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You're not wrong about the curiosity thing, I'd love to know what the hell it actually is. With regard to letting it download, yeah I could do that... But I'm not going to. It's only partly trust (which I don't btw ), it's also a matter of why would I want to update it when I don't know what it is, and how do I use it when I don't know what to launch, not to mention how would I remove it if something did go wrong. It's actually kind of moronic that an app's dev would intentionally do this whether it's legit or not.

Thanks for the guess, hazelnut, I disagree about it being a "really, really wild guess", as I reckon it's a pretty logical one and is probably the most likely cause. Oh well, not a huge deal, I can just ignore it for now.

Hi guys, Wondering if anyone else has encountered this or knows what it is ? Essentially when updating the win 10 app store apps, one of the entries was for an app called "Name Not Available" - which I paused and cancelled before it completed the download. FYI, I don't really use store apps, so it's not related to some app I've downloaded, other than the default apps MS includes with windows (which I do keep updated), assuming it's legit and not the result of some kind of infection (which I'm currently checking for). Seems to be fairly recent, and has happened with both mobiles and desktops, I've found 3 posts that seem to relate directly to this, none of which have any answers posted (except one which has a followup question posted) and all the posts were started in the last 24 hours. The posts I've found for those interested: https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/91685-name-not-available.html https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mobiledevices/forum/mdwindows-mdapps-win10mobile/windows-store-updates/8c4c64b2-a288-4d11-bf41-6cdbb36c6dc9?tab=AllReplies https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mobiledevices/forum/mdlumia-mdapps-mdlumia400/app-updates-and-store/3bace4d3-2ea4-4946-8004-5efb1e82db40?auth=1

Assuming you've tried the solution in the second post of this thread (FYI, the linked thread has also been updated since that post). A couple of things to confirm are that the required task exists in task scheduler and also that it isn't corrupted. The first part is easy, (it's either there or it isn't), the second part can be tested by checking to see if you can change the task & then apply the change. Make a simple change you can easily change back should it work, but if it's corrupted it will either throw an error when it attempts to save the change or the change won't actually be saved, when you go back into it to change it back.

Just wondering if Andavari is using a 32-bit XP, because tapicust.dll is 32bit only (64-bit gets tapisrv.dll & wtapisrv.dll instead). As per the update notes: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/982316/an-update-is-available-for-the-windows-telephony-application-programming-interface-tapi

Yeah, tend to agree with you there MTA. Love those stats, all they do is actually take away from what they are saying, and to be honest none of it is really surprising. Like you point out windows 10 was 10th on the list but 3rd most affected perhaps it's because they broke it down a bit too much, I mean win7 32 & 64 & home 64 & win 7 home 32 are all simply win 7 (and was win 7 home 32/64 infection stats included or excluded from the other win 7 ones ??) but if they didn't break it down so much they would have only had 3 os/s in that list, Win 7, R2 2008 Server, and Win 10 (well excluding Win 10 32 bit), so yeah still 3rd. While XP, Vista & win 8/8.x don't even appear on the list. Seems to me it's kind of obvious win 7 was the worst hit, since it's got the largest usage share, and you can run it for years without updating it. Isn't it a no brainer that it would be the worst hit. It was interesting that XP would give an error as opposed to be exploited though, and It's good that MS just patched the vulnerability regardless of support status. But ultimately if one is looking to blame, you couldn't have blamed XP anyway, IMO only the NSA could be blamed, they found it and sat on it for however long (years would be my guess) and didn't report it to MS until they knew it had been "released", and that's assuming they actually did bother to report it to MS, since it isn't confirmed that they did. (oh and sure you can blame the people that made the exploit too but, I tend to think they couldn't have done it without the NSA's inadvertent help).

I usually avoid them as much as possible. I'll hunt for the developer/distributor site rather than use them, if that site happens to be something like SourceForge (as an example) I'll avoid big obvious download buttons, and go into the repository itself and download from there, but then even on a programs "home" site I do a similar thing finding exactly the link I want first, as I don't particularly like those online installers either, so I'll look for a link that downloads the actual program rather than a download stub. Usually you can find them under options to download for use on other machines, or sometimes in it's forums (dropbox does this last one, only place I've found to download the offline version, that used to be easier to find).

This is a strange one. I have the $(Arg0) in my task and it's set as a windows 10 task, and yet, it works as intended. Perhaps the $(Arg0) isn't set up correctly in the task ?. This is a total long shot guess, but just check it in task scheduler, and by check I mean go to the task right click & select properties, then go to the actions tab, it will have the line it's executing, but don't trust that (there are two ways to get the same line appearing exactly the same in this window). Select the line and click on edit, you will get a box, with details in it. The $(Arg0) should be in the "additional arguments (optional)" box, not the top "program/script" box. It should not have quotes around it, and should appear the same as I put it above. (Perhaps the capitalization is wrong and matters, I don't think it should but maybe it does here ?), but if it's in the wrong box it will make a difference. Anyway it's a long shot but maybe ? - reading your comments above, just so you know, $(Arg0) isn't an argument itself, it is meant to be a code which will pass arguments sent to it through to the command line, if and only if they are provided in the first place, if there are none then it should equate to "" (nothing or an empty string). It's also unclear if windows 10 is meant to support this or not, reading this thread people are saying it doesn't work for them and changing the task to a windows 7 task fixes it (by causing the task to be treated in a kind of windows 7 compatibility mode) - so they assume windows 10 doesn't support this any more - I could be wrong here, there may be evidence that Microsoft have said this isn't supported anymore, but unless there is such evidence, and others who don't have this problem exist (like me) I would tend to think this is a bug in windows, and hence I can't really blame Piriform for not fixing something that they possibly can't reproduce.

Libreoffice is what I use, used MS Office for years, and decided against going further than Office 2007. While MS Office is the "industry standard", IMO, that term while it meant something once, doesn't mean a great deal with regard to office apps these days. Also yeah the installers for these things are pretty atrocious, but to be honest MS Office is definitely the worst in this regard, the others mentioned will clean up after themselves a lot better than MS Office will, but there will be leftovers. It dawns on me however you're possibly after a word processor only and don't really want/need the rest of the stuff traditionally in an office suite. There is naturally WordPad, which you'll already have assuming you're on windows and then there are quite a few free downloads available which are based on wordpad, enhancing, changing certain things, and Google Docs if you're happy to do it all online (which I'm not). It really depends on how much functionality you need, and I can't recommend any of these as I haven't really tried any of them, but mention them as options you could try, other than fully fledged office suites.

I haven't had any issues with 64-bit firefox, but mileage may vary because it totally depends on which plugins/extensions you use. I've had more issues with them not being verified (signed), but my understanding is that's completely independent from 32 vs 64 bit builds, in that if the 32 bit ver is signed the 64 bit ver will be too and vice versa.

I haven't updated yet but this was something I was hoping could be a decent improvement, alas almost everything I've read seems to indicate it isn't but having said that everything I've read uses FPS as the metric (which don't get me wrong, it does makes sense to do so). The thing is I'm not really hoping for any kind of FPS improvement what I'm hoping for is more a reliability improvement, in that it pauses or shuts down the damn task scheduler. They're the thing that annoy me when gaming, playing away nice and happy then suddenly some task decides to happen, and the disk drive gets all busy and I get game stuttering and the real kicker, controls lock and/or freeze until the task finishes then it's all good again. Any gamer knows that even though this may only last anywhere around 2 to 20 seconds, it's too long when it's 2 seconds and unacceptable at 20 seconds (why the hell is the store looking to see if store apps have updates available more than once a day anyway ?) - end rant.

Yeah, I knew about this and personally I think it's just plain wrong that they're doing this. Support is just an excuse, it's not like these new chips are too weak to handle the old software - it's all about they just want you on win 10 and they don't care about users having a choice. I'm actually interested to see how long it takes for a workaround to become available for this though, I'm pretty sure someone out there is seeing this as something to solve simply because It's not meant to be done.

Don't see the point of IOT myself, but it does make sense for manufacturers, retailers and advertisers... http://m.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/07/tv_anchor_says_alexa_buy_me_a_dollhouse_and_she_does/

I've also been running a dual monitor setup for many many years and never had these sorts of issues so it's another thank you for the heads up on this front as I didn't know this sort of stuff could happen either. A couple of things that may help is going into device manager and checking the "show hidden devices" item which is in the view menu, this should show a bunch of extra "ghosted" (disconnected) monitors in the monitors section. (You could also try deleting the "ghosted" monitors but personally I'd hold off on that). There is also a nirsoft utility called MonitorInfoView which will show you a bunch of info about your monitors (or more accurately your monitor profiles, as old ones will show here too). This has a bunch of info in it including which reg key pertains to which monitor setup. Now you have tools that could help you, naturally at you're own risk and in no way endorsed by me as safe to do so, you could try deleting an old profile in device manager and seeing what happens in the registry. i.e. investigate on the old monitor entries and then assuming you have it figured out you could try your suspected solution to the problem you get, on a live monitor by deleting the appropriate key in the registry manually. (You will likely need to grant permissions for yourself on one of the registry subkeys to be able to do this, and if you don't know how to do that, you probably shouldn't be trying this bit). The delete in device manager on it's own would be safe though as those entries are no longer used, and will just be recreated if needed again. They could also be contributing to the problem if you have some very similar ones (perhaps likely in your case). As an example I have two monitors but 10 monitor profiles on the machine (5 in total for each monitor). Essentially there is one for each monitor in combination with each way they've ever been connected (hdmi/dvi,etc) and also to where they were connected (i.e. which graphics card/device) and in your case you'll probably have some for each usb port they've been connected to as well (as is kind of normal for anything connected via usb). I'd actually be curious to know how many old profiles you actually do have. But anyway maybe this is of some help. I don't think this will become a feature though, I mean ccleaner doesn't really mess with the device manager stuff (and checking that "show hidden devices" device manager option will show you there are plenty of other old devices on the system).

Oh ok I just looked at mine within explorer and what you're after is within the Maxtor folder within Dos\HDDtools.7z - how you get to it from the boot menu I'm not really sure but if memory serves me correctly not everything is listed in the menus - I'd be inclined to just use the option to boot to dos without actually selecting a utility from the menu (I'm pretty sure there would be an option in the menu for that) and then navigate to the folder above and run from there (the 7z is likely to show up as a folder probably be in a ram disk but I'm not really sure), but I suggest reading whatever txt files are in the Maxtor directory too, the program you're looking at is command line only and you'll need to know what options you want to use. Sorry I can't be much help it's been a long while since I used it and when I do I tend to use the linux or winxp aspects of it.

Hi Ghobar, I don't think Hirens is really meant for that sort of use i.e. running the tools as standalone, sure you can do it for some but the idea is you download it and burn/copy it to a bootable CD or USB. You then boot your computer using Hirens instead of the OS on your hard drive, where you are given a menu (essentially a boot menu for multiple OS's) where you can make selections on what to run. It's like a live CD with a choice of environments to start up into and depending on what you choose you can then run some of the utilities (but only the ones pertaining to the environment you selected). The difference here between a normal live CD and this is that Hirens is designed to be able to access the HDD with your regular OS on it for maintenance/troubleshooting etc, it's not really designed as a checkout this OS type thing like a live CD is.

Yeah it's a Microsoft Issue. I had the same problem after updating to win 10 from 7, and many people seem to also get it if they roll-back to win 7 from win 10. Anyway glad I could help.

Have a look in Task Scheduler (type "Task Scheduler" without quotes in the start menu if you don't know how to find it, or right click the start menu and go into computer management and it should be listed in System Tools) Navigate to the Task Scheduler Library (withing Task Scheduler), and look for the task "CCleanerSkipUAC" task. (FYI, this is the "file" needed to activate the "Skip user account control warning"). If it appears, great try disabling and enabling the task (or just enabling it if already disabled). If it is NOT in the Task Scheduler list navigate to "C:\Windows\System32\Tasks" in explorer and see if there is a file with that name, and also check "C:\Windows\System32\Tasks_Migrated" for that file (if not in the first location). Try to Copy it somewhere else, you'll likely get permission errors and be unable to copy it if so try moving the file instead. This file is simply an xml file without an extension, the idea here is to move the file out and then import the task into Task Scheduler by selecting import a task in Task Scheduler and selecting this file. (it won't work if the file is in the windows directory though). One of two things is likely to happen, after doing these steps, upon trying to disable/enable the task or importing/creating the task you will get an error saying something along the lines of it can't do it because it doesn't have permissions to update the task or the task already exists, if you don't get an error it's probably fixed. Should you get the error then, the issue is due to task corruption and the solution is within the registry see this rather old page for details on how to fix it. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2305420. And feel free to rant and rave at Microsoft (on their site) if it is this issue.

When creating/modifying a schedule in the advanced options, when selecting processes to not run the scheduled task, if you use the ADD button in this window to select a process (i.e. if the process isn't already running so not in the list of running processes) . You can browse to the process desired and select it. However if you do this the path to the selected process is included with the process name and the resultant task created in Task Scheduler uses this path as the path to DF64.exe, instead of the correct defraggler path - so the task can never run. (using the running process list instead of the add button works fine, it's only when using the add button).