SYSTEM RESTORE & MACROMEDIA

[Edward W. Thompson]

I am not disagreeing with you, I am correcting you, again.

I also promote Erunt.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

Thank you but your corrections are not required. We are well aware of your
love affair with this faulty entity called System Restore. No doubt you are
amply rewarded for your unflinching support of what an unbiased critic would
see as a poorly written utility.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Corrections false and inaccurate information are necessary.

All further communications with you are terminated. I choose not to feed the
trolls.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[Guest]

Hi Gerry

I will send you info re drives.

Since, I was asked to a free lunch at a fantastic restaurant with some
friends, actually a company is paying. Our weather is finally turning to
winter, we just had a slight snow storm, expecting more better wait till I
get back.

I will check out the Jeeves thing and go back to HighjackThis and Error
report and foward you the info.

Thank you, have a great day.

April

C: drive
type: Local Disk
File System: NTFS
Used space: 54.1GB
Capacity:101GB

Maybe you could explain what my D drive is , never bothered with as did not
know what it is all about.

D:drive
Type: Local Disk
File System: NTFS
Used space: 54.4 MB
Free space: 9.85 GB
Capacity: 10. GB

 

[Edward W. Thompson]

I agree with you hence why I feel compelled from time to time to point out
the misleading information, by implication, you disseminate with respect to
System Restore. I undersdtand why you so vehemently disagree with my
contention that System Restore should not be trusted due to its high failure
rate as is clearly evident from the posts in this and other NGs.

Please do not respond as I am afraid you have little credibility for your
position re System Restore.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

April

Well now I know why I couldn't find the HijackThis log the other day.
Acording to a tool I used on the log you may have spme nasty. However,
the tool I used is not totally reliable and does give false alerts.
Let's see what the HijackThis experts say. There is no pint in
ib=vestigating the Application Error until we know your system is
clea.

The drive information has me puzzled. How are they described in Disk
Management? Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer
Management, Disk Management. Are they shown as Drive 0 and Drive 1 or
as partitions of Drive 0? C should be described as System.

Is your computer a Toshiba laptop? What is the model number?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Guest]

22 Gerry
What the heck is "spme nasty"? I only posted to Hijackthis today!

I don't understand this partition thing, lets see:

Primary Partition
Disk 0
Basic C: Healthy(system) D:Healthy 251GB
Healthy (unkown)
111.79GB
online

Hope this is of some help.

Yes, Toshiba laptop model: Satellite P100
Assume you are going to look up model on net re info.

Thank you, have a great day,
April

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Edward

Those kind of remarks are totally unnecessary! Voicing criticisms of
System Restore is one thing but personal abuse is another.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Gerry Cornell]

April

Which one?

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe....seriesHomepage.do?service=UK&SERIES_ID=113430

Do you have an external / removable drive?

My feeling is that you have a 120 gb drive, which gives 111.79 gb
taking account of Toshiba's method of calculating your drive size.
Some systems have a hidden system partition. I am not sure whether
this applies to Toshiba.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Edward W. Thompson]

I note you did not voice your concerns re personal abuse when your colleague
Bert Kinney indulged. Nevertheless I do agree with you, perhaps your
remarks are also directed at Mr. Kinney .

 

[Gerry Cornell]

April

I cannot say whether you have correctly identified your model. There
will be differences between models for the North American market to
those in Europe. The power arrangements differ. One reason why
electrical appliance purchases should not made in the US by a UK
resident is that when things go wrong you have no redress..A cheap
bargain can quickly become expensive refuse ( trash ).You need better
information to make the comparison.

This freeware programme is excellent for getting information about
your computer:
Everest Home Edition (freeware)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

Tip: To copy select Report, Quick Report, Plain Text, highlight
required text, right click and select copy. However, whilst this is
fine for posting small amounts of information into newsgroup messages
longer reports will irritate other newsgroup subscribers.

You haven't responded to Walter Clayton's request for further
information. You need to respond to get him to analyse your HijackThis
log. Tell him about the unexplained pop ups and that you are unsure
about some of the entries in the hijackthis log.

R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - - (no file)

O2 - BHO: MyWebSearch Search Assistant BHO -
{00A6FAF1-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} - C:\Program
Files\MyWebSearch\SrchAstt\7.bin\MWSSRCAS.DLL

O16 - DPF: {1D4DB7D2-6EC9-47A3-BD87-1E41684E07BB} -
http://ak.exe.imgfarm.com/images/nocache/funwebproducts/ei/SmileyCentralFWBIniti
alSetup1.0.0.15.cab

BTW there are a lot more dubious entries.

Say you tried an automated web analysis of the log and you were
worried by the answers and unsure what to do for the best.

I am not sure that the system restore problem is necessarily related
to malware. Something system wise could be confusing System Restore.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Gerry Cornell]

Edward

http://symantec.atgnow.com/consumer...estored&resultType=5000&mini_version=nis_2006
if link broken
http://snipurl.com/index.php

Draw your own conclusions as to why Microsoft's System Restore is seen
not to work when it is needed?

BTW this page was either added or updated yesterday
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/error.html

Bert deserves a lot of credit for throwing this Article buried in the
Symantec Knowledge Base more visibly into the public domain.

I suspect many users of the related Norton products were unaware that
they had to carry out the procedures described in the Article to be
able to restore to a previous time. You might also ask why Symantec
cannot write their software to recognise an operating system function
about it's lawful business and to allow it to carry it out without
hindrance! System Restore has been part of Windows XP since it was
introduced in 2001 so Symantec have had plenty of time to evaluate how
it works and to explore how to tailor their products to work with it
and not against it!

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Gerry Cornell]

April

I think Bert Kinney may have now uncovered the reason why System
Restore did not work for you!

http://symantec.atgnow.com/consumer...estored&resultType=5000&mini_version=nis_2006
if link broken
http://snipurl.com/index.php

This page was either added or updated yesterday
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/error.html

Bert deserves a lot of credit for throwing this Article buried in the
Symantec Knowledge Base more visibly into the public domain.

I suspect many users of the related Norton products were unaware that
they had to carry out the procedures described in the Article to be
able to restore to a previous time.

BTW don't try to restore to a previous time now as too much water has
flowed under the bridge. However, you will know for the next time.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Gerry Cornell]

April

Save the report as a txt file or as a word document. Open with Notepad
or Word. Select the required text and copy and paste into your
message.

It's evening here and two of my four grandsons are going to bed in the
next room <G>.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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