every mail server lets you decide if you want to include your actual registered "display name" with your messages or just leave it out. Basically, whether your name shows up depends entirely on what the sender chooses to do, not because some random middleman server decided to strip it away. I guess if someone’s intentionally hiding their name, they probably have a reason for it.
BitTorrent is basically a protocol that doesn't rely on central servers; instead, everything happens directly between active users.
1) Just grab a BitTorrent client. I use Comet, which is pretty solid and easy to handle, though there are plenty of other options out there. You shouldn't need to mess around with port forwarding or anything like that later on.
2) You'll need to find some torrents. A torrent is just a tiny file that holds the info on where the actual files are located. There are various torrent search engines, but I usually stick to www.torrentspy.com since they host them and have a decent selection. Once you find what you want, just click it to download the torrent file. That should automatically trigger Comet to start the download.
3) Comet actually has built-in search sites too, but a lot of them are dead now, so I mostly just use the one I mentioned above.