October 2004 - Posts

GMail Drive shell extension

This morning one of my very good friend pointed out to this website http://www.viksoe.dk/gmail

 GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Please note that GMail Drive is still an experimental tool. There's still a number of limitations of the file-system (such as total filename size must be less than 40 characters), and it doesn't make full use of the secure internet protocols available

If you are unable to download the installation from there you can find an alternate here.

enjoy

Windows XP SP2 :(

Really Disappointed :(

Other day I rolled out service pack 2 on all of our network machines and also installed on my Dell  Inspiron 8600 Laptop and after working fine for 2 days it decided that it is going to ruin my machine :( it started to slog like a turtle. and even after uninstalling Service pack 2 I still have problems with the laptop running slow.
Anybody else experienced the same problem? if so can you please drop a line on how did you solve the problem, any help / suggestions will be really helpful.

Many thanks

Deepesh