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Hi, I thought Rapidshare had closed. No longer existed. Perhaps its me. Says Rapidshare has closed and "Thanks for understanding". Try JDownloader, it is free and heaps better than Mipony, especially for downloading tubes and everything else of a digital nature. BigBenn

Hi all, I don't come this way often, but here I am again. Spy Emergency is a Netgate Program and you can find it on the internet with a serial, I purchased mine however, it was very reasonable. What I like about Spy Emergency is that it does not interfere with the downloads I make and unpack, whereas I have found that many other antivirus programs not only block you from some of the websites you might want to go to, but also finds the stuff you need inside the WinRar file, to well, you know and kills it off quick. Duh!! I always close Spy Emergency so that it does not detect, well you know, when I am installing new software and then I run it afterwards to clear out any backdoors and spyware I have introduced during the new software setup process (there is always a lot). Deep Freeze (Standard) locks the registry of "C" Drive and if you have partitioned your hard drives D, E, F, G and so on, unless you unfreeze those partitions at Deep Freeze installation, they will remain locked, which you don't want. At Deep Freeze (Standard) setup, you have to reboot your PC and afterwards, you will be asked for a password and you can tick and untick those drives you want to use and those you want frozen - "C" Drive has all of your OS and support programs on it, so "C" is the drive or partition you need to lock and leave all other Drives or partitions unlocked. If you don't put the password in straight away, press down Shift, Ctrl, Alt and F6 together, to open Deep Freeze and then put in the new password and whenever you freeze or unfreeze Deep Freeze this is how you must do it. Deep Freeze makes "C" drive impregnable from anything you download and unpack and install - once you reboot your PC, you will find everything you downloaded to "C" has gone for good. Thus store on "C" everything you use on a day to day basis and download to "D" of a partitioned drive and unpack everything in "D", as both the partition and Deep Freeze on "C", act as barriers for all viruses and backdoors and worms and Hackware, getting onto your "C" Drive - if you run Spy Emergency after unpacking new software to unfrozen "C", you will get rid of viruses, backdoors, etc, before locking "C" and using it frozen and safe. Apart from Spy Emergency, I don't use any antivirus program. Lets face it, when I unpack a file, I want all of the contents to be there, not deleted automatically by the antivirus program I would otherwise be running, if I were not using Spy Emergency. If you look for Deep Freeze Standard in Google, you should be able to locate and download it. With Deep Freeze, I can reboot my PC (and often do) by pulling the power cord. If you do that with an unprotected PC, you might scramble its brains and it won't ever start up again. (I did that once and killed off an unprotected hard drive) By the same token, Microsoft tried really hard to change my Windows 7 OS to Windows 10 on the sly and were not able to succeed - in the end they acknowleged that I was running Deep Freeze and stopped them in their tracks - Deep Freeze is that good. If you want to change back from Windows 10 to Windows 7, I would suggest installing a new SATA hard drive in your PC if it is a Tower or a Desk Top, however if you are using a portable and the hard drive is not easily accessible under one of the screw on covers on the back, then unless you know how to disassemble a laptop, it is currently too hard for me to do (unfortunately). You can download Windows 7 from Microsoft and use KMSpeco to register it, if need be. As you probably know, Microsoft also changed the format of Windows 10, so some older programs won't run any more - I have Windows 10 on a hard drive and can switch from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in 60 seconds, by changing drives and unplugging- plugging in the new SATA drive (2 SATA plugs) You can strip the Microsoft Spyware out of Windows 10 by running DWS.exe which you can download from the internet, however you have to have dotnetFX40 full, set up on your PC (deleting later versions) to do so - download from Microsoft. If you have Glary's Utitilties on your PC, go to the desktop icon and right click your mouse and "open file location", 3rd from top, then send shortcuts to your desktop for Registry Repair, Track Eraser, Disk Cleanup and run the programs after you have finished internet surfing for the day - you will be amazed at how much spyware you strip out on a day to day basis, because while Windows 7 & 10 spy on you, so do your browser(s). If you hover your cursor over the toolbar at the bottom of the page you will get an upright arrow. Right click, go to properties and unlock toolbar (no tick) autohide toolbar (tick) and use small icons (tick) - now you can cut and paste icons from your desktop to the bottom toolbar, which will hide itself until you cursor down to it, when it will reveal itself - helps to move icons from the desktop. As I have multiples of programs on my desktop, I have created new yellow folders (right click on your monitor screen and select new, folder) and put software icons into the software folder and TV check links into its folder, for simplicity and ease of internet use. Hope that makes sense. I use JDownloader to download everything. JDownloader will download tubes, which are TV programs or Porn and "everything digitally" else to your PC, whereas most other download programs won't do this. With JDownloader, you become familiar with which internet storage sites let you download freely, so you go with them - those that don't want you to complete a query to discover if you are "human". You can set the download speed of JDownloader - my download speed is 1.3mbs, but I've set JDownloader to 3.5mbs, so it will always run at its best speed - also change the download folder from "C" to "D" downloads, yellow folder (see below). If you have a Hotmail or Outlook account, you probably can't access it through Internet Explorer or Firefox, so access through Google Chrome, instead. I have downloaded loads of free portable browsers from the internet and as these are portable and don't plug into my OS when I run them, they are so much easier to use and turn off, when I am finished with them. Principally I use IE and portable Firefox and Chrome - way to go!! We are under the hammer here. Some websites I used to go to, have been blocked by a Court Ruling, however if you are looking for a particular show, go to Google and enter it there and then follow all of the links to find new websites, not blocked, to locate and download "from". Hope all of this helps and answers more questions than it raises. BigBenn

Probably a bit late for advice, but when you are installing new software with patches, firstly go down to your antivirus program icon and close it - so your PC is no longer protected, then run all of your new software installations, patches or whatever, reboot and then run your antivirus programs to clear out any Trojans, Worms, or viruses the new patches, or whatever, tried to install. QED. I protect my "C" drive with Deep Freeze Standard and I download and unpack to "D" so I can't infect my OS and supporting software with anything I don't want - doubly protected by both a partition and Deep Freeze. BigBenn

I've got a lifetime membership with Nitroflare, so I tend to rely on downloads from Nitroflare and I don't bother with other paid digital warehouses like Rapidgator - unless downloads are free - or I have to complete a quiz to prove I'm not a robot. BigBenn

I have had the same problem occasionally with non Microsoft OS's that I've downloaded and burned to DVD - sometimes they run and sometimes they don't. I always thought Windows 8.1 was a pig and I got rid of it and went back to Windows 7 really quick, but that's just me. Best way to get an ISO is from here: https://www.winusb.net/articles/download-windows-7-8-10-ISO.html and then use KMSpeco to make it an authentic Microsoft OS and then, use DWS to stop updates from Microsoft and all Microsoft spying on your internet PC activities - however, you will have to install dotNetFx40_Full_setup to run it, even if that means uninstalling later versions to do so. I would say that the OS you downloaded was defective or it was a installation with a clean, new, hard drive - either way, anything below Windows 10 is no longer supported by Microsoft and Microsoft have cancelled all OS Serial numbers to force users over to Windows 10, so KMSpeco is the best solution to that. BigBenn

I transfer everything I download onto 2TB hard drives. one 2TB as my original and one 2TB as my backup, so in the event of a hard drive crash, I have my backup 2TB to rely on and recover and restore my crashed hard drive, so I never lose anything and I don't rely on any cloud services and what that might involve. 2TB is the biggest hard drive size that Windows 7 will "see". Thus, my PC runs with the minimum of stuff on it at any one time and remains quick and efficient, even though my PC's are upwards of 15 years old and originally were supplied with 80GB hard drives, I'm now running up to 1TB drives on them easily. Shortcuts on your desktop which open folders on your hard drive might become corrupted - so why can't you delete them, go to the original folder locations on your hard drive and create new shortcuts to your desktop? I have found that when I use a portable software application and I move the portable software to another location, without updating my shortcuts to my desktop, I have the same problems which you describe - so a new desktop shortcut is a quick remedy. BigBenn

A few weeks ago, a technician installed Windows 7 on a laptop I had, as a good turn (some good turn) and I was damned if I could locate my portable hard drives on it when I connected them to my PC - even installing windows 7 from my own windows 7 disk, did not resolve the problem and I thought my above technician installed Windows PC, was stuffed. However, it turned out to be an easy fix, once I worked out the procedures: Right click Computer icon Select Manage which puts you in Computer Management (local). In Storage select Disk Management Double click Disk Management and you will see all of the hard drives connected to your PC Select the portable hard drive which does not have a prefix (B-Z and add a letter (say H)). When you check your hard drives directory your previously invisible H drive is now available and can be used. Sometimes hard drives clash and your portable hard drive is "offline" - you can see this on the left side of the monitor screen. Just double click on "offline" to return the drive to "online" and over ride your PC's earlier command. BigBenn

Hi, DWS.exe removes all of the Microsoft Windows programs and drivers which Microsoft uses to keep a digital check on your PC's (and those of your clients if it is installed there)including updates, which you would then have to probably update manually, but, as I see it, you then allow microsoft to turn off NAS again, once you update and you would defeat the purpose of using DWS.exe from the outset again, after Microsoft had turned it off once more - I hope that makes sense!! A bit like the fox chasing its tail!! DWS.exe should do the same thing with your clients Windows 10 Home PC's that it does to yours, effectively shutting Microsoft out of the matter altogether, thus your clients would not need to update their Operating Systems to Pro, but stay with what they have got. By the same token, if any of their OS's Serial Keys are blacklisted, like Microsoft did with Windows 7, DWS.exe puts a stop to that and said PC's will run with blacklisted numbers, because the Microsoft check is disabled and the relative PC in question, does not report back to Microsoft to confirm the OS is illegal and thus cannot be used on the PC - there is no need to use any other method to change things back to what you previously paid for. You might check your (and their) antivirus programs, especially if a purchased one. Ideally you want an antivirus program which checks for antiviruses and what have you, on your PC's, but does not impose any command on your software which limits you in the services which you provide to your customers or from them to you and both of the programs I suggested, provide you with that option automatically. I would suggest Deep Freeze, still, if you want to protect your principal hard drive which connects to the internet, against viruses and anything else which it can download from your customers PC's, or any others, bearing in mind that antiviruses and so on, generally attach themselves to software running on the host PC and then piggyback themselves down onto your principal hard drive, in effect spreading across the internet like a disease - Deep Freeze stops that and keeps your principal PC, hard drive, clean - however, if you don't have Deep Freeze on your mirror hard drive, then any updates would go through OK, and you would have to run antivirus programs on your second and backup hard drive (which is not Deep Freeze protected), before turning the hard drive with Deep Freeze off, to update it back from your second (mirrored) hard drive, before Deep Freezing your principal hard drive down again. Perhaps you might suggest your customers PC's also run with Faronics Deep Freeze and transfer anything they download from your servers into "D" drive, after their hard drives have been partitioned, they to turn off Deep Freeze, before updating and then turning it back on again - thus if their PC's connect to the internet, unrelated to you, they and you don't get anything downloaded by them, that neither of you want. By the time I had written the above blurb, it had occurred to me that you were probably doing what you are actually doing, however I thought you might be doing Torrents, which is a health risk here anyway - the cyber crime division of our police are hunting down and prosecuting Torrents users on the basis that software shared from PC to PC is illegal and a threat to the software industry, whereas, a digital warehouse is a watershed between the person who uploads and the person who downloads, with the one not ever being able to find out who the others are (unless a backdoor is included in supporting software like cracks and keygens - which often do have backdoors built in), so it makes every sense to run either of the 2 above programs I mentioned and rip the backdoors out of your OS's and remain clean, whenever you instal any new software, irrespective of if it was purchased or not. By the same token, it occurs to me that the problems you were having, were probably problems other users might also be having, so whilst I was responding to your initial enquiry, I was also responding to all of those other users too and since I am retired and weekends and mondays are often internet quiet, because your weekends follow ours (you are behind us timewise) and it is not until mid week before things start to catch up and I am busy again, this keeps me alive and stimulated and hopefully helping out others who don't really know what to do next. That said, I hope my suggestions work - feedback is always appreciated and 2 heads on the same task are always better than one !! With much amusement, Best Wishes and Good Luck in your financial Enterprises. BigBenn

Hi, It is not my first time here, I've been coming to this forum for years, probably from when you first started up - however, when I started visiting, there were lots of other forums which I used to go to as well, but they have all gone now and cyberphoenix is one of the few remaining, from the good old days!! I was just going through my list of forums I occasionally visit and saw this one was still up and running. Amazing!! Well done you!! Perhaps its the same old thing. A lot of people visit, but few actually donate anything and then, after a while, even that stops and the forum, which previously was healthy and vibrant, just dies, if it is not closed down meantime by "the powers that be". I enjoy providing advice, especially if it helps anyone. Not much point in copying downloads from one active forum to another and whilst I am self taught, I don't understand everything that most of the software I see, does and by the same token, if I don't have a practical use for 90% of it, what is the point of downloading it to sit on my hard drives, unused? Anyway, for the time being, I am here and whilst I am visiting, I don't mind adding my 2 cents worth. BigBenn

Um!! well, where I am (lordy knows where that is) my ISP limits my downoad capability to 1.6mb per second and it does not matter how much I download with my software program JDownloader, my maximum download speed is 1.6mb which gives me roughly 1TB monthly of download capability, if I download 24/7, which obviously I don't. I used to use a program which made my PC appear to be running at full download capacity, with another ISP and for several years I had a much faster download speed, but the ISP eventually cottoned on, probably with some clever software and reduced my speed back to what it should have been and from the outset and did not follow up with me or try for a prosecution, so I quit them while I was ahead and came to this ISP. The reality is, unless you have unlimited downloads speed, you are limited otherwise by your ISP and the number of PC's between you and their server, so that on weekends, for example, the download speed here, is a lot slower than between 11PM and 6AM when most people are asleep.

Use Faronics Deep Freeze and lock your "C" drive while you are on the internet. Get a Ransomeware demand and tell them to shove it, reboot your PC and begin again on the internet, unmolested...secure and free.

Well, I'm not "Big" and my name is not "Benn" and if you can see my footprint, I don't live in Singapore, because I'm using an Anonymizer (to be honest, I thought I was in the USA via it) and apart from my PC info and advice - I'm self taught - I'm not telling you anything else to you about me, because in this day and age - I have been in prison previously for my full sentence of 6 years, my accuser got way with a false identity and accusations (later admitted but not prosecuted) for the Compensation Payout, which I've never had to repay, however, although I enjoyed my time in prison, most of the time (I refused parole) I don't ever want to go to prison ever again for more trumped up charges, but especially if they are PC or internet related. You could say that being open and honest on the internet, is like putting your head in a crocodile's mouth and expecting it not to bite - so why would you and for that matter, why here of all places? Me, myself and I

The above antivirus programs work fine for you, but I found that some of the websites I like to visit were blacklisted and I could not visit them, while I had my antivirus installed, also some of my downloads had files deleted automatically by the antivirus program, which defeated the point of the downloads in the first place. I use emergency Kit Scanner which is free. It is not invasive at all.

Hi, I run Windows 7 and I have for years and I guess I always will......even stopped Microsoft from installing Windows 10 on my PC's with Faronics Deep Freeze. Windows 7 runs with MBI format and Windows 10 runs with GPI which is a completely new format and generally incompatible with MBI, so that, with time, Windows 7 software which runs on both, won't run on Windows 10 anymore - you will probably have to pay for new software which is dedicated to Windows 10. The biggest problem I see with Microsoft is that they tried to switch everyone to Windows 10, underhandedly and without anyone having any say in the matter. You turned on your PC next day and you had Windows 10 on it and some programs were compatible and some were not - tough titty. Why would Microsoft want everyone running Windows 10 anyway? Well, first off, no one really knows what Windows 10 does, but you can be sure that a program which is forced on you, irrespective of its being free, is not there for your health and welfare, so much as Microsoft becoming big brother by default and sharing your internet connection and whatever you do online, with you - probably to be sold off to companies who want to know about internet surfing trends and possibly the Police about what (some) people do on the Dark Net and any other deemed illegal sites, or what the conventions of your country see as socially unacceptable activities to them, which need to be addressed and where applicable, punishments meted out. Remember, what is legal now, only takes a signature by a politician to become illegal and surfing habits which were undercover, pretty much before Windows 10, could easily become legal actions, because of what Windows 10 reports back to Microsoft, from when Windows 10 was installed on your PC's and has been recorded forever in a digital format against your PC's identity number, where every PC has its own identity which is written into the OS when it is installed, so you can't take the hard drive from one PC and plug it into another and run it - take it from me, nothing runs at all - so this is a digital procedure pretty much along the lines of human DNA being different for each of us, but used now to solve crimes which previously were undetectable, by identity, whether human or PC and the digital footprint of that PC and wherever you send it on the internet and what you do there. I stopped using Antivirus programs some years ago, because I found the ones I installed, started taking control of the internet and where I was allowed to go. They automatically deleted some of the software I downloaded without my having any input into that. Since I have always relied on Deep Freeze since the get go, I am protected from all antiviruses and anything else, simply by downloading and unpacking in "D" where my OS and supporting software is in "C" and just by rebooting my computer, I reset it back to its clean state, after I locked it with Deep Freeze. Everything accessing or secretly downloaded to "C" is wiped off. Ok, I've had my winge. What to do about it? When you installed Windows 10, your computers should have set up a System Restore point on each of your computers from the moment Windows 10 was installed, and for each peice of software which you installed on them, so each installation represents a potential System Restore point, which you can set your PC back to. If you did not set up System Restore, then your only options might be to reinstall Windows 10 again, in the hope that NAS is restored, or change the format back to MBI and delete Windiows 10 and install Windows 7 on your computers, while you still can, however, backup all of your files which you don't want to lose, so if the unexpected happens, you only have PC problems and you have not lost the files you can't replace. Move your cursor down to the left hand side, at start and hover it over the blank bar which you can see there and type in system restore and reset your Windows 10 computers back to the time when you had NAS access and after the restore, see if NAS is back. If it is, remove those computers from the internet for the time being. If the system restore did not fix the problem, try an earlier system restore and keep going until you get NAS (whatever that is) back again. With a Windows 7 computer, go onllne and download 3 programs. 1)Faronics Deep Freeze. 2)DWS.exe (which is free) 3) Emergency Kit Scanner [antivirus] (which is free). you can find them through Google or DuckDuckgo, which unlike Google, does not keep a record of where you go online - I use Mozilla Firefox linked to DuckDuckgo as my interent browser. Opera with its VPN, does not conceal your identity or location from the PC's you connect to on the internet, even though it is advertised that they do. Huh. Partition your hard drives (if you have not done this already) so that you have "C" and "D" partitions on your hard drives. You can install a software program to do this, or you can do it via the "format" function within your Windows Operating System itself. The partitioning program will scoop all of your software and supporting files into a partition it will call "C" and free up space which it will leave in a folder called "D", so you won't lose anything, but you can always do a files backup, just to be sure. Download everything from the internet, in future, into a yellow folder in "D" and keep your OS and supporting software in "C". If you right click your mouse on your desktop, while you are in "D", you are given "New" and select "Folder" and while the folder is back hi-lighted, type in the name for it (downloads - for example). Setup your browsers to download to "D" and all downloads, including your download program if you use one - I use JDownloader which is free and since I have 1TB of downloads capability per month (which I pay for from my ISP) naturally I like to get my money's worth - you can see my other posts to get a better idea of options there - give up storage CD's and DVD's in favour of 2TB hard drives is my suggestion. Unpack in "D" and install from there into "C", once you have unfrozen "C". You can setup software in "C" and run it from there whilst your PC is locked by Deep Freeze, however, when you reboot, that program will have been wiped from your PC's hard drive and it will reset back to your original setup after freezing "C". Run DWS.exe and delete all of the Microsoft access to your computers, both Windows 7 (which is no longer supported by Microsoft) and Windows 10 (when you have NAS up and running) and thereafter don't ever update your Windows 10 or Windows 7 programs from Microsoft - turn off the update function and rely on Deep Freeze to keep your PC's safe. You can install Windows 7 operating systems onto your PC's which are formatted to MBI - and Windows 10 to PC's which are formatted to GPI, however they are otherwise both incompatible with each other. You can delete Windows 10 and install Windows 7 on a hard drive, if you convert the hard drive format from GPI to MBI first and before you format your Deep Freeze unprotected hard drive (but use the Deep Freeze installation program to remove Deep Freeze entirely from your PC, before you format it) - and some partitioning programs have this function, however I'm not the full box and dice on the procedures and perhaps someone else on this forum can explain those procedures to us, better than me. Now, run Emergency Kit Scanner (keep it updated - it is not invasive) and find and remove all backdoors, ransomeware, malware, trojans, worms, rootkits from your PC's, in fact whenever you install any new software, always run Emergency Kit Scanner to make sure your PC's are completely clean and once you are satisfied they are, go to the next step. Run Faronics Deep Freeze and freeze "C". You must set a password to lock and unlock Deep Freeze and to access the program, you have to hold down Ctrl Alt Shift F5 or F6 and when prompted, put in your password then select unfreeze (for example) and let the program reboot your PC, whereupon "C" is unlocked and you can add or remove software unimpeded. Thereafter always rely on Deep Freeze to keep you safe on the internet and you don't need Windows 10 or Windows 7 updates or patches, unless you are doing something which requires ultimate Operating Systems security from hackers, but if you do update, then run DWS.exe afterwards to remove Microsoft from your PC's and then Emergency Kit Scanner, before locking the "C" drive with Deep Freeze again. Remember that if Microsoft stopped NAS from working, a new update from Microsoft will probably do the same thing again and you will be back to square one. DWS will keep you safe from Microsoft and whatever Microsoft records from any of its windows Operating Systems and if Microsoft can't reset your Windows 10 PC's so that NAS or anything else, no longer works, as long as Deep Freeze is locked, whenever you are on the internet. By the same token, if you pay for an antivirus program, it is just as likely that the manufacturer of that antivirus has determined NAS as being illegal and stopped your PC's in their tracks - so delete it and install Emergency Kit Scanner, but if you want to pay for a similar program, download Spy Emergency instead and use that instead (I use both). DWS.exe works fine for now, but only for as long as it takes for Microsoft to find some way of combatting it. I have run Windows 7, as I installed it, off the original CD, without any backups for years - using Deep Freeze to keep it secure from online threats and I still do, just as it came off the CD and nothing has integrated with my PC without my knowing about it. Always download from digital warehouses, like Nitroflare, for example - don't share or download from computers online where you don't know who is running them - Government Departments are hunting down people who share stuff in that way here and prosecutions are ongoing - digital warehouses work as a watershed between you and the person who uploaded whatever you decide to download and only the digital warehouse might keep a record of each transaction, but I doubt it, of course, so your footprint remains as safe as it can be online, in this way. Search in DuckDuckgo like this and for example: ebay mens woolen jumpers...and you will get a lot more choices than relying on eBay's search engine. Anything else, the name of a digital warehouse for example: nitroflare emergency kit scanner and follow the links to the download, which you could copy and paste into JDownloader - "start all downloads" bottom right hand corner - set and forget. Hope this all helps......smile......

The reason you might be having problems trying to install Malwarebytes is that Windows 10 is now running with a new format - I think it is called GPT and this format is completely incompatible with any software and games which you probably downloaded and purchased previously. I purchased and i7 with Windows 8.1 already installed and I hated it, practically from the outset, so I decided to reformat my hard drive and instal Windows 7 as I had done previously (MBI format) however I was only partly successful in the reformat and afterwards neither GPT or MBI or any software OS's would run on the hard drive. A Tech wizard, sorted out the problem and returned the format back from GPT to MBI, after which my Windows 7 OS worked fine - several partitioning programs have the ability to change the format to and from MBI or GPT. Anyway, most software still will load and run in both MBI and GPT, but Malwarebytes might be one of those which runs on MBI and not GPT and therein is your problem. I'm staying with MBI. Mostly, computers run slowly because you have lots of software and stuff on them which you never move from your computer onto off computer digital storage, like 2TB hard drives. The more stuff on your hard drive the slower it goes until, with upgrades, it simply does not have the digital muscle to run, or as efficiently as it once did and then you are conned into buying a more powerful computer - which you transfer all of your downloaded stuff to, from your old PC and even before you start using your new PC, you have handicapped it. Not to worry, with the new GPT format, your programs mostly won't run ever again and the problem will be resolved for you by Microsoft, added to which, Windows 10 won't be compatible with any of your MBT formatted software and games anyway. It is a bit like going into a new car franchise and buying a few new cars, then taking them to a garage to fill up and finding that the petrol supplied is not compatible with your cars - you have not upgraded to the car models which will take and burn the new fuel.