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Just googled .. I think gimp is free and I've heard good reports about that ... apparently it will do it ... http://www.tankedup-imaging.com/bumpmap.html

Well yes, being in Europe, there are probably people in certain countries who'd struggle with placing Latvia. Probably the same ones that have subtitles like "Paris, France" 'in the movies'.

FastStone Photo Resizer ... http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm Edited to add: Ah, sorry ... this is good for applying them ... maybe not creating them.

Some more news on the subject ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/03/google_public_dns/

Hi You can find all of the program documentation here ... http://docs.piriform.com/

I think hazelnut is right. The panel should say 'Opens with: Registry Editor' Try following the instructions and re-establishing your file association.

Buy him some RAM for Christmas!

What happens if you just try and run regedit?

Taken literally, neither do I ... it's just my sense of humour (hence the wink). I must try being more serious on here.

I use DynDNS - various networking and DNS services (and I can get proper NXDOMAIN desponses). I do worry about hooking into google too much

Hi Carlos ... a unique requirement if ever I heard one! Use Windows task scheduler! However I would have thought if that's all you want to do, and you want to do it often, running ccleaner is a very inefficient way of doing it. Much quicker using a small script.

SummerProperties sounds like the HashTab that I use (mentioned above). Check it out; it seems to be more recent and certainly has good range of available hashes. DiamondCS looks good - I've downloaded that for a play.

Ccleaner removes index.dat files - that's the whole point. They are not difficult to get rid of, manually or otherwise.

Okay, so what's setting them back? Two possibilities spring to mind: 1) Still some malware; but that would have to actively be running, (e.g. rather than doing it at restart) so that seems unlikely from what you've said. 2) Do you have anything in your security suite that's protecting registry settings? You might need to turn it off while you effect changes. Either way, you could use Sysinternals Process Monitor to see what's changing the registry. I take it you can still do manual updates okay (via the website).

Though the log says 'No action taken' ... as though MBAM left them alone. If they are just left-overs you should be able to change them without issue I'd have thought. Hopefully next scan will be okay eh.

And while you're looking at the spyware angle, here's another possibility ..... An extremely common cause for this is a poorly written explorer shell extension. Trouble is they are a b*gger to find. Can you tie the start of this happening down to the installation of any software that added anything to your explorer right-click menu? I've had this periodically on one machine for ages ... I still haven't been able to pin it down yet!

Yep. Those entries don't look right to me at all! The %SystemRoot... entries are the correct ones. Why is MBAM ignoring them - are they set as exceptions? Also put %fystemRoot%\system32 into your Windows Explorer address bar - is it an actual folder location? I would change them manually in the registry, and reboot to see if they stick. If not post on the Spyware forum. Are they left-overs from a partially cleaned infection I wonder? But yes, if your Windows Update is set to automatic it could explain why you haven't had updates. Edited to add: Search for fystemroot ... there does seem to known malware that exhibits these symptoms.

So if we're including shell extensions ... CMD Prompt Here (folders only) Copy Path to Clipboard (most used context menu at home and at work ... can't live without it!) Windows grep WinMerge SecureZIP (free version ... unfortunately no longer available) TextPad Eraser

Thanks Dennis.

There must be loads of programs for searching the registry if that's what you're after; I can recommend nirsoft's RegScanner as one such utility.

Hi FraggleRockBoy Disagree . Personal opinion - waste of time. I'm not going to search for posts where I explain why, but look for posts particularly by me or augeas. I REALLY wish piriform would have the cojones to remove the unnecessary plethora of multiple-overwrite options just because everyone else offers them. Or if they won't, at least justify their reasons for leaving them there rather than have these frustratingly repetitive discussions on the forums. Disk drive manufacturers must be laughing. Unless you are worried about the (theoretical) possibility of the likes of NSA or GCHQ using sophisticated and specialist hardware to retrieve YOUR deleted data off YOUR drive (which I'd venture to say is fairly unlikely) then forget it. If you have ANY evidence that overwriting just once on a healthy drive allows ANY software to read the previously stored data, I would be very interested to see it. Edited to add: What really beats me is why some people (not aimed at the OP - just a general comment) get so concerned about the secure deletion of personal data ... why not just store things in an encrypted volume in the first place? If you don't it's gonna be a helluva lot less secure until you do delete it, what ever method you use!!

I've replied on your other (duplicate) thread.

Not true.

Thanks for the heads-up hazelnut. I have prevx on my home desktop - I shall be particularly wary when I get on it to apply the patch.

Sheesh .... no wonder people end up installing rubbish and getting into a mess. Wonder what the ratio of reputable to disreputable is. Interesting link.