Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 26

= November 26 =

AMD radeon to Catalyst
To run some programs, I've been prompted to update my AMD Radeon driver from version 13.9 to at least 13.12.

On the AMD.com site I don't find Radeon...

Is it okay/sufficient to install AMD Catalyst 14.9, which I do find? Should that do the trick?

84.211.153.120 (talk) 13:24, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Identify your chipset in the device manager by the hardware-ID. Google for this ID. Is your GPU part of the CPU or onboard graphic, choose this. --Hans Haase (talk) 23:06, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/HowtoidentifythemodelofanATIgraphicscard.aspx --Hans Haase (talk) 06:03, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

How can I access the Google Analytics for my web page?
In continuing my project (see above) to learn CSS and HTML by studying example files, I have one with doctype
 * (<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">),

containing this function:
 * (function {
 * var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
 * ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
 * var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);

}:);

How can I access the Google Analytics for this web page?Thanks, --Halcatalyst (talk) 13:44, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Via this page. Dismas |(talk) 13:51, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Looking for a good fairly recent reference for CASE: history and current status
I just did some editing on the Computer aided software engineering article. One of the claims that I removed was something that said (this is a paraphrase) "no one does CASE anymore because everyone practices Agile development". I thought that claim was far too strong but I did think that there was a kernel of truth to it: that the peak of interest in CASE was in the 90's and that while people still use CASE tools many of them are now freeware and the emphasis (for many kinds of systems, probably not for things like mission critical systems) has moved away from rigid specs to more Agile and RAD ways of developing. I'm looking for a good overview of CASE that is current and that would support saying stuff like that. Or of course I could be wrong -- it doesn't happen often but we should be open to even the most outlandish possibilities -- and perhaps you know of papers that say just the opposite of what I said above, those would be welcome as well. Most of the stuff I can find that is decent is over a decade old. If anyone knows of some good papers (or books, my local library is part of a big city and has access to most books) to recommend please let me know. Thanks in advance. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 17:43, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Recovering Windows XP file properties
I'm using Windows 7 with a drive from a computer that used Windows XP. XP allowed you to fill in attributes like Author and Source and I set these for some PDF files, but these attributes don't seem to be visible under Windows 7. Is there any way to retrieve this information on my computer? The file content seems fine so it's only a small loss if I can't get the attributes, but it seems doubtful whether I can reconstruct the attribute information if it's lost. --RDBury (talk) 19:56, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I personally use the VersInfoEx shell extension for this, but I'm sure there are similar applications available. Tevildo (talk) 21:59, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Moving a program from C: to E: drive?
I have an Asus i7 Wnidows 7 laptop with a 100GB SSI and a 1,000GB hard drive. The SSI is rather full up, and photoshop is taking up 2GB. I'd like to move some of the programs I don't often use to the hard disk to make space available on the SSI. I don't have any installation or backup disks, I bought the computer used and pre-installed. (1) can I move any progrmas to the E (larger disk drive) from the SSI, and (2) how can I go about doing so if I have no backup or installation disk? Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 21:07, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * We are talking about 2 % of the drive. WTH is filling up the disk? Use Crapcleaner or similar if you know better, minize web browser caches or flush it. Some Adobe products intensively use the %APPDATA% folder of user the profile(s). Try to cut this if not needed. --Hans Haase (talk) 22:55, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * After installing and running Crap Cleaner I went from 7.79GB free to 18GB free, so that's a great thing. I'd still like to move programs I can reinstall to the e drive if they will work properly. μηδείς (talk) 20:33, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The odd thing is that last week I had 16GB free. Then with the redness problem I had, I updated my nvidia drivers.  It turned out to be the Asus splendid program that was causing the screen to turn red.  I deleted it.  But since the update I went from 16GB free to 1.6GB free.  I dumped all my cahes, deleted nvidia's 3D driver since I don't use it and could aways reinstall, deleted a few other programs and removed a few video files from my desktop, but I still only have 7MB free.


 * I do use format factory, adobe reader X, and winrar, which are installed on the c drive. I am wondering if deleting them and reinstalling them to the e drive is possible.  Am I able to run programs off the e drive if the c drive is the default drive?  Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 20:05, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The easiest solution is to move the Photoshop folder to a new location on drive E and make an NTFS junction point from the old location to the new location. This will work for most installed software, but don't move Windows system folders. WinDirStat is a pretty good free tool for finding what else is taking up space on the SSD. -- BenRG (talk) 20:55, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Can you give me or send me to a step by step on how to make the NTFS junction point? This is a few steps beyond my comprehension.  I would have to know how to send it to a specific e drive folder, and am not sure how to do this.  Do I create an e drive folder first? And would that really save me much more than the 2GB+ that Photoshop is using?  With 18GB free now, I don't think I will run out of space except for video files which I'll just archive to the e drive as needed,  I will run windirstat and report back.  Thanks, everyone, for the excellent help. μηδείς (talk) 21:07, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I misread your question as implying that you wanted to move Photoshop. In any case, you would drag the folder from its current location (e.g. C:\Program Files\Photoshop) to a new location (e.g. E:\Photoshop) and then run mklink /J "C:\Program Files\Photoshop" "E:\Photoshop" (you could press Win+R and type this in the Run dialog box, or open a command prompt and type it there). -- BenRG (talk) 04:36, 28 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, I probably would move photoshop if it works with free programs I can always reinstall like realplayer. My only questions at this point would be, (1) could I just drag the program back from the e to the c drive if there were some problem, and (2) could I put a shortcut on the desktop that would open the program directly on the desktop?  Thanks, . μηδείς (talk) 17:53, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Just right-click the drive and [Search] for big files with the date in question. If I have a mysterious Disk Space Invader, I start with both the date filter and the "big files only" (1MB+) filter and work my way down from there. It's usually a collection of big files. I had a flood of small files no more than once. 217.255.148.198 (talk) 08:31, 1 December 2014 (UTC)