I downloaded this utility a few months ago out of necessity, and hesitated to do a review on it, despite how useful it is for 2 reasons. One, I’m not knowledgeable enough on the subject of audio/video formats to do it justice, and well, its back-end-of-a-dog-UGLY.
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Many of us have wondered exactly what svchost.exe is, and why there are a dozen or more instances of it running in task manager. Microsoft says:
“svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries”
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With as big as hard disks are getting, managing them effectively is more important than ever. Any one hard disk can have a terabyte or more of data. This presents a few issues that didn’t exist when HD’s were only 500megs, such as actually FINDING that file among thousands of others. Also, if even one sector of a 1TB drive goes bad, recovering your data can be a time-consuming chore.
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When I bought my first “IBM”-compatible computer, it came with a 500MB hard disk. Applications back then didn’t hog as much space as they do now, but storage still became an issue, hence the advent of the Archival Utility. Taking that 700k MIDI file down to 500k was significant savings, plus the ability to “bundle” several files together was handy.
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Not really. It’s long since set in stone that typing in all caps is akin to shouting at someone.When you see a netizen typing along in allcaps, you assume they are:
I find the latter to be the most commonly encountered.
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There are a myriad of ways to get large files to other people. You can email them, since most email services, like Gmail, now support pretty large file sizes. You could drop them to a flash drive or portable hard disk and take them to someone. You could also use one of the many file transfer/hosting services on the ‘net such as Rapidshare or sendthisfile. All of these have some drawbacks. Unless you pay for upgrades (up to 100usd per year or more) at these sites, you are stuck with waiting times, download limits, and the possibility of your files being deleted.
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