bill777

Thanks, enoskype Yes, I probably should bring that ASC up to date, just that I usually have that box off line. That said, I'm not going to test to see if it's been fixed, and risk another overnight-or-never boot time. I'll leave it to the ASC team to do that. Maybe my post will help someone else resolve the 'extremely long vista boot time' problem, though.

Vista 6-hour boot time resolved I recently 'tidied up' a lot of old/empty files, then suffered a horrible few days of not being able to boot into Vista, giving up too soon, or just letting the thing soak for hours at the blank booting-up screen (I hate not seeing verbose progress; you don't know where it's stuck). If I left it overnight, sometimes I'd be greeted with the log-on screen by morning. Then sometimes, further problems, like a freeze requiring another re-boot.... Then a little on-screen complaint panel from IObit, just after logging in, the kind you half ignore & get rid of as a reflex, about "couldn't find logfile" provided the clue. (Sorry, can't recall the exact message.) It seeems that overly-aggressive tidying (removal) of an empty file where the IObit logfile should go was causing the problem. Sure, IObit would set up a new log within the container file, but since the container file itself was not there any more, IObit didn't think to set one up on its own. Instead it just sat there waiting for an answer from a user who couldn't respond because he didn't have a screen up yet because this was still in the boot sequence. Until some timer eventually overflowed & crashed it, I suppose. :roll: I'd regard this as an ickle fault in the logic. Anyway, I re-defined the missing file, and WEY! 4-minute boot time, no probs. Quite an old IObit version 3.4.1.685 here, though. I wonder if it's this has been fixed in the interim?

Which brings me to the real reason I'm here.... Something is making my laptop very slow. In looking for a culprit, I notice that SuperSmartRam generates an enormous number of I/O reads (for very few writes). Is this normal? It's only about 4 per second, & I suppose that shouldn't really affect performance, but it just seems a bit odd. I considered re-loading the module, but I'm not sure how. If I try to get the latest version, I'm just told I already have it. What if it has been corrupted, though?

oh, for Heaven's sake... Secondly, don't you think it could be made a little less awkward to make a new post? :-? To get here, I had to try out 'User CP' (sheer guessswork. What does that CP stand for? Not exactly clear, is it?) 'New Posts' doesn't help, really. I think maybe you mean 'recent' posts. Who knows? Then instead of a nice, explicit button saying 'make new post', one has to generate a 'reply'. What is your native language, then? - this usage just doesn't work in English. Geekish, maybe. Or is George W Bush working there now? :roll: Anyway, if you want to inspire any confidence in your outfit, perhaps you might try to get these basic things right. I shall now be holding my breath .... :mrgreen:

forum search seems accidentaly configured to search entire web Firstly, your 'forum search' seems, no doubt through some oversight, to have been configured to search entire web, rather than the forum. Hence, well, it's a massive waste of time for everybode here. :? Do you think, perhaps, that you could correct that? I'm sure everyone here would be grateful...

Thanks. ASC is saying I'm up-to-date, so I can't re~create this circumstance 'til later. Got the dbd file, though (what do you read/edit those with?) I don't like to use IE; "Even though my Firefox is running nicely" , as I said earlier. Am I really being too awkward in asking that your product shouldn't depend on IE? Firefox is quite widely used, you know. Would any of this affect the lack of a report of the update? (looking through past stuff on web, it's not a new problem...) Kind regards, bill

ASC update, or log, or connection, or permissions problem I'm getting a repeat of the old problem, that IObit ASC seems to update, but doesn't. Or maybe does. Who knows? I've just installed 3.4.1., the problem persists. Several times, I've started IObit SysCare (logged on as an admin), clicked update, it has said it has found something, seemed to download it (v. quick), but then gives "update failed" message, with no further detail. However, it is now saying that I do have the latest version. I just don't really believe it; If I look at the log (from the I0bit panel), the latest movement was dated 23/10/2009 (despite my upgrade just now, 29nov9) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Also, the "news" panel has some obscured refusal to find a webpage, "(I) navigation.. |" as if not connected to the net or blocked. (Even though my Firefox is running nicely.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It occurs to me that I may have a security/firwal/brain problem, but it is unclear to me from your documentation, exactly what resources/settings IObit SC requires. (I've got Kaspersky & W*****s firwal, but not 'security center', with IObitUpdate.exe enabled, as far as I can see. What is the IP:port that IObit wants to use?) Do I have to set the proxy - I have it blank - or does it default? (Where's the documentation for that?) Kind regards, bill

broadband network speed has been drastically slowed. ###### I hope this is the right place for a new post. It seems non-obvious. ######## I first noticed this after optimizing the net for firefox, using Iobit for the first time. Internet speeds are now often at dial-up levels = - ( My router initialises at near 4 Mbps (ie pipex 'up to' 8 meg) but only 500Kbps of this reaches the speed test on my laptop. This system is Vista hp, (on 1.66 C2duo, 2g ram etc, etc.) What do I do now? Kind regards, bill 777