Posts by hotmatrixx

have a llok at this post of mine is a similar thread: mostly for the RULES.

what not do do

easeus has a free deleted file recovery software.
there are others, too: namely

glary utilities
recuva
undelete
and a couple more over at freewarefiles

there is a pretty good post about it over on lifehacker (come back when you have finished there though).

that should be a good start.

http://www.pcidatabase.com/index.php

they will probably work. Just make sure you get the right architecture (x64=64bit, x86=32bit).

We are of course presuming a driver issue, rather than a settings issue, here.

If the laptop was only for vista then why did 7 install then? dimsums the hardware ID - can you clarify? I looked up the BroadCom site and it describes a list list of drivers for their Ethernet NIC. Is this what you are talking about?

Thanks

to get the Hardware ID's, (Win7)
start menu

type in
Device Manager [enter]

go to network adapters, find your offending one,
rightclick - properties
Details (across the top)
pulldown menu to "Hardware Ids"

you will see:
PCI\VEN_XXXX&DEV_XXXX

the ven_xxxx is the vendor ID
the dev-xxxx is the device ID, you need both.

go to here

http://www.pcidatabase.com/index.php

and do some poking around in their search engines. It will tell you who actually made the thing. Then you can search from that information for the drivers.

All else fails, Post the
PCI\VEN_XXXX&DEV_XXXX

here and I will see if I can find them for you.

No worries. It is easy to do, kind -of.

the usual method is to remove all power to the computer, pull it apart and find a little battery - like one in the back of a watch. pull it out for ten minutes, reassemble, and the CMOS password is wiped.

Depending on the laptop, there may be a jumper switch you can cross under some panel somewhere under the laptop. you cross it, reboot, and it resets the BIOS.

Although some do say that Dell has made these features obsolete.
I did see this though:

Undocumented BIOS feature of Dell Latitude D600

If you are only looking for the BIOS feature: Alt+E, Alt+F will reset your BIOS of your Dell Latitude D600 laptop to factory settings. It might work for other types as well. There you have it. No need to read on, unless you want to know how inefficient Dell works.

There is nothing to indicate when these were pressed - whether during boot, or at the password screen, or whether a reboot ras required after, no more information that what I have given you here.

come back and let me know how you get on!

the thread you were looking for was this one:
http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/it-professionals-lounge/threads/88406

and you PM by clicking into their user profile, look down the RHS for "contact this member", Send a Private Message.

Windows 7 and I noticed that it is not the optimal speed hard drive, I think is the problem of SATA configured as RAID in BIOS and then the windows must be installed but pin sata driver put on master or slave as required. The fact is that I did not manage too many still seek a solution ..

Hey, I see you are new here.
Have a look at the date that the OP (Original Poster) had his problem. You can do this by looking at the info in the sidebar of the first post.

This thread is 5 years old. The guy either fixed his problem and never told us so, or he just gave up.

Besides, I am sorry to say that your translation into english makes almost no sense at all.

hopefully I think I can even translate it for you (in case someone else finds this thead while looking for help):

I noticed that Windows 7 reported that the Drive was not running at it's optimal speed.
i think the problem is that Sata must be configured as RAID in the BIOS and then have Windows installed. The Jumper pins on the SATA drive must also be set correctly.

I did not know this, but figured it out, and I hope it helps someone else.

I hope that I got that right. If not - oh well, I tried.

And stop trying to solve a dead …

I don't suppose you have got another mouse? It sounds almost like a hardware issue to me.

I think your new computer is an HP/Compaq LAPTOP. Right?

If so, the problem is that you have to press the "Fn" key at the bottom left of your LAPTOP keyboard.
HP has some stupid setting so that pressing F5 actually "opens your default browser", and the other Fkeys do things like volume and screen brightness.

See the picture below, in the attachments.

You can disable this setting, Hewlett Packard actually has a link on their website, HERE That shows you how to do it.

I am reprinting it on this forum, in full, in case the link gets broken:

On most HP and Compaq notebook PCs, it is necessary to press and hold the function key (fn) while pressing one of the f1 through f12 keys to activate the default functions; such as, increasing or decreasing the brightness of the display, the sound volume, sleep, keyboard lock, etc. On the HP Envy notebooks and other notebooks with advanced BIOS options, the function keys can be configured so that it is not necessary to press and hold the fn key.

1 - Function Keys f1 through f12
2 - Configurable Function key fn

Disable fn in the BIOS
To disable, or enable, the function key (fn) in the BIOS, do the following steps.

1. Press the power button to turn on the computer.
2. Press the f10 key to open the BIOS setup window.
3. Use the right-arrow or left-arrow keys to navigate …

Goto command prompt and enter external drive letter (eg. G:)
and try these commands chkdsk/r and chkdsk/f
If they wont work use ur harddisk manufacturing tools to diagnose or troubleshoot the problem.
or go to
http://www.techyv.com/questions/how-recover-formated-harddisk-files-windows-xp

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

It may further destroy any data - or at least, it may end up getting "lost". Explaining why is beyond the scope of this thread at the moment.

RULE 1:
STOP USING THE HDD:
everytime you use it, every single seek/access/read/write activity may be taking you further and further away from recovoering your data. DO NOTHING TO TRY AND 'REPAIR' IT! you may end up destroying the very things you are trying to save.

RULE 2:
Use another Harddrive/Computer:
plug your HDD into a computer so that you are not running the Operating System From that drive.

RULE 3:
Install Recovery Software to another HDD:
Why? see Rule 1 above.

RULE 4:
Save your results to a different drive:
Once you have got your results from your Recovery Software, save the results to another HDD
See Rule 1

Recovery tools.
hopefully you only did a "quick format", else you may be pushing uphill.
I personally use this:
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/comparison.htm
notice the free version is limited to 1gb of data. but you can useit to do the scan, see what it will pull up, then …

NOTE: For simplicity, I am presuming the OP was the only owner of the computer. I am presuming that everything that I am writing below applies to the OP. If the OP "got this PC off someone else" then the blame lies with wherever the PC came from.

See this bit?

Licensing Data-->
Software Licensing service is not running.

Windows Activation Technologies-->
N/A

Either you have run a program to subvert the licencing, and then tried to enter a licence afterwards,
OR
The DVD of Win7/Vista that you used to install it with is not genuine, and whoever built that DVD it tried to "pre crack" windows.

I am guessing that you did an "upgrade" from Vista to Windows 7. I say this because the problem above would not have been fixed in an upgrade, only a new installation.

You may be able to fix this by re-initialising Windows Activation Technologies. I suggest that you re-run whatever tool that you used, and hope that it has an "uninstall the crack" option. If it does, then uninstall it, reboot, and try again with a GENUINE KEY that you actually own.
If it has an uninstall option, but says it is not installed, then install the crack, then uninstall the crack. This should hopefully undo any damage you may have done.

The best way to fix this would be to Re-install Win7 from sratch (fresh install), use a GENUINE DVD that you …

again, thanks xkcd
(see pic attached)

Like they say over at xkcd:
(check the attachment)

sorry, I missed that you sent the link in your post - it opens fine here, so the website isn't down, that I can tell.

Hi there, Waishou. Is there any chance you have tried the above, already?

If not, could you please try it and then report back here?

what is the website?

thanks,

hotmatrixx

wow, cool.

looks like you really are an ók user':-)

how did you think of that? where did the solution come from?
was it in your EV, was it from online - what made you try something so inconspicuous, something must have given you a clue?

Try having a poke around in the event viewer:

open via:
(past into explorer)
Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools\event viewer

will take a few seconds to load

drill down to
windows logs
-application

will take a few seconds to load

and have a look for explorer events.
you can use the "find" feature on the right.

see anything that might be useful?

problems if you drill down to it through explorer from my computer?

go to start-user
rclick on downloads
properties
check the settings in there, especially under the location tab. It should be
c:\users\your-username\downloads

OK, I didn't forget, the uploader timed out (I have a dodgy internet connection) and I didn't double check it worked before I posted...

what's really intersting, is I had the same thing happen to me, just yesterday. same folder. I can't remember what I did, so I can't really replicate it.

can you tell me the path that you took to get to your downloads? did you navigate from my computer -c:\-users... etc or did you use the start menu\username\sownloads, or do you have a shortcut to it somewhere, etc?

I had the same issue when I opened it up from the "open in new window context"...

I am thinking about this...

tried it and it seems to have remedied itself.

I guess that you could try a checkdsk operation. do yo know how to do that? it requires a reboot and some time...

open my computer
rclick on your main OS drive
properties
tools
check for errors

posts back to me what you did to cause the error, first though.

hopefully we can work through this.
cheers

hmmm... have you tried in internet explorer as well?

download this:
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/hijackthis/HijackThis.exe

it will generate a log.
please post that here...

It allows me to see what settings are, what is installed that might have changed them.

It is a little intrusive, but it may be the only way, and you can delete the post later so that it isn't permanently available for the world to see, but for now, I need it. You could just PM it to me on Daniweb, too if you know how to do that

(click my username, in the profile is a box on the lower right, get in touch with hotmatrixx)

please post the FULL, unedited log, else it becomes useless.

cheers,

WARNING!!!

if you try this:
Do a FULL System Restore Backup Point RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

there is a zip file below.

now. I want you to look for this file:
C:\Windows\system32\taskbarcpl.dll

does it exist?
if it doesn't, then that is your answer. It is included in the zip file I will attach in a minute. you may need to drop into safe mode (there are 10 million tutorials on how to do that, google is your friend, please) and then add this file to your C:\Windows\system32\ folder.

next to it are the reg keys that I found that seem relevant. They are all imported into one .reg file that you click on to import.

import that at your own risk.
It should reset the taskbar pin-to settings to default, try as a last resort, I guess.
will only work in safemode.

there is an image below that shows you the details of my copy of that .dll file:

right click on the file in YOUR C:\Windows\system32 and see if it matches (the dates will be different)

the filesize of mine is:
(win7 home prem x32)
228 KB (233,472 bytes)

if yours is different, there may be a problem. try copying mine over yours (in safe mode)

that is all I can think of at the moment.

please post back with your results!

how can i do sistem restore when i recover my computer,i use the windows...just the problem is that i can open some programs from the computer..

I am guessing that you mean that you can't get to system restore?

you can:

reboot the computer.
press F8 repeatedly until you get to a "safemode" window.
ask it to start in safe mode.
try and do some of those normal things (there won't be any internet, safemode disables the internet)come back and post whether it works or not.

when it disappears, does it produce an error message saying that it is closing? what is that message?

Heh. All of these suggestions.

Let's try and get back to basics and troubleshoot your issue, shall we:

I understand if the boss wants to "not allow exceptions". That is his prerogative. But with 500 computers, one would expect that he woudld just let the internal IT dept handle it.

so:
please, so that I know, and it may help, WHY won't he allow exceptions?

more importantly:

are all of these inside the same network? what I mean is are they all inside one physical building? or do people remote in from outside the LAN?

what type of firewall is implemented? software based, hardware based, or both?
does each PC run a firewall, or is there one big corporate one that filters all of the traffic?

how long have you used your current Remote software, and what others have you tried?
what is your position /role inside the company? I just have this feeling that you are not part of any IT support team, so I am asking.

What are you using the Remote desktop for?

do users need to be able to interact at the same time, or is this for one admin to make background changes, etc?

that should give me an idea of the next lot of questions that I need to ask you...

I am writing a program that fixes this right now. It is still in late alpha.
I hope you can open a .zip file?

I promise it has no malware, no ads. It is a simple script that runs in the command line. It drops in a temp file and runs completely from there - it only uses NATIVE WINDOWS stuff, and leaves no trace of itself when finished.

If it does not work, [lease let me know and I will upload an earlier, less elegant but more stable version.

please be gentle with me. it is not 100% completed yet, and you are the first person that I have ever shared this with.

you want the option "o". right now, it completes the operation then closes instead of going back to the menu. it is a tiny bug I will fix later, but you can use it right now instead of waiting 6 hours for me to find the problem and uploading another version for you.

please give me feedback!

(yes, I will create a gui for it one day)

OK, that sounds like something has played with the registry for you. I am going to have a play with my computer and I will see if I can replicate the error.

If I can replicate it, I can fix it...

bear with me please, I am listening to you!

Sorry, I want to clarify, you mean if you try and open "downloads", explorer crashes?

please state your version of windows (xp, pro, vista, 7)?
please let me know if you are:

• absolute beginner (ok, where is that?)
• ok user (know how and wher to navigate to find things)
• proficient? (eg I know what the command-line is and how to use it)

thanks
hotmatrixx

(sourced from
http://www.ehow.com/how_6002548_disable-kaspersky-firewall.html)

Instructions

1. Open your Kaspersky Internet Security program.
2. Click "Settings" in the upper-right corner.
3. Select "Firewall" under the "Protection" section on the left side of the next window.
4. Remove the check mark from the left of "Enable Firewall." This will disable the firewall component of Kaspersky.
5. Click "OK."
6. Go back to the main page of the security program and check to make sure you have disabled the firewall. You should see a warning message telling you that you have no active firewall protection.
7. Close the program.

just in case you needed to know :-)

I just logged into it fine, so the website hasn't crashed.

running the same setup as you, but different antivirus.
Because it is happening in different browsers, it is not a problem with your browser. it is either

• a global setting on your computer
• another piece of software running on it that is blocking it
• something external, like your Internet Service Provider (ISP-who you buy internet off) has blocked it.
• if you are inside a network (especially a business one) they may have set up blocking on it. I cannot see why they would have blocked this though, unless they have a Whitelist (only allowed certain sites), but I am guessing that you are at home? (answer that, it will help with where I need to look...)

did you try the suggestions that I made in the previous post?

try this:
on the desktop,
hold down shift +rightclick, then look for a menu that says "open command window here"

you will get a little black box. called the command prompt
type
ping www.indusladies.com

you should get something like the pic attached

notice the red bit. it says 0% loss. what does yours say?

your browsers are not saying they cannot find it. they just cannot access it. something is blocking them. if it was a true error, it would say "Firefox can't find the server at indusladies.com."

disable your Kaspesky firewall and …

Need to know a few things:

• what is the website
• (don't be embarrassed, it's your computer and your life, you should have the right to do whatever you want. it might help to know though)
• have you accessed it before
• what browser are you using
• what operating system, windows xp, 7 etc or mac OS, etc?
• WHAT IS THE ERROR MESSAGE in your browser?
• what is the exact, full name of the antivirus you are running?
• what country are you in?

please get back with that info.

try a couple of quick things:
make sure the time and date are correct on your computer (important, some websites use time-valid security certificates and your browser won't let you in unless it is valid)

reset the proxy:

there is a picture attached to show you.

on windows xp /windows 7
control panel - internet options
click the connections tab.
click on LAN settings

it should usually be:

auto detect settings (y)
use script (n)
use a proxy for your lan (n)

OK.

on apple mac os,

I don't have one so no screenshot,

but I think that you find the settings by going:
Open Safari
Click on Safari at the top of the screen
Click on Preferences
In the menu bar at the top of the window, Click on Advanced
Click on the …

You have "Sent from my..." in the signature of all your emails - and you think it is cool!

cmd & cnqr
construc-tron

(giggle?) I'm not really a coder, but it might give someone a bright idea?

What kind of construction do we refer to, here?

code
building
civil engineering
???

... you laugh with things like "Chuck Norris can dereference a void pointer." or "In Soviet Russia, functions call you."

OK, you really are a geek :)

1612

1616

Chinups
pushups
squats
lunges
kettlebell swings (16kg)

I go through the list, 3x, to failure each set.

how many pixels do you chinup?

Some of those types of those games are available here:

http://www.freewarefiles.com/category/games.php

You know what the result of 6+2x10 is.

26.

oh, crap. I am a geek.

When the people you date are all virtual.

Here, I have got one for you:

Well said sergent. Almost as bad as using Spybot S&D still :).

:-( I am cut deeply :-(
hehe.

Funny, that thing with woodman.

You might want to ask Crunchie or the Moderators in charge of the virus, spyware and other nasties forum. They will tell you the whole story. Let's just say, he got banned because he got into a fight with a fire breathing lizard, he lost and the lizard ate him for dinner. lol

Tip For Everyone:
If you are planning on getting in a fight with "Ancient Dragon", "Crunchie", "CSGal" or any of the other mods, you are going to lose. Those guys are way beyond most of us mortals.
.
.
.

And they can ban you.

This is quite possibly the most incorrect statement I've read in quite some time. Some of the best software I use on a regular basis is freeware.

How does freeware put your computer at risk?? Seriously?
-- Yeah, there is malware and adware involved with some freeware. But, there are a ton of great and clean free programs as well. So, a blanket statement that all are risky does a disservice for those readers of this thread that do not know better :)

I Concur:
and, funnily enough, most software that will cause problems actually "tells you that you need to buy it or your computer is at risk of stopping", then it hijacks your computer until you $$$ at it. This is called adware, or malware, depending on the circumstances and the changes the software can make.

Good ad ware might display an ad asking you to click a link. the ad is usually unobtrusive, and should never reduce the functionality of the computer - if it does, it is malware.

two good exsamples of adware (where ads are displayed to support develpoment) are FreeDownloadManager, FormatFactory. oh, and Lots of 'android' stuff does this too. Most malware advertises itself as antivirus or reg cleaners - and use scare tactics to make you buy. I wouldn't put money into anything that says "pay for this or else..."
(except my phone and power bill :-P )

most freeware out there is fine. Some of it …

When you are a member of DaniWeb.

When You Start Solving Posts on DaniWeb.

I used to use advanced system care 3, but it is a resource hog.
Now I use Glary Utilities. why? Not for the reg cleaner, (which seems good). I know in older versions the registry cleaner used to wipe some files, like the desktop.ini file, that tells your computer what file to display in mycomputer, but that seems to have been addressed, now. but all the other apps:

Batch Uninstaller:
you can set batch mode, and hit uninstall, it goes bang, bang, bang. it is HEAPS more efficient than the windows uninstaller. Just be careful though. I have seen it uninstall programs that weren't ticked.

Disk Analysis:
it gives you a visual overview of where your space is being taken up on your drive, so you can find big files/folders and take any needed action.

Duplicate Files finder:
the name says it all

disk cleaner:
remove temp files and the like

file undelete.
handy for deleted file recovery.
(I use Easeus Data Recovery Pro For the more serious stuff)

file shredder.
if you want that folder gone-gone.

file encrypter.
if you want that file private.

registry defrag.
it can make the registry significantly smaller. I have never had a problem with this tool.

PLUS the One-Click-Optimiser:
the item that you were just asking about. I disable the spyware and track remover tools.

I use sysinternal autoruns …

Good call hotmatrixx

Thank you, Shade01.

To everyone else out there:

As of writing this, the Original Poster has not been active in this thread for25 days. i think it is safe to believe that we have answered his (her) questions.

The other observation that I will make, is there are a lot of people saying "I use..." or "I'm a computer Tech and I use..." but there is very little actually useful information listed in the posts. This thread was meant to answer a specific person's question, and once that person leaves the thread, you can guess they have had their answer - whether they mark a thread as solved or otherwise.

If you all would like to make a list of "registry cleaners and optimizers", then great - maybe someone should begin a thread dedicated to this?

OK then, I will start one. HERE.

I am active in another thread that is turning into a bit of a flame-war. (So I thought i would bring the fight to the lounge! :-)
HERE

So I wanted To Start A New Thread, as I couldn't find one. So, Please only reply if your answer contributes something to this thread, preferably:

1. What Reg Cleaner You Use
2. Why Do You Use It?
3. Is There Anything Unique About It?
4. If you don't use one, then why?

++> Please keep this an upbuilding conversation people.

Have you tried to "ping" any standard websites, to chck if the http protocol is working OK on your PC?

start menu-run
"cmd.exe"
in the box, type
ping www.google.com

if you get all kinds of numbers back, the ones you are looking for say
"reply from (numbers) time=xxx"
and
" (0% loss)"

then all is probably well with your internet, and it is definitively a browser issue, which indicates malware interference.

check the proxy, scan your PC.

Rik I suggest you look at your link as it takes you to the AMD drivers of the Manufacturer. The reason I posted the correct link.

Confused why you say it's not 64bit?

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35101

ELROYG58

You need to reply to our question's.

Hah! I was just going to post him the same reply! same link and everything!

RESPECT!

RIK seems to be jumping the gun on quite a few threads.

nice to see someone with a bit of old skool skill out there, Bal. keep it up! Rep points coming your way...

If your data is valuable to you, BACK THE TRUCK UP FIRST!!!!
back it up.

2nd, gparted "can" move segmants around, successfully. I know it was written by some linux guy, and it is probably rock solid, but I would be more inclined to back up one of my other partitions (I am presuming they are larger than the OS partition) and use something like xxclone to transfer the OS to a bigger partition.

sure it's a sappy looking website, but the guy writes solid code!

i do like that little tool. it is freeware for this task too.!

just a suggestion, and "no reboot Needed!"

My windows vista has been unable to completean update and going round 3 0f 3 % completed. the system keep rebooting itself.please help

You may not like this. you will find that it keeps hanging on the same update. I will give you the quick version. If you need the longer explanation, then I will try to help you. I will tell you what to do, If I do not get back in a timely manner, you will be able to google for all of the proceedures on the net already.

this is the first thing to try:

Some of the updates released on February 12, 2008, as a part of the Microsoft monthly patch cycle, have managed to effectively kill Windows Vista. Users are reporting that, following the introduction of the February 12 updates, Vista gets stuck at the finalization of the deployment of the updates displaying the message "Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3 0% completes" and then entering an infinite reboot loop. And there is absolutely no way out for the end users, because canceling the configuration process of the updates is a move equivalent to losing access to the operating system entirely. This will even happen in Safe Mode.

Microsoft has yet to officially respond to the issue, or to provide a resolve or at least a workaround. However, it does seem at this point that there is an issue with the deployment of the pre-requisite updates necessary for the smooth installation of …

OK, I know this is a little unhelpful.

You have a Dell. Please give up now. Switch to an external keyboard, or, better yet, a better brand of PC - if at all possible to do so. I have 'fixed' 14 Dell laptops with this issue. with a hammer.

they tend to work for a little bit, then give up.

I was running Iolo's System Mechanic, and was told that is really wasn't that good. What is the best Optimization software to use? Is there a good Freeware out there, or is it better to go with a paid program for this? Thanks....

Let those guys have their differences of opinion.
I used to use advanced system care 3, but it is a resource hog.
Now I use Glary Utilities. why? Not for the reg cleaner, (which seems good). I know in older versions the registry cleaner used to wipe some files, like the desktop.ini file, that tells your computer what file to display in mycomputer, but that seems to have been addressed, now. but all the other apps:

Batch Uninstaller:
you can set batch mode, and hit uninstall, it goes bang, bang, bang. it is HEAPS more efficient than the windows uninstaller. Just becareful though. I have seen it uninstall programs that weren't ticked.

Disk Analysis:
it gives you a visual overview of where your space is being taken up on your drive, so you can find big files/folders and take any needed action.

Duplicate Files finder:
the name says it all

disk cleaner:
remove temp files and the like

file undelete.
handy for deleted file recovery.

file shredder.
if you want that folder gone-gone.

file encrypter.
if you want that file private.

registry defrag.
it can make …