We have computer! & Request for help
May. 10th, 2008 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saifaiFound a cool guy that refurbishes computer. Sells them within my budget. So far I'm very pleased. He was obviously very well educated in this field. I had a great time asking him about a couple hundred questions.
It's a rebuilt eMachine. The parts of that computer that tended to fail? All been replaced. Got a new power supply, new harddrive... um, forgot the rest. But it's clean and new and even has a fresh copy of Windows XP. Interestingly enough, even though the XP version is a Home edition, he didn't install the office suite (except for Frontpage). I did however get OpenOffice. It's interesting so far, but I haven't had a lot of time to play with it.
I did have a few backups, but not of everything. My poor mother didn't have anything of hers backed up. We're working on rebuilding those.
Today however, I've taken up residence in the computer share and am quite happily hogging said new computer. Mostly I'm installing my backups, installing my favorite programs (firefox, spybot, virus protection, irfanview, vlc, semagic, etc.). Ooh, and bonus? There's room enough on here to install my backup copy of Photoshop. Yay! *bouncebouncebounce* More manips, here I come.
Speaking of which, here's the request for help. I need an archive unpacker of some sort. I vaguely remember![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bunnyohare mentioning a freeware one to me once, but damned if I can remember what it was. I need something to unpack the rar files I've got my backups stored in (the ones with the number extensions). Any clue what I can use that doesn't cost me anything (and I hate WinRar, so that's out)?
It's a rebuilt eMachine. The parts of that computer that tended to fail? All been replaced. Got a new power supply, new harddrive... um, forgot the rest. But it's clean and new and even has a fresh copy of Windows XP. Interestingly enough, even though the XP version is a Home edition, he didn't install the office suite (except for Frontpage). I did however get OpenOffice. It's interesting so far, but I haven't had a lot of time to play with it.
I did have a few backups, but not of everything. My poor mother didn't have anything of hers backed up. We're working on rebuilding those.
Today however, I've taken up residence in the computer share and am quite happily hogging said new computer. Mostly I'm installing my backups, installing my favorite programs (firefox, spybot, virus protection, irfanview, vlc, semagic, etc.). Ooh, and bonus? There's room enough on here to install my backup copy of Photoshop. Yay! *bouncebouncebounce* More manips, here I come.
Speaking of which, here's the request for help. I need an archive unpacker of some sort. I vaguely remember
bunnyohare mentioning a freeware one to me once, but damned if I can remember what it was. I need something to unpack the rar files I've got my backups stored in (the ones with the number extensions). Any clue what I can use that doesn't cost me anything (and I hate WinRar, so that's out)?
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Date: 2008-05-11 02:12 am (UTC)I'm rather afraid the computer crash before last was something like that, what with the whole power supply issue. I'm going to take that one in some time soonish and see what the computer guy says.
Good to hear you got some extras on top of your computer problems. *crosses fingers the harddrives won't crash again too soon*