On November 21st, I will be starting a new career. Currently, I manage a team of techs at a computer store in one city, where I keep an apartment to live at during the week, and I drive 2 hours back home every weekend where I work my side computer business. This couldn’t last forever, so I had to find work in my home town. Problem is, there simply aren’t enough jobs there… So...
Here’s what’s new in the last few versions of D7 (currently at v4.7.4): General: Del Temp Files function now also does Windows Update temps (%windir%SoftwareDistributionDownload) Repair Permissions time is vastly reduced by combining command line parameters for subinacl (duh!) clicking the X to close D7 will prompt you as to HOW to close D7 (completely, as if using the Close button, or partially as the previous behavior exhibited.) D7 can now prevent system sleep mode...
dSupport v1.3 Fixed issue with not running CCleaner / Defraggler on 64bit systems. Added update functionality to the installer. From now on, all updates will come via the new update functionality. Basically the attached installer will automatically update the dSupport application right off of my website after installation. So each time you install it, you will get the most updated copy.
D7 v4.6.4 now includes special methods related to deleting the reparse point created by this malware on the Tweaks tab > NTFS Junctions. The new function is “Destroy Junction” which will be able to delete the junction point on top of the directory where the malware hides, allowing you to then delete that directory. Haven’t seen this malware before? I’m talking about what some call “zeroaccess” and it can be easily identified because you will...
Never forget DNS! Had this issue recently, where QB literally took 10 minutes to load the default company file. When no company file was loaded by default, QB started almost instantly. Network traffic was nil, and I could access the appropriate share without issue. It took me a minute to add two and two. Note by “server” I mean any machine hosting your Quickbooks company file, and by “workstation” I mean any PC with...
Exactly as it sounds. Outlook freezes for a bit, after 5-10 minutes finally displays “disconnected” from Exchange server. Cannot connect, and any attempt to do so will freeze it up again until it finally fails. No error messages. The Fix: correct the system time! Turns out this client’s system time was set to a MERE 40 minutes into the future. Imagine that – it causes Outlook to freeze up when trying to connect to Exchange....
So I ran into this issue again, (see my previous post here), and again after a TDSS rootkit and other malware removal… but my previous “fix” of taking ownership/permissions of the user’s %temp% directory didn’t work this time. After numerous attempts at fixing the issue with trying to take permissions on various locations suggested in various articles, I gave up. But I fixed it. By “gave up” I mean, I assigned new permissions to...
First, I’ve added the ability to use a whitelist with KillEmAll. The feature is designed for adding your remote support app to the whitelist, so you can run KillEmAll on a remote support session and it won’t kill your connection software (e.g. Teamviewer, etc.) You could use the whitelist for other items, but why? Additionally, keep the list SMALL so it doesn’t impact performance / effectiveness of KillEmAll. Why not just add common/popular remote support...
Today I officially released D7 v4.5 New Features: Inside D7’s internal event viewer, you now have the ability to: Write your own messages to the application event log. CLEAR the event logs, and optionally have then backed up. Backups of the event logs are created as %systemroot%%eventlogname%.evt Backups may be opened and viewed with the Windows’ Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc), they are not plain text. The option to CLEAR the event logs is...
Now the functions that manipulate hidden files, superhidden files, and file extensions, take effect INSTANTLY. Previously, the functions would take anywhere from several seconds to even minutes before the changes were noticeable. I never did figure out why that was – but I did figure out how to force the change instantly, because that other mess was just unacceptable. It left a lot of people thinking the functions didn’t work at all! There’s other smaller news...
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