The Wichita Computer Guy's Contribution Blog
Create Windows 7 Rescue USB Drive
Tue, 2010/03/02 - 15:49 | 
phil Microsoft has enabled a lot of great features with the maintenance side of Windows 7, including the installation of Windows 7. There are guides coming out the wazoo on how to create a Windows 7 bootable USB Drive and a Windows 7 Restore CD, but we want to create a Windows 7 Restore USB... right?
X-Mouse for WIndows Vista & Win 7
Wed, 2010/02/03 - 23:10 | admin I can't take any credit for any of the following steps but hopefully this will provide you with some x-mouse capability. (credits are below) I mainly am posting this because I hate reloading windows, then waste time digging through a bunch of sites until I find the "right" x-mouse feature I want: Focus follows mouse, but doesn't raise window... ever... I am purely blogging this for my own records.
Is Windows 7 Better than Vista?
Sat, 2009/11/07 - 13:56 | phil The question a lot of folks have, is whether Windows 7 is better than Windows Vista. As a computer professional, I am going to give my honest opinion of Windows 7.
Background
Microsoft has received a lot of criticism about not releasing new versions of Windows in a more timely manner. Roughly 5 years passed between windows XP and Windows Vista. A lot of major software companies will release a "major" version every year, or at minimum, every two years. Not Microsoft. They apparently don't have a set schedule on when they release their software.
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Drivers for Windows 7
Sat, 2009/11/07 - 13:21 | phil If you have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 card, windows 7 (and I think Vista) will not pick up drivers for the card, rendering it kind of useless... Creative Labs is not supporting these operating systems with new drivers, BUT, if you have one of these cards like me, you want it to work. Don't throw the card away just quite yet... There is actually a fix for getting the sb live to work on Windows 7.
Automatically Empty the CIFS/SMB Recycle Bin On A FreeNAS Server
Wed, 2009/10/21 - 01:00 | phil Ever wanted to setup FreeNAS to empty the recycle bin automatically for you? Well, this should help!
First off, if you want to enable the recycle bin, go to the share you want to enable it for (Services -> CIFS/SMB -> Shares) and edit that share. About half way down, you will find a checkbox for "Enable recycle bin".
Second, we need to create a .sh file (this seemed to give me the least amount of trouble...) Go to Advanced -> Command
In the box, type:
mkdir /usr/opt/Hit the Execute button, then type: