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DjLizard

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  1. Yeah, that's what it is. It's definitely not an exploit of the Unicode "guessing" API. It works with "abcd efg hij klmno" too. Conspiracy? I think so.
  2. I was going to suggest/describe putting a line in wininit.ini (which would have been far easier than trying to echo into a dummy file or whatever the hell that was about) but Pocket Killbox actually does that for you.
  3. This thread is all far too complicated. Simply download Pocket Killbox - http://www.killbox.net/ Click "Delete on Reboot" Click the folder icon and browse to the Index.dat file in question, or type the full path to the file (I'm assuming you know the path) Click the red and white circled 'X' button.
  4. It's more advisable that the person link to the homepage or download page, so that: 1) Downloads can be counted here, officially 2) People won't get an old version if the person in question fails to update his/her site 3) People will get a choice in which version they get (full, no toolbar, english only+no toolbar) 4) People can read the FAQs, forum, make donations, etc ...and so on.
  5. If that was added, I would have to turn that off in CCleaner every time I work on someone's machine, as I frequently have to use this technique to jump back in time. Add it, but make it off by default?
  6. Oh, I missed that word. My fault.
  7. DjLizard

    Driver Problem

    If you mean that a dialog popped up asking you to send an error report (such as "A serious error has occurred" or something), it was about a previous crash, not a current problem. Each blue screen of death generates a crash dump file, which in turn generates a "serious error has occurred"/"send error report/don't send report" dialog. There will be one "send/don't send" dialog per crash that hadn't yet been reported. I would wait and see how/if your stability improves before taking any futher actions, as it's not yet proven that you are having video issues. Video drivers, after all, reside in system RAM, and bad system RAM can make anything look bad when it isn't. If it is bad, you will probably have another crash, and we'll work on it from there. For now, just wait and see
  8. That's very understandable! Nobody wants to see Eldmannen's ball(s).
  9. I'm sure everyone can agree that your constant trolls add nothing to the conversation.
  10. Shut up, troll. Nobody cares what you think.
  11. DjLizard

    Driver Problem

    Another issue. RAM, video card, motherboard, or power supply, most likely.
  12. Corrections to the last three posts: XP's defragmenter is just fine. Your browser should have its own 'clean on shutdown' (IE, Opera, and Firefox do). How could CCleaner detect this unless it was running in the background waiting for a browser to shut down? Like I said, not very important since the major browsers already have this feature. It might be a permissions issue; it's not guaranteed that it is.
  13. DjLizard

    Driver Problem

    55 isn't hot for that model of Maxtor, actually. That model just runs freaking hot cause it's half the height of the regular drives (here's a picture). I'm going to be brutally honest though: your drive is going to fail, very, very soon. Your SMART status is fine, actually, but this model of drive doesn't die incrementally like most drives (to where you could see it in SMART status); it dies instantly. You will wake up one day and it will make a clicking sound (or just not spin at all), and all of your data will be gone. Prepare now by backing up all of your important data, and prepare to have a technician Ghost this drive to a new one. If this particular drive was manufactured in 2003, it is time for it to die in the very near future. Other than this model of drive, Maxtor has pretty kick-ass drives. But... Here's the order of brands, from best to decent: Hitachi Seagate Maxtor (now owned by Seagate, so technically you should just get a Seagate drive) Western Digital is terrible, don't ever buy them. They are sub-standard. Don't bother buying Maxtor either, because any Maxtors left are ones that have been sitting on the shelf since before the Seagate acquisition. Basically, buy only a Hitachi or Seagate drive.
  14. Oh god no, don't give Eldmannen fuel for his fire
  15. dllcache is there, it's a hidden system folder. Go into it by hand if you want to (but you don't really need to; I'm not sure why that was recommended). Start > Run > dllcache
  16. From http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....nicode_81np.asp : ahahahahahah, so A\n\r^Z will make it fail too and 4 3 3 5 causes the test to fail as well It's a limitation of Windows itself (the API for IsTextUnicode()), not Notepad.
  17. It works with: abcd efg hij klmno too, so it's obviously not the content, but the number, like you said. They're just putting a stupid phrase about breaking the app to make it seem more credible
  18. No, something about that phrase is tricking it into saving it as Unicode instead of ASCII. Make two text files, one with the exact phrase, and another with the phrase missing one word... then view both with a hex editor. It's a bug.
  19. DjLizard

    Driver Problem

    I didn't look at your HJT log, but I just wanted to tell you that hardware can't be damaged by software (it was possible 20 years ago, but not now). Viruses can't do the sort of things you think they can. You have a hardware problem, though. You will want to check the integrity of your hard drive and memory: 1) http://hdtune.com 2) http://memtest.org Check your hard drive's health with HD Tune (look for any highlighted lines and report back with a screenshot of the Health tab if you're confused about what you see), and then test your memory with a bootable disk/disc made from memtest.org. Test your memory for at least 4 hours, or until an error occurs. If errors occur in memtest, shut down, remove one stick of RAM, and test again. By cycling through your RAM one stick at a time, you should be able to isolate which memory module is at fault (if it is a memory problem). Otherwise, it could be a video card, motherboard, or power supply problem. edit: okay, I looked at your log. There's nothing wrong there (although you could remove the X10 Device Network Service that doesn't point to any file).
  20. Okay, then it was being properly displayed, but there were no glyphs assigned to the characters being displayed (or they were super-low ASCII). Can you attach the .reg file you exported (as a file, not as pasted text)? I want to see what values those chars really were.
  21. CCleaner can't take you there, because again, it doesn't support Unicode (and it thus cannot read the entries correctly). The entries do exist, but CCleaner can't properly display them - the NT 5 registry is fully Unicode but supports most non-Unicode functions. So, CCleaner is able to see that something is there, but it can't display it properly - instead it splits the Unicode into two separate bytes, and displays ASCII, question marks, or boxes, to replace the characters with a value higher than 255. Is this a screenshot from Registry Crawler? From a first glance, it looks as though it doesn't support Unicode either (shame, considering that the registry is fully Unicode). You'll have to use regedit.exe to find these problems. Since they are corrupted, there is no harm in deleting them, but you won't be able to delete them from programs that don't support Unicode.
  22. It needs to be expanded. Start > Run > cmd.exe (replace "X:" with the drive letter of your CD-ROM in the following) : X:cd \i386expand user.ex_ /r %systemroot%\system32
  23. krit: The files on the Windows installation CD don't end in their usual extensions. Try looking for user.ex_.
  24. Oh. CCleaner doesn't support Unicode. You'll have to go into the registry yourself to delete those (Start > Run > regedit). It's probably a corrupted key. Also, it won't look like a few question marks and a square when you get in there, so look carefully. If you find something funny looking in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, post a screenshot before you remove anything.
  25. Dude, shut up! It's Tony Klein!
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