Thanks .

Having trouble downloading something. My antivirus was uninstalled, had to install it again, but it won't install because there is an error with javascript. I followed the link supplied by the antivirus error message, which told me to download js again. It won't work because "not enough storage is available to process this command". I googled this, and the way to solve it seems to be through something about changing the "IRPStackSize value". I have no idea what the fuck this is, but the same website makes it clear that this method leaves you pretty vulnerable to viruses. Thing is I have no antivirus on my computer right now, if that even matters, I have no idea exactly how risky the method recommended above actually is, and quite frankly, I'd be terrified of fucking up my computer or something. Has anyone had such a problem before? Has anyone done the above?

Not enough storage? ... Did you check if you had some room on your hard drive? Go to My computer, and right-click to use the 'Details' display. Or right-click on your hard drive and hit properties.

Also... what is the antivirus you're talking about? There are a lot of pseudo-antivirus out there that are actually viruses... The fact that it gives all these errors and tells you to reinstall something sounds fishy to me.

Honestly, if you ever need to change the IRPStackSize value, whatever it is, it means it's time for you to format and start clean again.

There is plenty of space on the computer. That was consistent with the other cases involving this problem, at least, the ones i found, that there was space on the computer, but the error still showed up. The antivirus is McAfee.

There's this issue with a lot of my programs that I've been noticing where the longer I leave them on the more memory it takes.

For instance, I'll open a firefox window and it'll be normal at around 15,000 k. Give it 10 minutes and it'll gradually soar up to 141, 556 k like it is right now. There aren't any other firefox windows open and I'm not streaming anything, so why the fuck is it so high? This has only happened recently and every time I literally have to go into task manager, click "end process" and completely shut down firefox, and then open up a new window.

Help from MA?

Nearly 60% of my videos got corrupted when I transferred them from my External HDD to my another External HDD...
The corruption was kinda scary/stupid, what happened was that the contents of some videos overlapped with other videos/mp3s/ or not viewable (the video is there showing the file size, but can't be viewed)
Anyone knows what's going on here & how to prevent it?

Firefox ... live with it. Use google for fixing the memory leaks of Firefox; a common problem. It has become annoying since 3.5 RC1.


hard to say ... there could have been a hardware error on the first disk and the computer had problems in transfering the data.

check if the first harddisk is ok.
What you can do is copy entire partitions and keep the logical connections in the cluster. There are programs with which you can do this.

I use bitcomet to download and i downloaded all of Human Weapon (something I was highly anticipating) and it finished but refuses to play. When you look at the file tag, it's avi.bc, which is a file specific to bitcomet which means it didn't finish downloading. Furthermore I've tried restarting the download and hash checking and it will climb to 100% then disappear to 0% yet still download at horribly slow paces and never go past 0.0% (even says 0 of 5.5gb downloaded in the more specific info).

anyone got any good ideas? the idea of redownloading this makes me angry.

This is more of a question than a problem, obviously.

I just bought my first external USB hard drive. It's a 1 Terabyte model from Simple Technologies. I see no cautionary stuff of relevance in the brief documentation, but I've noticed that a lot of people only really use their external drives for storage, even going so far as copying data onto their internal drive(s) if they want to manipulate it. I mostly plan to use this drive for media, and aside from playing, I might also do a bit of select file sharing with the data on that drive. I know that USB is a little slow compared to a good internal SATA conenction, but that doesn't concern me much...I'm mostly wondering about the wear and tear on the drive and if these sorts of models tend to expire quickly and that's why people often just use them as storage or backup devices only. I thought I'd put most of my media on the drive and use the internal for applications, stuff being recorded, etc. I filled up about a quarter of the drive yesterday and I noticed that after being on for a few hours it was quite warm ... not hot or anything, but I wonder what a lot of spinning and read/writing might do?

Pretty sure the speed is the reason why they're mostly used for storage. Running a big game from it would probably take a lot more time to load.

Anything "portable" can wear out faster, simply because it's subjected to more physical abuse and thermal shock.

Personally, I think they are best used for moving large quantities of data from one PC to another, which can drain network resources.

I also use a few as portable support servers, storing program installers and service packs, etc. I do use them to back up client's files, mainly because it's faster and larger than a CD.

For long term storage or Archiving, I think a CD or a DVD is a better choice, because if the external hard drive dies, you may not be able to get the data back.

I can't download ANYTHING. For example, I went to Megaupload and tried to download a file, but after it finishes downloading the file isn't saved anywhere on my computer. The hell is going on?

Maybe it is saved to a flash drive? Check your download options for the selected path, then search there.

I have seen people play jokes and route all downloads to the Recycle Bin.

They do get rather warm. It is a good practice to give them a 'breather' every hour or so. In terms of damage, I wouldn't worry about it. If you have the drive with a slider that exposes the USB connection you have less chance of getting dust/grit in the port, which can be a pain in the ass. If you do not have the sliding mechanism then it should have came with a little plastic cover - that is essential when the drive is not in use.

In terms of durability, it should last a long time unless you use it for "other" purposes and/or have children that love to play with things.

No such problems. The files literally say they've completed the transfer, but are nowhere to be found. All my internet security options are set to allow file transfers as well - nothing that could be stopping it is disabled from what I can tell.

Thanks a lot. Ah, I didn't see any such slider, but I'll look.

Sorry if this was posted earlier in the thread but have any of you Firefox users encountered the glitch where you can't copy and paste, ANYTHING!!!!

It's really fucking annoying.

The only solution i've found is run it in safe mode. But then it comes back after a couple of days. Mozilla better be working on fixing this.

an irritation: I keep on getting a c++ runtime error when I open up pro tools (so obviously it doesn't open up, it just closes). This'll be fixed by a quick PT installation, right? Or is there a quicker way of fixing it?

It comes back even when running in safe mode? Also, the fundamental information to supply when asking for help is version number of the problematic software...

Anyway, Firefox have had problems with this in the past. I think there was a few bugs with these symptoms around the 1.5 versions, then there have been issues with certain malign extensions. Try the http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_(Firefox and see where it takes you.

Not having any issues. Just asking a question.

Have any gamers or audio engineers (specifically those who work on computer-based DAWs) switched to Windows 7? How is it?

Oi..I know this is old stuff now and hopefully you've solved the problem, but the previous response is a perfect illustration of why some folks shouldn't open their proverbial mouths when they really haven't a clue. one should hardly ever need to re-format anyway, unless the operating system is completely corrupted. In any case, the IRPstack has absolutely nothing to do with the space available on the hard drive. Rather, it relates to memory resources available to communicating computers. Is your machine on a network? It seems that old version s of Windows have the ddefault stack size set too low.. I'm not sure why a high stack size would make you vulnerable to viruses, but I'm guessing the memory drain would be quite high, so you probably should just increase it incrementally until things start working properly. You can do this in the registry.

Jesus Christ...

Yesterday I bought a Toshiba netbook (NB 200). Each time I connect to the internet, it stays connected for about 1 minute then I have to reconnect, after about the 5th reconnect I can't connect to the internet anymore and have to reboot. I thought it might be a cable problem but I had the same issue at a friend's place last night. Problem with the network card maybe?

It disconnects during downloads mainly - especially with Google Chrome and Ubuntu. Managed to download firefox using a wireless connection.

Any ideas? (Sorry for any rambling/incoherent typing, have a bizarre hangover, no doubt from cheap Chinese booze.)

Why does Myspace tell me I need Flash when I'm on a band page, when I already have it? YouTube seems to work fine. What the hell?

occasionall loading problems when I remember it right. I get this message, when I stop the loading of a band site for instance.

Sounds like a version problem. Sites that don't require the absolute latest version of Flash (like YouTube) will work fine but other sites may need the update.

If you already have the latest version of Flash, try reinstalling.

I just retried visiting Myspace and all of a sudden it's fine. There's some real problems going on with the internet on this new machine, like sometimes with Myspace for example, it can't get onto it, but then when I refresh once or twice, it does.

At the moment I'm also having a problem where streaming videos stutter unless they're buffered 100%, which isn't a problem I encountered before. I even tried turning off AVG and Zone Alarm (which I recently downloaded after getting rid of McAfee) and that doesn't make a difference.

I cannot display the player on My Space anymore. Whatever My Space site I choose, the player is missing every time. It do not appear at all in spite of fact that I have the latest version of Flash Player as it is required. No changes in setting were made on my computer besides the standard maintaining (quick cleaning by way of Sweepi,etc.)
I have had this problem about a week.
Could anyone advice to me? Thanks in advance.

Right, I hope this is halfway coherent:

Semi-frequently, when running Firefox, it will refuse to navigate to any website, not even when I click home. The tabs just get stuck saying “Loading”. When I shut down Firefox and restart again, I get the “Firefox is already running…” message. Attempts to End Process via Task Manager (which only shows firefox.exe as a Process, but is not shown as a running program in Applications) are unsuccessful. Stranger still, nothing happens when I attempt to restart or shut down the computer via either the Start menu or by Alt+F4, so I have to turn the computer off and on at the wall, selecting Start Windows Normally when prompted.

Another problem is that sometimes, for example when I’m on a website like YouTube or Myspace, the media stutters seriously until it has fully buffered 100%. I have never had this problem before. Also, when this problem is flaring up, if I have Windows Media Player running and I navigate from one website to the next, it will stutter a little, sometimes a lot. Turning off AVG Anti-virus (and disabling the related superfluous add-ons in Firefox), Zone Alarm and Spybot S&D doesn’t seem to affect it. The problem also occurs in IE7 when I try that instead.

I am not sure whether these two problems have the same cause, but it is quite a nuisance, especially the first one. The interesting thing is that the problems have started since removing McAfee and installing AVG and ZoneAlarm instead, though turning them off doesn't necessarily make a difference.

I am running Windows Vista 32-bit.

Go to the folder where the downloads should be being saved and check that show all folders is on under view in the top toolbar. A virus on your computer may be hiding these files as soon as they enter this folder through something you may have previously downloaded.

ive had my computer for about 4 years and never ran any ad/mal/spyware detectors or anything like that. what are the best programs should i run to clean my computer and improve performance?

AVG free is fantastic to pick up the toughest, biggest and trickiest viruses but can be a bitch to get rid of. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is also very good for removing viruses and is a small compact program.

CCleaner is great for deleting shit that you don't need that may have been left over from websites and the like. I removed up to 3gb of left over pointless shit last week after using it. Helps speed up the computer a lot in some cases.

I use AVG. Served me well on XP, not sure if it might be the thing causing problems on Vista.

Question about anti-malware programs. If it comes up with a nasty thing that has gotten into the registry, is it safe to delete it? Because on my old machine, the trojan had gotten into the registry and deleting that made the system highly unstable and required a reformat. That was with Superantispyware. I'm guessing what happened is the trojan was like gangrene.

Not that I've had problems yet but I'm just a massive pussy about doing certain things to combat problems given the catastrophic things that have happened in the past.

I wouldn't delete anything in the registry. Are you saying that the virus program deleted it and it screwed up your computer in the past or that you deleted it manually?

Hm, have you ever looked at the registry? I mean really looked at it? WIthin a matter of two or three years that thing can grow like a cancer, expanding to dozens of times its original size. You should *definitely* delete things from the registry, mostly because applications you install do not clean up their tracks very well and a "proper" uninstallation may very well leave loads of registry keys intact, that now point to nothing. In effect, this slows down your machine because the registry is constantly being searched and tracked, and all those invalidd entries pointing to nonexistent software and the like must still be cycled through. I've used several cleaner programmes and some of them seem to work rather well. Auslogic's Registry Cleaner is the one I have currently installed, and when I first ran it it found and deleted well over a thousand entries (the exact number may have been much higher; I don't remember). The rule of thumb, I think, is to look at each registry key that's flagged as "suspect" (usually meaning that it has an empty value or points to nothing) and see if you can figure out what it might be for. If it seems to pertain to a piece of software you decided was crap and uninstalled three years ago, it's probably safe to delete it. Most programmes will offer to make a backup of your registry in case something goes wrong, and you should definitely take that option, though Windows regedit will actually do this for you as well.

If it's an anti-malware programme that's finding fault with your registry, I would definitely go for deleting what it finds. Spybot S&D is very good, and the resident programme will also alert you to major registry changes as they happen and give you the option of rejecting the change if you don't think it's suspect. Note that an anti-malware programme isn't the same as a registry cleaner; the latter is really for maintenance and "housekeeping", but you should get one anyway....you may be shocked at the amount of crap tha'ts buried in there.

1. This is the wrong forum. Go to one that is specialized in this issue... really.
2. Search for the thing that is supposed to be in the registry.
3. Trojan, rootkit and similar shit: safe your important files and make a re-install. Not only is this a safer way, often it is also much faster than to try to figure out what is going on there.

Sorry for this really n00b question, but I'm pretty poor with computers.

Anyway, how do I make it so that a program can bypass a firewall? The security system I'm using is Norton AntiVirus, if that helps. And the program I'm trying to log in to is Windows Live Messenger.

Thanks, and sorry if this should be obvious.

You need to configure the firewall within Norton, I guess. I don't know anything about how that particular suite works, but I imagine it will allow you to set different regulatory levels for eachh application.. SOmething should actually come up when Windows Messenger tries to access the Internet asking you whether you want the programme to be added to the list of "allowables", so you should see if you can find the option in the firewall to prompt you directly whenever network access is attempted by a new application. It should only need to ask once.

My damn internet slows down like a sloth. It's normal download speed ranges from 50-60kbps, but at the moment, the speed is 4kbps. I called the internet provider and they said that they don't have the problem. I downloaded firefox suspecting that Internet Explorer is the cause but the same thing goes with Firefox. My hunch is that my computer is once again being attack by some sort of virus.

help pls

Windows Live as a whole set of instructions on doing it, but it's all for a different version of Norton than mine. I don't really care that much though. Thanks for the help, anyhow.

Does anyone know of any free iPod-to-PC transfer programs that would allow me to copy all the music straight to my new laptop? So far I've only found trials that allow you to copy 100 songs max.