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#166 Post by Burn_IT »

As always: automatic tools will often cause more problems than they solve.

My advice is by all means use these tools to highlight POSSIBLE problems, but never allow them to fix them. The fixing needs to be done by someone with deep knowledge of the systems.

Coping of data does NOT fall under the headline FIX WINDOWS

I use Puppy to access failed Windows systems, but I will only copy and replace things that I would have done in Windows had it been up and running -and that are acceptable fixes.
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#167 Post by mcewanw »

[quote="Burn_IT":i9ybc5p5]As always: automatic tools will often cause more problems than they solve.[/quote:i9ybc5p5]

The self-drive car will one day be the most common sight on our roads perhaps...
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#168 Post by Burn_IT »

I suspect that will take quite a while and many laws.

Besides if you want to go somewhere and not drive there are perfectly good and cheaper existing ways of doing it.


I also suspect that either traffic will grind to a halt or there will be a lot of problems with whose machine caused the crash.
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#169 Post by cthisbear »

Kaspersky Blog Accuses Microsoft of Unfair Practices in Windows 10

[urlhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/ka ... ws_10.html"http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/kaspersky_blog_accuses_microsoft_of_unfair_practices_in_windows_10.html[/url]



That’s It. I’ve Had Enough!

NOTES, COMMENT AND BUZZ FROM EUGENE KASPERSKY – OFFICIAL BLOG



[url]https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2016/11/10/thats-it-ive-had-enough[/url]



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#170 Post by Burn_IT »

I'm not disputing that, but until I try it I think it highly unlikely.
Do you mean you cannot get it to boot because of EufI or what doesn't work??

I have just tried it and it is fine. I even loaded a quick XP from it.
The tools work from a Windows 10 boot.

I suspect you may have access right restictions, but the same are likely to apply to the UBCD as well.

As I said first, check the boot options.
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#171 Post by cthisbear »

" anyone know a good alternative to Hirens Boot CD.
it won't work on windows 10 anymore. "

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I had a good look and I didn't want to make it too technical
and a turn off when all you want is a fixit.

I also looked at Falcon boot cd to see if they had a fix.

I have turned off secure boot etc and booted rescue discs and on some machines you can't see any drives.
Probably A GPT partition thing.

jmatt on Whirlpool Forums often recommends Lazersoft

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2512901

http://www.lazesoft.com/lazesoft-recove ... -free.html

So try the freebie version.

::::::::

Burn_IT.... "As I said first, check the boot options."

Also for others a youtube no tech user video.

How to Fix Issue Booting to DVD/CD with New UEFI BIOS Boot Order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Ml1IbVp-8

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#172 Post by Burn_IT »

I don't have a machine with the horrible boot enabled and i am not going to turn it on or install it just to test things.
I have all Win 10 running without it (when I want W10) and until MS lose a lot of business by forcing it on me I'm going to be happy not to use it.

It does not actually make things more secure and just annoys the "£$% out of those that have to bypass it to do their job.
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#173 Post by cthisbear »

[b:59893f7a47]VPN For Aussie users[/b:59893f7a47] but may be worthwhile for others.

The Five Best VPNs For 2017

[url]http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/12/five-best-vpn-service-providers-for-2016/[/url]

IPVanish

ExpressVPN

SlickVPN

Ivacy

NordVPN

and read the comments.

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#174 Post by cthisbear »

Good post on Whirlpool.

[b:ec8ea14182]comp froze, rebooted now program won't open.[/b:ec8ea14182]

[url]http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2616699[/url]

Answer from [b:ec8ea14182]sydguard[/b:ec8ea14182]:
" Use Refresh Windows Tool.Follow this excellent tutorial....

[url]http://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-refresh-tool-do-clean-install-windows-10[/url]

And the direct download is in that Windows Central post.

[url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=808750[/url]

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#175 Post by Puppyt »

Thanks for keeping this thread going, cthisbear - it's a great resource :)
Search engines for Puppy
[url]http://puppylinux.us/psearch.html[/url]; [url=https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=015995643981050743583%3Aabvzbibgzxo&q=#gsc.tab=0]Google Custom Search[/url]; [url]http://wellminded.net63.net/[/url] others TBA...

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#176 Post by cthisbear »

Puppyt:

Yes I only post when I see something different.

Of course it's bad form by me having to read my own posts
to fix some computers ha! ha!.

But that's why I set it up originally.
Some links die and I can't help that.

Anyway cheers mate....Chris.

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#177 Post by cthisbear »

Avast Ransomware Decryption Tools Rolls Multiple Ransomware Decrypters Into One Package

http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/av ... ckage.html

:::::::

Ransomware Removal software is here.
+
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/r ... moval.html

Majorgeeks is a safe site.

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Ccleaner kills Mozilla Thunderbird ?

#178 Post by cthisbear »

Ccleaner kills Mozilla Thunderbird ?

Whirlpool forum post.

Apparently there is a big problem with Windows 10 recently.
So back up your email.

I have never ever had a problem with Ccleaner ever,
but this is nasty.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... ?t=2641705

From the same post giving a link to Ccleaner forum.

https://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=48428

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Getting windows to change its boot startup to boot from USB

#179 Post by april »

Hoping Chris or someone familiar with Windows 10 can guide me .

I have a friend with windows on the machine and it will not read my ext4 file system which is a bugger because my movie backup is on ext4.

So I gave her a CD with puppy precise on it and then we tried to change the BIOS in settings to boot from CD first . F10 got us there and we changed it but it did not work.

Doing it a few times I noticed a small arrowhead to the left of the windows O/S entry and I am guessing that's the default indicator and it would not move.

Anyone know how we do this ? Have the password available but just don't know where to go to move default?

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#180 Post by Burn_IT »

You need theWindows Ext4 drivers. They are not loaded by default.
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#181 Post by april »

And where would I get them without the crud thanks?

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#182 Post by Burn_IT »

Does Google not work for you?? I'm not being sarcastic!!!
That is what I would have to do to look them up for you!!
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#183 Post by cthisbear »

ExtFS for Windows® Free

http://www.paragon-drivers.com/extfs-windows

""""""""

How to read ext4 partitions on Windows?

https://superuser.com/questions/37512/h ... on-windows

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What computer specs?

I could Google or YouTube how to beat the bios.

Chris.

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#184 Post by april »

Thanks Chris . yes beating the bios is the important part here.
If we can boot from the CD then I will just boot from Puppy
Do you know what that arrowhead is?
It a HP modern laptop but that's all i know at the minute.
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#185 Post by april »

Burn_IT wrote: Does Google not work for you?? I'm not being sarcastic!!!
That is what I would have to do to look them up for you!!
I started there before I posted here and worked through about 10 different supposed sources and ended up finding a download of Ext2Fsd 0.68 and ran it on a windows XP install I have here ...It told me the USB stick was RAW and did I want to format it.


A lot of those seemed likely to be packaged with viruses and malware . Therefore the sensible option was to ask trusted advisors here who might know a safe source so I can fix my problem .I've dealt with you and chris before if you remember .


So that is what I am doing . I had already got Linux-Reader.exe ready to try but the other one suggested by Chris is one I will try also.(EDIT- I installed all 3 on win97 and none of them worked there. I'll have a go on windows 10 when I can)


However the main part of the question is what is the method to move the default arrowhead ,if that's what it is, so that the USB or CD boots first on a HP laptop.
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