I was helping a client today who used his scanner connected to his mac and used Image Capture to save the scan. He then copied the file over to his pc to make it work with his corporate system. When he was on his Windows 7 computer, there didn’t seem to be a default or installed utility that would open up .jp2 files. After some research it turns out that Photoshop, Infranview, XnView can open them on the PC.

Its a times like these with simple cross platform struggles, that I wish that Microsoft and Apple would combine forces.

In this thread he discusses this problem and even finds a solution. Great work juan152.

 I was able to solve it!

So, I have a Windows 7 (64-bit computer) with the latest updated iTunes and it woudn’t want to restore my iPhone to a backed up version I had a few days ago. These are the steps I took to fix it myself.

What I used: 2 Laptops (Windows 7 laptop and Windows Vista Computer) and an external hard drive.

1. On my Windows 7 computer, I went to C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/Apple Computer/Mobile Sync/Backup/[a huge set of numbers/letters] and put all the files of the earliest folder (as it is the most recent backup) into my external hard drive for transfer. ***Note: In order to view AppData, you must Unhide all hidden folders from the control panel***

2. I transferred the folder from my external hard drive to my Windows Vista Computer in C:/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/AppleComputer/MobileSync/MobileSync/Backup….

3. I connected my iPhone to my Windows Vista Computer, right clicked my iPhone in iTunes and “Restore from Backup.” The huge folder that I copied from my hard drive to my Local Disk Drive C:/ was there and it was able to restore!

Good luck! This took me 3 hours to figure out!

After 10.7.2 (Oct 12, 2011) Guest…: Apple Support Communities. Interesting way to trap someone. I wonder if people are going to be suspecting Guest accounts now on corporate machines.

Open Disk Utility.app (Applications > Utilities), mark your external Disc (The entry starting with the size) and click on “Partition” on the right side. Select “1 partition” and as Format, select “ExFAT” that should work with files bigger than 4GB.

via exFAT – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Review: Computer and Registry Cleaners. The winner in my opinion of this list is CCleaner. It normally only takes 10 minutes for an average computer. Everyone who I have used it with has said that they enjoy the enhanced performance after a reboot of using this.

I had a friend with this problem today and your solution solved it. Thanks Devasis!

I noticed that you did not get the settings back again after restoring your system too.so i would like to show some steps which might get all your settings back which you desire

1. Go to Start Menu -> All programs -> Accessories

2. Look for command prompt and right click on that.

4. Select Run as Administrator.

3. Give the following commands in the command prompt window:

4. Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

5. Reset IPv4 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log

6. Reset IPv6 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv6 reset reset.log

7. After all these restart your system and the icon will be replaced back in its place.

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Backup 05 @Digital Outback Photo. Then you want to use ChronoSync. I am trying this out for my own use and it is working pretty well. It has the amazing ability to sync between the Mac and Windows XP or Windows 7! Isn’t that wonderful?

I did for the first time tonight on an old XP system that I have a Craigslist ad for in the NY area. It said it would take a significant amount of time to do and it wasn’t kidding! With a 140 GB drive it said it will take 15 hours! So I am letting it do that now.

If I can’t find anyone who wants it, I guess I will keep it as a spare. It seems a waste to me to throw a computer away that is perfectly functional. Perhaps I could find a charity who could use an XP machine.

I have rescued old systems in past places I have worked and given them to friend and charities. I know computers can be slow, but they are still very useful tools.

Everything You Need to Know About 3TB Hard Drives | PCWorld. The article suggests that you test the drive by hooking it up and seeing if it is recognized. While that is easy, it does present its own set of problems. What if it isn’t fully recognized? What if you have a Windows 7 (non 64 bit OS) that only recognizes 2.2TB? Isn’t it fascinating that Macs/64 bit linux machines have no issues using/booting from these 3TB drives? The Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 seems to be the best performer from the group.

Study finds Macs account for 11% of corporate computers, Windows XP dominates | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. I have been seeing this for years. People have gotten sick of using XP, and if they have Windows 7 they seem to prefer Macs. I think that the iPhone has done major work in rehabilitating the opinion of the general public about the functionality of Apple products.

I like that the first one is to fix the iPhone syncing problems in Windows 7. Do not go to this website. This shows it distributes malware.

Royal Pingdom. I agree that all of these have exceeded expectations. It is wonderful how competition has forced everyone to become better. I think that the best marketplace is one in which creativity and the merit of products can flourish.

IObit announces a new version of their free disk defragment software – Smart Defrag 2. In a real sense, it’s often difficult to measure an increase in system performance following Hard Drive defragmentation. Nevertheless, I do agree, that defragging is a positive maintenance process, and should be done regularly. A  quick recap on disk fragmentation: What is it? Creating and deleting files and folders, installing new software, and downloading fil … Read More

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Pem’s Tech Blog » Dell Inspiron Zino HD vs. Apple Mac Mini, Linux. So yesterday I temporarily got a Dell Inspiron Zino HD to fix for a friend. She got a virus soon after buying it and Dell didn’t fix it even after two appointments that didn’t show up. Here is what I have learned.

It came with Windows 7, but no Windows 7 disk. Because my friend didn’t create a recovery CD, I had to call Dell for one. It took more than an hour on the phone and I was forwarded 3 times in order to be “approved” to get a CD. We will see if they send the CD in the 3 days they promised.

It doesn’t seem to work with any version of Linux I have used. PCLinux, Mint don’t boot. Ubuntu installed but when I shut it down it wouldn’t boot again. Also Ubuntu didn’t have a wireless driver and she needs wireless connectivity. All were the most current versions. I formatted the drive with Vista setup disk so I don’t suspect the virus causing this problem. I tried to install Vista and although it seemed to install it was very slow. It didn’t want to boot into Visa so I formatted it to Linux when Ubuntu installed. I have considered using Fedora or Sabayon but I haven’t decided if it is worth trying.

The Windows 7 home version is probably best for my friend. Still it seems that because she got a virus so quickly a better long-term strategy would be to use Linux. The problem is that she is she needs Microsoft Office and not really wanting to use a substitute. Since most people don’t like the dual-boot concept, the easiest thing for her would just to put Windows 7 back on. What distribution do you use that works with this Inspiron Zino HD or Inspiron 400 as Dell calls it?

Computer boot-up troubleshoot Flowchart – StumbleUpon. This is very cool site. When you click on one of the troubleshooting steps, it takes you to another chart you can click on to further troubleshoot. This website allows the non IT professional to troubleshoot hardware and software issues on a computer. You might even put experienced IT people out of business if enough people used this.

Any drivers you need! Known devices: 1851494. – StumbleUpon. Sometimes you have hardware that doesn’t have any identification on it but a device number.  Nice resource to get the proper driver for it.

Turns out it has to do with MobileMe and out of control synchronization.  Here is Damien-007 solution.

I solved this problem a few days ago, after spending close to two hours with Apple Care. All time very well spent since I learned a lot, but more importantly, I thoroughly solved the problem.

Mind you, this was happening to me on my three different computers, 2 iMacs and a Mac Mini, all under 10.6.4
And through solving this problem, I learned that MobilMe also had a sync file on a Windows XP and a Windows 7 machine, neither of which I had booted up, since last spring.

First, the symptoms:
1) your dock changes the icon content before your eyes
2) the dock won’t hold an icon in its place, no matter how you put it there, or what settings or methods you choose to ‘Keep In Dock’
3) you are currently, or have previously used MobileMe, to sync your settings

The cause of these symptoms/problem:
Your MobileMe syncing with the cloud (the Apple servers where they store your sync data and your sync settings) has been corrupted.

Why unchecking Synchronize with MobileMe doesn’t fix it:
Because even on your local machine, the dock is “calling home” to verify it’s settings. When you turn off syncing, it’s inability to call the cloud, continues the problem.

The only guaranteed solution:
You have to Unregister all computer(s) from the MobileMe cloud and start your MobileMe sync fresh (as in brand new settings, NOT Reset settings) on all your computer(s). This applies even if you only sync one computer, and even if you have turned off syncing with MobileMe.

Before beginning, Turn off Synchronize with MobileMe on all computers in your MobileMe cloud.

The steps:
1) Backup everything and take note of all your settings, for which MobileMe has syncing powers over. Specifically, this includes, Bookmarks, iCal, Address Book, Mail Accounts, Mail Rules, Notes, Preferences and Entourage Notes. For Keychains, make sure you scrub that list and delete duplicates. A symptom of corrupt syncing is multiple entries in your key-chain for the same passwords. It’s OK to over delete here since the worst case scenario is you will have to reenter passwords

2) Now you will erase all the data in the MobileMe cloud, 100%.
Go to the Apple (top left corner)/System Preferences/MobileMe/Sync

• click the Advanced button lower right
• click on each computer listed in the pull down window
• to the right of each computer listed, click Stop Syncing Computer
• if you have multiple computers (I had five), each stop will take some time and may produce the beach ball. Be patient and hang in there. Still, all 5 of my computers, only to me about 20 minutes total.
• After the last or ONLY computer has been thoroughly “stopped syncing”,

a NEW pull down window will drop down, listing all the data that lives in the MobileMe cloud

• check mark each file and confirm that you want all that data/entries deleted.

3) Now you need to set up a new dock:

• Delete the dock preferences and database files mentioned by macjack above

“Go to /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences and delete these 2 files /com.apple.dock.plist and com.apple.dock.db.plist Then restart. This will give you the default Dock, so you’ll have to reset yours the way you like.”

Also, make sure your entire computer data is as you expect it. Address Book, iCal etc. Restore from backups if necessary and basically get your Mac to the way you like it.

NOW,
You can set up MobileMe fresh BUT this time do it with the more Advanced method by going back to the Advance Button under
Go to the Apple (top left corner)/System Preferences/MobileMe/Sync

• click the Advanced button lower right

And Register your/each computer: This will automatically start a MobileMe sync.

When asked, tell MobileMe that you want to keep the data on your freshly set up computer and replace the data on Mobile me.

You are done.

Do the above for each computer, for which you use mobileMe with the one variation that you should replace the data on each successive computer, with the sync data on the MobileMe cloud. (after your primary/main computer has thoroughly populated the New MobilMe data in the cloud.

Nice resource. Even a link for download. Doesn’t get much easier than this. This is a great blog to get useful and current information.

NTOP is a great network monitoring tool used primarily with Linux based system.  However, in 2006 NTop released NTOP-XTRA which was designed for Windows XP.  This excellent tool works with Windows 7 and can be used to monitor your network.  Not as detailed as the Linux versions of NTop today, NTOP-XTRA for Windows is still an excellent graphical program.  NTOP-XTRA must be ran with firefox. Note:  If you find and download the software below for W … Read More

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Apple – Support – Discussions – SCREEN SAVER AND SHOW TIME ….  JXR says:

In SL,why does the clock now appear at random places on the clock face,where as in leopard the time appeared where it normally does ie. 3:00pm would be at the 90 degree spot,6:15 would be at the180 degree spot?

The solution seems to be this:

well, after a DL of 10.6.6 and eventually choosing a screen saver I was pleasantly surprised to see the ”floating clock” location problem solved. Thank you APPLE.

Everything under the sun works with the ReadyNAS except Windows 7. How do you fix this?

Ok, so last November I went out and got myself a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo network attached storage (NAS) device. All in all its pretty nice, has very low power consumption and good performance…but when trying to browse the NAS using Windows 7 I’ve had all sorts of issues. Now, Windows 7 introduced some new features to help improve network access by caching and perfetching network data differently to how it was done in Windows XP. Windows 7 may also h … Read More

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MobileMe: Supported system requirements.  Nice list of Operating systems that work.  Of course they prefer Windows 7 which is understandable.

I recently upgraded my wife’s laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Home Premium. (The laptop manufacturer sent us a free upgrade coupon since we purchased it not too long before Windows 7 was released.) This morning she discovered that she can’t print to the Canon MP830 that is shared from the G5 Mac (running Mac OS X 10.5.8) in our living room. In Vista, I had it working via Bonjour. I’ve now learned a little too late that Bonjour doesn’t work … Read More

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Apple – Support – Discussions – Which printer for my Mac and Windows 7 ….  Epson vs Brother vs HP vs Canon.  I would have chosen the Canon myself.  Canon has cheap ink refills.

Hide a BootCamp Windows Partition from the OS X Desktop – Bits of Tech.  Kind of cool suggestions.  Much easier than other suggestions I have read.  From the article:

After digging around on Google a bit, I found a few ways to do it. The easiest of which is to simply log into your Windows environment and rename the C drive to something like .Windows. This works because UNIX- and Linux-based systems assume that any file or folder beginning with a . (period) are meant to be hidden. The advantage to this method is the change doesn’t cause the partition not to be mounted, so it’s still accessible if you want to copy files from the NTFS partition.

videocrab Recording TV is a great convenience; I like it so much that I rarely watch live television anymore. Skipping commercials lets you forget about fast-forwarding so you can sit back and enjoy the show. Running Vista? Skip this part. WtvWatcher Setting up commercial skipping on Windows 7 involves one extra step that Vista doesn’t need. In Vista, shows are recorded in the “.dvr-ms” format, which is what allows us to process the commercials. … Read More

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Some basic instructions if you are not a computer savvy person.  Most Wireless printers are instantly recognized by Windows 7 or Snow Leopard so it’s not the issue it once was.

via How to Install a Wireless Printer.

Apple – Support – Discussions – SL takes longer time to start up and ….  Don’t use this software.  It is not necessary and is obviously the cause of this problem.

Apparently if you are a student you might qualify for free Microsoft Software.

So I wanted to let any students know about a not so publicized aspect of Microsoft. They offer some of their most powerful developer software to students for free. Dreamspark is a site that provides students with 9 developer type packages including Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Pro Edition and Microsoft Expression Studio 2. Prior to learning of Dreamspark I knew little about Expression Studio, but after tinkering with the package for awhile I disc … Read More

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This is a good list of windows system optimization tools that are free.  If you have to support macs for a non-profit or for people with limited means this will do many of the things commercial software might do more conveniently.

Digeus System Optimizer is the smartest way to solve computer problems and protect your valuable data. This software is real easy to use and helps you eliminate system crashes, resolve computer problems, and restores your system to healthy state. Main Function : – Eliminates system crashes, freezes and slowdowns – Automatically identifies and repairs common Windows problems – Easy to download, install and use – Free support and services Minimum s … Read More

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Would you do this? I wouldn’t. He says “Its only $150 next year”. Oh that’s entirely reasonable then.  I think the hard part for most average people is paying $245 for something that is complex.  People don’t really want to have to spend money and time to figure something out.

Recently I just paid ~21,000yen for a one year MS TechNet Standard subscription for myself, for usage at home. I’m not at all sure if this is common or whether people still think Technet is just for business – or even if many people have even heard of it. Essentially though, this gets me access to most MS OSs and their variants (32-/64- bit, languages etc.) e.g. XP, Vista, Windows 7 and several server versions. It also allows me to use various ve … Read More

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Recently, I upgraded my laptop from Windows XP to Windows 7. I thought there was no compatibilty issue of win 7 with my hardware, if the hardware works on xp it also works on 7. But I was wrong, my old printer, canon bjc265sp, didn’t installed itself by 7, not like xp. So I search over the internet for the driver, I am unlucky, now Canon don’t continue the support for the driver. The latest driver version only works on XP. I try to search on goog … Read More

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Recently I attempted installing Office 2010 on an Windows 7 box. However, on this particular system the installation failed with the warning that: Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): Microsoft Office 2010 does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of Microsoft Office 2010. You must first install any prerelease versions of Microsoft Office 2010 products and associated technologies. Correct the issue(s) listed above … Read More

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one of those niggly things -  I’ve had an apple aluminium keyboard on my PC for a While -  a legacy of plying with  a hackintosh build. I really like the keyboard,   but couldnt get it to work  perfectly  with Windows 7 . but today I finally found a solution.  thanks to the post here : – http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=45140 ” I’ve found a solution to use apple’s keyboard on Vista without BootCamp. (On hackintosh in my case) … Read More

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Microsoft to Allow Windows XP Downgrades Until 2020.  For one poster he would downgrade so he can play some games that aren’t compatible with Windows 7.  Why not just use Virtualbox?

Suggests that Windows lack of attention to detail might be the reason that Apple is enjoying success.

So, I spent a whole bunch of the day killing Windows Vista for a friend and installing Windows 7, you know, so his computer would work and stuff like that. Windows Vista has gotten a lot of bad press, but I wanted to point out that it was not the only problem this HP had.  The poor thing had been burdened down with superfluous software that all needed to start at the same time the operating system did, and was shut down manually at the … Read More

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I run Windows 7 on my workstation with SSD + RAID1 setup. The SSD contains Windows, Visual Studio, and some other tools that I use. The mirrored HDDs contain all data files and a backup copy of the SSD. This setup has been working fairly well for me because it gives an outstanding performance of the SSD drive (Windows 7 boots up in under 8 sec) and a stability of RAID1 which prevents any significant data loss. The only disappointing issue so far … Read More

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BITS (freeware) shows you if your CPU supports 64-bits and hardware virtualization (useful for VirtualPC, VMWare and XP Mode on Windows 7). Works with all versions of Windows 2K/XP/Vista/7 Homepage: Download BITS … Read More

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