• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Disc Cloning

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Figured since we have some tech smart members here, maybe someone could point me in the right direction. I'm looking for cloning software, so I can move everything on my laptop to a larger drive.

Thing is, I have a few large programs on there, that I cannot activate a second time, so I need one that will clone it entirely down to the last bit of info, so that I don't lose the functionality of the programs, or Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks for any info.
Rick
 
Before you transfer to another drive you'll want to defragment and compress what's on your existing drive. There is a built-in Window's utility that works quite well. My brother just transferred all his data, OS included, to a solid state drive yesterday. I'll talk to him and see what he recommends.
 
I've used Acronis True Image in the past to clone drives with excellent results....
 
I like that disc image thing, and used it to image my hard drive to an external as a back up. Looks to even be bootable looking at the files it moved. But haven't tried it yet. Should make for an easy copy when the drive arrives for the laptop.

Another question...one thing I noticed as I installed programs to my laptop, is that the install path is slightly different with 7 then XP Pro, depending on if it's a 64 bit compatible program, or 32 bit, or something.

So if I used easy transfer to move an installed program from my XP machine, to my 7 machine, do you think it will work properly?
 
Easy transfer won't move programs, only application data. Unfortunately due to the complex nature of many programs and the copy protection that shackles them to your machine, it is very difficult to move programs between computers.

64 bit programs are installed in the Program Files directory, while 32-bit programs are installed into the Program Files (x86) directory. This change is handled by windows 7 transparently.

If you manually install the program, and then use easy transfer to copy the settings to your new machine, it should be configured as before. Sadly, it isn't always reliable and depends on the program.

Regarding the image on the external drive, depending on how you told Clonezilla to back up your previous drive, it either copied it exactly, or stored a backup of the drive as a single restore file. If it copied it exactly (you see the windows directory on the drive, etc.) it will be bootable.
 
So after looking a little closer, it appears that the built in windows feature "disc image" is not bootable like I thought. Looked a little closer, and it is done in the typical "back up" fashion of windows. Meaning, it would require windows to re-establish it.

Good thing I had that external drive to practice with before actually attempting anything permanent. I think I'm going to look at those external programs a little closer now.

Thanks for the replies.
 
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