I have a computer that was working very well, but lately when I was working on a important project, there was a power fluctuation for a couple of times (I thought that was normal) but after the last power fluctuation my computer refused to boot up. There seems to be a failure of some kind?..but I need to get the projects back that are still in that disk.
View 4 RepliesMy laptop's HD seems to have a major bad block. When trying to read certain files the disk always starts clicking and making strange and rather disturbing noises for about 2 minutes before the system fails and I get a blue screen.Fortunately most of these files seem to be in a directory that I only kept "just in case" anyway, i.e. there would be no =
major harm, if these file are lost. I only noticed, that these are corrupted, when trying to read them while making a backup. Alas, that backup never fully ran through due to the problem described.
I am thus seeking a program that tries to read the entire disk (and does not crash, if it gets errors...) and marks files that contain unreadable blocks such that the OS doesn't try to access these any more. As far as I know that should be possible. I once read that there is some kind of bad block list somewhere. Ideally it would also try to read damaged files a certain number of times (e.g. 1000 times or so) trying to recover as much data as possible and if it was able to read entire files it copies their content over to greener pastures. That would allow to minimize the actual data loss.
Auto update picked up and installed SP1 tonight.
When I cam back all seemed ok. Opened IE with no problem, opened Windows
Mail - blue screen -
It gave an 0x0000008E code and something about tcpip.sys.
I shut down and tried again - same when I opened Mail plus I realised all
sound had gone.
Then while taking out SP1 I got another blue screen -
"a process or thread crucial to the system operation has unexpectedly exited
or been terminated" 0x000000F4
I've carried on with the uninstall after the restart.
Other that run the sfc /scannow what should I do to see if all is back to
normal??
Guess I'll not bother with SP1 thanks.
New (from November 2007) fairly high spec Dell running Ultimate.
I discovered the mother of all inferiorities of Vista vs WindowsXP.It turns out it's incapable of one of the fundamental - BASIC tasks Operating System must perform.FILE COPY/MOVE/DELETE takes ages, progress bar is lying, "Calculating Time Remaining" - you should see that dialogbox, it's spells death to productivity, it borders on the level of completely unusuable OS in our environment where we move 20-50GB/day on my CAD laptop Hilarious! Why has God punished me so that WinXP disk was missing and I installed this joke OS expecting an "upgraded" exprience?? I wish I could ascreenshots/pictures.
Please don't refer me to the known Vista "Network Autotuning" bugfix, I am not even copying over the network, it's an external USB2 Harddisk that used to take seconds to pump fairly large files, specificlaly it achieved 15-22MBps transfer rates.
Vista humps along at maximum 2-3MBps, then stumbles into the range of KBps and calculating GODDAMN TIME REMAINING or lying progress bar, then goes back to 2-3MBps, then again down to KBps range.I'm still wasting huge amounts of my time while I wait for Vista to calculate the time remaining before even starting to transfer files.
Does Microsoft even care?? The software routinely hangs, crashes, won't process, freezes or you get error messages when processing as noted in several posts here?
- Are there any patches via Microsoft?
- Is there a version of Outlook Express that works with Vista?
I am one of the many users experiencing problems with wireless connections that work until your laptop goes into powersave mode, then only allow "Limited or No Connectivity" I have 2 wireless routers, a Linksys and ActionTec, supplied by Verizon with FiOS and Linksys has helped me a couple of times to make it work but that is all. Verizon is clueless. As am I since I have 4 XP laptops that all work. Vista is apparently trying to prevent me from hurting myself, and therefore I am unable to fix it.
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I have a new PC running Vista Home Premium. I tried the snipping tool soonafter I received the computer three weeks ago. It appeared to work fine atthat time. I just tried to use it again but could not find the shortcut. Ithad been in the start menu under accessories but it was no longer there.
Using the Search facilities I found the program file "Snipping Tool.exe" onmy hard drive. I created a new shortcut but the program will not start,nothing happens. I also tried double clicking on the "Snipping Tool.exe"file.
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View 5 Replies View Relatedi just got windows Vista Home Premium X64 a couple days ago and so far i have just a couple problems that i can't figure out. Well first of all i can't get the switching between windows thing to work correctly. My Girlfriend has Vista Home Premium also but she has 32 bit. But on hers the switching between windows is the live tabs of each window. And also when you hover the mouse over a minimized window on the taskbar its shows a live icon window of that window, but on mine it's just a tool tip. Another thing is i cannot change my colors of my taskbar and active windows. On my girlfriends PC when you go to the control panel and go to customize then colors it shows some different colors and it changes the taskbar as well as the windos but on mine its way different when you go to change the colors. And one last little question I have read about the Aero thing.. not sure exactly what it is.. i think its a theme right? well i don't have it under my themes list.
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I also discovered that if I ran IE “Run as Administrator” it will work, but will not allow me to use the cursor to input text, like in a google search etc. I was going to go into options on internet explorer and reset to default settings, but the tool bar does not show up?? I tried to download IE v 7 and got a message that it was incompatible with my OS! Got the same message when I tried to download IE v8 again. I don’t know if all these issues are related or not.
I deleted the two web-slice icons (the ones with the drop-down at the side) that came as default on the IE 8 tool-bar as I thought they may take up too much space as I add bookmarks. Is there a simple way to restore them?
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Simply check that CTFMON.EXE boots at startup (for all users) Or go to start/run and type CTFMON.EXE then enter.
Use the following code (copy and paste to a .REG file) if you don't know how to add manually this executable to HKLM startup.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun]
"ctfmon"="CTFMON.EXE"
this just started happening today..it wont complete the assessment..
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I plan on getting my first Windows Vista laptop in a few weeks. Since I am on the road often and don't leave my laptop idle for long, I need a defrag tool that works transparently in the background while I am using the machine. I am wondering what people think of the included deframentation tool in Windows Vista or if a 3rd party application like Diskeeper is necessary for my needs.
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After you download the System Update Readiness Tool, it runs a onetime scan for inconsistencies that might prevent future servicing operations. This scan typically takes less than 15 minutes to run. However, the tool might take significantly longer on some computers. The Windows Update progress bar is not updated during the scan, and progress seems to stop at 60% complete for some time. This behavior is expected. The scan is still running and you should not cancel the update.
Unfortunately Unlocker won't work in Vista 64. Is there another tool similar?
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For those that want to clean up all that unchecked crap, one can either go into the registry and clean manually. But I found this little program which can do it too. It's simple. It's small. And it's free. Pic above says v1.2 but here is the link to the latest version v1.5 MSConfig Cleanup - optimize your Windows startup Great site you have here.
I'm preparing fir new install and, also, moving programs (this weekend, hopefully). I'm looking for some useful tool to dig/uncover as many as possible passwords attached to using by me web sites and, also, programs (some for them require special codes/passwords).
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