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Hello.
Im currently using online armor and avast free anti virus.
Is this a good security set up.?
Ive been very happy with this set up and it hasnt affected my computer one bit.
Just wondered what other forum members thought of the products i have installed..
Many thanks.
HI Darren
If you have all what is listed in your signature, specially if you are working in a virtuall environment such as Sandboxie, you have Avast free, and Online Armor, IMHO all the rest is an overkill and unnecessary burden to system even if minimal now, it adds up with time...
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There is a capacitors site and forum Eli believe it or not, and it's pretty good.
Have a look here and they list symptms that your system can display when the caps are going bad. On the right of the page are some little pictures which when clicked show a big picture of what bad ones look like.
Thank you Hazelnut, good to know there is such a site. Anyways, I`m at the point of considering if it worth's all the efforts and time spent.
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Well, tried the power supply and it did not the right thing, so I`m back to the starting point.
Looked at the mother board and bearing in mind I`m not an expert, I did not find anything peculiar.
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Hi, Eli. Had similar issue, older computer, described in the first post here:
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=32929
and it turned out to be the power supply.
Tried cleaning, didn't matter, then took the power supply only to a local shop, not one of the big names.
He tested it in about 5 minutes, it was bad, got another, works OK now.
Hi login123, I`m trying now a new PSU, hope this one solves the issue, I`m going to find it out
soon enough
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Thank you all for your replies, yesterday the freeze took place at a fresh start up, and I`ll have to start by eliminating options one by one, excluding the heating factor, as it also freeezes at a fresh start up. The first I`m trying now is the USB wireless adapter.
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Hi
I have one pentium 4 old machine that freezes a lot, mostly after one or two hours of work and some times even less, I took it to the tech that other than charging money and not solving the issue didn`t do a thing. After freezing it also refuses to restart and only after wait it is possible to boot.
Any ideas? [Win xp sp3, 700RAM] Thanks
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I thought I`d share it with you, the solution to this issue is [in the meantime-5 reboots, so far so good] :
I disabled SSDP Discovery Service, and icons are back in town... for now.
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This is a known problem with XP
After start-up there is a brief period in which the icon for an APP will enter the notification tray,
followed by another period in which the more "sluggish" APPs are too late and their icons are excluded.
I vaguely recall a super geek hack of system32\explorer.exe could extend the initial delay so the stragglers could get in - but I was not bold enough.
My solution was to reduce to the minimum the things that started up automatically.
Especially effective was disabling Auto Startup service of my AntiVirus GUI, and launching the GUI from my post-login script.
That prevented the AV GUI from downloading signature updates and wasting precious start-up seconds and CPU cycles before I could even log on.
This was successful with both ESET and more recently with Comodo.
In both cases I did confirm with the AV suppliers the safety of my intentions, and I suggest you also seek advice before following in my steps.
Thanks for your reply Alan.
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Looks like xp from his signature nodles.
If you load under another username do they show then?
My system is as per my signature. I do not have other users, in fact I even disabled the secondary logon service.
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Hi
Two icons do not show in tray at star-up: 1.Sounds and audio devices and 2.Safely remove hardware.
If I restart windows explorer right after start-up, they will always show up.
Assuming this is a Win explorer`s issue, what can I do to fix it?
Thanks
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I usually update the latest or the needed/mentioned version (first). In some cases I have to clean/uninstall .NET Framework completely (with this http://blogs.msdn.co...28/8904493.aspx) and then reinstall them.
Thanks for the link nodles.
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Hi
I know it is necessary to keep al the previous netframework versions, but do I have to update all the versions or only the latest one? I`m asking that because yesterday I made a manual update for net framework 2 and it messed with the functioning of net framework 4.
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Hi Eli, take a look at this link which may help you resolve/understand this error Your error code is part way down the list
Thanks for the input MikeW.
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Have you had the same BSOD just once or many times?
You could;
- Update drivers
- Scan for malware/virus
- Defrag (unless using SSD)
Had the same BSOD about three times in two months. I regularly defrag with Perf.disk, and scan for viruses with Avast. What drivers are you talking about?
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In your event viewer under the 'system' logs it should list there the error code for the BSOD when it happened. Does it list it?
Yes, and it reads as follows:The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000024 (0x001902fe, 0xb97e81d8, 0xb97e7ed4, 0x8054bfd2). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP
Error code:1001
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You still haven't given anymore info Eli such as if you can still access Windows, if it is a random BSOD or any other info. Please give some info.
If you are able to access Windows have you done a chkdsk?
Sorry, I guess I was too brief, it was a random BSOD, no problems to access Windows, I did CHKDSK= no errors, no windows error reports prior to crash, I hope you get a better picture now.
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You could download Blue Screen Viewer (download at bottom of the page)
http://www.nirsoft.n...creen_view.html
It would help when you post about BSOD to give a bit of info, such as when the BSOD occurs etc.
This is what the program shows:
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Hi
I got the BSOD and I`m attaching the dump file. Any help regarding the cause and the fix, will be appreciated.Thanks.
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I`m having the suspicion that Firefox 8 made all the extra "Aerobic spinning workout" on my hard disk, I changed to Palemoon a Mozilla based engine and I can tell the big difference now.
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Hi
Did any of you here have any experience with: Smart driver updater? or even with the concept of updating old drivers with one program? is the procedure reliable or safe? [this particular program has backup option]
Thanks
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Have a read here it may help with understanding what is going on and have to find what those values are in the registry
http://forums.techar...ort/1036331.htm
Is it event id 1041?
Thank you for the link Hazelnut, it is indeed event 1041, I`ve found a similar link a while ago and deleted this keys[not before Erunt backup], I`ll see now what happens.
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Hi
One step further, I have opened the Event Viewer showing the time of the crush, went to applications and noticed many entries with the ERROR tag next to it.
In the Properties for the entry its says:
'Windows cannot query DllName registry entry for {CF7639F3-ABA2-41DB-97F2-81E2C5DBFC5D} and {7B849a69-220F-451E-B3FE-2CB811AF94AE} [in separate entries]and it will not be loaded. This is most likely caused by a faulty registration.'
In the Properties for hyperlink[for both] it mentions the file userenv.dll, file version 5.1.2600.5512
After checking back in time, this same errors, keep repeating every day as I could go and that is back until 12/11/2011
I hope it makes a much clearer picture to the techies in this forum.
Thanks.
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Windows own built-in Automatic Updates can cause allot of hard disk thrashing and uses plenty of resources when it's looking for updates. This usually will cease after the computer has been up and running for several minutes.
I personally set the Automatic Updates service to the "manual startup type", since I manually check for Windows Updates, and don't want that services' bloat-age at each and every startup which makes everything else slow until it finishes.
Edit: That service is known to make Windows XP systems run like crap when it's searching for updates!
You are probably talking about waucult.exe that more than once had to kill because it loaded so much on the system so it could not move, anyways I have the updating service set only to inform me if I have new updates, and if there are, I manually choose what updates to download , is that what you mean? or you totally disable the updating service and then you periodically check if any updates available at their site by yourself?
Can anyone recommend a splitter for .avi film clips?
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I`m using Machete, very useful, low on sys resources and easy to use:
http://www.machetesoft.com/