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Uncompress a windows file

Posted in Tech, Video Cards on 03/09/2009 12:04 pm by Matt

I was running into an issue where windows was telling me I was missing my nvHotkey.dll, I had recently installed the newest nvidia driver on my laptop, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ750n, and I upgraded my video driver using the latest driver from nvidia.com. When I started receiving the error I went to the nvidia driver folder (usually C:\NVIDIA\driver#) and found the nvhotkey.dl_ compressed file. I then uncompressed it and stuck in my windows\system folder. Viola, problem solved.

Need to know how to uncompress the file? Here are the instructions:

You need to expand a file when you want to copy just one or two files from distribution disks of a software application without having to reinstall the whole thing.  This situation occurs when you have unsuccessfully installed a program which causes one or two of your system files become corrupted.

The compressed files that comes in the distrubution disks of your program are normally compressed. They have their original names with one character replaced with an underscore (”_”), like ole32aut.dl_ for oleaut32.dll
You can expand a compressed file into its original file using the EXPAND command in DOS window as follows:

  • open a dos window
  • change to the directory where the compressed file is located
  • type: EXPAND compressed-files-name target-directory\expanded-file-name
    for example: the expanded name is OLEAUT32.DL_ and you want to expand it into OLEAUT32.DLL in c:\windows\system
    you type: EXPAND oleaut32.dl_ c:\windows\system\oleaut32.dll
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    NVIDIA’s yet-to-be released GeForce 9800 GX2

    Posted in Tech, Video Cards on 01/04/2008 10:12 am by Matt

    1199396117rddjtjdk0z_1_2.jpgHardOCP.com has just release the latest pic of Nvidias new card along with the detailed specs.

    GeForce 9800 GX2

    1. 1GB Frame Buffer
    2. Two PCBs
    3. Two 65nm GPUs Total
    4. 256 Stream Processors Total
    5. Supports Quad SLI

    Looks to be an interesting card, too bad I won’t have the money to buy one as I am sure they will cost a hefty sum of money. This card will be replacing the 8800 Ultra and according to Nvidia it will be 30% faster. The proof is in the pudding so to speak, so I guess we will find out in late feb or March as thats the rumored release date.