![]() Why wasn't I told about this beforehand? Again, a simple "things that Windows users need to know" guide would do the trick. OK, Ubuntu can 'see' NTFS partitions, and access files from them, but it seemingly needs a different environment for its own little nest. Researching, I got the impression that Ubuntu can't be installed in an NTFS partition. I don't want to repartition it, and screw up my existing Windows OS, do I? So I didn't even look for any obscure partitioning menu, I just aborted the install, restarted the computer, and fired up Windows once again. I was invited to correct this from "the partitioning menu". I wanted to install on my Drive G, which meant Restarted Windows, to write down a few vital statistics from 'MyĪrmed with this info, I restarted and spun the Ubuntu Installation, and suspecting (but not knowing for sure) that SDA1Įquates to Disk 0, First partition, I aborted the installation and Seized with doubt about which partition to nominate for Both values are correct, they just have slightly differing Windows users buy a 500 GB drive and only see 465 GB reported in 'MyĬomputer'. Sizes in decimal gigabytes, rather than binary gigabytes, and I didn't Part two of my journey in search of lands beyond MS Windows.Ī couple more minutes, the installer looked at my hard drives, and Just stand on a rubber mat before running regedit, eh. Totally safe, if you know what you're doing and take all appropriate precautions. I think registry edits are like mains electricity. ![]() Are you then really surprised if there's a brilliant blue flash, and your house burns down? Suppose your house electrics go wrong one day, and you randomly mess around with your fuse board, and swap a few wires around. I can see where the doubt might be, thouigh. like, you access the USA's military computers and then send the stuff to Wikileaks. To me, hacking is where you break into somewhere where you're not meant to be. It seems some people regard their own registry editing as "hacking" yet I regard it as routine taking-charge-of-your-own-computer stuff. Yet the talk on the forum was about hacking and stuff. To me, the Windows Registry is just a glorified *.ini file - an initiation file that establishes basic parameters. I researched the problem and saw a load of hysteria about registry edits, and I wondered what all the fuss was about. Thing is, CW2 should spin up properly and then allow the "pointers" to be changed - but in actaul fact that appears not to be the case. I'm in the middle of salvaging my data off of it right now. The reason that CW2 couldn't "see" the drive it expected to see was, I'd disconnected it, as I no longer trust that drive. ![]() (They may have fixed the problem on CW3, for all I know, but I regard that version with contempt and never ever use it.) One problem about Cakewalk Guitar Tracks Pro is, version 2 won't launch properly if the drive that used to hold the raw data suddenly no longer exists. I wonder if that Linkey Search thing would also reveal this? Presumably other people have had to look this up before! It's interesting to note that if one types " Any Video Converter malware" into Yahoo or Google search, the autocomplete offers the full phrase in advance of completion. So, more tidying up was required.īy now, I'd wasted THIRTY MINUTES cleaning up after AVC's activities. Thanks, Any Video Converter.įinally opening my browser, I found the Firefox extensions list had been infiltrated, various settings changed, and my preferred homepage altered. Restarting my computer, my antivirus then immediately reported a "suspicious attempt" at changing my system registry. The search icon sends traffic to linkeyproject, a site that is highly praised on one website - and seems universally condemned everywhere else! Any Video Converter are making strange friends, these days, aren't they? ![]() Next, I had a quick whirl on the powerful Hijack This utility and removed several unwanted items. In "safe mode" and after a look at msconfig, I ran Malwarebytes, which reported three intrustions - all OpenCandy, an installer system with whom Any Video Converter is closely associated, and whose reputation (or lack of it) can easily be ascertained in a Yahoo or Google search.įifteen minutes wasted already. Recognising these rather unsubtle signs of computer interference, I cut the power to my machine and set about tidying up any damage Any Video Converter or its bedfellows were seeking to do. And placed an Internet Search icon on my task bar. and it summarily closed my browser without any warning. Invited by Any Video Converter to update to the newest version, I downloaded the relevant installer file. ![]()
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