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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Internet disconnection logger
« Last post by 4wd on November 08, 2010, 11:26 PM »
I take it, it's one of those routers supplied by the ISP that you don't have access to the configuration?

Most routers offer some form of logging.

Otherwise, SLCheck might do what you want.
4602
Are your SATA interfaces set to AHCI in BIOS?

Try setting them back to IDE mode if they are.

Probably help if you could take a photo of the BSOD and upload it here.

Also, a capture of the partition layout might help us.
4603
Here is an example of why I dislike the BN rating system. This is my first visit to a topic:
 (see attachment in previous post)
All of the replies have been rated down thus requiring a click to view content

Yes, the rating system is crap - it has always been crap and next to useless...but the reason for all the negative rating is because some people have actually found a use for such a crap system.

They rate every comment negatively, (even their own), once they've read them so that they can immediately see new comments when they log in without having to wade through them all again.

Until BetaNews gets a better system, (and let's face it, if you can have people rating programs in the FileForum when it's obvious they haven't even tried them - is it even likely to happen?), if people want to make the best of the current crap system, more power to them.

I tend to ignore all the program ratings and only read the article comments because they're a good laugh sometimes.
4604
myself i use separate converters depending on the needs. one for audio, another for flash videos, yet another for DVD ripping but that's just me. :)

Not just you, I also prefer separate converters.

StaxRip - Convert to MP4ASP.
HandBrake - Convert to MP4AVC.
AVIDemux - Edit/Convert to most other things.
RipIt4Me - DVD ripping.
Audio - Download whatever I need for a specific conversion, (mainly 5.1 audio), then it gets deleted - I don't need it that often that it's worth keeping installed.
4605
General Software Discussion / Re: Easier way to make a WINPE 2.0 DISC
« Last post by 4wd on November 08, 2010, 05:43 AM »
Continuing with bbLean 7PE.

Now to create a plugin for SoftPerfect Network Scanner.

Netscan isn't a fully portable program it has system dependencies which we'll need to integrate.

Download netscan.exe and archive it into netscan.7z:
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The easiest way to create a plugin is to find one that's similar and adapt it, in this case copy the file Apps\Accessories\HxD.script to Apps\Network and rename it to Netscan.script:
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Run WinBuilder and you'll get the following picture.  Highlight Apps\Network\HxD v1.7.7.0 and click the Edit button (1):
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Click on the Description button and edit as follows (the logo is straight from the SoftPerfect website):
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Click on the Attachments button, highlight the HxDen.7z file and click the Remove File(s) button, answer Yes:
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Click the Add.. button and then add the netscan.7z file you created:
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Click on the Source button, delete the [Download] section and change the ones marked with * as follows, click the Save button then the Close button:
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You should end up back on the main page, change the Start menu folder to Network and tick the Create QuickLaunch Shortcut as follows:
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Tick the Addons\Additional Files entry and then click the Open Source Directory button:
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Navigate down to Windows\System32 and copy the following files into it:
NOTE: Copy x86 files if you're building an x86 PE, or x64 files if you're building a x64 PE.  Actually now I've thought about it, since netscan.exe is a 32bit program probably the x86 binaries are all that's needed.
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Now build the PE and it should give you this:
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It LIVES!!
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EDIT: Attached plugin so you can compare.
4606
General Software Discussion / Re: Filter directory tree by file type?
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2010, 09:15 PM »
Nope: Registration

I'd just use Everything and type in the path and/or filter.
4607
General Software Discussion / Re: Easier way to make a WINPE 2.0 DISC
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2010, 08:52 PM »
For this exercise we'll be creating 7PE that uses bbLean as its shell, download it from the link in the first post here.

The reasons:
1) It's a small download, ~58MB - might not mean much to you but since I only have 512k ADSL I'm not going to download something that requires the WAIK, (1.7GB = 11 hours), if I don't need it.
2) It boots fast and looks good.
3) It WORKS - WinBuilder project servers seem to have gone downhill since the last time I got into this.  Now it's better to grab a project from the forum but it's a mess trying to find the latest versions of what, (for Win7PEs at least, I'll give LiveXP a go later).

Extract the archive into a directory, (not a root directory, you'll get an error when you build):
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Run WinBuilder and select your source path for Win7 DVD, (x86 or x64), by hitting the Source button, (I've selected P: where an image of Win7HP x86 is mounted), and then press Play:
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After a few minutes you'll end up with an ISO:
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And to prove it worked, here it is running in VirtualBox:
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If you get an error saying unable to change drive then you are running WinBuilder from a root directory.

If you get an error saying unable to mount source images, (WIMs), then check that you are not running WinBuilder from a root directory, reboot the PC and try running again.
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4608
Living Room / Re: How do I test router vs. Internet connection?
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2010, 05:53 PM »
Ping the external IP addresses from the above list... if they succeed, then you are connected to the internet, but have a DNS issue.

Just for my information:

Is the DNS involved if you ping an IP address?

Wouldn't you need to ping a URL, (eg. www.google.com), for a DNS to be queried?

I suppose I should really do it myself and watch the packet log.......



Never mind, stupid me I read your context wrong  :-[


Addendum:

YEEHAA!!!
greenshot_2010-11-08_10-54-04.jpg

I'm now officially 50% more evil than I was before!
4609
General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a folder monitor app...
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2010, 05:24 PM »
FileNotify - as mentioned here.

FileNotify2 is even more powerful but no support - author changed it to freeware.
4610
Living Room / Re: Avatar Ambiguity
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2010, 05:10 PM »
Why spoil our fun with facts?
4611
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Direct2Drive: 25% off over $49.95
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2010, 12:41 AM »
This makes the upcoming COD: Black Ops only AU$45 for me.......time to get the CC out.....

nice find but does that work for COD:BO? the advert says "not available for pre-orders", maybe they made a big boo-boo. :)

Yep, I just bought COD:BO for US$44.96 - you can download immediately but have to log back in on the 9th when it's released to get the key.
4612
Found Deals and Discounts / Direct2Drive: 25% off over $49.95
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2010, 10:40 PM »
Direct2Drive are having a 25% off when you spend over US$49.95 sale until 10am Monday.

Coupon code: bigsavings

This makes the upcoming COD: Black Ops only AU$45 for me.......time to get the CC out.....
4613
Living Room / Re: Avatar Ambiguity
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2010, 08:08 PM »
My guess was steam venting, (from a geyser, volcano, etc), being reflected in a body of water.

But after looking at your last guess and re-evaluating my eyesight: I concur with you.  :Thmbsup:

Which means we're probably both wrong. ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Easier way to make a WINPE 2.0 DISC
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2010, 07:44 PM »
Hello 4wd, that was really generous of you.

No problem.

Can you provide same guide on how to work with Winbuilder i.e., to make a WINPE DISC.

For Win7PE, OK - give me a day.

Hope i am not asking too much of your time.

I'm rich in time :)
4615
General Software Discussion / Re: photo duplicate scanner
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2010, 07:18 PM »
You people are suffering from retrofixial!   :o

btw Curt it seems I need a larger (and I mean much much larger) dictionary. :D Maybe one of those ten pound gigantic dictionaries like I've seen in schools and libraries. ;)

It's an Americanism - ie. make up a word when the right one doesn't seem right, (or comes to mind) :P

As such, there can never be a dictionary sufficiently big enough  :harhar:
4616
Living Room / Re: How do I test router vs. Internet connection?
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2010, 07:07 PM »
Was the modem/router provided by your ISP?

Do you have access to its configuration settings?

USRobotics website shows that the modem/router has very good statistics/logging capability as well as diagnostics, (there's even a nice interactive demo).

Log into the modem now, go to the Status tab and hit the Reset button on the WAN, ATM & ADSL Statistics pages.

The next time it happens, log into the modem, go to the Status tab and look at the System Log and WAN, ATM & ADSL statistics - take screen captures.

Under the ADSL Statistics tab perform a ADSL BER Test and take a capture of the results.

Under the Device tab there is a Diagnostics function, run both test when it happens, capture the results.

Please post them back here.  I'm not saying any of this will definitively isolate the problem but it should help us understand a bit better.

In the meanwhile, it should cost nothing, (well here anyway), for your physical line provider, (copper cable - BT, etc), to perform a remote test on your phone line - ring them up and say your getting intermittent noise on the line.

Also, is the phone working normally when it happens, ie. dial tone, no noise (crackling, etc).

If it's happening often enough, disconnect ALL other devices connected to the phone line, (and I mean ALL - phones, filters, external bells, fax machines, alarm monitoring equipment, etc) - this is the most basic test and will help isolate it to either the modem/phone line or something that's influencing them.

This thread may help, specifically from here on.  gexecuter's fault turned out to be faulty wiring, (loose wire), from his house to the external connection at the pole - which the signal ratios pointed/hinted at.
4617
General Software Discussion / Re: Easier way to make a WINPE 2.0 DISC
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2010, 05:16 AM »
Using H7PluginBuilder

For this example we'll do something simple, (I won't test if it works in a PE afterwards because it'll need some tweaks), by creating a plugin of MyDefrag, you'll still get the general idea.

Once around the block first, (see first pic):
A - Resets the interface back to default ready for plugin creation.
B - Import a PEBuilder plugin or monitor installs from FileMon, InstallRite or InstallWatch which can then be saved as WinBuilder plugins.
C - Batch conversion of PEBuilder plugins.
D - Import a .reg file and save as a PEBuilder/WinBuilder plugin.
E - Monitor the installation of a program and capture its registry entries and files to be saved as a plugin.
F - Allows you to select an .ocx or .dll and then capture the registry change when it's registered.
G - PEBuilder specific settings.
H - WinBuilder specific settings.
J - H7PluginBuilder specific settings.
K - Whether or not the generated plugin will be enabled in PEBuilder/WinBuilder by default.
1 - Enable if you want to be able to choose an output folder at 2.

I don't know if D, E & F work - I've never used them.  I do know it will convert PEBuilder plugins but WinBuilder can do that also.

Set up H7PluginBuilder, (H7PB), as follows, (choose your own Target dir of course):
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Set the WinBuilder options as follows, (click button H in first pic):
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Click the Explorer tab at the bottom of the left panel and then right-click the Programs folder and select Grab Folder:
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Select the MyDefrag folder in C:\Program Files
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All the files will now show up in the explorer panel, untick the ones not required:
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Click on the Registry tab at the top of the panel, right-click HKEY_CURRENT_USER and select Import:
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The .reg file being imported is the registry entries MyDefrag creates in HKCU/Software/MyDefrag, (go into regedit and just export them):
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The entries will be imported and you'll have the following:
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By clicking the Blue line under the panel you can edit/add various entries:
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Right-click on the last entry and select Remove:
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Go back to the Main tab, right-click on the MyDefrag.exe file, select Properties and set as below, change Shortcut->QuickLaunch->Create to True and edit WinBuilder->Section to say Files.  After that click the Explorer tab at the bottom and for the rest of the files being added also change WinBuilder->Section to Files:
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These shows what files we are keeping from all the added ones, click the Build button.  If the Target file already exists then you will get a warning exclamation mark up the top right:
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The result panel will show the basic script without the encoded files.  The actual MyDefrag.script in the output directory will contain the files encoded within it, (that's why it's 996KB):
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The resulting script is attached as is some working plugins I made for WinBuilder VistaPE011.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Easier way to make a WINPE 2.0 DISC
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2010, 05:03 AM »
Thank you for that, ( i was running Winbuilder from Desktop all along)  i did and made a Directory for the downloaded Project folder in a folder called WinBuilder and converted Barte .inf file to scripts and copied few Barte plugins folder wihit scripts in it: to  C:\WinBuilder\Projects\VistaPE-CAPI\Apps\HD Tasks

On hitting the play button i got errors: one thread here clearly states :BartPE plugins in WinBuilder project: methods to build a plugin from Barte plugins.

I think you should start from scratch to get a feel for WinBuilder first.

1) Delete, (or move), the WinBuilder\Projects directory, (WinBuilder will create it as necessary), so all you have is WinBuilder.exe and WinBuilder.ini in the directory.
2) Run WinBuilder and go to its Download Center, make sure the vistape.boot-land.net is ticked, select Minimum from the dropdown menu and then hit Download.  There will be about 16MB to download.

This will download the minimum requirements to create a VistaPE disc.  See if that works.

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BartPE plugins will probably need a little bit of tweaking to get them working, (some do, some don't).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Easier way to make a WINPE 2.0 DISC
« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2010, 06:32 PM »
Where are you running WinBuilder from, (path/folder)?

EDIT: If you're running WinBuilder from the Desktop, try creating it's own directory, (eg. D:\WinBuilder), copy it there and run it.  The above message looks like you're trying to run it from the Desktop.

Can you send/PM me the log file it generates?

The last version of H7PluginBulder is 1.4.0 available here - (not obvious from the thread I pointed to).  I'll have to install a 32bit VM to play with it...just remembered how to use it, I'll add a picture later.
4620
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Zentimo at GAOTD (Nov 03, 2010)
« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2010, 05:08 AM »
I updated to latest Everything Search version and it's still reluctant to let go at times.  Seems rather silly to be opening and closing network connections and programs when there's not a copy or other activity other than change monitoring in progress.  It's starting to get old fast.

I don't use a docking station, I always thought they were a silly idea - what's the point of having hot-swappable drives if you've still got to kill the power on the docking station?  My friend has 3 or 4 docking stations, every one of them you have to kill the power before changing the drive.

I use two of these.  Using USR or Zentimo to eject and then pull the drive out, as I said, I can't remember the last time Everything stopped me removing the drives.  That beta has been out for 12 months and is pretty stable.

So just to get this straight in my head:

Docking station connected to remote pc, you share a folder on it and then map it from your local pc which is running Everything and is therefore trying to index everything on the remote mapped, shared folder ?

Does it release if Everything is configured to not index that mapped volume ?

What happens if you turn on USN Journal logging but turn off Monitor Changes ?   Is it really necessary for changes to be monitored on the mapped drive ?
I believe the database will be updated the next time the drive is mapped.

Do you need Everything to index the mapped drive ?

If you don't need Everything to index the drive then one idea is map the shared folder using SUBST.

eg. subst M: "\\192.168.0.10\some\folder"

Even though Everything sees the drive it doesn't index it, (well, here it doesn't), and then remove the mapping with:

subst M: /D

Alternatively if you need the remote drive indexed, why not run Everything on the remote pc and use its HTTP interface ?

http://user:[email protected]:8082/?s=<search phrase>
4621
Living Room / Re: ICANN set to open the TLD flood gates
« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2010, 09:17 PM »
Hahahah~!

I thought it was more a case of


Nah, my way it was more of a command made by him :P

Quick, let's grab all the .i??????? TLDs, that'll screw him.
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Living Room / Re: ICANN set to open the TLD flood gates
« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2010, 08:17 PM »
Strange humor v2 - Your move  :D

That should have been: Yourmove.creep

It does seem a reasonably safe assertion that they would all quickly jump in line for that too...

Or possibly:



This was a sensible thread until f0dder came along, probably because of the liberal amount of nudity and sex on Scandinavian TV.........I wish I lived there.
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Living Room / Re: ICANN set to open the TLD flood gates
« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2010, 05:15 PM »
More likely [email protected] - with a a redirect to .cum TLD.


After a gratifying 45 second wait of course.




Disclaimer: Yes I know my sense of humour is strange.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Zentimo at GAOTD (Nov 03, 2010)
« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2010, 07:35 AM »
...kill Everything Search because it's hooked into the drive...

What version of Everything are you using?

I can't remember the last time Everything stopped removal of a drive here, using the latest beta 1.2.1.451a.

Changes:

    improved searching for folders by up to 20 times faster.
    fixed unrecognized included volumes in the options window.
    fixed an issue with the volume monitors not releasing handles when safely remove device requested to unmount a volume.
    fixed a display issue with new recently change dates/times.
    fixed a crash when sorting by size then second sorting by recent changes.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Easier way to make a WINPE 2.0 DISC
« Last post by 4wd on November 04, 2010, 03:53 AM »
I use WinBuilder to build PEs, (I used to use BartPE a lot in the past but WinBuilder is a lot easier), what type of PE depends on what I want it for.

LiveXP - I'm more familiar with it and it's good for small size ISO, (fit on a 180MB CD with a few utilities), and RAM requirements are lower.
VistaPE/Win7PE - If it's going to be used with esoteric hardware, (Vista/7 include storage drivers that will run on almost anything without trying to hack more in), and there's no RAM constraint.

I used to create multiboot PE based USB flash drives with:

1) WinBuilder - To create the PE environments, both LiveXP & VistaPE/7PE.
2) Various disk images - dban, ranish, supergrub, memtest, gag, ntpass, etc.
3) Linux Live - usually Puppy or DSL.
4) Parted Magic
5) Various DOS apps - mbrtool, etc.
6) Windows apps - ImgBurn, hardware info, etc.
7) Optional XP installer.

All bundled up together using USB_Multiboot.  Probably a bit over the top but it was fun just to get it working.

But I also did PE2/3 multiple boot USB HDD/flash, directly adding the various wim files by editing the bcd file with bcdedit to add them in, as per: Integrating multiple version of Vista  Six PE2 environments on the one flash drive.

H7PluginBuilder makes plugin building reasonably easy, minor editing required afterwards to tweak them but better than trying from scratch.  It's 3 years old but will generate BartPE and WinBuilder plugins.

It's been about 10 months since I last played with making PEs but I still try to keep up with the latest methods - I'll probably swing to WinPE3 and update the various plugins I had.

Perhaps I should have said, "Make_PE3 is the simplest way to create a simple Live Win7 PE."  Adding stuff to it will be a bit more involved, you're better off using WinBuilder and one of the Win7PE projects found here, it will be easier to add stuff to.

Addendum: Just found this: Windows Forensic Environment - a Windows PE designed for forensic analysis of the system, (ie. it won't write anything to the system thus possibly corrupting evidence).  I think I'm going to have to pull out WinBuilder again to have a play  8)
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