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Buddahfan

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  1. During the installation process it would be nice to add a check box for "Add Icon To Desktop". This would be especially helpful when you are updating from say v2.1 to v2.2. There should be no need to create a new icon since the updated files are in the same folder.
  2. That has not been my experience. I have and am using software that will delete the old folder if needed when it installs the new version of the software. Most software does not have a seperate folder for each version of the software. When a new version is installed it is installed in the old directory and the update removes all the appropriate files from old version. IMO that is the preferrred method of handling it. Creating a seperate parent folder for each version creates more more problems than needed with an update. Even Windows doesn't create a seperate folder for Windows when you update from W7 to W8 and W8 to W8.1. What it does is move all the old no longer used Windows files to a root folder off the C drive named "Old Windows" With Windows 8.1 upgrade Windows Clean Manager will delete that folder and its files.
  3. Double post but there has been no response to my original post so I will try again here. I use BD W8 Security (boo) as opposed to ASC Ultimate (applause) on three computers. Two are running W8.1 and one is running W8. I just disabled "autorun" on all three computers using BD W8 Security. When I used BD W8 Security to disable "autorun" on the W8 computer IMF Pro gave me a popup message asking if I wanted to allow or block a change to my startup programs. I clicked allow. When I used BD W8 security to disable "autorun" on my two W8.1 computers I did not get a popup from IMF Pro. If fact come to think of it I don't recall seeing any IMF popup to allow or block on my two W8.1 computers since I upgraded those two computers to W8.1 about a week ago. Now it could be that I have not done anything on those two computers before disabling "autorun" that would have generated a popup if the actions were done on W8. However, that seems unlikely since I have installed a number of programs after IMF 2.0 Pro was running on W8.1. My IMF Pro "Protect" settings are identical on all three computers, DOG is turned on and Protect is set to the recommended level.
  4. The installation confused me when it got to the point where it said "You have to uninstall a previous version" or something like that. The only option at that point is to close the GUI or click okay or whatever it said. When I clicked okay it finished the installation but didn't remove all the ASC 6 folders/files. When I read the message based upon experience with updating other software I thought it was just telling me that if I proceeded to install ASC 7 all previous versions would be completely uninstalled by the installer. This was obviously not the case. So I wound up uninstalling ASC 7 using the IObit uninstaller then reinstalled V6, then uninstalled V6 using the IObit installer and then reinstalled V7. All the ASC 6 folders/files are now gone at least under Program Files (x86). As far as CNET goes. I will have to use ASC 7 for a while and then I will think about it.:smile:
  5. Left Over Folders From Prior Versions The installation of ASC 7 does not remove all the old folders/files from ASC 6. This has been a long time problem rarely talked about on this forum. New installations of ASC do not completely remove old installations and eventually this has caused problems as I have posted about before. I remember when I originally installed ASC 6 and after the install there were still folders from ASC 4 and ASC 5. IObit really needs to fix this. ASC should just install in a generic ASC folder under the IObit folder and remove all the unneeded files from a previous release.
  6. When there is a "Fix" indicated the green ball should turn red. This would eliminate wasting time by needlessly having to click to open the IMF UI just to see if a "Fix" is needed but it turns out one is not needed.
  7. Backing up OS and Apps and then having to restore them can be tricky at best especially when it is automatic. There are a number reasons for this but one of them is malware. If you have auto backup of your system or make auto images of your internal disk drive you may very well be backing up or making an image of system than contains malware but was hidden from your AV progam. As a result you wind up restoring malware to your system and maybe don't even realize it. Before you realize it the malware steals all kinds of information and blows out your system again. I recommend against auto backups. Even if you have a good AV product it might have missed the malware. I prefer keeping personal files and copies off the system drive. If I have a major problem I just reinstall the OS. With W8 it is very easy especially if you stick with the W8 hardware drivers. Takes maybe a couple of hours max to get a clean updated system with my basic apps re-installed. Another two to get 85% re-installed and the last 15% I do at my leisure. Bottom line is that I have found re-installing an OS the best way to go if you are having major problems. By keeping my files on a different logical drive and backed up on an external hard drive I never lose those if I have to reinstall the OS. I also keep a copy of the latest installer file for each of my apps so I don't have to re-download again to do the reinstall. Note: With W8 you can do what are called Reset or Refresh. Reset is basically the same as doing a fresh install. When I do a fresh resinstall I always have format the system drive first to make sure it is clean as possible. I don't know if a Reset will format the system drive before it begins reinstalling W8. Refresh leaves too much stuff on your computer and where there is stuff there can be Malware. I doubt I would ever do a Refresh unless I absolutely knew I had a clean system and even with the best AV software you can never be 100% sure that your system is clean.
  8. I have four desktops but only two OS, W7 and W8. W7 was sort of a half house between XP and W8. With XP you had, I can't imagine anyone is sitll using it:lol: to find you own drivers for almost everything. With W7 the number of drivers you had to search for diminished as long as you stayed with mainsteam hardware. With W8 if you stay with mainstream hardware W8 will provide the drivers and a W8 system including a printer can be installed and run wihout the user having to hunt for and manually install any drivers. Driver Booster found one out of date driver on my two Intel W8 systems. Ironically it was an update to the Ethernet driver which I have no need for because both of those computers I am running W8 on are wireless as well as my network printer. On my older AMD systems IDB found several drivers to update. A couple for AMD graphics drivers and one for Realtek audio driver.
  9. Thank you. I would still like to see an access link in the MUI that allows the user to delete a "Block". The blocked items should show the respective processes and app name or URL of the blocked item. Of course the Block-Allow pop-up should show after deleting the blocked item if the app in question wants to use it or modify it again. The user can then just "Allow" if they wish. I would also like to see a audio noticification of the pop-up that sounds after the pop-up appears. I would give the user 30 seconds after the audio sound to make a choice before blocking the item in question.
  10. 1. No auto scan? Not happening here. 2. Still no auto updates on my W8 computers 3. No scheduled scans? 4. No outside indication when the MUI says "Fix". You don't know if something needs to be fixed like an "Update" unless you open the UI. If the auto update and auto scan were working then I wouldn't have to click on the UI everday to see if something needs to be fixed since those are the two may causes generating the "Fix" message in the UI.
  11. Thanks - I had never noticed it before or if I did I did not pay attention to it and forgot about it. Does that tip also affect the time the Allow-Block pop-up will show? I only ask because the default tip time in IMF 1.7 appears to be five seconds which is what I saw when I looked at it. However, the Allow-Block pop-up stays open for longer than five seconds. Thanks
  12. Add three links on the main GUI that a user can click on to see the System, Web and USB blocked items. The link could be put on the word "blocked" beneath each of three. Add an option to the settings to allow for a pop-up when an item is blocked. Allow users to chose whether to show it or not and the length of time to show it. Add a time in settings for the Allow - Block feature pop-up. Allow the user to pick the time to show the pop-up including "until acted upon" or something like that. Make it easier for a user to change an Allow-Block choice after it has been made. A user should not have to go into the log file via Windows Explorer. They should be able to access the file via the GUI That is all for now
  13. I would like to see IObit make Custom scans, savable and schedulable. Even allowing just one Custom scan to be savable and schedulable would be nice. More than one, even better.
  14. Nothing deletes MRU lists like MRU Blaster. It is the Master Blaster of MRU lists.:lol: It even works on W8.
  15. Nice artwork:-) EDIT: by Mel: Thanks Buddahfan! Those particular images were created by Greenshot which is a free, small, light, open-source, screen shot tool. It is very fast and easy to capture, edit, and save images using it... making it ideal for general forum posting. (I can generate, edit, and save an image in usually 60 seconds). Its drawback is the limited editing capacity so it is not very useful for complex screen shots.
  16. :idea: In version 7 how about two update options?:?: One for defintions and one for the program. I would like to be able to apply minor program updates using the GUI rather than having to download and run an installer.:-)
  17. Waterfox is not the recommended nightly download for Firefox x64. Here is the link to the Mozilla Firefox x64 nightly builds. You can clearly see that Waterfox says "unofficial build" next to it. To my knowledge software security companies do not support unofficial releases of browser software. There are a number of valid reasons they do not. Users use them at their own risk. cheers:smile:
  18. Your response here is extremely helpful. I just ran Care ---> Disk Scan on one of my computers and clicked to open the list of info that you are showing in the thumbnail on the far left. I did not know you could see that information after running Care--->Disk Scan. In addition to your post seeing the visual results of the Disk Scan on my computer has helped clarify it for me. Disk Doctor and Disk Scan in Care run step one of three of Windows Disk Scan as you wrote. If the scan finds a problem it then recommends a reboot and at which time steps 2 and three are completed. In addition it is only in Disk Doctor where you can run a step #1 of the Windows Disk Scan on any drive other than "C" That is how I now understand it works. Thanks:smile:
  19. I don't believe so. Disk Doctor scan was way too fast to be the same. It took about 10 seconds tops for the "C" drive without requiring a reboot whereas a normal Windows Disk Scan of Drive "C" always requires a reboot and takes at least 5 - 10 minutes on the same computer. It can not be the same program. It might use one feature of the Windows Disk Scan but it certainly doesn't use all of them that it for sure. Windows Disk Scan goes through several steps. The first scan it does is very quick like the one in Disk Doctor. However, even if Wiindows Disk Scan does not find any errors in that first step it auto proceeds on to do a far more thorough Scan including disk sectors etc. There is no way that Disk Doctor can be doing that in about 10 seconds. Therefore, it can not be the same program in its entirety. The first quick section scanned with Windows Disk Scan can come up clean yet the subsequent scanning in Windows Disk Scan can find errors and fix them. When Care---->Disk Scan tells you that you need to run a Disk Scan and you reboot which is required just like in Windows but not in Disk Doctor that scan takes a lot longer than 10 seconds and time wise is very similar to what it takes to run Disk Scan of your "C" drive when you start it through Windows Explorer. No way Disk Doctor can be performing a Disk Scan identicle to the the Windows Disk Scan.
  20. Full Scan Last Friday I upgraded the Sempron 140 single core CPU that was on one of my Dell 570MT computers. Before the upgrade I was reluctant regulary run a Full Scan in ASCU b1 while I was simultaneiously surfing the Net. I had previously tried it with the Sempron 140 single core CPU and processor usage precentage was way too high for the entire scan slowing down my surfing something terrible. After last Friday's upgade of the computer that had the Sempron 140 single core CPU to an Athlon ii x2 250 dual core I decided to give it a whirl and see if I could run a ASCU b1 Full Scan while simultaneously surfing the Net without any slow down in my surfing. I am happy to report that there was no noticeable slowdown in surfing the Net or in the Scan during the Full Scan. In fact the scan time was now faster even with a dozen tabs open in Firefox than it had been with the Sempron 140 single core without Firefox open. Hardware Configuration: Athlon II x2 250 dual core CPU - This was the only hardware item changed. Everything else was in place when the computer had the Sempron 140 single core. RAM 8GB DDR3 ATI PCI Expess 4xxx graphics card with .5GB RAM --------------------- Pertinent Software - Updated over time. ASCU b1 avast! AIS 7 SAS Pro 5.x IMF Pro 1.6 Windows 7-SP1 x64 Firefox 17.0 b3 with about two dozen extension and another half dozen plug-ins.
  21. I have had both a W8-RP x64 and W7-SP1 x64 not on the same computer, stop being funtional after using Care--->Disc Scan and then rebooting when Disk Scan says to. W8-RP I could not recover, reset, refresh or do a new install of W8-RP after that Disc Scan, which was performed by ASC w AV 2013 and an attempted reboot. Something about the MBR being shot. I eventually solved the problem the long way around by installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from a USB thumb drive and then installing W7 from its original installation disk. I could then have used the downloaded W8-RP file to reinstall W8-RP however I chose not to but to remain on W7 and update to W7-SP1 W7-SP1 Different physical computer than above and not quite the same result. This time using Disk Scan on ASCU b1 my W7-SP1 system could not reboot. It just hung for about 30 minutes in a Black Screen. Finally i decided to try and do a repair, recovery using the original installation disk, That did not work because Windows could not read the external USB HDD which the backups are on. Maybe if I had used the Recovery Disk I created it would have. In any case I was able to do clean install of W7. I then asked Cicely if the ASCU b1 Disk Scan was using the Windows Disk Scan program or was an IObit program that did the actualy Disk Scan. She told me that the ASCU b1 Disk Scan used the Windows Disk Scan program. I then decided to turn off the ASCU Disk Scan option in Care and just use the Windows Disk Scan program which by the way allows you to select a logical drive to scan. (see below for suggestion) This has the advantage of not always having to reboot in order to due a Disk Scan depending on which logical drive you are scanning. If I wanted to I could schedule the Windows Disk Scan of the "C" drive using the the Windows Task Scheduler but I haven't gotten around to that yet. Bottom line is. I don't know if there is a bug in the ASC w AV 2013 and ASCU b1 Disk Scan feature in Care that caused the problems or not. My gut is that it did not but there were actually problems with W8-RP and W7-SP1 and/or the HDD that conflicted with the Windows Disk Scan program that resulted in the systems becoming unusable. Disk Doctor in the Toolbox appears to be a either a different version of the Windows Disk Scan or an IObit program because it allows a scan of the "C" drive without requiring a reboot and runs a lot quicker than the Windows Disk Scan. It would be nice to add a new feature to the Toolbox where you can actually run a Windows Disk Scan on selected logical drives. That way you could run a Windows Disk scan of logical drives that would not require a reboot including external drives.
  22. Question: Why would you live in UTC if your life is not too good there? I would think you would want to move? No Also if you don't mind me asking, what brand of time travel equipment did you use to move into another time? Just having some fun with the words. Meant in a humorous tone:lol::lol:
  23. Thanks That was also during the period when I had a corrupt install which may have prevented the process from being temininated etc
  24. Microsoft had two updates yesterday for W7-SP1 x64. Sometimes this happens where some non-critical updates will miss the monthly patch Tuesday update downloads. Anyway here is the point. I discovered them when I did a scan with ASCU. They showed up under Care--->Vulnerability Fix. On the two W7-SP1 x64 computers that I ran a Care scan on last night ASCU processed them and they were installed. However, these updates required a Restart to configure and ASCU did not tell me after it installed the Windows updates through Vulnerability Fix that my computer required a restart to configure the Windows updates. A lot of Windows updates do not require a Restart but enough do that it makes no sense to use the Vulnerability Fix feature in Care to apply the update if it doesn't tell you that Windows requires a Restart after Vulnerability Fix has completed the install of the update/s. It would be okay to scan for a update that needs to be applied using Vulnerability Fix. Once found it is best then to use the Windows Control Panel to process the update and not Vulernability Fix. Has anyone here ever had ASCU indicate that a Windows update applied through Care--->Vulnerability Fix requires a Windows Restart?
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