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Specifications

  ordered initially

  (28.03.21) replacement of the UPS battery

  (12.05.21) additional HDD 1TB WD10EZEX

Manuals

Booting from a USB Flash Drive

  • The USB Flash Drive can not be chosen as a First Boot Device in the BIOS Setup
    ( Startup screen -> Del -> Advanced... -> First Boot Device ) .
    The available (inappropriate) options for the First Boot Device are: hard Disk, CDROM, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, Legacy LAN, Disabled
  • The option can be chosen for the current boot as follows
    • turn the PC off, insert the USB drive
    • turn the PC on, then
      Startup screen -> F12 (Boot Menu) -> "+ HDD" (entering a submenu) -> Select HDD0

(28.01.20) Increasing the prime RAM memory from 4 to 8 GiB

  • The initial memory , two 2GB Samsung modules (green) (see a module description ) :
    • occupied slots 1 and 2 out of 4 available slots
      (NB: the physical slot sequence is 1,3,2,4)
    • are DDR3 DIMM of 1333 MHz frequency;
    • are one-sided : each module has 8 chips, all of which are located on the front side of the module.

  • The final 8 GB are recognised OK by
    • BIOS
    • OS Windows 7 (side effects: (a) pagefile.sys has grown from ~4 to ~8 GB, (b) hiberfil.sys grown from ~4 to ~6 GB)
    • OS Fedora 18

HDD Status (WD7502AAEX)

  • Status 26.12.20
    • S.M.A.R.T. data by SpeedFan : More... Close

    • Disk status report by pressing the "button" Perform an in-depth online analysis of this hard disk on the S.M.A.R.T. tab of SpeedFan : see here (html)

(13.05.21) Cloning HDD WD750 to WD1000

  • fedora-kde-live 32
    • Initial status of /dev/sda
      (shortly before Wed 12 May 2021 05:32:46 PM EDT -- MSK time - 7h) : More... Close 
      [root@localhost-live liveuser]# fdisk -l /dev/sda > /run/media/liveuser/KINGSTON/dom3/hdd_clone/notes

Disk /dev/sda: 698.65 GiB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD7502AAEX-0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x85dc822c

Device     Boot     Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048     206847     204800   100M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2          206848  195518463  195311616  93.1G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       195518464  196030463     512000   250M 83 Linux
/dev/sda4       196030464 1465147391 1269116928 605.2G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       196034560  556482559  360448000 171.9G 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda6       556484608  556996607     512000   250M 83 Linux
/dev/sda7       556998656  557510655     512000   250M 83 Linux
/dev/sda8       557512704  558024703     512000   250M 83 Linux

  • Hardware manipulations ... Win7
    • move optical disc from SATA3_1 to SATA2_2
    • connect HDD WD1000 to SATA3_1 (WD750 stays at SATA3_0

    • boot Win7 OK
    • boot fedora-kde-live 32 -- boot crashed
    • boot fedora 18 -- seems OK

  • fedora 18
    • The new HDD WD1000 is seen as sdb: More... Close 
      [root] ~ $ dmesg |grep sdb
[    1.469671] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[    1.469674] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks
[    1.469779] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[    1.469782] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    1.469832] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    1.496286]  sdb: unknown partition table
[    1.496772] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

    • sda (the old WD750) for comparison: More... Close 
      root] ~ $ dmesg |grep sda
[    1.466419] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/698 GiB)
[    1.466476] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    1.466478] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    1.466497] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    1.521814]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
[    1.522421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    9.113629] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    9.282750] SELinux: initialized (dev sda6, type ext4), uses xattr
[    9.674649] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    9.719115] SELinux: initialized (dev sda8, type ext4), uses xattr
[    9.800144] EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    9.914618] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    9.924874] SELinux: initialized (dev sda7, type ext4), uses xattr
[    9.980184] SELinux: initialized (dev sda3, type ext4), uses xattr
[root] ~ $

    • fdisk: More... Close 
      [root] ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

    • fdisk sda : More... Close 
      [root] ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x85dc822c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2          206848   195518463    97655808    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       195518464   196030463      256000   83  Linux
/dev/sda4       196030464  1465147391   634558464    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       196034560   556482559   180224000   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda6       556484608   556996607      256000   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       556998656   557510655      256000   83  Linux
/dev/sda8       557512704   558024703      256000   83  Linux
    • I/O sizes (minimum/optimal) are 4096/4096 for sdb, while they are 512/512 for sda !
    • is it a substantional difference?
    • the dd version (from GNU coreutils 8.17 ) at fedora 18 does not have the option "status=progress" -- it is not found in `man dd' .
    • shutdown to try a boot from fedora-kde-live 32 again

  • fedora-kde-live 32
    • boot hanged twice
    • then boot media test was launched and did not pass.
      We had a USB3 card reader (the black one) with the micro card connected to the card reader via a full-size card adapter.
    • the micro card was inserted directly w/o the adapter,
      and the media test passed, and the boot was successful ,
      but ... the session hanged in a few minutes.
    • SOLUTION: replace the (defective!) black usb3 card reader with the white one,
      boot has been successful, and the session lasts ~10' for the moment.
    • GNU coreutils 8.32 is available , and the option "status=progress" is available in `man dd'.

    • Check the HDD WD1000 status: More... Close 
      root@localhost-live liveuser]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD10EZEX-08W
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
[root@localhost-live liveuser]#


    • try to clone sda -> sdb : More... Close 
      [root@localhost-live liveuser]# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress
...
1104364032 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 35 s, 31.6 MB/s 
...
34444691968 bytes (34 GB, 32 GiB) copied, 1186 s, 29.0 MB/s[[3~
...
    • That is very slow.
      • sda has 1465149168 sectors 1 sector = 512 bytes), and 1465149168 = 16 * 91571823 .
        Why not to try to read/write 16*512 = 8192 bytes at a time i.o. default 512 at a time, in a hope of speeding up the copy process.
        This corresponds to the dd options `ibs=8192 obs=8192' .

    • Interrupt the dd copy with ^C: More... Close 
      83970209+0 records in
83970209\>+0 records out
42992747008 bytes (43 GB, 40 GiB) copied, 1484.05 s, 29.0 MB/s
    • And restart the copy anew with
      dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb ibs=8192 obs=8192 status=progress
      -> More... Close 
      [root@localhost-live liveuser]# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb \
                                ibs=8192 obs=8192  status=progress
1255284736 bytes (1.3 GB, 1.2 GiB) copied, 9 s, 139 MB/s
...
13265674240 bytes (13 GB, 12 GiB) copied, 95 s, 140 MB/s 
...
174184603648 bytes (174 GB, 162 GiB) copied, 1294 s, 135 MB/s
...
674069487616 bytes (674 GB, 628 GiB) copied, 5988 s, 113 MB/s
...
750126637056 bytes (750 GB, 699 GiB) copied, 7012 s, 107 MB/s
91571823+0 records in
91571823+0 records out
750156374016 bytes (750 GB, 699 GiB) copied, 7016.21 s, 107 MB/s
[root@localhost-live liveuser]#
    • copied in 7016.21/60 =  ~117 min.

    • new status of the sdb disk: More... Close 
      [root@localhost-live liveuser]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD10EZEX-08W
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x85dc822c

Device     Boot     Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *         2048     206847     204800   100M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sdb2          206848  195518463  195311616  93.1G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3       195518464  196030463     512000   250M 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4       196030464 1465147391 1269116928 605.2G  5 Extended
/dev/sdb5       196034560  556482559  360448000 171.9G 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sdb6       556484608  556996607     512000   250M 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7       556998656  557510655     512000   250M 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8       557512704  558024703     512000   250M 83 Linux
[root@localhost-live liveuser]#


    • The differences from sda:
        sda sdb
      GiB 698.65 931.53
      bytes 750156374016 1000204886016
      sectors 1465149168 1953525168
      Disk model: WDC WD7502AAEX-0 WDC WD10EZEX-08W
      Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 512 / 4096
      I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 4096 / 4096

  • Hardware changes
    • Connect WD1000 to SATA3_0 :
      • remove the SATA cable (connected to SATA3_1 on the mother) from WD1000
      • move the SATA cable (connected to SATA3_0 on mother) from WD750 -> WD1000
      • Disconnect the voltage cable from WD750

    • Now we have the WD1000 (the clone) in place of the original WD750 and are ready to check weather the PC can be booted from the clone.
      (Note: the optical drive is in SATA2_2 on the mother i.o. SATA3_1)

  • Fedora 18
    • boot from the clone is OK
    • HDD status: More... Close 
      [root] ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x85dc822c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2          206848   195518463    97655808    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       195518464   196030463      256000   83  Linux
/dev/sda4       196030464  1465147391   634558464    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       196034560   556482559   180224000   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda6       556484608   556996607      256000   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       556998656   557510655      256000   83  Linux
/dev/sda8       557512704   558024703      256000   83  Linux

  • Win 7
    • boot passed
    • a driver for WD1000 installed automatically , a reboot requested : More... Close
    • reboot is OK
    • the disk view by Disk Management (ru: Upravlenie diskami) : More... Close



    • DVD drive test: OK for playing both "music" and data (mp3 files) CD's
      Reminder: DVD was moved from SATA3_1 to SATA2_2 on the mather board.
      It is still functioning which is good.

  • Hardware changes : disconnect the clone, return the original WD750
    • Disconnect SATA and voltage cables from the clone WD1000
    • Connect WD750:
      • to the voltage cable
      • to the SATA cable, connected to SATA3_0 socket on the motherboard.
    • The DVD drive remains connected to SATA2_2 i.o. the original socket SATA3_1
    • The new (red) SATA cable, connected to SATA3_1, is reserved for WD1000 for copying WD750->WD1000 in future.

  • Win 7
    • boot -> OK .

Windows 7 Home Premium

  1. (07-30.11.11) Shrinking disk C from 750 to 100 GB

  • The procedure (html)
  • the hard disk structure after:
    • a 100 MiB partition for unknown purpose (left untouched)
    • Win7 (C:) : 93.13 GiB = 99999543296 b, NTFS (68.6 @ GiB free, 24.4 GiB used)
    • 605.41 GiB = 650.05 GB of free space

  2. (02.12.11) Setting up an internet connection -- STREAM via modem ASUS AM604 as a bridge

    Initially

Initial status:

modem 192.168.1.1 configured in a bridge mode (since years)
dom (WinXP/RH9) 192.168.1.2 connected to socket LAN2

    Step 1 : "Podklyuchenie po local'noj seti"

Control Panel -> Centr upravleniya setyami... -> Podklyuchenie po lok. seti -> Sv-va -> Protokol TCP/IPv4 -> Sv-va

  • Change "Poluchat' IP-adres avtomaticheski" na (delaem, kak bylo v XP@dom):
    • Ispolol'zovat'sled. adres:
      IP-adres 192.168.1.3
      Maska podseti 255.255.255.0
      Osnovnoj shlyuz 192.168.1.1
  • change "Poluchat' adres DNS-servera avtomaticheski" na
    • Ispol'zovat' sled. adresa DNS:
      Predpochtaemuj 192.168.1.1
      Al'ternativnyj -
  • click OK

Unexpected result: Net name "Neopoznannaya set'" changed to "Set' 2"

    Step 2: Podsoedinenie STREAM:

  • "Nastrojka novogo podklyucheniya ili seti"
    (spontanno vyskochil dialog o sozdanii domashnej gruppu...)
    -> "Podklyuchenie k Internetu"
    -> Vysokoskorostnoe (s PPPoE) (est' al'ternativa "Kommutiruemoe")
    • -> Imya, parol' -- as got from Stream
      • Select "Zapomnit' etot parol'"
    • Imya podklyucheniya (my choice): Stream (bridge)
    • * Razreshit' ispol'zovat' eto podlk. dr. pol'zovatelyam
    • -> click "Podklyuchit'"

Podklyuchenie proshlo uspeshno.

  • Similarly configure a guest STREAM connection with
    • connection name (my choice): StreamGuest (bridge)
    • login, pw (stream standard): guest@mtu , mtu

  3. (03.12.11) Russian phonetic YAWERTY keyboard

  • first a standard YAWERTY layout from http://winrus.com/kbd_r.htm was set up following the notes.
    • see C:\data\Distributives\ru_keaboard_phonetic\kbdru_Y
  • then the "standard" layout was transformed into a YAWERTY version identical to the one from linux package xruskb
    • the conversion was done with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 as described in http://winrus.com/kbd_r.htm
    • three keys have been changed : "CH","HA" and "Soft Sign"
    • the new package is stored in C:\data\Distributives\ru_keaboard_phonetic\ruskbd-yawerty-asLinux
    • it can also be downloaded from ruskbd-yawerty-asLinux.zip
      • this was also successfully used for Windows XP HP @ dom

  4. (03.12.11) Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4

  • it was needed for a creation of a ru kbd layout in item 3
  • setup downloaded to C:\data\Distributives\MSKeyboardLayoutCreator-1.4\MSKLC.exe
  • then installed by running MSKLC.exe

  5. Mozilla Firefox

  • version 3.6.24 installed
  • version 8 has been tried but abandoned for it failed to display correctly the TWISTY material of TWIKI pages
  • 21.12.11 Updated to 3.6.25 (9.0 suggested)
  • 15.01.12 Updated to 9.0.1

  6. McAfee Security Scan Plus

  • installed spontaneously with (?) do not remember what... (together with Adobe Flash Player?)

  7. (19.12.11) Adobe Reader

  • 19.12.11: Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) installed

  8. (19.12.11) EVO + Sun Java SE

  • http://evo.caltech.edu -> trying to start EVO -> message
    • "The required SUN Java SE 1.6 is not installed!
      or the Java SUN Plugin is disabled on your web browser. Please check from the menus."
  • -> press Download Java -> Version 6 Update 30 -> Download -> ...

  9. (25.12.11) SeaMonkey 2.6.1

Version 2.6.1

  10. (25.12.11) SSH Win Client 3.1.0

  • 24.11.13: Trying to fight with the interruptions of connections we edited the configuration file
    C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Roaming\SSH\global.dat
    • by changing 
      Connection Timeout=N:0
      to 
      Connection Timeout=N:1000000

  11. (25.12.11) Adobe Flash Player 64-bit for Internet Explorer

  12. (02.01.12) Opera 11.60 browser

    • Opera_1160_int_Setup.exe downloaded and run

  13. (05.01.12) Adobe Flash Player 32-bit for Firefox, Safari, Opera

  14. (07.01.12) First RAM test

  15. (12.01.12) "ROL KOI8 Courier" TrueType Font: the installation

Motivation: a desire to have a non-propotional (fixed width) KOI-8 font on the system in order to use it inside a "terminal" of the `SSH Win Client' (see item 10) when reading koi8 e-mails with pine. (the font selection in the SSH-Client is done via Edit -> Settings -> Global Settings -> Appearance -> Font )

Google search for tt koi8 font
-> Cyrillic fonts for MS Windows
-> the font 'ROL:KOI8-Courier' - Fixed font - file rolk8c1.TTF, dated February 27, 1997 is mentioned (ROL standing for RussiaOnLine?) and suggested for downloading together with other fonts in a zip file...

Google search for 'ROL:KOI8-Courier'
-> ROL KOI8 Courier - Font Download - The World's Biggest Font Site
-> download page: http://www.fontyukle.net/en/DownLoad-ROL+KOI8+Courier.ttf

  • font downloaded to
    • C:\data\Distributives\koi8-r_fonts\ROL_KOI8_Courier\ROL_KOI8_courier.ttf
      (the filename was ROL -> renamed)
    • also ROL_KOI8_courier.ttf.zip
  • checked with an antivirus ( DrWeb )
  • installed with Right Mouse -> Install ( Ustanovit' )
  • appeared under the name ROL-K8/Courier обычный ( ROL-K8/Courier obychnyj ) in the list of installed fonts Control Panel -> Fonts
  • perfectly seen by the SSH CLient program.

  16. (15.01.12) Google Chrome

  17. (19.01.12) Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer

  18. (01.02.12) Adobe Flash Player 32-bit for Firefox, Safari, Opera -- a reinstallation

  • the re-installation is done in order to fix the problem with setevisor which suddenly stopped playing (for details see AVFedotovHowTo -> MS -> Win 7)
  • the Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 uninstalled and then installed again from scratch from Adobe site

  19. (12.02.12) Skype installation and Sound (mic) problems (also EVO)

Problem:

  • a problem with the mic was already observed under EVO: the sound was very low
  • now Skype has been installed and there was no mic sound at all: a complete silence for my voice recording in the skype test call

Solution:

  • tips from skype "Sound guide - Windows 7" did not help, though tought me where in Win 7 the controls are
  • the problem was cured by "separating different input sockets into independent devices"
    • Control panel -> Hardware ("Oborudovanie") and sound
      -> "Dispetcher" (Manager?) Realtek HD
    • -> "Dop. nastrojki ustroistva" (in right-uppper corner)
    • For Recording devices ("Ustr-va zapisi") select Separate... instead of Combine, -> OK
    • Now (if mike is inside the front-panel socket"), in the "Realtec HD" window, a new tab appears called "Mic in front panel (Pink)": here the recording volume and boost can be set.
      • Expereimentally, using the skype test call service, I chose 100% level + 20db boost
      • Alternatively, the level and boost can be set in another place:
        Control panel -> Hardware ("Oborudovanie") and sound
        -> Sound -> Tab "Record" -> select "Mic in front panel (Pink)"
        -> Properties -> tab "Levels" -> set level and boost
  • for EVO, the mic sound in Loopback became much louder too

Remaining sound problems:

  • Mike does not work when inserted into the rear-panel pink socket
  • inside the Realtec HD subwindow (where "Combine" was changed to "Separate" for recording devices), there is an option for the playback devices:
    "switch off the rear output when the front output is used"
    It is selected, but the loudspeakers connected to the rear panel continue to work with headphones inserted into the front panel
  • in EVO, my voice from the Loopback partially disappears sometimes for one-two-three seconds. Why?

  20. (14.02.12) Re-installation of Adobe Flash Player (a removal of the 32-bit version + reinstallation of the 64-bit one)

Unexpectedly youtube videos lost the sound in firefox: the loudspeaker icon had always a mute-cross on it which could not be removed.

Googling: an advice found to renew the Flash Player (http://otvet.mail.ru/question/64120324/)
-> follow it

  • Uninstalling the existing Player plugin
    • in Control Panel -> Programs and components there are few Flash Player versions
    • removing the 32-bit version installed 01.02.12
      • during the removal, suddenly a firefox tab with a youtube video starts playing sound!
        • a possible explanation: firefox switched to the 64-bit version which was available
  • Downloading a default Flash Player version 11.1.102.55 from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
    • it looks like a 64-bit version (was installed already!): install_flashplayer11x64_mssa_aih.exe
    • there is a note on the download page:
      • "Note:The 64-bit Flash Player installer includes both a 32-bit and 64-bit version of Flash Player"
  • Installing it:
    • in Control Panel -> Programs and components we read:
      "Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin 64-bit installed 14.02.12"
      • looks like we have just re-installed what was already available

Summary

  • the youtube problem was due to a problem with the Flash Player
  • the 32-bit version of the FP has been uninstalled
    • this cured the problem (firefox having switched to the 64-bit version immediately?)
  • then the 64-bit version has been has been REinstalled (a meaningless action!?)
Note:

  21. (14.02.12) Logitech Webcam Software 2.3

  • The Webcam was connected to the PC two days earlier (along with the skype installation). That induced the auto "update" (a "recommended" one)
    • Logitech - Communication Device, Other hardware, Streaming Media and Broadcast - Logitech Webcam C100 ,
      which happened 14.‎02.‎2012 3:00
  • the "Logitech Webcam Software" installation was intitialised by the non-mandatory "update" from Window Update
    • Logitech - Communication Device, Other hardware, Streaming Media and Broadcast - Logitech USB Camera (Webcam C100)
      installed 14.‎02.‎2012 5:35
  • In the beginning of installation, the setup program asked to insert the Logitech Webcam Software disc with version not lower ~2.2 (do not remember exactly); The disc that came with the Webcam had version 2.0 of s/w, but I did insert it. Most probably it was not used.
  • Installed was version 2.3 which required a long (5-10 min) automatically-launched download from inet

  22. (14.02.12) Adobe Flash Player 32-bit : install again

In item 20, the 32-bit version was removed. And the reinstalled 64-bit verions was said to "have the 32-bit version inside".

However, firefox complained on a missing plugin on many pages and suggested Flash Player 11.0.1.152. Finally the suggestion was accepted and the "missing" FP was installed, reporting on the version 11.0.1.152.

The pages are now displayed OK.

However in Control Panel -> Progeams and components another version has appeared:

  • Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin 14.02.12 v. 11.1.102.55

  23. (19.02.12) Emacs 23.4

  • http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-23.4-bin-i386.zip downloaded to
    C:\data\Distributives\emacs-23.4\emacs-23.4-bin-i386.zip
  • then unzipped into the `C:\Program Files (x86)' directory, resulting in the
    C:\Program Files (x86)\emacs-23.4 directory
  • then addpm.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\emacs-23.4\bin was run in order "to have Emacs add icons to the Start Menu", as recommeded in http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/
    • this created a shortcut to the executable
      runemacs.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\emacs-23.4\bin

  • File .emacs :
    • has been put into the directory C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Roaming recognised by emacs as the home directory ( ~/ )
    • a dom2 version (linux), supposedly from 26.08.2010 (hopefully the last existed version) has been copied from the external hard disk Elements (149 GiB) from I:\acerTrM_backup\linux\opt\home\fedotov_crash00\.emacs

  23-2. (19.02.12) Emacs-koi

  • A link (shortcut) Emacs-koi on the desktop :
    • the assigned command is "C:\Program Files (x86)\emacs-23.4\bin\runemacs.exe" -fn ROL-K8/Courier-12

  24. (22.02.12) GSview 4.9 and GPL Ghostscript 8.64 to view ps files

  • GSview requires Ghostscript
  • GPL Ghostscript 8.64 64-bit
    • setup file gs864w64.exe downloaded
      from the http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/GPL/gpl864.htm page
      to C:\data\Distributives\GPL_Ghostscript_8.64_64-bit
      and executed
  • GSview 4.9 64-bit
    • setup file gsv49w64.exe downloaded
      from the http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get49.htm page
      to C:\data\Distributives\GSview_4.9_64_bit
      and executed
    • associated with ps and eps files
    • can convert ps to pdf
    • can display pdf
    • more functions: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Ghostgum/gsview/Readme.htm

  25. (22.02.12) Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7

  • this utility was needed to display help pages of the GSview (see item 25)
  • pressing help in GSview had lead to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607# which, in turn, lead to the download page
    • " WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the ".hlp" file name extension. To view .hlp files on Windows 7, you need to install this application."
      (more generally: the .hlp files are kind of obsolete starting from Vista, and this sort of utility has to be installed for Win Vista and later)
    • the Windows6.1-KB917607-x64.msu version was downloaded and installed as an MS update
      • Note: another version, the Windows6.1-KB917607-x86.msu, when tried to be installed additionally (just in case), was rejected by the system as "inapplicable for this computer"
    • the help in GSview is now displayed OK

  26. (23.02.12) Allow firefox 10.0.2 to open local links ( file:///... ) from https://twiki.cern.ch

Following the solution 2 from https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/AVFedotovHowTo#Links_to_local_or_network_pages , the file C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2ni860jy.default\user.js has been created containing 

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "https://twiki.cern.ch");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");

  27. (23.02.12) Apple QuickTime 7.7.1

A missing plugin was announced by firefox while trying to play sounds in Miriam-Webster dictionary...

  • an installer downloaded and run
    (run twice, since the first run was interrupted by a BLUE SCREEN; though the first BLUESCREEN happened before the execution of the installer => the installer seem innocent)

  28. (23.02.12) UNSOLVED PROBLEM: ~5 hours of BLUE SCREENs

see notes

  29. (29.02.12) Ruslat 3.02 -- a keyboard layout switcher

  • setup file downloaded from http://ruslat.hotbox.ru/
    to C:\data\Distributives\Ruslat_3.02\Ruslat_3.02.exe
  • installed into C:\Program Files\Ruslat95
    • An additional icon EN appears in the tray (among hidden icons)
    • the default switching between layouts with Right-Cntl
  • I expected to get a koi8-r layout, but do not see it,
    in particular, file kbdru8.kbd seems to be missing...?

  • uninstalled in section 44

  30. (02.03.12) WinRar 4.01 (RePack by Otanim)

1. Try a not-repacked version

  • run the installer
    C:\data\Distributives\WinRar\WinRAR_4.01_Final_Rus_en--from_bar_01.11.11\WRAR_4.01_Final_ML-RUS\Original\English\winrar-x64-401.exe
    • associated extentions: rar only, others (many!) switched off
  • activation: variant 1 of the instructions in
    C:\data\Distributives\WinRar\WinRAR_4.01_Final_Rus_en--from_bar_01.11.11\WRAR_4.01_Final_ML-RUS\Activation\Readme.txt
    • WinRar windows is titled WinRAR (evaluation copy);
      WinRar -> Help -> About says 40 days trial copy
  • uninstall

2. The repack version

  • run the installer
    C:\data\Distributives\WinRar\WinRAR_4.01_Final_Rus_en--from_bar_01.11.11\WRAR_4.01_Final_ML-RUS\Repacks\WinRAR RePack by Otanim x86_x64\winrar-x64-401.exe
    description: ReadmeRu.txt
    • associated extentions: RAR only, others (many!) switched off
  • get registered russified version in C:\Program Files\WinRAR
  • in order to tansform into an english version, move RarLng.dll into the subdir RarLng (greated just for that) -- to be removed by hand in case of uninstallation

  31. (03.03.12) WinDjView 1.0.3

Istalled in order to have a possibility to view DJVU files (found with google)

  32. (11.04.12) md5sum, sha1sum, sha256sum etc. for Win32

  • According to the instruction , file sums611.zip was downloaded from http://www.nfllab.com/sums/sums611.zip into the
    C:\data\Distributives\sums611 directory
    then unzipped into the
    C:\data\Distributives\sums611\sums611_unzipped directory
  • To use an executable, one can just copy it into a directory with a file to be checked, then run it there, e.g.
    • open a window for a command line (run cmd), then
      ...> cd <‍dir>
      ...> sha256sum <‍filename>

  33. (13.04.12) Adobe Reader X: Update 10.1.2 -> 10.1.3

  • Automatic update failed with error 1328. Clicking on details opened http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/update-errors-acrobat-reader-windows.html , where a manual update was recommended.
  • then firefox crashed, then in Control Panel , the application Programs and Components hanged (when being invoked to uninstall Adobe Reader 10.1.2), then PC hanged trying to switch off, the switch of was done by pressing the button for few secs...
  • After the recovery a manual update was done

  34. (29.04.12) Applian FLV and Media Player 3.1.1.12

  • Found by googling for a flv player windows
    http://download.cnet.com/Applian-FLV-and-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-10467081.html
    • pressing download now -> downloaded C:\data\Distributives\FLVPlayer\FLVPlayerSetupStub.exe
      • run, which invoked a real download and installation
  • Applian stands for Applian Technologies . The welcome page was opened after the installation with the following info:
    • . . .
    • FLV Player feature summary:
      • Play FLV files (and other formats) on any Windows PC.
      • Double-click files in File Explorer to play them automatically.
      • Zoom to full screen.
      • Drag-and-drop multiple files.
      • Play DVDs.
      • No viruses, spyware or ads.
    • This player is based upon the VLC Project

  35. (07.06.12) Fighting the site tns-counter.ru

McAfee Security Scan Plus reported on an issue:

  • Threats Detected: 1 Dangerous Website: tns-counter.ru
Googling gave a recommendation to switch it off: http://ru-nbp.livejournal.com/898072.html. This has been implemented, which was adding lines 
127.0.0.1 tns-counter.ru
127.0.0.1 www.tns-counter.ru
into the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
Editing was done with notepad run with administrator's rights (Start -> Search for notepad -> run as Administrator )

  36. (18.06.12) Adobe Flash Player DOWNGRADE 11.3.300.257 -> 11.2.202.233

Problem: During last few days Flash Player (FP) constantly crashes within Firefox.

There were 2 recent updates:

Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin 12.06.2012 11.3.300.257
Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1 16.06.2012 13.0.1
Judging from dates, rather Firefox should be guilty.

However, we try to solve the problem by downgrading Flash Player.

Step 1: Uninstall the current version of FP (control panel -> programs and components -> Remove).

Step 2: Download an older version

Step 3: extract the win_64bit version into the separate subdirectory win_64bit_extracted and install from there.

The problem seems to have been solved: FP did not crash in firefox during a >1h session.

  37. (22.08.12) Vidyo Desktop 2_2_0_00362

Installed by running VidyoDesktopInstaller-win32-TAG_VD_2_2_0_00362.exe as downloaded from CERN VidyoPortal

  38. (05.11.12) Looking at the first hard disk partition with Fedora-17-LiveCD

In section 1, "a 100 MiB partition for unknown purpose" was reported.

Preparing to install Fedora Linux as a second OS, it would have been desirable to find out weather the hard disk is a GPT (GUID Partition Table) one, or not.

In Windows and GPT FAQ, a special 100Mb partition called EFI System Partition = Extensible Firmware Interface System Partition = ESP is described in the section Windows GPT Required Partitions , so that an ESP is a a prerequisite of a GPT disk. Although an alternative kind of disks, MBR disks (see e.g. Master boot record) , may also have an ESP on them, the absence of ESP seems to be an evidence for the MBR nature of a disk.

More properties of the ESP can be found in the wikipedia article EFI System partition :

The 100Mb partition of the dom3 HD was a candidate for an ESP.

In order to see its properties, the Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-KDE was booted (Troubleshooting -> Start F17 with in basic graphics mode as default boot mode hanged).

The list of partitions: 

[root@localhost liveuser]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x85dc822c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2          206848   195518463    97655808    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
  • The /dev/sda1 partition is not an ESP as
    • it has ID=27 i.o. ef
    • it has NTFS file system i.o. a FATxx

  • It is described as a WinRE
    • in the List of partition identifiers for PCs one finds:
      • ID=27 Windows RE hidden partition
        On MBR disks, type 0x27. On GPT disks, GUID: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC. A hidden version of a Windows RE type 0x7 partition with NTFS. When this is installed, reboot and press F8 in order to boot into this Recovery Environment.
    • looks like WinRE stands for Windows Recovery Environment
    • see wikipedia: Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)

The contents of the sda2 partition (unimportant, just in case): 

[root@localhost liveuser]# ls /mnt
[root@localhost liveuser]# mkdir /mnt/sda1
[root@localhost liveuser]# mkdir /mnt/sda2


[root@localhost liveuser]# mount -r /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
[root@localhost liveuser]# ls /mnt/sda2/
data                    MSOCache             Recovery
Documents and Settings  nVidia               $Recycle.Bin
found.000               pagefile.sys         System Volume Information
found.001               PerfLogs             Users
HECI_7                  ProgramData          Windows
hiberfil.sys            Program Files
Intel                   Program Files (x86)

The contents of the sda1 partition: 

[root@localhost liveuser]# mount -r /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
[root@localhost liveuser]# ls /mnt/sda1
Boot  bootmgr  BOOTSECT.BAK  System Volume Information

[root@localhost liveuser]# ll /mnt/sda1
total 388
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   4096 Sep 29  2011 Boot
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 383786 Nov 20  2010 bootmgr
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   8192 Sep 29  2011 BOOTSECT.BAK
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 System Volume Information

[root@localhost liveuser]# ll /mnt/sda1/Boot/
total 596
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  28672 Nov  3 18:45 BCD
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  25600 Nov  3 18:15 BCD.LOG
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 BCD.LOG1
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 BCD.LOG2
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  65536 Sep 29  2011 BOOTSTAT.DAT
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 cs-CZ
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 da-DK
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 de-DE
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 el-GR
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 en-US
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 es-ES
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 fi-FI
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 Fonts
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 fr-FR
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 hu-HU
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 it-IT
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 ja-JP
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 ko-KR
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 485760 Nov 20  2010 memtest.exe
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 nb-NO
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 nl-NL
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 pl-PL
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 pt-BR
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 pt-PT
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 ru-RU
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 sv-SE
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 tr-TR
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 zh-CN
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 zh-HK
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      0 Sep 29  2011 zh-TW

[root@localhost liveuser]# du -ms /mnt/sda1
15      /mnt/sda1


[root@localhost liveuser]# ll /mnt/sda1/Boot/Fonts/
total 11700
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3694080 Jun 10  2009 chs_boot.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3876772 Jun 10  2009 cht_boot.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 1984228 Jun 10  2009 jpn_boot.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 2371360 Jun 10  2009 kor_boot.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 root root   47452 Jun 10  2009 wgl4_boot.ttf


[root@localhost liveuser]# ll /mnt/sda1/Boot/ru-RU/
total 136
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 90192 Jul 13  2009 bootmgr.exe.mui
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 43600 Nov 21  2010 memtest.exe.mui

[root@localhost liveuser]# ll /mnt/sda1/Boot/en-US/
total 84
-rwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 85056 Jul 13  2009 bootmgr.exe.mui

A random collection of links on (U)EFI: here

  39. (19.02.13) Creating an ntfs partition (WDntfs-2, 100GiB) on the usb disk WD-1500GB for Win7 backups / archives

First, the WD-1500GB disk was inspected under Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-KDE: 

[root@localhost liveuser]#  fdisk -l /dev/sdf

Disk /dev/sdf: 1500.3 GB, 1500299395072 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930272256 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002a991

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1            2048    20980889    10489421    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdf2        20980890    41945714    10482412+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdf3        41945715  2930272064  1444163175    5  Extended
/dev/sdf5      2720559555  2930272064   104856255   83  Linux
/dev/sdf6      2301134598  2720559554   209712478+  83  Linux
/dev/sdf7        41945841  1171540124   564797142   83  Linux
/dev/sdf8      1171540188  2301134534   564797173+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

The last partition /dev/sdf5 (label WDlin4, size 100 GiB, type ext3 ) was chosen to be converted into the backup ntfs partition.

Other 5 partitions (excluding the formal extended one), as reported by gparted, are

label type size / GiB
WDntfs ntfs 10
WDfat32 fat32 10
WDlin1 ext3 538.63
WDlin2 ext3 538.63
WDlin3 ext3 200

The WDlin4 partition was empty: 

[root@localhost liveuser]# df -h /media/WDlin4/ 

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdf5        99G  141M   94G   1% /media/WDlin4

[root@localhost liveuser]# ll -a /media/WDlin4/ 

total 20
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root root  4096 May 25  2010 .
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root    80 Feb 18 22:29 ..
drwx------. 2 root root 16384 May 25  2010 lost+found

The conversion was done with gparted-live-0.14.1-6-i686-pae .
Two operations were requested:

  • rename WDlin4 -> WDntfs-2
  • format it as ntfs
A report by gparted can be found here. The new partition turned out to be unlabelled (setting the label had to be the last operation), therefore, the label was actually set later on from Windows 7.

Inspecting the disk after the repartitioning under gparted-live OS (a debian linux): 

root@debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdf

Disk /dev/sdf: 1500.3 GB, 1500299395072 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930272256 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002a991

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1            2048    20980889    10489421    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdf2        20980890    41945714    10482412+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdf3        41945715  2930272064  1444163175    5  Extended
/dev/sdf5      2720559555  2930272064   104856255    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdf6      2301134598  2720559554   209712478+  83  Linux
/dev/sdf7        41945841  1171540124   564797142   83  Linux
/dev/sdf8      1171540188  2301134534   564797173+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

root@debian:~# mkdir /mnt/sdf5
root@debian:~# mount -r /dev/sdf5/ /mnt/sdf5

root@debian:~# ls -al /mnt/sdf5

total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 19 05:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  100 Feb 19 06:09 ..

root@debian:~# df -h  /mnt/sdf5

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdf5       100G   68M  100G   1% /mnt/sdf5

root@debian:~# du  /mnt/sdf5
4       /mnt/sdf5

  40. (28.02.13) EasyBCD 2.2

EasyBCD is a Windows bootloader (BCD) modification tool.
My notes on the program: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/AVFedotovHowTo#EasyBCD

Downloaded from http://neosmart.net/Download/Register/1 to C:\data\Distributives\EasyBCD-2.2\EasyBCD 2.2.exe and installed by running the latter exe file.

The location in the start menu

  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\NeoSmart Technologies\
was renamed to
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\NeoSmart Technologies (EasyBCD)\

  41. (26.03.13) CoolReader 3.0.56-42

A program to read eBooks. Supported formats (the list from here): epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM), pml .

  • cr3-qt-win32-3.0.56-42.zip
    downloaded to C:\data\Distributives\CoolReader3\cr3-qt-win32-3.0.56-42.zip
    from http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/?source=dlp
  • all files from the archive extracted into directory
    C:\Program Files (x86)\CoolReader3\cr3-qt-win32-3.0.56-42
    • the executable: cr3.exe
      • a shortcut Cool Reader 3 to the executable has been placed
        • into the above directory where the executable resides,
        • as well as into C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\AF\multimedia

  42. (17.04.13) Setting up an internet connection -- MGTS GPON via ONT-modem HUAWEI HG8245T as a router

    Initially

  • Initial status:
    • modem 192.168.100.1 is a router (can not be a bridge?)
    • The router has the external IP address 37.190.94.77 identified by nslookup 37.190.94.77 as dynamic37-190-94-77.pppoe.spdop.ru .

  • connect dom3 to the socket LAN1 via an ethernet cable (twisted "pair", RJ45 connectors)

    "Podklyuchenie po local'noj seti"

Control Panel -> Centr upravleniya setyami... -> Podklyuchenie po lok. seti -> Sv-va -> Protokol TCP/IPv4 -> Sv-va

  • Setup 1 made by GPON "installers"
    • "Poluchit' IP-adres avtomaticheski"
    • "Poluchit' adres DNS-servera avtomaticheski"

  • Setup 2 -- my version
    • I try here to fix the local IP-address which, generally, is assigned randomly (dynamically) by the router.
      This can be useful later, if I will want to set up a port forwarding (for ssh etc.) inside the router.
    • Change "Poluchit' IP-adres avtomaticheski" na:
      • "Ispolol'zovat' sled. adres:"
        IP-adres 192.168.100.2
        Maska podseti 255.255.255.0
        Osnovnoj shlyuz 192.168.100.1
    • change "Poluchit' adres DNS-servera avtomaticheski" na
      • "Ispol'zovat' sled. adresa DNS:"
        Predpochtaemyj 192.168.100.1
        Al'ternativnyj 8.8.8.8
        • The alternative DNS server is a public DNS by google. It was added later on when the underlying mgts server failed to resolve some addresses.

  • The connection name can be changed by
    • Control Panel -> Centr upravleniya setyami... -> Izmenenie parametrov adaptera (in the left menu) -> Podklyuchenie po lok. seti (an example) -> Tight mouse -> Rename
      • I gave the name Podklyuchenie po lokal'noj seti (ethernet)
  • The net name can be changed by a double click on the net picture/icon at the Centr upravleniya setyami... page

  43. (07.06.13) MetroMir 4.18 -- an e-library

  44. (17.10.13) Ruslat 3.02 uninstalled

The program installed in section 29 was found useless, but was always loaded...

  • uninstalled by clicking Start -> All programs -> AF -> Ruslat95 -> uninst
  • menu folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\AF\Ruslat95 removed too

  45. (17.10.13) SpeedFan 4.49

  • "a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes"

  • Downloaded from the page http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php (see for a description) via the link http://www.almico.com/speedfan449.exe .
    The result (the file name is different from the download link for an unknown reason):
  • Installed by runnining the instsf449.exe
    • into C:\Program Files (x86)\SpeedFan
    • menu group C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\SpeedFan
      has been moved to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\AF\SpeedFan
      • contains
        • `Help and HOW-TO',
        • `Release info',
        • `SpeedFan',
        • `Uninstall SpeedFan'

  46. (18.10.13) S.M.A.R.T. MonTools 6.2-1 (smartmontools)

  • A usage example:
    • The shortcut `smartctl Examples\All info (-x)' from the start menu runs
      "C:\Program Files (x86)\smartmontools\bin\runcmdu.exe" smartctl -x sda
      • note: the `-x' option "prints all SMART and non-SMART information about the device" ( smartctl man page); it is similar to the `-a' ( "prints all SMART info" )

  47. (01.10.14) A free "antivirus scan" with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.00.2.1012

  • The Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.00.2.1012
    • downloaded:
    • installed by running the above setup
    • run
      • A Threat Scan (the longest one?) took ~6 min., 314k objects scanned. "No malicious items were detected"
    • uninstalled

  48. (01.10.14) A free "antivirus scan" and cleanup with SUPERAntiSpyware 6.0.1146

  • SUPERAntiSpyware 6.0.1146
  • downloaded
  • installed
  • run
    • 236 threats were found, of which only one (a Trojan C:\DATA\DISTRIBUTIVES\WINRAR\WINRAR_3.51--FROM_DOM\A_CRACK_3XX\WINRAR 3.XX PATCH.EXE ) was considered as critical and subject to an immediate deletion, while the rest were cookies.
    • The list of 236 files is available in the Scan Log file
    • all the 236 files have been deleted (not automatically -- this was our decision following a program's suggestion)
    • three screenshots from the program run: More... Close
      141001.SUPERAntiSpyware.Screenshot-1.GIF:
      141001.SUPERAntiSpyware.Screenshot-1.GIF
      141001.SUPERAntiSpyware.Screenshot-2.GIF:
      141001.SUPERAntiSpyware.Screenshot-2.GIF
      141001.SUPERAntiSpyware.Screenshot-3.GIF:
      141001.SUPERAntiSpyware.Screenshot-3.GIF
  • uninstalled by running C:\Program Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\Uninstall.exe

  49. (10.10.14) Installing an MFL-Pro Suite for Brother Multi-Function Center (printer/scanner/copier) DCP-7057R

  • The "Full Driver & Software Package" installation from the CD shipped together with the apparatus (MFC DCP-7057R), has been performed.
  • The following errors were reported: Show screenshots Hide screenshots
    • 141010.DCP-7057.MFL-ProSuite_installation.Error-01.GIF:
      141010.DCP-7057.MFL-ProSuite_installation.Error-01.GIF
    • 141010.DCP-7057.MFL-ProSuite_installation.Error-02.GIF:
      141010.DCP-7057.MFL-ProSuite_installation.Error-02.GIF
    • 141010.DCP-7057.MFL-ProSuite_installation.Error-03.GIF:
      141010.DCP-7057.MFL-ProSuite_installation.Error-03.GIF
  • Thus problems occurred with the installation of assembly components of the following packages:
    • MSXML 4.0 SP3 Parser
    • Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
    • Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64)
  • After the install, the following problems are observed:
    • The utility ControlCenter4 does not start
    • There are no traces of the PaperPort(TM)SE utility
  • Otherwise, the driver seems to be there and working:
    • Printing is possible from various programs
    • Scanning working from the Windows Faxes and Scanning utility
  • At least, the following directories have been created during the installation:
    • c:\Brother
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Brother
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Browny02
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\ControlCenter4
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information
    • C:\ProgramData\Brother
    • C:\ProgramData\ControlCenter4
    • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Brother

    (07.12.14) A re-installation of the MFL-Pro Suite from scratch

  • Having brought the computer back to the state of 26.03.14 (sect.50) we had to try to install the MFL-Pro Suite again.
  • It turned out to be more successful this time: no error messages occurred, everything went smoothly.
  • Close to the end of the installation, registrations with Brother and Nuance have been suggested
    • Brother notified us at http://www.brother.ru/g3.cfm/s_page/211140/s_name/productregistration , that the registration of new devices in Russia is not required Show the screenshot (ru) Hide the screenshot
      • 141207.Registering_with_Brother_not_needed.GIF:
        141207.Registering_with_Brother_not_needed.GIF
    • In turn, Nuance
      • requested a product registration of the product PaperPort Home/SE P409W-H54-QHF9-NB5N-H9
      • the product was registered via creation of the new account of type "My Nuance ID"
      • some Nuance's statements during the registration:
        • Register your product in just a few quick steps to activate your 90-day warranty for full technical support, plus access to exclusive customer tools and features, special offers, freebies and more.
        • Your Nuance ID provides you with one-stop access to all of your Nuance product information. Plus, as a member of the Nuance community you can take advantage of special discounts, exclusive product features and lively technical support forums.
  • After a reboot the last installation window popped up, devoted to Software Update Setting
    • Show the screenshot Hide the screenshot 141207.BrotherDCP7057.SoftwareUpdateSetting.GIF:
      141207.BrotherDCP7057.SoftwareUpdateSetting.GIF
    • The txt subwindow was 
      • <Attention> 
 -1 Information with respect to your Brother machine (including but not limited to model name,
    software information such as version information) for new software information will be sent
    from your computer  to an internet server managed by Brother Industries, Ltd.
    This information will be used only for such new software sent to you by Brother Industries, Ltd.
    The information provided will not be used as personal identifiable information.

<Details of the function> 
 -1 This function is only available when your computer is connected to the Internet.
    The program connects to the Brother server at regular intervals. 

 -2 You need to be logged onto your computer with administrator rights.

 -3 Use "Check for Software Updates" if you need to use a proxy server
    when you connect your computer to the  Internet.

 -4 The Brother printing device needs to be set as the device to monitor in Status Monitor.

 -5 Only Brother software that is currently installed can be checked for updates.

  • At least, the following directories have been created during the installation (well, some of them may have been just modified/updated?):
    • c:\Brother
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Brother
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Browny02
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\ControlCenter4
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Nuance
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ScanSoft Shared
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\InstallShield
    • C:\Program Files (x86)\MSXML 4.0
    • C:\Program Files\Nuance
    • C:\ProgramData\Brother
    • C:\ProgramData\ControlCenter4
    • C:\ProgramData\Nuance
    • C:\ProgramData\zeon
    • C:\ProgramData\ScanSoft
    • C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet
    • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Brother
    • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Nuance PaperPort 12

  50. (01.12.14) Restoring the computer state (disk c:) of 26.03.14 from the corresponding system image

  • Motivation: Windows Update does not work properly since about Aug 2014.
    • The only updates that have been installed since then, are those related to Microsoft Security Essentials.
    • The system regularly complains on a failure to do an automatic search for updates, and suggests to reboot, which does not help.
    • Starting the update search manually, results again to a reboot request in order to something like finish an installation of an important update(s).
    • Here are screenshots from the Update History Journal as of 14.10.20 -- pages covering updates since May 2014
      • Show screenshots Hide screenshots
        • 141020.Update_History_Journal.page01.GIF:
          141020.Update_History_Journal.page01.GIF
        • 141020.Update_History_Journal.page02.GIF:
          141020.Update_History_Journal.page02.GIF
        • 141020.Update_History_Journal.page03.GIF:
          141020.Update_History_Journal.page03.GIF
      • The latest automatic update which is not related to MS Security Essentials, seems to be from 14.08
      • Note that the very latest update (KB947821) was installed manually
    • Windows Update beleives that the latest update installation was on 14.09.14: Show the screenshot Hide the screenshots
      • 141019.UpdateCenterError.GIF:
        141019.UpdateCenterError.GIF

  • A lot of time was invested in trying to repair the Window Update, but everything was unsuccessful.
  • So we decided to restore the system state from an old system image -- the last one which was created 26.03.14 on an external hard drive
  • First, we tried to use this backup as a restore point (in this mode the system files are restored only, while user files are left intact). No success: "unexpected error while restoring the system (0x80071a91)" :

  • Finally we performed a complete restoration
    • Prior to that, a backup of c:data directory was created on an external hard disk (via copy-paste, though it would have been better to first archive/zip the dir, then copy the archive, in order not to lose the time stamps for subdirectories)
    • Control Panel -> Archive and Restore -> Restore system parameters or computer -> Extended restoration methods -> Use system image -> Skip archiving user files -> reboot ...
      • The process took 24 min.

  • Updating/installing various sw from the March 2014 status to the current one
    • Java to version 7 update 71
    • c:data from a fresh backup copy
    • Windows Update
      • it says that updates were installed never -- this is strange, as updates surely were installed before March 2014. The Update History list is empty -- it contains only one update for the Update Agent itself.
      • 73 new "important" updates to be installed
        • twice we tried to start the update process manually unsuccesfully (the successful part was downloading the needed 381 MB of data)
        • finally it was initiated by clicking the shutdown button in Win menu
          • took 32' before the first reboot, followed by several additional reboots
    • Logitech webcam sw update
    • Windows Update -- search for updates -> 1 new important update found -> installed
    • VidyoDesktop 3.03.23 -> 3.3.0 (027)
    • Adobe Reader X (10.1.9) -> XI
    • Skype 6.11.66.102 -> 6.22.64.107
    • MFL-Pro Suite for Brother Multi-Function Center (printer/scanner/copier) DCP-7057R, see a detailed report in sect.49
    • Firefox 27.0.1 -> 34.0.5
    • SeaMonkey 2.24 -> 2.25
    • Assign hibernation for the power off action to the power on/off button on the system block -- via Control Panel -> "Elektropitanie" (en: "Power Options"?)

  51. (15.12.14) Including hibernation into the Start -> Shutdown submenu

  • The hibernation action was missing in the Start -> Shutdown menu, but we wanted to have it there
  • A quotation from http://www.oszone.net/10756/hibernate_windows7 :
               141215.Why_no_hybernation_button.GIF
  • Thus, the reason for the absence of the hibernation option might be the following combination of conditions:
    1. "sleep" is actually a "hybrid sleep" ( = sleep (computer's status stored in memory) + hibernation (stored on disk))
    2. "sleep" is turned on in the extended settings of the power plan in Control panel -> Power Optons -> Change plan settings
  • Following this hint, we switched off the Sleep in the extended settings of our power plan
    • The result was a success: the hibernation option appeared in the Start -> Shutdown list
    • We still do not know whether the "Sleep" is now a pure "Sleep" or a "Hybrid Sleep"...

  52. (10.10.15) WinSCP 5.7.5 (upgraded ... 06.12.21 to 5.19.5)

  • NB. It looks like the SFTP protocol has to be selected for connections with linuxes.

  • 08.10.16 WinSCP upgraded to 5.9.2
  • 17.12.16 WinSCP upgraded to 5.9.3
  • 04.03.17 WinSCP upgraded to 5.9.4
  • 08.05.17 WinSCP upgraded to 5.9.5
  • 07.07.17 WinSCP upgraded to 5.9.6
  • 01.10.17 WinSCP upgraded to 5.11.1
  • 25.11.18 WinSCP upgraded to 5.13.5
  • 21.12.18 WinSCP upgraded to 5.13.6
  • 12.02.20 WinSCP upgraded to 5.15.9
  • 05.04.20 WinSCP upgraded to 5.17.3
  • 28.11.20 WinSCP upgraded to 5.17.9
  • 06.12.21 WinSCP upgraded to 5.19.5

  53. (05.11.15) SeeVoghRN

  • SeeVoghRN is the successor of the EVO video conferencing system

  • The setup program downloaded from http://research.seevogh.com/application/download.html into
    • C:\data\Distributives\SeeVoghRN\SeeVoghRN_windows_64bits.exe
  • Then it was run
    • installation directory: C:\Program Files\SeeVoghRN
    • the executable: C:\Program Files\SeeVoghRN\SeeVoghRN.exe
    • location in the start menu:
      • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\AF\SeeVoghRN\
        • 2 items: `SeeVoghRN' and `SeeVogh Research Network Deinstaller'
  • Tried to register -- failed, the system replied that I was already registered with the f...desy.de e-mail. And yes, the EVO userid/pw turned out to be still valid.

  54. (17.06.16) Install gpedit.msc hoping it will allow us to forbid an automatic update to Win 10

  • The video "How to disable the upgrade to Windows 10 forever" , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4KyUelV7EY , describes a way to forbid the update using the Group policy editor gpedit.msc :
    • run the program (e.g. with Win+R followed by typing gpedit.msc in the corresponding window)
      • select Computer configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
        • turn on the option "turn off the upgrade to the latest version of Windows through Windows Update"
          (right mouse button -> change -> enable the option -> ok -> reboot)

  • The problem is that the gpedit.msc is not found on our system

  • Unfortunately, the option "turn off the upgrade to the latest version of Windows through Windows Update" is missing in the installed version of the gpedit :
    160617.gpedit_window.gif

  55. (24.01.17) Install Android emulator BlueStacks 2

  • BlueStacks App Player installed via running BlueStacks2_native_698df954325a29243d3ed9b7818a96c4.exe (315 MB = 331 190 024 B)
    • Directories:
      C:\Program Files (x86)\Bluestacks 77.0 MB = 80 817 502 B
      C:\ProgramData\Bluestacks 1.91 GB = 2 056 578 437 B
    • Menu location: All Programs -> BlueStacks

  • Identified by Google as Samsung Galaxy S5

  • In about 1 day after the installation, BlueStacks reguested that I either upgrade to a paid premium version or install an app with ads (Flipboard ? -- do not remember exactly).
    The second option was chosen ( by the way, I had to type again my google password in the subsequent procedure).
    For some reason, I did not observe the app inside the emulator.
  • Instead, I got a security alert from my google account about a new device, Mac via browser Chrome 35.0 is working with the google account. Here are screenshots from https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity:
    the list of devices More... Close
    ,
    and details on the Mac device More... Close

    To be noted as curious: the Mac IP was that of my Win PC.
  • As I never used Mac or Chrome browser , I got scared of having compromised my google account, probably (not sure) declared that this was not my activity, and changed the password of my google account.
  • Soon after that, BlueStacks got broken: trying to start the imo app or Play Store, gave an error sreen like More... Close
  • This was overcome by making a factory reset of BLueStacks.
    Done via: Settings wheel (in the top bar of the BLueStacks window) -> Preferences -> Data -> Factory reset

  • UPD 20.11.20
    • A factory reset done. Reason: the Play Store app did not want to work.
    • The Sb. Inv. app installed from Play Store .

    (24.11.20) Upgrade to version 4

  • Reason: the Sb. Inv. app does not work in BlueStack 2

  • Uninstall the previous version
    • Follow instructions from a tutorial https://it-tehnik.ru/software/windows-10/delete-bluestacks.html How to delete Bluestacks completely from a Windows 7,8,10 comp: all ways
      • follow the method "uninstaller by BlueStacks" from the tutorial:
        based on the page https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/ru/articles/115003921452
        (en: "How can I uninstall BlueStacks 4 completely" https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003921452 )
        • remove everything from the C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local\Temp directory:
          • Win+R -> %temp% -> Select All -> Delete
          • Disk C: status: 13.2 GiB free (out of 93.1 GiB)
        • download and run BSTCleaner_All.exe
          • Disk C: status: 16.0 GiB free
      • remove the empty folder=C:\ProgramData\BlueStacksSetup=
      • remove the folder C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local\BlueStacks with one log file inside
      • just in case, remove all occurencies of "bluestacks" in Windows Registry (this is a part of the first method from the tutorial):
        • Win+R -> regedit -> Ctrl+F -> specify bluestacks
          -> a long cycle of ( F3 (Find next) -> Del -> yes )
      • reboot

  • Download the (micro)installer BlueStacksInstaller_4.240.30.1002_native_2d017091a19ce11ce5d0d46e899dee96.exe (~1.1 MB) from the BlueStacks Home https://www.bluestacks.com/
  • run it
    • in the end of the installation an error message appears in a separate window:
      HD-ForceGPU.exe - Sistemnaya oshibka
      Zapusk programmy nevozmozhen, tak kak na komp'yutere otsutstvuet VCRUNTIME140.dll .
      Poprobujte pereustanovit' programmu ."
      • (Note: the missing VCRUNTIME140.dll was installed later on , see sec.66 )
    • Despite the error, the program has been installed and can be run.
    • Log files are found in the "C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local\Bluestacks" directory .
  • Disk C: status: 9.67 GiB free
    • The installation took ~ 16.0 - 9.7 = about 6.3 GiB of disk space

  • The version is 4.240.30.1002
  • directory C:\ProgramData\BlueStacks : 6.15 GiB
  • directory C:\Program Files\BlueStacks : 112 MiB
  • file "C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local\BlueStacksSetup\BlueStacksInstaller_4.240.30.1002_native_2d017091a19ce11ce5d0d46e899dee96.exe" : 524 Mib

  • The emulator is seen by Google as a "OnePlus 5" device
    (can be changed in BlueStacks by Settings -> Advanced -> Choose a predefined profile)

  56. (18.02.17) Install mozregression-gui 0.9.6

    56.2 (08.01.21) Remove 1.52 GB of traces of mozregression

Clean up ~1.52 GB of space in c:/Users/fedotov/.mozilla/mozregression/persist by removing all the files there.
The files were created on 18.02.17 while running the mozregression.
The file list: More... Close 
  c:/Users/fedotov/.mozilla/mozregression/persist:
  total used in directory 1485726 available 8701412
  drwxrwxrwx  1 fedotov None        0 2017-02-18  .
  drwxrwxrwx  1 fedotov None        0 2017-02-18  ..
54457351 2017-02-18 03fc0a686d3f--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54456091 2017-02-18 0930fdc4cf8e--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53426359 2017-02-18 1b4b21f3c1bd--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54814513 2017-02-18 2016-08-14--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
55139013 2017-02-18 2016-08-26--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
55133005 2017-02-18 2016-09-07--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
55183618 2017-02-18 2016-09-10--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54939853 2017-02-18 2016-09-13--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54728929 2017-02-18 2016-09-15--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54745038 2017-02-18 2016-09-16--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54742961 2017-02-18 2016-09-17--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54731028 2017-02-18 2016-09-18--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54783459 2017-02-18 2016-09-21--mozilla-central--firefox-52.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54513059 2017-02-18 2016-11-10--mozilla-central--firefox-52.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54623319 2017-02-18 2016-12-05--mozilla-central--firefox-53.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53450409 2017-02-18 2016-12-30--mozilla-central--firefox-53.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53521203 2017-02-18 2017-01-12--mozilla-central--firefox-53.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53525475 2017-02-18 2017-01-24--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53865908 2017-02-18 2017-02-06--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53432453 2017-02-18 2017-02-12--mozilla-central--firefox-53.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53845495 2017-02-18 2017-02-14--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53884952 2017-02-18 2017-02-15--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53867628 2017-02-18 2017-02-16--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
55804834 2017-02-18 2017-02-17--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54458976 2017-02-18 797fddcea4e0--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53429070 2017-02-18 d3e3c644160a--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
54455526 2017-02-18 f302def88fe5--mozilla-central--firefox-54.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
53423245 2017-02-18 fc69febcbf6c--mozilla-central--firefox-51.0a1.en-US.win32.zip

  57. (05.03.17) Install VLC media player 2.2.4

  • The setup file vlc-2-2-4-win32.exe downloaded from https://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/download
  • Installed into the (default) directory C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC , size 120 MiB .
    • Executable: vlc.exe
  • Location in the Start Menu : All Programs -> VideoLAN -> VLC media player

  58. (04.10.17) A cleanup of the C disk space

    Analysis (04.10.17)

  • Currently, there are 78.8 GiB used and only 14.2 GiB free space on the c disk
  • Archiving the system 04.10.17 produced
    • system image of 70.5 Gib
    • backup of user files: 9.17 GiB (=9.85GB) (backed up are data (3.90 GiB) and Biblioteki "fedotov's"
  • All the numbers are substantially bigger than those in early years of the system, and we try to investigate where the space is used. We do it by looking at the disk from the Fedora-18-lunux side of the computer.

  • c disk: 
    • [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7 $ du -ms * | sort -nr

43162   Windows
9819    Users
5695    ProgramData
4403    Program Files (x86)
4080    pagefile.sys
4004    data
3376    Program Files
3060    hiberfil.sys
1139    System Volume Information
926     nVidia
170     Recovery
13      HECI_7
1       $Recycle.Bin
...

      Note: hiberfil.sys is a candidate for a temporary deletion before creating a sys.image
      (http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/delete-hiberfilsys-by-disabling-windows-hibernate-function/: "... As I noted earlier, you can manually delete hiberfil.sys, but it will just come back ...")

  • Users/fedotov/AppData : 
    • [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users $ du -ms *|sort -nr     

9764    fedotov
53      Public
2       Default
...

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov $ du -ms *|sort -nr
7968    AppData
157     Tracing
89      cr3
15      Videos
4       Documents
...
[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData $ du -ms *|sort -nr
6521    Local
1403    Roaming
45      LocalLow

  • .../AppData/Local : 
    • [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Local $ du -ms *|sort -nr
3007    NVIDIA
789     Google
784     Temp
777     Microsoft
573     Mozilla
239     Torch
155     iLivid
57      Windows Live
54      Opera
52      Vidyo
26      Adobe
7       VirtualStore
...
      • Torch and iLivid : why not to delete them together with programs

  • .../AppData/Local/NVIDIA : 
    • [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Local/NVIDIA $ du -ms *|sort -nr

3007    NvBackend
1       GFExperience.exe_Url_tgm3mttmt5itflhj0kykoi5xkjy53x4g

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Local/NVIDIA/NvBackend $ du -ms *|sort -nr

2926    
64      ApplicationOntology
8       OpsStorage.xml
...
    • .../NVIDIA/NvBackend/Packages -- what is that?

  • .../AppData/Roaming : 
    • [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Roaming $ du -ms *|sort -nr 

1310    Mozilla
38      Skype
24      tempNN
20      Microsoft
9       Adobe
2       SoftGrid Client
...

  • .../AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/... : 
    • [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla $ du -ms *|sort -nr

1293    Firefox
17      SeaMonkey

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox $ du -ms *|sort -nr

1153    Profiles
140     Crash Reports
1       profiles.ini
0       Pending Pings

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles $ du -ms *|sort -nr        
1153    2ni860jy.default

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/2ni860jy.default $ du -ms *|sort -nr  
947     storage
59      webappsstore.sqlite
45      places.sqlite
36      sessionstore-backups
14      favicons.sqlite
9       sessionstore.bak
7       sessionstore.bak-20140212131424
7       gmp-eme-adobe
6       gmp-widevinecdm
5       sessionstore.js
4       minidumps
. . .

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/2ni860jy.default/storage $ du -ms *|sort -nr
938     default
8       temporary
3       permanent


[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/2ni860jy.default/storage/default $ du -ms *|sort -nr
585     http+++echo.msk.ru
320     https+++www.onlinetv.ru
12      https+++www.geogebra.org
2       https+++web.whatsapp.com
2       https+++slon.ru
1       http+++www.vedomosti.ru
. . .
      • http+++echo.msk.ru and https+++www.onlinetv.ru -- first candidates for cleanup
      • .../Firefox/Crash Reports -- a candisate too?

  • .../AppData/Local/Google : 
    • [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Local/Google $ du -ms *|sort -nr 
763     Chrome
26      Update
1       Software Reporter Tool
1       CrashReports
1       Chrome Cleanup Tool

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Users/fedotov/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome $ du -ms *|sort -nr
411     User Data
353     Application

    Cleanup (05-06.10.17)

  • Running Ochistka Diska (en: Disk Cleanup) under Administrator :




    • C disk: used 79.3 GiB -> 78.7 GiB -> Reboot -> 66.6 GiB
      • After the reboot, the screen
        "Nastroika obnovlenij Windows.
        Completed: 100% .
        Don't turn the comp off"
        hanged over 19 min (30+ min ?). Then the screen
        "Ochistka (cleanup).
        Don't turn the comp off"
        lasted ~6 min. Only then the user session started.

    • The sizes of C-disk directories changed as follows w.r.t. the day before (according to the du -ms * command at fedora18-linux):
      dir 04.10.17 now change
      Windows 43162 32396 -10766
      Users 9819 8684 -1135
      ProgramData 5695 5705 10
      Program Files (x86) 4403 4403 0
      pagefile.sys 4080 4080 0
      data 4004 4004 0
      Program Files 3376 3376 0
      hiberfil.sys 3060 3060 0
      System Volume Information 1139 76 -1063
      nVidia 926 926 0
      Recovery 170 170 0
      HECI_7 13 13 0
      $Recycle.Bin 1 1 0
      NST 1 1 0
      MSOCache 1 1 0
      Intel 1 1 0
      ftconfig.ini 1 1 0
      Brother 1 1 0
      ANG0 1 1 0
      PerfLogs 0 0 0
      Documents and Settings 0 0 0
      Config.Msi 0 0 0


      and subdirs of Windows:
      dir 04.10.17 now change
      winsxs 21707 10237 -11470
      System32 10516 10451 -65
      Installer 3668 3668 0
      assembly 1694 1694 0
      SoftwareDistribution 1483 1488 5
      SysWOW64 1339 1339 0
      Microsoft.NET 818 818 0
      Temp 424 424 0
      Fonts 341 341 0
      inf 269 269 0
      tracing 259 258 -1
      servicing 253 125 -128
      ServiceProfiles 200 200 0
      IME 138 138 0
      ehome 97 97 0
      Help 89 89 0
      Logs 86 982 896
      ...      


      and subdirs of Users/fedotov/AppData/Local:
      dir 04.10.17 now change
      NVIDIA 3007 3018 11
      Google 789 789 0
      Temp 784 46 -738
      Microsoft 777 377 -400
      Mozilla 573 564 -9
      Torch 239 239 0
      iLivid 155 155 0
      Windows Live 57 57 0
      Opera 54 54 0
      Vidyo 52 52 0
      ...      

  • C:\nVidia , 923 MiB
    • According to
      Cleaning up old NVIDIA driver files to save disk space (2017 edition) https://www.gameplayinside.com/optimize/cleaning-up-old-nvidia-driver-files-to-save-disk-space/ ,
      Location 1 - installer extraction directory case,
      this folder may be emptied
    • We create a backup copy nVidia.zip putting the latter into
      manual_backups/171005.backup.nVidia/ folder of the WDntfs-2 partition of the external WD-1500GB disk.
    • Remove the content of C:\nVidia
    • Reboot. Everything seems OK.
    • C disk: used 64.3 GiB

  • C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\NvBackend\Packages , 2.86 GiB
    • contains 395 folders
      0000a8c8, ... , 000056bd (time changing from 05.10.17 to 08.01.14), or
      00009867, ... , 0000a0bd (ascending alphabetically)
      each one containing a file with the name of type DAO.22939898.exe where digits differ from file to file.

      • By mistake, we executed one of them, the 0000a8c8/DAO.22939898.exe (dir modification date 05.10.2017 16:30 -- the latest one).
        It opened a window with the title
                   "Application Ontology ver.22939898 Setup: Completed"
        and produced the output, stored in
                   171005.DAO.22939898-output
        The output suggests that the exe file is a selfextracting archive which extracted 2123 files into the directory tree growing from the
                   C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA\Updatus\ApplicationOntology
        directory.
        On the other hand, we see that the tree on disk contained exactly 2221 file. The tree has total size of 63 MB and C:\ProgramData has increased by the same 63 MB. Hence, the files did not exist before, and the unfortunate extraction can be undone by deleting the ApplicationOntology folder (empty directories in the tree might have existed before, but we make the assumption that they did not).
        It may well be that the parent folder Updatus has to be deleted as well, since it only contains the ApplicationOntology.

        NB. some info on the ApplicationOntology/Ontology.dll can be found in What is Ontology.dll? http://www.freefixer.com/library/file/Ontology.dll-142770/

        We try to undo the effect of the 0000a8c8/DAO.22939898.exe execution by deleting C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA\Updatus\ApplicationOntology.
        • Actually, we rename it to ApplicationOntology.saved from fedora linux, in order to delete the renamed dir later from Win 7.
        • Reboot to Win7 -> Alles in ordnung ; delete the renamed folder.

    • We try to decrease the size of the ...\Packages by removing all but the latest entry in it
      • We create a backup copy of Packages in Packages.zip, putting the latter into
                   manual_backups/171006.backup.Users-fedotov-AppData-Local-NVIDIA-NvBackend-Packages/
        folder of the WDntfs-2 partition of the external WD-1500GB disk.
      • Remove all entries in ...\Packages but for the latest one 0000a8c8 (date 05.10.17)
      • Reboot
      • All seems to be OK
    • C disk: used 61.5 GiB

  • Programs Torch, iLivid
    • Uninstalled via Control Panel -> Programmy i komponenty
      • This automatically removed folder iLivid and emptied folder Torch in C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local
        • Then empty folder Torch removed manually
    • C disk: used 61.1 GiB

  • Folders http+++echo.msk.ru (584 MiB) and https+++www.onlinetv.ru (319 MiB) in C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2ni860jy.default\storage\default
    • Remove the above two folders -> the ...\storage\default decreased to 34.5 MiB
    • Start Firefox -> works OK
    • C disk: used 60.2 GiB

  • C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
    • start chrome
      -> Settings
      -> Clear browsing data
      -> Clear "from the beginnig of time" : Cashed images and files plus Cookies and other site data
      • reduced the size of `User Data' from ~410 to 140 MB
      • C disk: used 60.0 GiB (64.47 out of 100.00 GB)

  • Firefox Cache (Options -> General -> Networks) -> clear (~350 MB)
    • C disk: used 59.6 GiB (64.03 out of 100.00 GB)

  • Cleanup final result :
    • the used space on disk C reduced from 78.8 to 59.6 GiB ( = 64.0 GB)
      (out of 93.1 GiB = 100 GB on disk C)

  59. (14.12.17) Rufus 2.18 (version 3.5 added 06.04.19)

"Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility"
A program to "create bootable USB drives the easy way" . Home page: https://rufus.akeo.ie/

  • rufus-2.18.exe
    downloaded to C:\Program Files (x86)\Rufus\rufus-2.18.exe
    from https://rufus.akeo.ie/ -> https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.18.exe
    • a shortcut Rufus 2.18 to the executable has been placed
      • into the above directory where the executable resides,
      • as well as into C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\AF\Rufus

  60. (19.02.19) EaseUS Partition Master Free 13.0

  • The package was installed in
               C:\Program Files (x86)\EaseUS\EaseUS Partition Master 13.0
  • Shortcuts to various executable got placed into
               C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\EaseUS Partition Master 13.0

  61. (03.03.19) IP-TV Player 49.4

62. (07.04.19) Fedora Media Writer 4.1.1 ... updated (06.01.20) to 4.1.4

  • UPD 06.01.20 : upgrade to version 4.1.4
    • The new setup file downloaded to
      C:\data\Distributives\FedoraMediaWriter\FedoraMediaWriter-win32-4.1.4.exe
      • run FedoraMediaWriter-win32-4.1.4.exe
        • some files from 4.1.1 seem to have been left in C:\Program Files (x86)\Fedora Media Writer\
          run C:\Program Files (x86)\Fedora Media Writer\uninstall.exe
      • run FedoraMediaWriter-win32-4.1.4.exe again to ensure a clean installation

  63. (16.01.20) Free antivirus Kaspersky Security Cloud -- Free 20.0

  • Runnung the setup file:
    • two programs were installed in the directories
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Security Cloud 20.0
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Secure Connection 4.0
    • a My Kaspersky account created for 00f...@gmNOSPAMPLEASE....com
    • suggested to get uninstalled / removed as incompatible, were the following two antivirus programs:
                 McAfee Security Scan Plus ,
                 Microsoft Security Essentials ;
      we agreed with the removal of the first one, but kept the MS Sec.Essentials
    • got sort of a welcome message:
      • "What does Kasp.Sec.Cloud do for you?
        Now you are protected with our Free package. It includes Anti-Virus, Secure Connection and some Adaptive Security Featires.
        See what else this security service has to offer. -- Continue / Skip."

  • Just in case, we excluded from check in MS Security Essentials
               C:\Program Files (x86)\Kaspersky Lab
    (MS SE -> tab Parameters -> excluded files and locations (ru: "fajly i raspolozheniya")

  • First Quick scan
    • Took ~2 min . No threats detected. 1120 files scanned.
    • Report from More tools -> Reports -> ... -> Export : 
      • 16.01.2020 03.30.11   Quick Scan
No threats detected
Detected: 0
Neutralized: 0
Not disinfected: 0
Release date of databases used for scan: 1/13/2020 11:19 PM
Total duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
Completion time: 1/16/2020 3:32 AM

  • Before a full scan we change settings hoping that this will prevent a real cleanup (in vain!)
    • Settings -> Scan
      -> Action on threat detection:
      • Change "Select action automatically" -> "Notify"

  • Runnung Full scan
    • Took 1h 58min. Two files detected and moved to quarantine eventually.
    • Report from More tools -> Reports -> ... -> Export : 
      • 16.01.2020 03.47.33 Full Scan
Objects detected: 2, neutralized: 0, not disinfected: 2
Detected: 2
Neutralized: 0
Not disinfected: 2
Release date of databases used for scan: 1/13/2020 11:19 PM
Total duration: 1 hour 58 minutes
Completion time: 1/16/2020 5:45 AM
    • Report from More tools -> Reports -> ...Neutralized... -> Export : 
      • 16.01.2020 06.52.13                      ! AF : file deleted in ~1 hour AFTER the scan .
                                         !      Why such a delay?
Detected object (file) deleted
C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\25\25e30ed9-1355ebf9
File: C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\25\25e30ed9-1355ebf9
Object name: HEUR:Exploit.Java.Generic
Object type: Trojan program
Time: 1/16/2020 6:52 AM
 
16.01.2020 04.41.17                      ! AF : this file deleted during the scan
Detected object (file) deleted
C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\2\7580d8c2-3a48f53e
File: C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\2\7580d8c2-3a48f53e
Object name: HEUR:Exploit.Script.Generic
Object type: Trojan program
Time: 1/16/2020 4:41 AM
    • The deleted files (backup copies) are seen in More Tools -> Security -> Quarantine , and can be either Restored or Deleted from there

  64. (30.01.20) A cleanup of C: disk

  • The increase of the dom3 memory from 4 to 8 GiB on 28.01.20 lead to a substantional increase of C:\pagefile.sys and C:\hiberfil.sys (+4 and +2 GiB respetively).
    As a result, the C: disk is practically used up :
    • C: status: free: 3.65 GiB , used: 89.4 GiB, total: 93.1 GiB = 100 GB

  • To free a space, we apply two actions from the procedure of the section 58. (04.10.17) A cleanup of the C disk space -> Cleanup (05-06.10.17) .
    • Step 1. Remove some NVIDIA files
      • The folder "C:\Users\fedotov\AppData\Local\NVIDIA\NvBackend\Packages" accumulates almost-daily updates of some auxilliary NVIDIA data (self-extracting executables actually).
        It contains 386 subfolders, of 2.52 GiB in total, with dates from 05.10.17 to 29.01.20.
        • delete all but the latest one (name = "0000f52c")
          new size of ...\Packages : 4.31 MiB
          C: free: 3.64 GiB (deleted files are in the Trash)
        • reboot -> C: free 3.74 GiB
        • clean Trash -> C: free 6.26 GiB = 3.74 + 2.52 GiB as expected
    • Step 2. Run Ochistka Diska (en: Disk Cleanup )
      • run cleanmgr.exe under admin ( Start -> search -> run as admin )
        takes ~9 min. Suggested for removal are: 
                        "Vremennye fajly Interneta"   37.2 MB
                "Vremennye fajly"            570   MB
                "Eskizy"                     116   MB
                "Ochistka obnovlenij Windows" 14.0 GB
                ------------------------------------
                Ob"em vysvobozhdaemogo prostranstva:
                                             14.7  GB
      • Press OK -> press "Udalit'" ->
        • message: "Programma ochistki diska udalyaet fajly, ne nuzhnye bolee na dannom komp'yutere",
        • takes ~13 min., finishes silently,
        • C: free 6.24 GiB -- not changed yet.
      • Reboot...
        • message "Nastrojka obnovlenij Windows. Zaversheno 100%. Ne vyklyuchajte komp'yuter"
          (~ "Configuring windows uodates. Completed 100% . Don't turn off the computer" )
          lasted ~67 min.
        • then "Ochistka. Ne vyklyuchajte komp'yuter" (~ "Cleaning up. Don't turn off the computer" )
          lasted ~11 min.
        • then, at last, "Dobro pozhalovat'" ( "Welcome" )

        • C: free: 14.4 GiB (expected was 6.26 + 14.7 = 20.96 GiB), used: 78.6 GiB
        • The net result: cleaned up are 14.4 - 6.3 = 8.1 GiB .

  • The sizes of files / dirs in C:\
    (got at the Fedora-18 linix side of the comp): 
    [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7 $ du -ms * | sort -nr  ! unit =  MiB

37492   Windows
8176    pagefile.sys
6657    data
6440    ProgramData
6132    hiberfil.sys
5349    Program Files (x86)
5281    Users
3755    Program Files
243     System Volume Information
170     Recovery
13      HECI_7
1       $Recycle.Bin
1       NST
1       MSOCache
1       Intel
1       ftconfig.ini
1       Brother
1       ANG0
0       PerfLogs
0       nVidia
0       Documents and Settings

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7 $ du -ms .         ! unit =  MiB
79703   .                                    ! 79703/1024 = 77.83

[dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7 $ du -hs .         ! unit =  G = GiB
78G     .
    and in C:\Windows : 
    [dom3] ~/mnt_fedotov/Win7/Windows $ du -ms * | sort -nr     ! unit =  MiB
11256   winsxs
10625   System32
5146    Installer
2727    assembly
2206    SoftwareDistribution
1346    SysWOW64
1007    Temp
832     Microsoft.NET
609     Logs
367     MEMORY.DMP
341     Fonts
260     tracing
253     inf
217     ServiceProfiles
168     servicing
138     IME
97      ehome
89      Help
63      Performance
46      Prefetch
46      AppCompat
39      Web
35      LiveKernelReports
26      Boot
20      ntbtlog.txt
18      Globalization
14      Media
11      AppPatch
10      twain_32
8       rescache
6       Panther
4       PolicyDefinitions
4       explorer.exe
4       diagnostics
4       Branding
3       security
3       Cursors
2       WindowsUpdate.log
...

    64.2 (08.01.21) More cleanup

  65. (12.03.20) WinDirStat 1.1.2

  66. (25.11.20) Install "MS Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019" to get vcruntime140.dll

  • The library vcruntime140.dll is needed to run programs created in MS Visual C++ Studio, and is a part of Windows component "Microsoft Visual C++ < year> Redistributable..." starting from year 2015 (also for years 2017, 2019).

  • Those executables were downloaded and run
    • The status of installed packages
      BEFORE the procedure:

      and AFTER:


      • the old "2015 - x86" package got replaced by two new "2015-2019" (for "x86" and "x64")

  • Two versions of vcruntime140.dll are available now:
    • C:\Windows\System32\vcruntime140.dll , and
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vcruntime140.dll .

  67. (01.01.21) Flashing the firmware 1.0.3 to Wexler Tab i10+ and installing
           (a) iSocUSB Driver 1.2.0 ,
           (b) Intel Android Device USB Driver 1.5.0 ,
           (c) Manufacturing Flash Tool 6.0.51

  • The installed SW included (for details of the procedure, see instructions above)
    • iSocUSB Driver 1.2.0
      • in "C:\Program Files\Intel\xFSTK\iSocUSB\"
    • Intel Android Device USB Driver 1.5.0
      • in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel Android Device USB driver\"
    • Manufacturing Flash Tool 6.0.51
      • in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Manufacturing Flash Tool\"
        • executables: ManufacturingFlashTool.exe , fastboot.exe , ...
        • User Guide: Manufacturing_Flash_Tool_User_Guide.pdf

  • The firmware was successfully loaded to the Tablet by running the ManufacturingFlashTool
    • log file: More... Close 
      # Manufacturing Phone Flash Tool Logs generated on 2021-01-02T01:13:32

######################################
#### Flash tries    1             ####
#### Flash failure  0             ####
#### Flash success  1             ####
####                              ####
#### Fail  IFWI     0             ####
#### Fail  ENUM     0             ####
#### Fail  Modem    0             ####
#### Fail  OS       0             ####
######################################

01/02/21 00:55:40.027  INFO   : Manufacturing Flash Tool V 6.0.51 (build on Tue Oct  7 14:14:35 PDT 2014)
01/02/21 00:55:40.105  INFO   : Loading settings from C:/ProgramData/INTEL/Manufacturing Flash Tool.ini
01/02/21 00:55:40.136  INFO   : Using Qt version: 4.8.1
01/02/21 00:55:40.136  INFO   : Using XFSTK version: 1.7.1.
01/02/21 00:55:40.199  WARNING: Please select a flash file...
01/02/21 01:01:00.376  INFO   : Loading Flash file (C:/data/tm/wexler_tab_i10+/Proshivka downloaded 2020/i10+/I10_software_20150923-1/flash_userdebug.xml)
01/02/21 01:01:00.438  INFO   : GP_Flag is set to 0x80000045
01/02/21 01:01:00.438  INFO   : Ready to flash!
01/02/21 01:06:11.347  INFO   : do_new_medfield_device STARTING TO FLASH
01/02/21 01:06:11.347  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: DNX/droidboot phase - SN : BaytrailB7AC3C56
01/02/21 01:06:53.517  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: Booting to droidboot.img success - SN : BaytrailB7AC3C56
01/02/21 01:07:06.616  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: Flashing OS
01/02/21 01:07:06.616  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  oem start_partitioning
01/02/21 01:07:39.519  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  flash /tmp/partition.tbl "C:\data\tm\wexler_tab_i10+\Proshivka downloaded 2020\i10+\I10_software_20150923-1\partition.tbl"
01/02/21 01:07:42.655  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  oem partition /tmp/partition.tbl
01/02/21 01:07:44.075  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  erase system
01/02/21 01:07:47.772  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  erase cache
01/02/21 01:07:50.361  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  erase factory
01/02/21 01:07:52.358  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  erase config
01/02/21 01:07:54.355  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  erase logs
01/02/21 01:07:56.991  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  erase data
01/02/21 01:08:24.572  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  oem stop_partitioning
01/02/21 01:08:25.914  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  oem wipe ESP
01/02/21 01:08:29.736  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  flash ESP "C:\data\tm\wexler_tab_i10+\Proshivka downloaded 2020\i10+\I10_software_20150923-1\esp.img"
01/02/21 01:08:41.264  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  flash fastboot "C:\data\tm\wexler_tab_i10+\Proshivka downloaded 2020\i10+\I10_software_20150923-1\droidboot.img"
01/02/21 01:08:45.960  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  flash boot "C:\data\tm\wexler_tab_i10+\Proshivka downloaded 2020\i10+\I10_software_20150923-1\boot.img"
01/02/21 01:08:50.390  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  flash recovery "C:\data\tm\wexler_tab_i10+\Proshivka downloaded 2020\i10+\I10_software_20150923-1\recovery.img"
01/02/21 01:08:55.179  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  -S 200M flash system "C:\data\tm\wexler_tab_i10+\Proshivka downloaded 2020\i10+\I10_software_20150923-1\system.img"
01/02/21 01:10:57.686  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: fastboot -s 0123456789ABCDEF  continue
01/02/21 01:10:58.622  INFO   : do_flash_finished END OF FLASH
01/02/21 01:10:58.622  INFO   : Port 0/1/4   #0: Flash success
    • also produced was the file C:\Users\fedotov\mfgft-stats.csv, containing a single line:
      2021.01.02;01:10:58;BaytrailB7AC3C56;SUCCESS;SUCCESS

  68. (01.10.21) Install "EaseUS MobiSaver for Android Free 5.0"

  • Installation:
    • run the setup file emsa_free.exe
      • a warning appeared on the final part of installation : a publisher of a driver (the driver not specified in the warning) could not be verified More... Close :
        .
        The suggestion was not to install the driver, but we took a risk of installing it nevertheless.
    • The package was installed in the folder
                 C:\Program Files (x86)\EaseUS\EaseUS MobiSaver for Android of 55.1 MiB size
    • Shortcuts to various executable got placed into
                 C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\EaseUS MobiSaver for Android"

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