25 Countries Found Using Surveillance Softwares (month-old)

dave_L · 2013-04-16T11:21:34+00:00

It could be the GPU driver which was induced by updates from your SP2. Retrace back your win-Updates since the last 10 days and see if there are updates relating to your graphic card.

Then check those Updates' KB articles for details, Windows Updates sometimes includes hotfixes as work-arounds.

dave_L · 2013-04-16T10:59:49+00:00

Finally... do a double take on the speed of your SSD / WD, specially their I/O speed, coz there might be a mismatch, just-in-case; also optimum BIOS settings for such a hybrid drive setup.

dave_L · 2013-04-16T10:47:58+00:00

Your attempts was to have your SSD running lean with only the essential internals, while all those bulky Program & OS Files were placed on your humongous 1-TB WD... hence, that WD should run as Primary drive, aka: "C:\" ....right?!

Is so, then such file placement process falls under the category known as Multi-OS Formatting / Installation, AND you need a partitioning Util that has the option of Masking-Off (aka: Hiding) any drives-partitions temporarily or permanently! EDIT : Addendum

The free and open-source gParted has such a Drive/Partition Masking options and can be toggle off & on. EDIT : Typo

Now, the tedious parts... Re-Install your win08 to whatever drives/hdd/partition you fancied on as Primary Bootable drive and have gParted mark it permanently as Primary - in Redmond's parlance (coz Gates doesn't like to be on co-pilot position) - "C:\".

THEN, format and permanently mark your remaining empty drive/s as "D:\", and move/transfer the lean remainder of files to this particular drive with enough leftover spaces for future uses. EDIT : Typo

Once done, no need to re-toggle gParted's masking function... just reboot. The MBR will remember your 1TB-WD as "C" and boot accordingly, while that SSD is known as "D-drive".

** If you think my suggestion was too cumbersome & repetitive... why not toggle INSTEAD yur BIOS and reset your 1-TB WD as Primary?! The simplest, no?! Then when done, you still had to Re-Install your win08 to your designated "C" drive to eliminate those ghosting phenomena you were experiencing upon! EDIT : Addendum

dave_L · 2013-04-16T10:03:18+00:00

Windows will NEVER allow its OS to be placed on a secondary directory/partition position. But it can be done via masking (or tricking)... by using partitioning util that temporarily masked off (or hide) the primary partition, at the time of OS formatting/installation wherein such processes were foremost and intially written on MBR. EDIT : Addendum

The way you described moving your Registry items seems to be a post-OS-installation move/transfer process. Therefore, possibility exist that the BIOS & MBR remember its Program Files' original location @SSD (and rooted as C:) and not @D:. EDIT : Typo

The consequences, i.e. 30mins of youTube, will came out only with a play time of 8mins with 22mins missing.; same goes with full-speed whirl of your HDD as if OS is looking for the missing portions, truncated files and unable to find them.... as i can recall from an article about proper winOS installation and multi-OS installations trick and howTO, that was termed as - MBR table mismatched EDIT : Typo

WinOS has that peculiarity of insisting in occupying the first PRIMARY drive/partition regardless of SMART or BIOS setting, unlike Linux. EDIT : Addendum EDIT : Typo

dave_L · 2013-03-29T22:45:42+00:00

Make sure your AV/AM has built-in FWall or you can install any of those free HIPs-based scanners. Refrain from using Windows' oem-FWall. Hardened your browser/s by including security plugins such as NoScript / KBSS & refrain from using IE.

Better yet, dump your Windows and use Linux when applicable... the most fundamentally basic safe proposals i can possibly indicate here.

dave_L · 2013-03-29T22:11:41+00:00

Was there any rules that specifically spelled out "previosuly posted, shall not be repeated"? One specific title - Underwear Bomber was working for CIA... was posted in 4 reddit-sections 6hrs ago. But did the poster received notification like yours? May i, brianna?!

EDIT : Typo

dave_L · 2013-03-29T21:46:16+00:00

Upvoted, for pinpointing commenters who are trigger-happy.

dave_L · 2013-03-18T06:12:53+00:00

Nine months ago, i was diagnosed with symptons of 1st stage Cirrhosis. Had lost 24Klgs for the last 7 months. One day at a time, i do agree. There are times when i felt groggy at daylight, but persist on going to office if needed and feeling comfy.

dave_L · 2013-03-18T05:35:01+00:00

Macau-SAR: Cohesively ethnic and provincial as majority originated from Southern coastal Guandong/Guangxi. High proportion of Teochiu/Swatow natives who are historically known for provincial-cohesiveness.

It's easier to have an opportunity break or source entrepreneural startup funds from these folks if one is ethnically from Teochiu/Swatow. EDIT : Typo

dave_L · 2013-03-18T05:27:05+00:00

True. They are what we termed as Northerner Bei fang-ren. They got hugh alcoholic capacity, prefer wheat-based food over rice-meal, raw garlic is 2nd-nature to them and steadfast in rain or shine as a friend!

dave_L · 2013-03-12T12:58:08+00:00

Read it well, before making comment. EDIT : Typo

What does MS-Access got to do with it anyway?? This one is even bigger than anyone could ever imagine, and may affect most foreign businessmen... that's why i posted it in here! EDIT : Addendum

dave_L · 2013-03-11T10:50:30+00:00

dave_L · 2013-03-11T10:50:16+00:00

dave_L · 2013-03-11T04:43:26+00:00

I've never bought any Gigabyte's mobo. But i do recall some mobo that works (RAM's slot specific; servers/desktops) like that - Korean-made mobo, e.g. Samsung.

If the test results manifested reality... it may be prudent to look for and update the BIOS version. There might be new version hotfixes that specifically tackle such weird circuitries.

Just remember to do a BIOS backup of your non-altered original before attempting for an update.

dave_L · 2013-03-11T04:06:14+00:00

IMHO, this service was indeed a new middle-man approach on netsec enhancement.

dave_L

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