Ara,
If you have such "weird" problems the best you can do is the
following:
1. format drive / reinstall everything fresh (make at least
2 partitions
one for the system and one for the rest. I personally have
more partitions
for various things)
2. buy Acronis True Image Home
($49) - and make system partition backup
if you will do disk images
regularly you can turn off windows "system restore"
feature because full
disk images give you much better protection.
3. backup your system
partition before installation of every software that you don't know
so you
can revert to pre-installation state in case somethign goes wrong.
This
will also ensure that registry does not get cluttered with stuff that
did
not get uninstalled properly
Make scheduled backups (Acronis allows to
make scheduled disk images in the background
while you are working, you
don't need to reboot nor anything like with some other tools)
and in the
future you will be fully protected
and will be able to restore your system
in 10 minutes (that's about the time it takes on my computer).
Recent
story:
I have dual boot machine (allows to select whenever you want to
boot
into Win XP 32 bit PL or Win XP 64 bit EN)
when I installed
Windows Vista RC1 (for testing) it destroyed MBR (master boot record) on my
disk
and I could not boot to anything but Vista. And as always Acronis True
Image
rescued me - I simply restored the image, MBR was restored too and
everything was back to normal.
And big thanks to Yuki who first
mentioned True Image on this list.
Best regards,
Tomasz
Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ara
Kaloustian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]com>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com>
Sent:
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] PC
Utilities.
> Yuki
>
> My problems are "weird".
..
>
> For example,
> 1. Some web sites I can not log in.
(I can log in with backup computer).
> 2. Running Interactive Brokers
TWS, when I activate Book Trader, data does
> not come into Book
Trader. I have to shut it off and re-activate. This
> actually happens
with other programs also. Have not established patern.
> 3. On my
Firewall / Antivirus / Spam Blocker / Pest Controller, Spam Blocker
>
and Pest Controller were not running. They were also missing from the start
> menu.
> 4. Have problems running SecondCopy (my backup
program). Beleive this is
> related the "read only" issue.
>
> I was hacked last week through Skype!. An "Unknown" user was
registered in
> my PC, which I removed.
>
> Virus scans
show no virus.
>
> The computer is new, so I do not do much HD
maintenance. Occasional
> Defragment.
>
> Unfortunatly
have not got around to do a system backup!!!
>
> Where is the
system log. Never looked at one.
>
> Tx
> Ara
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yuki Taga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]att.ne.jp>
>
To: "Ara Kaloustian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com>
>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] PC
Utilities.
>
>
>> Hi Ara,
>>
>>
Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 3:31:19 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>
AK> I regularly run Registry Machanic to keep PC running
properly.
>>
>> AK> Today I ran a trial version of "PC
MightyMax, right after I ran
>> AK> Registry Mechanic. MightyMax
found 241 Invalid Registry Paths and 74
>> Invalid
Shortcuts.
>>
>> AK> Anyone experienced with this
program??? The price tag also seems
>> AK> unreasonably high ($120
/ year licence)
>>
>> Ara ... generally speaking, these
programs are all worthless, and
>> have the potential to do much more
harm than good. Running such a
>> program -- regularly -- is a
prescription for trouble, IMNSHO. These
>> programs all follow
different algorithms, and some are very
>> "thorough" (to the point
that they wreck your system by deleting
>> things they shouldn't
touch), and some are very lax (meaning they
>> don't really do
anything).
>>
>> Generally speaking, the registry
(especially on a 2K or XP system)
>> does not need "fixing". The only
exception to that would be if you
>> *knew* exactly what needed
fixing. The registry is a huge database,
>> and it does get cluttered
with the remains of programs uninstalled,
>> and other useless data.
It also only grows in size, unless it is
>> weeded and then
compressed. But, again generally speaking, the amount
>> of clutter
is almost always minuscule compared to the size of the
>> registry in
the first place. Cutting the registry even by 5 percent
>> (a tough
job, usually) is not going to improve your performance very
>> much.
I doubt if you would even be aware of it.
>>
>> But because
these registry "fixer" companies can scare or convince
>> you into
running a trial version, which they *know* will turn up
>> something
(unimportant, but probably a "large number" of unimportants
>> --
i.e. seems large to you, but it's really *nothing*), they can make
>>
a lot of money touting their useless products. You could run 10 of
>>
these programs. None would agree with each other regarding either
>>
number or specifics. They are a waste of money.
>>
>> If
invalid shortcuts or invalid registry paths are the only things
>>
you have to worry about, you probably have nothing to worry about,
>>
and definitely should not go to the trouble of reinstalling. What
I
>> am more concerned about, if I'm you, is "Am I compromised"?
If your
>> machine is "owned", to use the phrase, *then* it's time
for a
>> reformat and reinstall, maybe on a completely new
drive.
>>
>> What problems are you having other than the
read-only situation you
>> mentioned in another
thread?
>>
>> Do you have a known-good
backup?
>>
>> Do you have an anti-virus program, and/or an
anti-spyware program?
>>
>> Do you run them once in a
while?
>>
>> Do you defragment your drives once in a while
(every 48 hours here on
>> a rotating basis)?
>>
>>
Do you have a firewall? Which one? Is it running?
>>
>> Have
you run any hard drive analysis software on your machine? Why
>>
not?
>>
>> Memory check software? Why
not?
>>
>> What ... do your system logs tell you? Do you
read them daily?
>> (There should hardly ever be either a yellow or a
red flag; basically
>> they should be clean almost all the
time.)
>>
>> The only way to clear DRAM that I know of is
power off. That means
>> computer, and modem, and monitor (if it's
flat panel). Have you shut
>> *everything* down completely, and
waited five minutes (shouldn't take
>> that long; but that should do
it for sure), and tried again?
>>
>>
Best,
>>
>>
Yuki
>>
>>
>>
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