dbminter

I'm a big picture kind of guy. If we have the ability to take over Nero, why not take over Microsoft first? If we start off fixing the big end and all of its problems first, then, it will help trickling down to other software.

I was wondering if at some point in the future we might have a create folder option for the Build mode? I realize that may not be something to be offered until, and if, there ever is a "GUI" based implementation for Build mode, e.g. such as Nero. But, in Build's current configuration, I was thinking something that could be done was a create and then navigating into that folder as the windows main view. Then, Browse for a file works the same way. Or, use a + type of tree display, highlight a folder that is created, then any actions such as create further folders, add further files, etc. are added into that highlighted folder.

Okay, installed Sandra... NOW what. Lots of options.

Nope, wouldn't be any good. I would be actively trying to influence a negative force which I had no hand in directing my way into a positive force in my favor. Not only would it fail miserably, but, the cosmic balance would detect the attempt, go "THAT FUCKER!" and send a Ting Effect my way. (Ting being that sound you always hear magic wands make in TV, etc. when they touch something to affect them.) TE's are also known as God Problems. Makes perfect sense. It's you and not me. You know? That I did not know. Is that just USB 1.x or also USB 2? I can't think of when I've ever actively done this, but, I would think I have before. They may have queued, but, never failed. Okay, let's see what it has to say here in a bit.

What the Hell are you talking about? That it's somehow swapping USB for Bluetooth?

Well, that's not entirely what I'm seeing. While that icon does appear in the Notification Area, no window that says that pops up. What I entered is what comes up when I double click on the icon that appears.

I dug up my USB 2.0 PCI card that I haven't used in like 4 years. Belkin. So, anything I should know? e.g. this card is so old it doesn't have X? Why I don't go out and just buy my way out of the problem is I'm broke. Plus, if I don't give up enough "sacrifice" to the forces that be to make it worthwhile for them, then, going out and buying something to fix the problem won't work. This thing that is "breaking" replaced something else from last year. As for USB 2.0 Root Hub in Device Manager, no, unless it would be somewhere else other than under Universal Serial Bus controllers. I don't have any USB 2 hubs connected. Which also made me wonder about the message. Unless they consider the internal ports as hubs. Which, with these fuckers, you never know. I do have a USB 2 hub I got with the PCI card, but, it's not hooked up at the moment. There IS an old USB 1.x GE hub attached, though. BUT, I am connecting the USB 2.0 drives directly into ports on the back of the PC. No hubs.

OKAY... I connected the drive up to the front ports with a different cable. GOT get the same old message as before! I HADN'T gotten it before on the front ports, I don't think. I can't remember anymore. Fuckers! Still got about 27 KB/s I/O Rate, though. Anyway, the message that comes up is: HI-SPEED USB Device Attached To non-HI-SPEED Hub I think what I'll try next is to see if it's any of the other USB devices next. Just disconnect them ALL and connect them one at a time, disconnect, and reconnect them and check.

Ran HDDT on the other USB 2.0 drive (Well, at least the USB cable connected to it says USB 2.0 on it. It's a weird beast, has a large alligator type clip on the end that connects to the drive.) and though it, too, did not finish its read, it was at 31,6xx KB/s I/O Rate. BTW, I am guessing this is what is meant by benchmarking the drive with HDDT? Running a Verify on it and checking the I/O Rate? So, according to this, am I to infer that the USB in this machine actually is not high speed at all? Somewhere, I had a USB 2.0 PCI card for my last PC, since that machine was made in 1999. I may try inserting the card and running the tests and checking. In the meantime, anyone else have a suggestion I try next?

Okay, the Verify hasn't completed yet, because it says it will take another hour and 20 minutes to finish... after running for 15 minutes... where it said it still needed an hour and 20 minutes. Device: [0:0:0] HDS72251 6VLAT20 (R:) (USB) Device Sectors: 321,672,960 Device Size: 164,696,555,520 bytes After 28,xxx,xxx,xxx bytes, the I/O rate is at 28,3xx KB/s In terms of practical application, though I never let the jobs finish, Windows said it was going to take 50 minutes to copy an approximate 4 GB MDS/MDF file from the USB drive to the SATA drive. ImgBurn said it was going to need the same amount of time to burn the image to a 4x DVD+RW. However, ImgBurn was never able to get beyond a little over 2x because of the USB drive being in use. The access light would be on for a while, go out, and the write rate would drop to 0.0x while ImgBurn was waiting for the drive to stop thrashing. Now, all this seems to me to be a little slow. However, I ever actually benchmarked any of this before. Should these values be of concern to me about this drive?

I was wondering if HDDT might be able to help. But, I wasn't entirely sure what values I needed to get. Been a while since I tried it out, too. I'll try to remember to try it.

*I* didn't load any, no. But, who knows what the fuck Windows will do on you.

Let me ask. Is the Lite/free version of Sandra going to perform these benchmark tests? Don't want to waste my time otherwise. Thanks!

Yeah, I know. Normally, I wouldn't be worried about that, but, this is the first time this drive has started doing this. Making Windows say this, so, I'm a bit worried if it's the bridge or what. I swapped out the drive into another enclosure, and did not get the bitching. I also DIDN'T get it, for a while, AFTER putting it BACK in its normal enclosure. The problem also disappeared for a while when I swapped out the USB cable, too. But, it came back. SHEESH!

I admit it. I'm at my end here. So, I'm asking for anyone's help here. First off, how/what can I use to determine if a USB drive is running at high speed or not? I need something that can actually TEST this, not just fucking Windows saying so. Because, save for the two front ports, no matter WHAT port I'm using this USB external HD on, if I turn it off and back on, when Windows detects the drive, it claims I am connecting a hi-speed device to a low speed port. So, I need something to actually run a read test on that can tell me if it's actually running at hi-speed or not. IF there's even anything that can do this. At this point, I'm so tired of it all, I think I just need to do what I've always done. Since there never was a solution a guy like me can get, just to junk it and try to buy something else to replace it, I suppose.

I was STARTING to. But, here I am, conflicting FAT versions later, and I still can't get anywhere with that external drive.

Maybe the shuttle is larger on the inside than it is the outside? The Daleks did have that technology in The Chase. Remembrance is a favorite of mine. It works in so well past Dalek history together. I like McCoy. He rolls his R's a little too much but, other than that, I don't have a problem. Resurrection was a disappointment for me. Saward is highly overrated, IMO. While he did craft an excellent story with Earthshock, I've yet to see any other of his that were any good.

Wow, that's FAR sooner than I expected!

Well, DID you?

Wow... that's creepy... I had JUST found that file saved in my download directory... without any idea where it came from... and then it showed up in this thread...

Oh, no. Never, never leave yourself open like that.

After testing with my system since I need to restore it back to basic system install level, there are two keys at play here. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg The first is the key that actually runs things. The 2nd is apparently just the text for the fields that MSCONFIG displays. Meaning, delete the 2nd and not the first and though the entry disappears from MSCONFIG, it still runs. Just check Task Manager. Delete the first and not the 2nd and the entry does not run and does not appear. Also, it appears that the 2nd key is used for any unchecked entries in MSCONFIG so they can be rechecked and enabled again later.

Don't give Shamus any new picture ideas!

Decided to go for a wireless mouse since the cost difference was only about $5. While it does mean that I will have to replace batteries in the mouse, it is still easier than cleaning mice balls. :& A few things got better, a few that were worse. The scroll wheel wasn't notched, so, I won't get any of those annoying not quite there clicks. And the screen rolls up and down back and forth quickly. With a smoothly scrolling wheel, that shouldn't happen. But, will probably break down sooner. The Back and Forward buttons for web navigation are now on the left side, which is rather idiotic! Plus, they don't always seem to work. Back also seems to be the bottom button, which makes sense if you remember Up and Down swapping for Forward and Back. I'd have done things differently, but, I usually would. My way is called better.

Well, there are the mind altering subroutines that make you want celery, corn, wombats with Tweety waterwings to engage with necrophagic sex with mice...