Andavari
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CCleaner is a safe registry cleaner.
You can always create a backup of the entries CCleaner finds for later restoration, you can also create a System Restore point if you're using WinXP or WinMe.
Edit: I meant to say: You can always let CCleaner create a backup of the entries it finds.
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I suppose you'd need a HJT log for a proper analysis, am I right?
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Lol
that's a no b.s. kind of answer. Straight to the point. -
I have an Audigy2 and some good Altec Lansing dolby surround sound speakers with a powerful subwoofer, and believe it or not my music is more enjoyable using a pair of Sony headphones I bought from a local drugstore for under $10 USD. However for a movie experience the speaker system is needed. Although the Audigy2 line of sound cards is good the software created by Creative is slow running crashy bloatware.
My reason for primarily using headphones is because I'm constantly dealing with background noise from the refrigerator and freezer in the kitchen, and the constant noise of the fan running on the central air/heating system which makes it nearly impossible when I'm wanting to verify if my audio CDs were ripped correctly and perfectly. With headphones it's much easier (for me) to detect a glitch using headphones whereas using a speaker system wouldn't necessarily allow me to hear the glitch.
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Unlocker can remove them followed by a reboot. With Unlocker you're going to have to manually right click each one and select Unlocker from the pop-up menu.
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Has anyone else had any shutdown and restart issues with Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 installed and resident with its Real-time protection.
I've noticed that my system is taking longer to shutdown and restart if the Real-time protection system tray icon is loaded, manually closing it however resolves the issue with gcasServ.exe. It's also the first time I've seen WinXP display a message about a program not responding during shutdown and restart.
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That is strange that it's only antivirus products that won't update. Are you sure your system is currently clean without any hidden malware infection stopping the updating process?
What version of Sygate are you using?
I ask because for many months they had a very buggy v5.6 available which many people couldn't install because the installer would fail (according to their forums).
Hmm something strange, just noticed the last version of Sygate I used was v5.5 now it's the same with ZoneAlarm again another v5.5, all due to bugs though.
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Andavari how many hd's do you have and how big are they?
160 GB, which is a pain with so much lossless music. I'm planing on building a system for only playing music with a small LCD screen somehow mounted to the case or embedded into it for my entertainment room. It won't have any Internet, browsers, av, firewall, basically no b.s. to slow it down.
I have my audio in .wma at 96kbs i use to have them at 256kbs but i ripped the same song of a album in both and played them fairly loud on my Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card and Creative I-Trigue 2.1 speakers. It may be me but i could not hear any difference.Could just be your hearing, not everyone can hear a difference however you'd have to conduct a double blind ABX test to disprove or prove to yourself that you can't really hear a difference.
I was also recently going to buy the new Sound Blaster X-Fi which i have read reviews about and it got high scores on all. But im not sure weather to buy new speakers as well because the new card is so much better then Audigy 2 ZS my speakers may not be up to it. The speakers i have tho are Creative I-Trigue 2.1 and were the best 2.1 speakers available from creative a year a go. Do you guys think i will still get the best from the new card from my current speakers?I've completely given up on PC speakers altogether and now very rarely turn mine on which was a waste of money with my now 2 year old system. I now solely use headphones. Rather inexpensive about the price of a new audio CD to moderately priced about the price of a PlayStation 2 (not a rich guy so I don't buy rich guy headphones) the headphones I've used have been better in my situation than any speaker system.
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Also, are you saying that Sygate is a bad firewall? I need a decent firewall that isn't buggy like ZoneAlarm, I'm not touching their products again.
Also on EZ, I have sent different emails to different email address's, and have basically installed and uninstalled the product twice with different trial keys that come with the email, does that matter? I assume as soon as you get past the part of typing in the key and it starts installing you're fine?
I'm saying it has some bugs that make it rather difficult to put up with on a daily basis, whatsmore I watched it slowly rot and reveal even more bugs on my WinXP system and Win98 system. ZoneAlarm isn't perfect, it does contain bugs of its own however if you use ZoneAlarm version 5.5.094.000 (forget version 6.x) the bugs it has aren't as annoying as those in Sygate.
Well to install eTrust EZ Antivirus you must first have an open Internet connection because parts of the program and the signature files have to be downloaded during setup. I'm not sure about having two trial licenses, I don't know if that would cause you any grief or not.
About them not answering your emails, well I'm in the same boat they never replied to a support question I had. "Possibly they're bailing out of their support" for the free one year trial, so they can deal with actual paying customers.
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Will try later to turn off all firewalls and see if they will update, if they don't....
I'm thinking it's just Sygate -- if it isn't well then it's something else that's the cause. No other firewall I've tried has ever had such a behavior which was present on both of my systems.
If you're using Windows XP make sure you enable the Windows Firewall for testing purposes to see if the updates will work, it's too risky to be unprotected without firewall protection.
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This is just temporary until all of Opera 8 is added into CCleaner.
Instructions:
1. Open Notepad and paste the below text into the empty window:
[Opera 8 (Single User)]
LangSecRef=3027
Detect=HKCU\Software\Opera Software
Default=True
FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|COOKIES4.DAT
FileKey2=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|cookies4.dat.sbsd.bak
FileKey3=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|GLOBAL.DAT
FileKey4=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|OPERA6.ADR.SBSD.BAK
FileKey5=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\CACHE4|*.*
FileKey6=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\cacheOp|*.*
2. Save the file into the CCleaner program folder as winapp2.ini. If winapp2.ini already exists just paste the cleaning routine into it.
The next time you run the cleaner portion of CCleaner it will remove the already detected Opera files that CCleaner takes care of and those listed in the cleaning routine listed above.
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I dealt with that behavior of it for over a year with Apple QuickTime (now using QuickTime Alt), when trying to access the Apple website, and some other websites such as Staples Rebates website.
I had originally thought it was just a problem on my WinXP system until I dusted off my old Win98 system, installed AVG and found via SPF's logs that it was blocking AVG from updating, so I removed SPF and put good ole ZoneAlarm on the system for an instant cure.
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Possibly the result of an unregistered DLL, if it is I don't have any ideal which one it would be. Sounds like a question DjLizard could answer in a nanosecond.
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By the way those left-over remnants of F-Secure that won't delete can be removed using Unlocker, or in the HijackThis "Misc Tools Section->Delete a file on reboot".
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Etrust/AVG Free - Wouldn't update, said internet wasn't connected even though it was, stange considering that all my other updates work.
I'd have to guess that is the cause of having Sygate Personal Firewall ("SPF") installed. The final nail in SPF's coffin for me was it wouldn't allow all programs to update via the Internet.
If you're using Windows XP completely disable SPF, then turn on the Windows Firewall and try one of the free antivirus products that you liked and see if it will update. If the antivirus product updates with SPF disabled you'll know the cause is because of SPF. If it's SPF's fault uninstall it and download another free firewall such as ZoneAlarm version 5.5.094.000 (don't get any newer version they're very buggy).
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A question for you. Does PeoplePC dial-up have any adware or spyware?
I'm asking because I'm either going to switch to PeoplePC dial-up or Netscape dial-up since $19.95 per month with my current ISP InterLink is too much for a turtle paced connection.
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I filled up my 250 gb harddrive in a month, and am now looking at getting one or two more. Movies, music, video games, ebooks, personal files, pictures (god my wife takes a lot of gigs of room with all the pictures!) take up a lot of gigs quickly.
Movies and music are one of the two quickest ways to fill up an hdd. I was watching a Gateway computer presentation on HSN over the weekend and they stated the included 250 GB hdd could hold a certain amount of hours of digital video.
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My question is can you burn them into cds without loosing anything? Or is that considered transcoding as well?
Lossless is lossless is lossless, it would be no different than burning a .wav file onto a CD in data format (not audio cd), it would still be the same if you copied it back to the hard disk. If you create an audio cd from a lossless file it will sound identical to the original ripped .wav file. You can use a lossless encoding to encode to a lossy encoder, rather it's considered transcoding or not is up to the individual however you have to remember lossless to lossy is as if you were ripping the audio cd to a lossy encoder to begin with. The reason lossless is important is because if the original source audio cd becomes damaged or unrippable you'll have an identical backup without any quality loss.
The reason lossless is the way to go (if hdd space permits) is because it will end the endless chore of re-ripping audio cd's when a new codec comes out. I went that path with mp3->ogg->mpc, now I just rip to lossless and then use the lossless file to encode to whatever lossy format I want to use.
Of course in order to insure you're really ripping everything correctly without errors, skips, etc., a secure audio cd extraction program is needed namely Exact Audio Copy ("EAC"). EAC however has to be properly configured to rip the audio cd in EAC's secure mode, which is an option it will allow you to configure during installation.
However; if lossless is out of the question due to not having enough hdd space then Musepack (mpc) is the ideal lossy codec to use, hence using it's quality 5 (standard profile) you can/should generally get tranparent encodings, while at the same time having a slightly smaller filesize compared to a vbr mp3. The only drawback to mpc is that it isn't widely supported (e.g.; portable devices, hardware), however as long as you have a PC it really wouldn't matter.
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Hey Andavari if you have that much music you should get a program like Qnext.
It is an Instant messanger client which suppoirts most regular Clients except jabber.
The cool part is with any other qnext member you can let them any music form your computer.
You can also download music form them.
Really fun and cool way to et music
No.
A. I don't want anyone accessing jack s**t on my system (sorry for the language).
B. I don't need or want a lawsuit from the RIAA.
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All of my stuff is encoded in 256kb mp3. Its something I regret now because if I try to listen to anything on something that dosent support mp3 it sounds like crap.
I recommend you read up on what I've discovered over the years on Hydrogenaudio.org, I'm not advertising the forum or anything, it is however the best information about anything audio.
Your mp3's were unfortunely not recorded using a high quality variable bitrate (vbr) proven to be transparent, e.g.; undistinguishable from the original audio CD with the LAME Encoder. In the past the recommended vbr switch with older LAME versions was "--alt-preset standard" ("--preset standard") however with LAME 3.97b and up that has changed to "-V 2".
I have to ask what exactly is all of you music? Is it live recordings and bootlegs or is it all officially released albums?All CDs were legally bought from either local music stores, or from music clubs like BMG or Columbia House. Live recordings ain't my scene, too uncontrolled and I can't standing fan chatter, and I say this after making several recordings with various area Black Metal and Death Metal bands.
The only downloaded crap I have came from mp3.com in its hayday before lawsuit's and various buyouts, and iuma.com when the site used to load. The only online music site which offers free mp3 downloads I'd even consider downloading anything from now is BeSonic.com.
Since you seem to be the audio expert I have a few questions for you.1. I encoded about 5 my cds in the new windows media lossless format. What should I use to convert that into some other format so that I can burn cds and play them on my mp3 player.(I dont like burning discs with WMP)
2. My sister bought some songs on walmarts music service. Is there a way to strip the copy protection? I know that I could burn the discs and then rerip them but that takes a long time.
3. What lossless codec do you use? Also what do you use to convert them into that?
I'm not an audio expert by any means, I just found various sites, forums where myths were squashed like a bug and only truth prevailed.
1. WMA lossless is propriety meaning you'll need some version of MS Windows for playback in order to access your encodings. It's at least lossless meaning you won't loose any quality while at the same time saving some disc space.
I personally don't use the WMA lossless format and I've only played with it without any serious content another bad point is it doesn't support Replaygain. For conversion the audio software on the dBpowerAMP website can convert a boat load of formats.
There's other lossless formats such as: WavPack, FLAC, OptimFROG, Monkey's Audio, etc., .Google search for Lossless Audio. You can download a good number of lossless codecs from RareWares.org, along with other audio codecs and utilities.
2. I won't talk about circumventing copy protection, companies will sue like there's no tomorrow giving out such information. Sorry bro!
Burning them and re-ripping them would be considered transcoding, and the resulting encodings would sound worse.
3. I use WavPack and have been for the last three years. It supports Replaygain which is necessary for how commercially available audio CDs are created these days with loads of clipping.
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I'm thinking you should move our two posts to a new thread so this thread doesn't get completely off-topic.
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How many gb of music do you have? I have close to thirty on this pc and my hard drive isnt half way full.
A complete guess would be approximately 900 GB in lossless music, but I haven't encoded all my CDs to lossless as of yet so it'll only get bigger. Add onto that the lossy versions encoded as mp3's, ogg's, and mpc's, and you'd have to add another 150 GB or so.
I currently don't have the hard disk space for all of it, which is the reason I have a mile high stack of DVD's it's all recorded onto. I primarily listen to lossless music on my PC, whilst I listen to mp3's on my home DVD player only because it doesn't support any lossless format.
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300 GB and 1.145 TB isn't overkill to me and some of my other music comrades. I have a huge music collection that could easily feel up some of the largest hard drives or combination of hard drives you guys can think of because I ripped and encoded my audio CD's to a lossless audio format, WavPack to be precise.
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I generally do all mine in metapad, or Notepad. However if I want to do something a bit more complexed than my skills allow for in metapad or Notepad I instead use Mozilla Composer which comes with Mozilla Suite.
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I'm not sure since it's been awhile (years actually) since I've been in DLL HELL but perhaps unregistering mfc42.dll will allow you to install/reinstall a good copy. Here's how to unregister it:
regsvr32 "%windir%\system\mfc42.dll" /u
If it doesn't work try it without the quotes, or input the path:
regsvr32 %windir%\system\mfc42.dll /u
regsvr32 c:\windows\system\mfc42.dll /u
If this doesn't help, ask DjLizard on his forums http://djlizard.net
that's a no b.s. kind of answer. Straight to the point.
MS AntiSpyware Beta 1
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Well I suppose it wouldn't hurt to verify my new install is clean.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 1:21:20 AM, on 10/19/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXPPS.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\netdde.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\ISafe.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\clipsrv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\SoundMAX\spkrmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\VetMsg.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTHELPER.EXE
C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\CAVTray.exe
C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\CAVRID.exe
C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\type32.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\point32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\BCMSMMSG.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasDtServ.exe
C:\Program Files\Push The Freakin Button\PTFB.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
C:\Program Files\CookieCop\CookieCop.exe
C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe
C:\Program Files\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = %userprofile%\My Documents\ie_homepage.htm
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer = CookieCop:8100
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.dell.com; *.microsoft.com;<local>
O2 - BHO: SpywareGuard Download Protection - {4A368E80-174F-4872-96B5-0B27DDD11DB2} - C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\dlprotect.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CTHelper] CTHELPER.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AsioReg] REGSVR32.EXE /S CTASIO.DLL
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [updReg] C:\WINDOWS\UpdReg.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CaAvTray] "C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\CAVTray.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CAVRID] "C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\CAVRID.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Zone Labs Client] C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft AntiSpyware Real-Time Protection] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft IntelliType Pro (Wireless Keyboard)] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\type32.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft IntelliPoint (Wireless Mouse)] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\point32.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [broadcom Modem Messaging Applet] BCMSMMSG.exe
O4 - Startup: Push The Freakin Button.lnk = C:\Program Files\Push The Freakin Button\PTFB.exe
O4 - Startup: WinRAR SFX History Cleaner.lnk = C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe
O4 - Startup: WinRescue.lnk = C:\Program Files\WinRescueXP\RescueXP.exe
O4 - Global Startup: CookieCop.lnk = C:\Program Files\CookieCop\CookieCop.exe
O4 - Global Startup: MRU-Blaster Silent Clean.lnk = C:\Program Files\MRU-Blaster\mrublaster.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: Download Links As... - file://C:\WINDOWS\system32\page.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Download Target(s) As... - file://C:\WINDOWS\system32\link.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\npjpi142.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\npjpi142.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\REFIEBAR.DLL
O16 - DPF: {17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700} (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39204
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdat...b?1126938267031
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{C071DFBC-449B-44C0-B8F4-9210B12BC3B2}: NameServer = 67.134.110.5 67.134.110.2
O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: ATI Smart - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2sgag.exe
O23 - Service: CAISafe - Computer Associates International, Inc. - C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\ISafe.exe
O23 - Service: LexBce Server (LexBceS) - Lexmark International, Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE
O23 - Service: spkrmon - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\SoundMAX\spkrmon.exe
O23 - Service: VET Message Service (VETMSGNT) - Computer Associates International, Inc. - C:\Program Files\CA\eTrust EZ Armor\eTrust EZ Antivirus\VetMsg.exe
O23 - Service: TrueVector Internet Monitor (vsmon) - Zone Labs, LLC - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe