JDPower

Yup, 7200rpm drive was what I had. Apparently I am

I know lol. And I'm not saying I don't like it, certainly not complaining, just doesn't feel much faster than before, certainly not the night and day difference some people talk about. Maybe just cos it was an already speedy laptop it's less noticeable. And it's setup right, even enabled the Samsung rapid mode, and the benchmarks all show it giving expected speeds. I must just be bloody hard to please

Well the results - the hard drive IS hosed lol. Fitted the new drive in my laptop, put the old one in an old laptop with the intention of letting Spinrite run to completion (only got to 7% after two days running before I removed it), but Spinrite won't even run on it now. It loads, but just throws invalid partition errors when trying to start it, while the drive sits clicking away. Tried a few times and the drive isn't even recognised now. Oh well, thankfully had FAIRLY recent backups. Although I must be the first person in the history of the internet not to be blown away by the performance improvement of an SSD now I've got one lol

That won't go in, reg cleaner backups aren't added.

Doing the same for me too using Firefox or IE, but downloaded ok using Chrome

Thanks again. Not sure I didn't try that and it wouldn't load, but could be wrong and will take another look in a bit, currently giving Spinrite a go at reviving it.

I had already removed and reseated the memory modules to rule that out. The only other machine I have available is the old laptop I'm writing this on, which sadly takes a total dismantle to get at the HD, and don't yet have a SATA-USB cable to hook it up directly (have one on the way though). I have already got an SSD on order now (a Sammy 850 pro), been toying with the upgrade for a while anyway, but any other advice on maybe proving this drive dead or not appreciated as there are some files I would still like access to that aren't in my most recent backup. Also, will a Win7 disc image from a regular HD restore onto an SSD without issue? At least temporarily so I can copy some files from the disc image THEN clean install Windows on the SSD? EDIT: Actually after googling and finding THIS, that last question is irrelevant

Thanks for the suggestion. I ran the relevant manufacturer diagnostic tool and it tells me there's no HD found, and says (not overly helpfully) this MAY be caused by a faulty drive. And having played about with the other HD tools on there, they all seem to think there's no HD installed. And DBAN errors out saying "DBAN finished with non-fatal errors. This is usually caused by disks with bad sectors"

Hey I'm all for Skype competitors, but release it as a separate entity, not built into a browser. Wouldn't mind so much as I'd moved to Palemoon soon after australis, but now PM's gone tits up (in my opinion) it's looking like I'm heading back to FF.

The other day my laptop took a knock, not particularly hard, but locked up and I had to force a shutdown. After that it refused to start up, giving an error before windows could start up (immediately after manufacturer splash screen). I used the windows disk to acess recovery console and run chkdsk, it found and repaired errors, but that merely changed the error to "The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum". The OS isn't listed in the recovery options (so can't run startup repair options) so tried a reinstall, which failed halfway through with the message "windows cannot access the installation sources". And the startup error is now, understandably I guess, "BOOTMGR is missing". A couple more attempts at instaling Windows leaves it stuck at 0% at the second step (expanding windows files I think). Tried restoring a disc image and at the end of the re-image process get the following: "The system image restore failed. Error details: The post-recovery option to set registry keys for Automated Sytem Recovery (ASR) in the offline opearting system failed" Restarting after that I end up boot manager error (0xc00000e9, unexpected I/O error) suggesting a faulty or improperly connected HD (have already reseated it just to be sure) Also the drive heads are being quite 'clicky' (although it had never been the quietest) So, is the HD dead/dying?

Great - so australis stripped out useful stuff to 'streamline' the browser, now they're bloating it with crap no one wants or will use. Can someone please remind Mozilla what a browser is

I have a slightly different Inpaint entry that I must have added myself as it's not in the main file, so would suggest the following so that it still cleans previous versions [Inpaint*] LangSecRef=3021 Detect=HKCU\Software\Teorex\Inpaint Default=True RegKey1=HKCU\Software\Teorex\Inpaint\Recent File List RegKey2=HKCU\Software\Teorex\Inpaint\RecentFileList

Has never worked, probably never will

No probs, hopefully winapp can remove it when he updates the file

Yeah, bit of a clumsy entry, needs the *log*.* part removing, as that is picking up all the logo files cos they have the word log in them

Options>Advanced

Have you unticked it in the monitoring section AND the advanced settings section? (it is rather clumsily implemented in that it is enabled in two different places)

You can remove it by right clicking it and exitting, the issue is that CCleaner should do that when you untick active monitoring in the monitoring section.

Now go to the monitoring section and try turning it on and off from there.

It is a bug, was just coming here to report it myself. The icon is, correctly, in the tray when monitoring, but the icon/monitor remains there even after UNticking the monitor option in CC. You can untick the option, close CCleaner, and you get the "CCleaner is monitoring your system" popup even though you've disabled the monitor function and the tray icon remains till you manually close it.

lol, no. Winapp1 as you call it, is the built in winapp in CCleaner. Winapp2 is the file for user entries.

And which shouldn't be. And which had been discussed endlessly already.

I don't think the thread title will make any difference to that. If anything it'll just confuse people wondering where to submit their winapp2 additions, it's fairly obvious with the current title

Why?

Oh that's hilarious, they "resolve" the issue by offering a button to kill the background process instead of having to do it via task manager? How hard can it be to automate that and have an attempted launch of the new process recognise and kill the existing one? After all they've only had, what, 5, 6, 7 years