Right-click on the task bar.

Choose toolbars->new toolbar

This is the directory you choose:

C:\Users\Steven\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

(where "Steven" is my user name. Use yours.)

to do this you first have to go into Explorer and enable viewing of hidden and system folders.

UPDATE: Curiously, I didn't have to create the "Quick Launch" directory. It's already there.

I've been alternating between having Saten in its cradle (with power connected) and pulling it out so it's more comfortable to use. The standard power settings really crank back on the CPU speed when power isn't attached. I guess I can understand why, but I think I might override that. Performance really goes into the toilet and everything gets a lot more painful to use, especially the touch screen, in which useability strongly correlates inversely with the response latency.

Microsoft Security essentials is now installed.

I originally set up the account on Saten with the same name I use everywhere else, but with no password. I just changed it so that it has the same password as everywhere else, too, and I thought that would make networking work, but it doesn't seem to. I think the reason is that I don't have the WorkGroup set up properly. At the moment Saten is getting its credentials from Alcyone, and that's the only computer it can see on my LAN, and the only directories on Alcyone that it can open are c:\users\Steven\My Pictures and My Music and My Videos.

Which is good enough, I suppose; Microsoft doesn't actually enforce what I put in those directories, so I'm using My Pictures to transfer software over. But I really do need to gain access to Deneb so that I can do a full backup.

There's a backup program on Saten. When I put my 32G SDHC into it, one of the prompt choices is to use it for backup. But all it backs up is user data files. It doesn't do a backup of the system.

Deneb takes a full snapshot of everything, and I'll feel a lot more secure once that's happened. Still, it's not urgent, and it ought to wait until I do all my other setting up, like getting Proxomitron and Zoom Player and MPC over there.

I'm not sure I can move Zoom Player; the password protection on that may not permit it to work on Saten and on Acyone too. MPC, on the other hand, isn't protected so I know that will work.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Computers at 01:25 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
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