The Weekly Geek

Now that most of you are off of Windows 98 and ME, I would like to share this little tweak. Files that use the 8.3 naming convention can degrade NTFS drive performance. Unless you have a good reason for keeping the 8.3 naming convention intact (such as if you’re using 16-bit programs), a performance gain [...]

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In the previous two editions I wrote about Sync Toy by Microsoft and CloneSpy. In this issue I want to take a look at Duplicate Cleaner by Digital Volcano. I used version 1.2. This first thing that was apparent was a much nicer interface than previous programs I have been using. Once you set the [...]

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In the last edition I told you of how I use SyncToy by Microsoft to keep my data backed up and files coordinated in multiple computers. This however does not help when you have multiple copies of the same file on one computer. In my backing up and reinstalls this past Holiday season I literally [...]

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Over the last Christmas season The Weekly Geek formatted and reinstalled several of his home systems. Of course backing up is a large part of that, unfortunately this meant that many files were duplicated onto the main system used for backing up. I have been using Microsoft’s SyncToy to sync my data from the laptop [...]

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