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Hey Guys, My roommate has a HP Compaq 6510b laptop with Intel Centrino Duo processor. It runs extremely buggy and slow. It can't even start a program or show files in drives. Even clicking on notification bar takes few minutes. It's running Windows 7 x64. There are some viruses here and there but I can't see much CPU usage by them in Task Manager. Or they might be using all cpu by hidding even them in taskmgr. CPU usage is normally shown as 7% to 20%. I have used Ccleaner to clean it but with no benefit.

Swapping the eprom from the failed drive, to the PCB of the good drive, and using that.... has brought the disk back to life. No clicking, detected in BIOS, detected in Windows. Now copying the data off of the once failed disk.

Just my personal opinion, but if anything would happen to myself and then all my private stuff and belongings, incl. all unfinished stuff with scribbled notes inside that regard only myself, would be thrown out there publicly on the street, fully open to every passing id*** to do and abuse whatever he wants with it, I'd absolutely hate that. Would find it much better if instead just a few selected, trustworthy people would get the unsorted stuff to manage it responsibly.

Check from here: to here: jaclaz

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@schreiberstein +1: Thanks a lot! And, BTW, welcome to MSFN! It's great to have you around!

Thanks a lot! BTW, you're right: it's not it. I guess the best way would be to serch by date 1st, starting not earlier than July the 1st... he sure edited that source along the way, so probably the last version was modified and compiled after July the 17th or around it... I have no hurry at all, do take your time, and thanks for your help! You do rock!

I reinstalled Win 7 in 32 bit after formatting it. Now its running lightening fast.

The site is live. I'm going to post some of his packages onto it today. If you'd like me to link to you as a supporter/mirror/whatever, just let me know. I found that drive he purchased and I couldn't read it on my own machine, I haven't gotten around to seeing if it would read on one of his own. I did a quick grep for SCSI and WD in his source folder (at least the one that I think has everything) and attached what I found. I don't think this is the relevant portion though. I'll keep it in mind when I'm looking through things though! INT1587.C SCANHDC.C

I for one am not a fan of the Edge browser, nor the telemetry that comes with it. It's hard keeping a Windows 7 install telemetry-free as it is, so why would I invite it to my front door?

Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Comodo Cleaning Essentials. If the infection is bad enough, I would recommend reinstalling.

Probably, quite a few know of this (including you), but does no harm to post of it. https://bookmark.house This Bookmark House (B.H) is simple and (via Ads & Donors) free to use it. https://bookmark.house/docs/help BOOKMARKLET = Will work on most all (old) Win OS Browsers to 'one click' create a 'Online URL Bookmark' at the B.H website. So, for FIREFOX Android, there is a specific B.H ADD-ON (Extension) for it. That you use it to save a URL to the B.H website. B.H website allows IMPORT and EXPORT of your URL data base. 'IMPORT and EXPORT' is listed under B.H "OTHER OPERATIONS" button. B.H is obviously NOT a SYNC situation. But say the MOZILLA FIREFOX SYNC service did 'disappear' as an option. THEN, the B.H service would look MORE attractive as a 'fall back' solution strategy for BOOKMARKS sharing between Devices (my view).

and rmottola upstream pushed lots of commits of front-end side, so 2 merge commit issued and new test build is uploaded: http://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/arcticfox-27.9.18.win32-20191019.7z changelog from rmottola: - Bug 891360 - Move SessionStore I/O logic to a dedicated worker; r=yoric (c42ed07e6f) - Bug 893009 - Move _backupSessionFileOnce() logic into the SessionWorker; r=ttaubert (ddb0d2874b) - Bug 898184 - Restore telemetry measurements that were removed when transitioning to the SessionWorker. r=ttaubert (6dcc64be00) - Bug 898775 - Fix the browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash preference; r=yoric (1ab3729bac) - Bug 904480 - Return values of _SessionFile.wipe() and .writeLoadStateOnceAfterStartup() are unused. r=ttaubert (d555f2aefd) - Bug 914581 - [Session Restore] Plug into AsyncShutdown;r=ttaubert (296589cb19) - Bug 904477 - Add missing error handlers for promises used in SessionStore. r=ttaubert (f9a7fe352f) - Bug 921581 - Send a notification once the final state has been written to disk on shutdown. r=ttaubert, r=Yoric (a2e8fd8415) - Bug 930901 - Rename _SessionFile to SessionFile r=billm (d1e5268bca) - Bug 918024 - Remove the synchronous fallback for reading in Session Store initialization. r=Yoric, f=ttaubert (b084667337) - Bug 952465 - [Session Restore] Replace Components.utils.reportError with Console.jsm. r=Yoric (e3e96ff56a) - Bug 956678 - Replace TaskUtils.spawn() by Task.spawn() in Session Restore. r=yoric (a55caa0d41) - Bug 942340 - Extracting many Telemetry statistics from sessionstore.js;r=ttaubert,froydnj (c471a206b2) - Bug 904529 - Remove SessionStore._initialState and pass it as an argument to .onLoad(); r=smacleod (15d64b2751) - Bug 904460 - Pass _firstTabs 'parameter' as an argument to restoreWindow() rather than tacking it onto the state object; r=smacleod (af47dd8141) - Bug 887780 - Stop writing state immediately after startup and switch to CrashMonitor for crash detection. r=Yoric, r=ttaubert (3e750a7719) - Bug 966253 - Fix SessionFile shutdown blocker. r=ttaubert (50c597dc23) - Bug 959130 - Stop using the SessionWorker for read at startup to avoid slowdown. r=ttaubert (73d5eb0d1f) - Bug 970495 - [Session Restore] Switch SessionFile.read() to use the native OS.File read(). r=Yoric (a107752cfe) - Bug 883609 - Make Session Restore backups useful;r=ttaubert Ã[except Privacylevel.jsm] (f624a30672) - Bug 801598 - Making SessionWorker use the now public PromiseWorker API. r=ttaubert (611612e53d) - import missing Telemetry (54edadb477) - missing bits of Bug 881049 - Switch SessionStore to Promise.jsm; r=ttaubert (49767c04ad) - Bug 898308 - Clean up SessionStore initialization; f=smacleod, r=dao (55aa725815) - Bug 898732 - Use SessionStore object instead of getting the nsISessionStore service. r=dao (226a7a5630) - Bug 928335 - Disable 'Restore Last Session' menuitem after restoring the last session; r=dao (96f37183ab) - Bug 899213 - Introduce a Session Store API for global data. r=ttaubert (6687a700f0) - Bug 938248 - [Session Restore] Move GlobalState from SessionStore.jsm to its own JSM. r=smacleod (b77ee69e9f) - add ContentRestore as of 2014-01-17 (dae3886b34) - Bug 911115 - Move the TabStateCache to its own module. r=ttaubert (97554178ab) - Bug 930901 - Introduce Utils.jsm r=billm (0fef89af9f) - update to TabState.collect() (5f3db50cf6) - Bug 894595 - part 2 - Implement asynchronous data collection for session storage and history; f=smacleod r=yoric (b7ef535dc2) - Bug 903388 - [Session Restore] Collect cookie hosts *after* serializing session history; r=yoric (c3b2750157) - Bug 903398 - [Session Restore] Use a 'cookie-changed' observer instead of asking the cookie service for every host; r=yoric (bbaf8a694a) - Bug 905533 - Move SessionStore._updateCookies() to SessionCookies.update(); f=smacleod r=yoric (0cf58017f7) - add TabAttributes.jsm at level of Bug 1059007 - [e10s] Use TabState.flush() (8b69b3ed68) - Bug 972243 - Use Cu.cloneInto() and/or shallow copies to clone state objects r=billm (2f0919cd78) - also include TabAttributes (f8d9e7b3cc) - Bug 894595 - part 1 - Move tab state collection routines to a separate object; f=smacleod r=yoric (53d9a35721) - Bug 910646 - Collect docShell capabilities from content script (r=ttaubert) (fdd1311eca) - Bug 910668 - Collect pagestyle from a content script (r=ttaubert) (4d46957ede) - Bug 909048 - Collect text and scroll data from content script (r=ttaubert) (295b9a8ca4) - Bug 919835 - Make session data collection work with multiple processes (r=ttaubert,Yoric) (802b7e9177) - Bug 930269 - Rename SessionHistory.read (r=smacleod) Add SessionHistory.jsm as of 930269. (52ba37370c) - Bug 930269 - Move saving of tab attributes (r=smacleod) (638e9ada00) - Bug 930269 - Rename SessionStore.restoreHistoryPrecursor (r=smacleod) (fde22bcc23) - Bug 894595 - part 1.5 - Move privacy level checks into a module; r=yoric (1bf5f0265d) - missing part of Bug 785884 - Implement support for temporary storage (e245b71048) - Bug 930202 - Cancel pending session collections when restoring (r=ttaubert) (d139944ef4) - Bug 930269 - Clean up SessionStore.restoreHistory [adapted] (08fbbe5bc0) - Bug 930269 - Rename SessionStore.restoreTab (r=smacleod) (107776a22c) - Bug 919532 - Make sure we don't lose state when quitting early without being notified; r=yoric (f75dd25eb2) - Bug 923331 - Don't wait for history object in session restore (r=ttaubert) (2781468526) - Bug 929036 - Remove legacy timer code; r=smacleod (7db14e58e0) - Bug 930269 - Create SessionHistory.restore (r=smacleod) (ed513ebe7c) - Bug 938084 - Drop pending collections when docShells are swapped r=billm (d69d3cc44c) - Bug 938093 - Swap TabStateCache contents when docShells are swapped r=billm (b9065a7ff3) - Bug 910668 - Move pagestyle collection to a module (r=ttaubert) (328daf6182) - Bug 910646 - Collect docShell capabilities from module (r=ttaubert) (040b789339) - Bug 930967 - Add broadcasting for sessionstore data r=yoric,billm,smacleod (4714c39906) - missing Ãpart of Bug 938093 - Swap TabStateCache contents when docShells are swapped (2c7a1db669) - Add missing part of Bug 930967 - Add broadcasting for sessionstore data (822ff8d3f8) - Bug 909048 - Move text and scroll data handling to a module (r=ttaubert) (edc44cc813) - Bug 947216 - Remove special case for about:config's form data collection r=smacleod (6fdc51af28) - Bug 921942 - Broadcast scroll positions r=yoric (2e9b7bfe17) - Bug 947632 - Use sendRpcMessage during session store flush (r=ttaubert) (50444ef808) - Bug 853779 - Ensure we don't lose sessions when starting with a private window only; r=yoric (9eba8fd494) - Bug 899276 - Don't collect/save private tabs. r=ttaubert (5d07755b79) - Bug 945809 - Add Telemetry for Session Store data collection in the frame script. r=ttaubert (da33ac51a9) - Bug 950132 - Fix pageStyle data collection r=yoric (945645d657) - Bug 952401 - Collect scroll and pageStyle data as soon as the frame tree is available r=smacleod (02deb47454) - Bug 952998 - Use FrameTree to collect DOMSessionStorage data r=yoric (3d3900879b) - Bug 952934 - Use onFrameTreeReset() to re-collect docShell capability data r=smacleod (e3798b5388) - Bug 956826 - Check docShell's private browsing state when the frame script is loaded r=yoric (ac0d988457) - small update (e33838b454) - fix up (3c2f1d1804) - Bug 940777 - Fixup indexing in session restore (r=ttaubert) (c1ec1ea84d) - Bug 942374 - Restore sessions by message passing (r=ttaubert) (bc85e714a3) - Bug 942622 - Invalidate TabStateCache when .userTypedValue changes r=yoric,dao (1ba8241878) - Bug 958809 - Don't put broadcasted data into the regular TabStateCache r=yoric (978ac794c8) - Bug 952998 - Follow-up to fix test and use document.documentURIObject rs=Unfocused (078863f242) - Bug 902280 - Update _lastSaveTime before writing to avoid deceeding the write interval. r=ttaubert (e267b37398) - Bug 894595 - part 3 - Use asynchronous data collection for delayed save state calls; r=yoric (02689f04e0) - Bug 923034 - Don't check getCurrentState's return value in SessionSaver; r=smacleod (fe4ed3bb70) - bug 1036694 - merge nsIMarkupDocumentViewer into nsIContentViewer (27b4413431) - Bug 962808 - [Session Restore] Better telemetry for _writeState. r=ttaubert (985e97ecff) - Bug 944557 - Don't save sessionstore.js in permanent private browsing mode. r=ttaubert (0d4108e7de) - Bug 944557 - Remove sessionstore-state-write. r=ttaubert (86deb9e36a) - Bug 961016 - Fix icon and label for pending tabs with async restore r=billm,dao (49d4d271c4) - Bug 950174: Part 1: Move required session store files from browser/ to toolkit/modules. r=gps, ttaubert (5c0a4aef20) - Bug 961106 - Remove observers on frame script unload r=billm (c480a17ade) - Bug 961380 - Should be able to undo closing tabs in private windows r=yoric, ui-r=phlsa (And add PrivacyLevel.jsm as of Bug 961380) (b8b48277d2) - Bug 960903 - Broadcast session history data r=yoric (89d88735ad) - Bug 981900 - Add OnHistoryReplaceEntry to nsISHistoryListener to handle history.replaceState. r=smaug (788cddd128) - Bug 1027087 - Fix ContentRestore errors when a tab is closed while restoring into it r=smacleod (3d8a00c2d7) - Bug 941540 - Use browser.permanentKey to handle docShell swaps more easily r=yoric (8878ef341d) - update tasks with more Session stuff (bbd09bac46) - Bug 952092 - Get rid of post data in SessionStore r=smacleod (5c738947de) - Bug 883609 - Make Session Restore backups useful;r=ttaubert (f2e479e0cd) - Bug 930901 - Introduce Utils.jsm r=billm (e3941b78a0) - Bug 962494 - Remove Iterator() usage from SessionStore code r=yoric (f1370c9689) - Bug 960903 - Listen for subframe loads and clear observers r=yoric (3bd4258646) - Bug 965218 - Check whether shistory is empty when frame script is loaded r=yoric (c49adb4b47) - Bug 961861 - [e10s] Make sure content-sessionStore.js is always loaded (r=ttaubert) (ed488e4576) - Bug 964239 - Give sessionrestore awareness of srcdoc base URI. r=ttaubert (d908d9fb2a) - Bug 973559 - Fix baseURI serialization for srcdoc frames r=billm (a69aebf357) - Bug 973550 - "TypeError: webNavigation.document.body is null" in SessionHistory.jsm r=smacleod (f0137fc411) - remove Messenger.jsm (ae8b522587) - remove Messenger.jsm (9c2e929910) - Bug 936271 - Remove load event handling from SessionStore.jsm r=yori (30d71be976) - Bug 445461 - restore MRU tab order when restoring a session. r=ttaubert (26b5588216) - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox (987409c7d7) - Don't use APZ for selection carets on Desktop. (bug 1141855, r=kats) (9dddd666d0) - Bug 1036399 - Multiple CSP policies should be combined towards an intersection (r=sstamm) (e3bff81f2e) - Bug 1130982 - Ensure the clip rect on a multi-metrics layer belongs to the bottommost layer. r=botond (291ef70d84) - Bug 943339 - Part 1: Only store a subset of session history entries to file. r=Yoric (57fcec5642) - Bug 943339 - Part 2: Add tests to make sure the new preferences work as expected. r=Yoric (32c1e32a49) - mark some stuff done (7c8f9bcd9d) - mark some stuff done (af4736b682) - Bug 972797 - More telemetry on SessionStore data collection. r=ttaubert (cb671f8405) - Bug 915173 - Don't invalidate the whole tab state when setting/deleting tab values; r=yoric (900b38db0f) - Bug 916390 - [Session Restore] Remove __SS_formDataSaved; r=yoric (4f38afe3e5) - Bug 901137 - Move initial tabs to end, instead of moving restored tabs to beginning. r=gavin (d31fbc024f) - Bug 900089 - Added call to _resetTabRestoringState in SessionRestore.setTabState; r=ttaubert (a483895aa7) - Bug 961863 - [e10s] Update browser remoteness attribute when restoring a tab (r=ttaubert,felipe) (a356005f3f) - Bug 908440 - Add type checks to prevent non string values from being saved. r=ttaubert (6a78652026) - Bug 981699 - Skip resizeTo() call when restoring a maximized window that is currently maximized r=smacleod (f531b78612) - Bug 495123 - Save an empty window state if it's the last window closed and there were no others closed in series before r=smacleod (bf3428b0eb) - mark progress (2a534b1713)

First off, let me thank you ever so much for coming here to post an update, you have no idea how much it is appreciated. Second, I personally want to extend my sincerest condolences for your loss, to you and the rest of the family. We truly enjoyed having your dad as part of our community. Heh, my heart actually started racing when I saw his username had posted, thinking that somehow we got a bum steer and he was coming to tell us that he was still alive. But back to seriousness, we understand that it's probably a very busy time for you and the family and we want you to take all the time you need to grieve and take care of important business. But know that even though we didn't get to meet him personally, he was still a friend around here and we treasured the time we had with him. If I may ever be so brazen, was his passing expected or unexpected? You don't have to answer if you don't want to but it may help some of the hurt that some of us feel and give us some closure. Again, thank you so much for coming and posting this update for us! It really helps to keep up in the loop of things. I'm sure some of our users will greatly appreciate his work not being lost to the world, especially those who are as diehard Win9x users as your dad was.

I didn't realize that people would find out so soon about my father's passing. I wanted to express my appreciation of the impact he has had for many of you with all his work on Windows. I got to hear about it for years over meals and I never realized how many people found value in his patches. It is a busy time right now but I did want to clear the air regarding the patches. I would like them to continue to be distributed, for his work to be remembered and to be beneficial to others. So, please, freely distribute what you may have in terms of the work my dad did. When things are more settled, I will see what I can do regarding anything missing he might have had available and whatever relevant material there might be that someone could use to further pursue his work.

Did you have a look in Chrome settings ? it should display you set a custom theme if so , then you can set it to default one. ( I can't screen it as I'm not using a custom theme to show you :/