redhawk
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Microsoft has issued a warning about a serious vulnerability in all versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
If exploited by a booby-trapped webpage the bug would allow attackers to take control of an unprotected computer.
More info here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12067295
Just as well I only use Firefox.
Richard S.
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Have you tried Safe Mode yet??
Richard S.
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As far as I'm aware DivX videos are stored in an AVI container therefore blind searching for AVI files should theoretically find your DivX clips.
Richard S.
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I don't think I'll be bothering somehow.
Richard S.
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There's no difference having pagefile.sys on the main drive at the end of the disk or a partition at the end of the disk with pagefile.sys.
The drive performance is at it's lowest (you can check this with HD Tune's benchmark test) not to mention the fact that performance is further degraded by the read/write head swinging back and forth to access pagefile.sys and files at the start of the drive.
The best place to store pagefile.sys is on another hard drive preferably with it's own partition at the start of the disk.
Richard S.
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Nothing weird about it CD-ROM drives have 2 different laser beams for CDs or DVDs your problem would seem to suggest a fault with the CD laser or the pickup.
Does your CD-ROM make a metallic knocking noise if it encounters a problem disc??
Have you tried other CDs??
Richard S.
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If you pop in a normal CD Audio or Data CD (not a CD-R or CD-RW) does Windows detect the presence of a disc in the drive??
Richard S.
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If you're referring to SVI then this is the storage area for System Restore's restore points (files and registry backups).
Defraggler is known to cause Windows to create restore points which you can clear with Ccleaner or by turning off / on System Restore.
Richard S.
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I still have a box full of 5 1/4" floppy disks, I somehow doubt they're sellable.
Anyone remember the old days when AOL would send their bloody CDs in the post every month??
They made really good coffee / beers mats.
Richard S.
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This problem has been reported before, unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a fix for this behaviour.
You could try some alternates such as the free version of Handy Recovery or the crippleware version of DiskDigger.
Richard S.
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You can defrag SVI the problem is Administrator accounts have no access rights to this folder, you can however add accounts with full read/write access by tweaking SVI's security permissions.
If you want to flush the contents of SVI then turn off / turn on System Restore or use CClean to delete restore points.
To be honest Defragging SVI is rather pointless because this folder is being constantly updated with new restore points and deleted old ones.
Richard S.
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You do realise that you're asking for the impossible here, a file that's is badly corrupted is very unlikely to open with it's associated application.
If you want to find anything useful to salvage then open it with a binary hex editor or use Microsoft's notepad.exe.
Richard S.
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Recuva needs a drive with a valid partition table which is why you get "unable to read boot sector".
There are no freeware tools to handle drives of these type however the current version of DiskDigger allows 1 file at a time recovery (version 0.8.3.176 had no such restrictions).
Richard S.
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If the drive letter is missing how did you manage to select the drive via Recuva??
Sometimes an inaccessible file system can be corrected by simply running chkdsk.exe in the following way:
Start, Run, "chkdsk.exe e: /f" (without quotes and assuming e: is your external hard drive letter)
Richard S.
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Do you have any information regarding the BSODs, i.e. STOP Code and parameters??
Run "eventvwr.exe" (Event Viewer) if you cannot remember this information.
Richard S.
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The developers of Defraggler are not supporting it now (although you can still download a Defraggler version that does)
Is this fact or just a general assumption because the software no longer works on Windows 2000??
It's just I don't recall reading anywhere here on the forum or website that development for Windows 2000 has been dropped by Piriform.
Richard S.
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Files get deleted and sometimes their clusters allocations are reused by Windows for other files.
When this happens files recovered with Recuva are corrupted hence applications cannot handle them.
This is the main reason why if you delete something from the system drive you must recover it asap.
If you've deleted a folder then check the Recycle Bin, if you've emptied the bin then look for delete files inside C:\Recycler\S-1-5-???\ (or C:\Recycled if you're using fat32).
Also Microsoft Word creates temporary files when documents are open if you're lucky you may find some copies to recover from.
Richard S.
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The partition table is damaged unfortunately Recuva cannot handle drives in this condition.
There are no freeware tools to recover from RAW drives however afaik DiskDigger lets you recover 1 file at a time and the demo version of DiskInternals Partition Recovery has the uncanny ability to rebuild the directory structure.
Whatever you do never format or even quick format your flash drive because this process still clears a fair amount of data at the start the disk.
Richard S.
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AnalogX is a DNS cache program I'm not quite sure how it's suppose to improve my Internet experience though.
The DNS servers provided by my ISP seem fast and reliable enough for me not to cache IP addresses.
Richard S.
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I think I'll hold back on Abode Reader X until they learn to code first.
Still loving Foxit though, I wonder why Adobe couldn't make something just as compact and fast??
Richard S.
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Defrag freespace does this.
Richard S.
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A lack of contiguous freespace is usually the main reason why files cannot be defragged.
If you're running low on disk space you might want to considering performing defrag, defrag freespace, defrag.
Richard S.
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Try running "chkdsk.exe /f" (without quotes) and then reboot your machine before running Defraggler again.
Richard S.
Defragging OS Drive with Another PC
in Defraggler
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Defragging the main OS drive should be 99.9% possible, however access to c:\pagefile.sys isn't because it's always locked.
Booting from another Operating System via hard drive or CD-ROM is useful for access to pagefile.sys because the file is not in use.
I have a hard drive install of BartPE for this very purpose (booting from CD-ROM is too slow for my liking)
In addition to BartPE I also occasionally boot into Windows 98SE to run the Microsoft defrag tool - why you might ask??
The Windows API can moves files around at any location however unlike NTFS it's not possible to move fat32 directory entries.
So basically after a while you would end up with less and less contiguous free space and large files start to fragment.
Windows 98SE despite it's age has a better defragging tool for fat32 than XP because it has the ability to move directory entries.
I never understood the logic behind this however the poor support for fat32 was probably a deliberate ploy to kill fat32 in favor of NTFS.
While NTFS has it's advantages it also comes with it's own problems since it's not possible to defrag $MFT even from another Operating System.
Richard S.