Alan_B

Space is ABSOLUTELY USELESS for backups unless it is the "right sort of space". Space on an external device should survive any disaster to your main internal drive, and be available when you need a backup of something that was on the internal drive before the disaster. Space in a separate partition on the main internal drive should survive any disasters to your main Windows System partition C:\, and is better than no backup at all, but if the main drive suffers physical or electrical damage then the future is less rosy. You can shrink C:\ to release space for creating a backup partition on the main drive. If I have a backup of C:\ then I am happy to shrink C:\ Without a backup then I find that a bit of a gamble and a "catch 22" situation No ransom malware can encrypt/destroy your backups whilst you keep them on an external drive that is disconnected.

Possibly by running REG.EXE, BUT even though I know my way around DOS that REG.EXE is something I prefer to avoid. I do NOT recommend that a novice try it.

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Do I have to launch a wipe of the whole drive X:\ and abort after it has wiped the MFT only ? Will it tell me when the MFT is done or do I just wait a few seconds and then abort ? Regards Alan

@MTA Thanks, but SP! was installed before I started using Windows 7 in anger

Welcome The professional version has the same capabilities as the free version. The only "extra" with the professional version is email support by the developers, but there are some in this forum (not myself) that can normally advise on all aspects of using Recuva, Others here will have a better idea than myself on whether 3 TB is a problem. Or there is documentation on our download site - but I am abut to go out now. Regards Alan

I was intrigued to see that Microsoft now update third party products. https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2962393 That deals with an issue for Windows 8.1 They list all the systems which are NOT affected by the issue, ranging from Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 through to Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation). I notice that somewhere in the middle of the "unaffected list) they show Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1 Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 but Windows 7 without SP1 is a "no show". I am just wondering how long after the release of a service pack do they forsake products without that Service Pack.

Sorry, trying to quote a post and select the relevant portion sometimes goes wrong What I intended to select, and thought I had selected, was "It used to work fine until I used it with a windows 7 laptop." I really do not see that a "Windows 7 Laptop" is more likely than a Vista Desktop to result in "drive needs to be formatted" or cause any damage an MBR. Whilst I fully agree with the suitability of the links you gave for Partition Wizard Home Edition 8.1.1: How to recovery a partition: I suggest that there might be an easier solution if he is trying to use XP to read files that are now accessible only to the Windows 7 Laptop. We do not know if the Windows 7 Laptop simply wrote or read files on the external drive, or tried to install Linux Regards Alan

Just because it is "Stopped" when you are looking at it does not mean it will stay stopped. You may be better off changing its "startup type" to DISABLED. Although you consider Firefox to be your "spare browser", is it possible that ity has configured Windows to consider it as your "default browser", which may be automatically launched when an application has a need for a "default browser" ?

That seems unlikely - please tell us more. I can believe that if you normally use a non-Windows computer (Apple / Linux / etc) then a Windows computer might reformat to NTFS before using the drive. I have a vague recollection that there are built in "data protection privacy" types of barriers that have been known to prevent easy access by XP of Win7 User documents or vice-versa. If that is the cause then there are far simpler and safer ways of regaining full access. What sort of Windows are you using ? Exactly what did you do with the Win7 Laptop ? Can that Laptop still see your pictures ?

Actually it is DESIGNED to be more vulnerable than any others because it comes ready equipped for Active'X. The FF user has to install a plugin (IETAB I think) before FF will admit Active'X exploits. I also assume that Chrome avoids Active'X

Do not use this Linux computer - running it may overwrite what you wish to recover - especially if you connect to the internet with it. If you connect the disk to another PC then a screenshot from Windows Disk Management would tell us a lot about the situation.

Until Financial institutions block XP from on-line transactions they will have to overwhelm MS with pressure to reduce danger. Even a small percentage of customers with XP computers is a large number of customers to alienate.

So far as I am concerned, Microsoft code is greatly flawed with many bugs, BUT I do believe that this registry value is available to control pop-ups that MAY HAVE A VALID CAUSE I decided to look further into this "solution". Your spelling is WRONG and has defeated both Google and Regscanner from Nirsoft. The correct spelling is ERRORMODE There should be no space in that word. End of grumble. WARNING :- Microsoft recommend http://support.microsoft.com/kb/128642 N.B. Alarm bells ring when I see "Such errors include" - I wonder what are the other error which they have not listed. I have just opened a box of life transforming pills with an information sheet that tells me all they will do for me, and on the back of the sheet is a 46 cm long list of possible side effects, which concludes "Please tell your doctor or pharmacist." An I.T. Administrator is likely to have remote access, and to know about and be able to fix "No Disk" and "GP Faults" even though there are no on-screen pop-ups. Most people using this forum would not be seeking a solution for an unattended server. QUESTIONS :- Will the average user recognize that his software installation is frozen because his hardware is failing to recognize the presence of an installation DVD. Will the average user suffer loss or inconvenience because "GP Faults" fail to deliver pop-ups ? Would this break any third party applications for protective monitoring (e.g. over-temperature) that might issue pop-ups. SUGGESTION TO PIRIFORM :- Perhaps you could launch a bit of code to change the registry value to avoid "no disk pop-ups" before you do the actions that result in them, and when you have finished those actions then launch another bit of code to return the registry value to its previous state. There are two bits of sample code included at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/128642 Regards Alan

Sometimes an installation is NOT complete until a reboot, and if you ran CCleaner before the reboot it might have deleted some temporary files that are required to be present upon reboot to complete installation.

You can download the portable v4.13 and unzip to a new location without affecting your v4.12 installation. Then (without v4.12 running) you can run v4.13 (WITHOUT cleaning) and simply right click the box "Thumbnail cache" and choose the option ANALYZE. For me this shows 141.1 MB in 6 files. I select that item and right click and can "Save to Text File" which saves the path and name of these 6 files ready for posting to the forum.

Firefox Version 29 has driven more people into the welcoming arms of Palemoon, which keeps up with all security fixes, but gives stability to user experience. http://www.palemoon.org/testimonials.shtml http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml @Derek Palemoon also runs under Linux http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=3875 http://forum.palemoon.org/viewforum.php?f=37

I think CCleaner is working properly and any solution would be a bug. If a User has no admin right to install a program then he should not be enabled to uninstall what was installed by an administrator. It is the administrator who installs and as the privilege of removing.

PLEASE NOTE THAT when CCleaner makes a registry backup this is totally unrelated to to System Restore, and the CORRECT way to resolve the problem is to find the registry backup file and double click to merge the contents back into the registry. System Restore is a computer activity. Shopping on the Internet is a computer activity. CCleaner saving of a backup is a computer activity. They all do things on the computer but have very little interaction. Your computer has a massive registry hives with thousands of registry keys All that CCleaner Registry cleaning will do is purge a few of those many thousands of registry keys, and ONLY backs up the few which it is deleting. It makes no attempt at backing up entire registry hives. System Restore HAS THE POTENTIAL ABILITY to restore the complete registry hive and also "System Files" to a previous state, BUT System Restore can be disabled. System Restore can be disabled by the user - this was my choice. This does not affect my registry, it simply saves HDD space and CPU cycles creating backups that I never need. There may be other causes such as a Windows Update gone wrong, or malware.

You would have no need to defrag "Memory.DMP" if you deleted it So far as I know it is created by a BSOD to give obscure clues upon the cause of the BSOD. I suggest you wait a few days before taking action in case a moderator or other expert has a valid reason for retaining that file.

If you cannot find "Real Player", it is time to search for "erny cynlre" http://mcraigweaver.com/rot13.htm There are times when Microsoft protect the guilty by using ROT13 encryption https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13

About 2 years ago a friend asked me to improve the start-up time of her laptop running Vista. There were numerous things running on start-up. MalwareBytes found an awful lot of PUP's which I removed, and that reduced the startups and delays. The most objectionable thing was "Trusteer Rapport" which had a service always running on start-up. It did not even wait for Internet availability before it was in action. I recognized that it was recommended by her bank, and I had no confidence in her protection by Microsoft Essentials or whatever it was called, so I left it installed. I have confidence in the protection that I have installed on my own computer (Comodo), and would never ever allow the continuous CPU time wasting actions of this application that is only intended to protect my banking transactions. After two years it might have become better. This was the search phrase that I submitted to DuckDuckGo for unbiased independent reviews "Trusteer Rapport" Three out of the 4 results that I clicked were very condemning, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusteer Two years ago it was also accused of being a Rootkit that was impossible to eradicate, and that :- "Hmm, beastie pulled in a digital certificate that granted the app "unrestricted" authorization (direct quote from log)." http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=80688 Your Mileage May Vary

Perhaps your system is now confused and needs to be rebooted.

WinApp2.ini is a totally different "Kettle of Fish".

That was good. Another post there suggested That list is defective. After listing 639 vulnerable sites, it list another group of 10,000 others which are mostly "Not Vulnerable" or "No SSL" Banks that I use now or in the past are NOT shown as vulnerable, Unfortunately they are shown as "No SSL" - INSTEAD IT SHOULD SAY UNTESTED, because the home pages are HTTP, but as soon as you click LOGIN the site switched to HTTPS before you enter anything. Must try harder