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Whilst I’m waiting for it to download | CommitStrip[^]
Story of my life for the past 6 calendar days, waiting for my old 2.7TB external hard drive to copy to the new 17TB external hard drive. Unfortunately they're on a moderately old server which only supports USB 2.0. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Is making kitchen worktops counter productive?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Only if the carpenter is paid under the table.
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I marble at your ability to come up with these.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I just take his brilliance for granite.
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Indeed. His counters are hard to top.
/ravi
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You are right, of quartz.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, the kitchen is so excited that it takes a micro-wave.
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Nah, he is starting to cut some corners so they aren't as sharp as they used to be.
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Topping up the tables can be expansive.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Do you just cook these up? 
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That's food for thought.
/ravi
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Long story short, I have an OST file that I need to convert to a PST file. There are tools out there but they are expensive and this is a one off.
Does anyone know of a free (unrestricted) tool that can do this?
Thanks
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Have you tried this[^]? The non-enterprise version seems to be free.
/ravi
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Thanks: I think the free version only allows you to save a limited number of posts per folder but I'll give it another try. 
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For Outlook/Exchange my first point of call is always slipstick.com
A quick search shows this article[^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Thanks: saw that; I have an isolated file for an account that was cancelled so my only option is to convert - I have a feeling the owner of the file is going to have to write off the contents.
Moral of this tale: stop doing favors. 
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One of the computers I work on has been having performance problems: it just stops responding to input for a few seconds at a time (eg instead of smoothly scrolling with the mouse in Word wheel it'd scroll for a few seconds normally pause for a few seconds then fly down a few screens and repeat). After unsuccessfully trying to troubleshoot the system the admin decided to just rebuild it. The initial OS/Office load worked fine; but as he began adding my development tools (VS2015, Sql Server Management Studio, Eclipse) he said it started slowing down again and getting worse with each new install. This happened just by installing them, not when they were running. 
He's going to try throwing more hardware at it (I'm not complaining even though the baseline should be enough for what I need); but what could possibly be causing just having more software installed to bog the system down. Because of its use the system does have security/logging/etc settings turned up to 11 on the paranoia scale; but I can't imagine how that'd be hurt by having more stuff installed. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Do you have the problems in safe mode or clean boot?
Of the few things nowadays that can make the computer unresponsive, the harddrive and drivers are the ones that comes to mind.
<edit>and what Slacker mentioned, antivirus</edit>
modified 7-Mar-16 10:16am.
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IIRC he was screwing around in safe mode during one of the pre-wipe testing sessions.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Then I would run chkdsk /r over the night
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There was one running when I was in the lab a few days ago, I don't know what if anything it found; but since he didn't try swapping a new HDD I assume no errors were found.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Don't waste your time running chkdsk. Boot linux and run badblocks if you suspect the disk. Chkdsk is good for detecting filesystem errors, but is completely unable to notice bad media -- in my experience, by the time chkdsk detects a bad disk, its because the heads are quite literally glued to the platters.
To the OP, yes, just installing stuff can slow a computer down. It bulks the registry, and puts more things in it that the OS has to keep checking (e.g. class IDs), paths, etc. Also, these days, it's all the rage to install an updater service with your application that runs in the background all the time, even when the application isn't running. And don't forget the disk indexing. And.. was the computer physically disconnected from any and all networks during the install process? If not, MS might have been keeping the disk busy downloading updates in the background for you.. like Windows 10.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Since you mentioned overdoing it with the security...
I have seen application performance issues when more than one virus software is competing for supremacy - I would check this.
Also, if you don't have enough physical RAM on your graphics card itself, then this could also play into application performance, because the App is having a hard time rendering itself.
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Slacker007 wrote: I have seen application performance issues when more than one virus software is competing for supremacy - I would check this.
Nope. This's real hardening, not cargocult I have 27 antivirus programs and 17 firewalls, lets see them try to hack this BS.
Slacker007 wrote: Also, if you don't have enough physical RAM on your graphics card itself, then this could also play into application performance, because the App is having a hard time rendering itself.
Just installing more software *that isn't running* shouldn't affect the amount of vram any of the open applications are using.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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