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Hawkmoon

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Computer records
« on: March 23, 2021, 05:42:07 PM »
Every once in awhile one of my programs hiccups and I have to reinstall it. That usually involves re-entering the serial number and/or activation key. Keeping track of years worth of CDs and DVDs is a chore for people like me, who are organizationally-challenged.

How do y'all keep track of that information? Or do you not bother?
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2021, 05:46:28 PM »
Every once in awhile one of my programs hiccups and I have to reinstall it. That usually involves re-entering the serial number and/or activation key. Keeping track of years worth of CDs and DVDs is a chore for people like me, who are organizationally-challenged.

How do y'all keep track of that information? Or do you not bother?

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Re: Computer records
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2021, 05:59:31 PM »
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I have it. It doesn't pick up many of the programs I have installed.
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2021, 06:07:41 PM »
I have it. It doesn't pick up many of the programs I have installed.

It's quite possible that belarc doesn't pick up programs written prior to 1970. You might have to just go into "about" in all your prgs and copy and paste the serial number into a spreadsheet and call it good.
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2021, 09:35:42 PM »
Every once in awhile one of my programs hiccups and I have to reinstall it. That usually involves re-entering the serial number and/or activation key. Keeping track of years worth of CDs and DVDs is a chore for people like me, who are organizationally-challenged.

How do y'all keep track of that information? Or do you not bother?

I write the S/Ns and/or keys on the disc with a sharpie just in case I lose the paperwork.
Also many important CDs and DVD I create ISOs of them and store on a small portable HDD of just in case I lose or damage the disc. Keys are in a text file stored with the ISOs. Most disc burning software have ISO creation capability.

Nlote: Been using flashdrives lately instead of HDDs. They're generally cheap enough for that now.
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2021, 10:17:19 PM »
LOL !!  :rofl:
Up until I started using this Win. 7 computer about 10 years ago, I was still using 3.5" floppies and ZIP discs on my XP computer.
I still have dozens of both, some never used.
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2021, 10:36:30 PM »
LOL !!  :rofl:
Up until I started using this Win. 7 computer about 10 years ago, I was still using 3.5" floppies and ZIP discs on my XP computer.
I still have dozens of both, some never used.
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ZIP discs bring up fond, not!, memories of The Zip Drive Click of Death

Click Click Click Click Click Click Click *expletive deleted*ck!
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2021, 10:45:55 PM »
LOL !!  :rofl:
Up until I started using this Win. 7 computer about 10 years ago, I was still using 3.5" floppies and ZIP discs on my XP computer.
I still have dozens of both, some never used.
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Zip disks?  How nineties.
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2021, 11:44:03 PM »
Zip disks?  How nineties.
Nineties storage? There was also the 3M LS120 Superdisk, the immensely popular format that sold drives in the dozens! (It was a magnetic floppy disc that had optical tracking - developed by 3M, it went along with the "Imation" spinoff.) It was technically superior to ZIP discs, but management dithering - and the process of spinning off another company - delayed it, so it never really caught on.
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2021, 11:53:35 PM »
I think I have a new superdisk in the shrink wrapped box. Let me look tomorrow.
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2021, 03:40:17 PM »
ZIP discs bring up fond, not!, memories of The Zip Drive Click of Death

Click Click Click Click Click Click Click *expletive deleted*ck!

The ZIP drive in the XP's tower never failed me.  While I haven't used this external ZIP drive on this W7 computer in 4-5 years, it was still working then.  And it had been used on my mother's XP computer for at least 5 years before that.  Never did get the "click".  Sorry you had problems as they worked for me.
A company I worked for from 1999-2001 was still using an old VAX system with TEN INCH floppies !!
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2021, 03:50:31 PM »
The ZIP drive in the XP's tower never failed me.  While I haven't used this external ZIP drive on this W7 computer in 4-5 years, it was still working then.  And it had been used on my mother's XP computer for at least 5 years before that.  Never did get the "click".  Sorry you had problems as they worked for me.


I've worked in the IT field since the 80s, Zip drives were notoriously famous for the click of death and it was rare to find that didn't. When I sold computers nearly every Zip drive we sold died that way and came back.   
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Re: Computer records
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2021, 05:36:07 PM »
I've worked in the IT field since the 80s, Zip drives were notoriously famous for the click of death and it was rare to find that didn't. When I sold computers nearly every Zip drive we sold died that way and came back.

Makes me glad that was one technology I never tried.
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