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Now, after Multi-Quoting myself ...
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If there is a way to run a GF6200 on our good old Win9X, any idea how to enable the hardware acceleration for videos? The GF6 series supports the first generation (although accoring the the NVidia notes,the GF4 series support some also), but better than nothing....
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Super Pi, for a stress test?
maybe, but that will require to run atleast 24 hours.
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Relogon. But that will probably trigger the crash again. You need to identify and uninstall the offending startup process.
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A crashing startup process is never harmless: instead of it, it's a harbinger of bad behaviour down the road.
It must be uprooted, not left alone and taken for granted.
Well that crash is random during startup. I have to investigate if it is due to the higher FSB or due to that Quicklaunch apl.
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Greetings all,
is there a way how to restore the systray with all loaded components if explorer crashes?
For unknown reason,during startup the Explorer crashes and of course the systray is empty after.
What can I do is to reboot Win and pray that will load completely.
Something else is on XP, that will restore it automaticly....
Any idea?
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@Comos
See here:
jaclaz
Thanks ! Good research...
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So we have to "search" for specifics?
APPARENTLY a Laptop?
MAYBE one of these?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SATA-Laptop-Hard-Drive-Controller/dp/B004DNS6DS
How about some specifics? (Crystal ball out being cleaned...)
Sry forgot to mention.It's for my oldscholie tuned board ASUS TX97-X with AMD-K6-III+@450.
I already got this bridge based on JMicron - http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/383
Now just looking for a suitable 120GB drive (Due to the 137GB limit of the patched bios).
One thing is that I won¨t be able to TRIM the drive if needed....maybe only with hdparm tool
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Forgot to to mention the results, all this crap was caused by a bug in the version 4 of ESET Smart Security and has been fixed in Version 5.
Version 5.2.9
Enhancement: Added information about needing to switch SSL filtering ON when filtering HTTPs sites in Parental Control setup screen
Enhancement: Several enhancements within Parental Control Setup and management
Enhancement: Administrator of Parental Control can choose the role of a Windows Account by entering a person‘s age configuring Parental Control
Enhancement: Information about not filtering Parental Control added to the Home Screen
Enhancement: Added Statistics of Scanned Files in the Home Screen
Enhancement: Added more information about running processes reputation from ESET Live Grid
Support: Able to activate product using proxy server
Support: SSL False Start in Google Chrome
Support: SSL scanning in recent versions of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
Support: Ability to use the activation keys in product to Renew
Added: Ability to prioritize web page exceptions within Parental Control by Windows user account
Added: Settings for Removable Media blocking and Antirootkit (Antistealth) are located in the main GUI under Setup
Fix: Network profile dialog window popping up repeatedly
Fix: Graphical enhancement fixing shadowing of the pull-down quick menu
Fix: Issues detecting emails in Windows Live Mail 2011
Fix: GUI opened in a large window
Fix: Advanced scanning options are not working in Computer Scan
Fix: Irrelevant notification bubble is being shown when no action is required
Fix: Issues with stopping of ESET service during installation
Fix: Runtime error with HP Protect Tools, causing ESET GUI crash
Fix: Removable media blocking does not block devices for some Windows Accounts
Fix: Some pages with certain categories were not categorized properly by Parental Control feature
Fix: Files are still scanned by Real-time file system protection after disabling it
Fix: Issues with importing Antispam global lists from ESET Smart Security version 4 to ESET Smart Security version 5
Fix: ESET GUI crashes under some circumstances while editing ESET Firewall profiles
Fix: Schedule update task cannot be started from main menu in SysRescue User Interface
Fix: Crashing of ESET GUI under some circumstances
Fix: Wrong tooltips within Antispam dialog windows
Fix: Activated product displays that it is not activated
Fix: Parental Control still enabled in User Interface after Firewall is disabled
Fix: IMAPS, POP3S checking of protocols and ports for selected applications does not work correctly
Fix: Notification window about disabling some type of protection is not displayed if some other protection is already disabled
Fix: Inconsistent status for updated virus signature database within main program window
Fix: Scheduled scan and other planned tasks can be started from non-administrator user accounts
Fix: Issues with management of web page filtering exceptions for Parental Control
Fix: SSL filtering in Chrome does not work in some circumstances
Fix: HIPS rule displays "User Rules File Contains Invalid Data"
Fix: USB HDD freezes system on Windows XP
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Greetings all,
In near future I would like to migrate my system from a standart HDD to a SSD.I already got a SATA/IDE bridge (JMicron) and Im looking for a suitable SSD.
Does anybody did this already and can share some experience if there are some problems and so on, performance etc..
Thanks for advices !
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Are you sure you can? Looking here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199557 and here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/116397 I don't see any option at all to include, exclude, or specify a disk to perform the action on. Might you be thinking about chkdsk - http://ss64.com/nt/chkdsk.html where you specify the disk? I could just not be remembering things correctly since it's been a looong time since I've used Win98.
Cheers and Regards
Under WinXP, the Checkdisk has some option like this as I checked.I dig also the MDGx site for some info and atleast I have turned the Autoscan=0 in MSDOS.SYS to turn it off.
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Hi All,
does anybody remember how to exclude a specific drive from scanning via scandisk during bootup?
Thanks for help
Comos
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I intend to do some hardcore experiments with the registry, to start with. And to delete some system's folders elsewhere. Every one of them is guaranteed to hose your system worse than before, if it does not work. And each must be done from scratch, so every time tings don't work, at least a full backup of the whole registry must be redeployed, before proceeding on to the next experiment. I wouldn't dare proceeding unless I know you can fully recover from my experiments. Remember the fundamental principle of medicine: "first, do no harm!"? It applies equally well here, as for every serious troubleshooting and/or fix attempt.
Im back in action after some time on commissiong.During that time I investigated,that this issue seems to have something in common with my NOD32 AV.
First before connecting a USB HDD when I turn off the resident filesystem protection, the drive connects okay, then I turn the protection on and everything is working fine.
Gotta clarify this issue with ESET's technical support.
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OK. Do a full backup. Then tell me you're ready, and we start troubleshooting. The backup is a must. And, since it's a bootable partition, an image is required. A full HDD image would be the best option, provided the Ultrabay HDD is not too big. If it is, a full XP partition image should be enough.
Well I haven't do that now, because now Im out of my country for a month.What do you want to exactly proceed with?
Today it happen again.I clicked on the disk, led started to blink that the directory structure was loading few blinks and then nothing....**** !!!
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Well. If so, then, there's no problem whatsoever both with the laptop hardware, and with the external USB devices. Therefore, your problem is software-only. And, just for the record, your laptop has a "Serial Ultrabay Slim", so it is, for all purposes, an internal SATA HDD, when the HDD with Win XP SP3 CZ is inserted...
So...
Do you think you could, while booted in the "Work XP", create a full partition image from the "Personal XP" to an external USB HDD? If so, that'd be great, because then we could troubleshoot really aggressively, since if we messed up bad, we'd be able to fall back to the initial situation, just by redeploying the safety image initially acquired? Ghost, Acronis, or the free Partition Imaging are all adequate for doing this.
Sure no problem. Better backup it on a external HDD due to it's size.
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Hi everyone,
today I have installed the last unofficial service pack for my Win98SE, but somehow after the reboot, the color of the arrow inside the shortcut icons changed to light blue.
I checked the registry and TweakUI if there is a key where to change this,but I havent found any clue.
Any idea how to get rid of this and change it back to black?
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The *same* laptop?
You mean the same make and model, but actually another physical laptop, for sure?
Yep,
the laptop I use @ work and also @ home.For work, there is WinXP SP3 EN installed from the company with some restrictions.So in ultrabay I have my WinXP SP3 CZ.
Booting order I change easily during start.I have mention,that this issue isn't from the begining.It happend from one day,then occasionaly, maybe after some OS update?
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Select a moment you're about to leave for some time (say, about 2h or more)... connect one of the problem USB HDDs when just about to leave and let it remain there. When you get back, 2 or more hours later, does the machine respond or is it actually still locked?
This I have to check out.It's interesting that this didin't happen on my second WinXP SP3 EN system that I have @ work on the same laptop.
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I have an External USB 2.0 Seagate Expansion 1500 GB, which works. So we know for sure that unpatched 9x/ME gan work with up to 1.5 TB, but not as a single partition. For partitions larger than 1TB or HDDs over 2TB, according to RLoew, patching is needed.
OKay, good to know.
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when pluging a USB HDD mostly NTFS formatted
Does that mean that most partitions, or the biggest partition of that precise HDD are NTFS or that it happens with all or almost all HDDs, but more often with NTFS formatted HDDs ???
This happens mostly with my 1TB WD and 3TB WD HDD on NTFS but also when I plug other that had NTFS and more than 500GB size as I tested.All of them had one big partition.I have also one 320GB & 500GB drive on FAT32 and these are okay.
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Hi everyone,
For some time I noticed, that when pluging a USB HDD mostly NTFS formatted, that my system partly locks up.Then Im unable to close any aplication, switch between apl is possible, task manager doesn't work, system tray is not accesible.
All what I can do is hard reset.When I restart the system with the USB drive already plugged in then in most cases it's okay.Sometimes this issue happends when I tried to access a folder on that drive, however the filesystem is okay.
Doesn't matter if the drive has a external PSU or if is it powered from the USB.The machine is Lenovo ThinkPad W500.
Any idea?
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No, I guess it's deeper. RLoew reminded me it's necessary to patch Win 9x/ME for it to be able to tackle 4 kiB sectors...
But do give it a last try: start Paragon 1st, then plug in the USB HDD. If that also fails, then a non-free patch is required.
The Paragon's NTFS has a driver that is started everytime when you boot OS.It is not needed to start the main application evetytime.This is tested with my 1TB WD My Passport Portable.However when pluging the 3T drive, I can see the drive in the system, If I try to access the drive it prompts invalid media or something like this.
So in the first case I opened the main Paragon NTFS aplication, the system freezed during the drive detection.The second try I did when first opening the main aplication,connnect the drive, nothing happened even during the drive refresh.After when I closed the manin apl. and opened it again, the system reset itself hard.
Then I give up
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Today I plug it on my Win98SE, but I wasn't able to see any content of the drive.When I start the Paragon NTFS, the system once freezed and during my second try it commit to reset.
So maybe a cluster size issue under this tool?
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Yes, of course!
And it may even work as a plain FAT-32 drive, too, if I'm not mistaken (but do not test this idea for the time being, please).
Why, it may even work on 9x/ME, with some luck...
Although Paragon NTFS for Win98 would be required for accessing NTFS, of course.
Or Ext2 could be used... there're IFSs for XP and for 9x/ME to use Ext2...
Under Win98SE I can test it.The Paragon's NTFS I have there.
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Thanks, Comos, you do rock!
It's actually really 4 kiB sectored, as per the links you gave!!!
Now I've seen the evidence. there no doubt about it!
So, it seems we have the following: the (SATA) HDD is really 4 kiB sectored, but fakes 512 byte sectors, then the enclosure controller takes those fake 512 byte sectors and creates fake 4 kiB sectors, as described in the links you gave or (ain't there always an "or"?) the (SATA) HDD is really 4 kiB sectored, but fakes 512 byte sectors to everybody but to the enclosure controller (because it knows the secret handshake)... and, in either case, the USB interface presents 4 kiB sectors to Win XP (which is happy to accept them... I think this is undocumented behaviour)!
Somebody on that forum mentioned, when you will take out the drive from the enclousure and connect it directly on the sata cable,you won't be able to read anything, it would be raw data.But anyway if I count right it would be possible to upgrade this enclousure up to 16TB HDD drive when such drives are available.
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Handy tool for hiding programs under Programs&Features
in Windows 7
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Hi All,
does anybody know a handy tool, where can I select and hide program under Programs & Features?
It might be usefull if there would be possible to export the registry key and import it later.
Thanks for the tips