The Q/A Thread

[IA64]

Originally Posted by shevchenco

I already tried this and the clipboard was fine. Thanks for the instructions, but, luckily, I didn't need them. 3azzebak mish 3al fadeh as I am pretty sure others would run into this problem. What I did is I ran a full system scan and there were a couple of adawares and 13 application errors () in the google chrome folder. After the anti-virus did its job by cleaning the folder, I, simply, restarted and BINGO! I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again. I can copy/paste again.

Thanks .

You welcome ( Must be that I mentioned my name somewhere around ) Jk..

[shevchenco]

Originally Posted by IA64

You welcome ( Must be that I mentioned my name somewhere around ) Jk..

you have but I edited my post. aslan it's against the rules to post personal info .

[michom]

Is there any way to run chkdsk without rebooting the system on Vista? or any other tool that can fix the errors on my drive without a reboot? it is my business laptop and chkdsk won't start on boot, Vista boots normally so I guess the company IT has some security regarding this... anyway, any ideas?

[IA64]

Originally Posted by michom

Is there any way to run chkdsk without rebooting the system on Vista? or any other tool that can fix the errors on my drive without a reboot? it is my business laptop and chkdsk won't start on boot, Vista boots normally so I guess the company IT has some security regarding this... anyway, any ideas?

Well if you want to run chkdsk on the boot partition you need to unlock the drive, so a reboot is obligatory.

If checkdisk is not working on reboot, you may wanna check this, seems people had the same problem and managed to solve it using method 4.

Check Disk - chkdsk - Vista Forums


Another good suggestion is to run checkdisk manually from CMD before booting.. here's how to http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/19...t-startup.html

Cheers..

[michom]

IA64,
I didn't want to get into details about this laptop, but now it seems I need to, it wasn't a newbie question. I can not boot any CD or USB, BIOS is a custom firmware by the IT and also that method of using F8 to get into command prompt isn't available on my laptop, already tried that. I was just asking if there's any way to fix the errors while the disc is mountable. I also can't remove the drive and plug it in somewhere else as secondary to fix it, as all the while hard disk is encrypted... I will give that registry method a try...

[IA64]

Originally Posted by michom

IA64,
I didn't want to get into details about this laptop, but now it seems I need to, it wasn't a newbie question. I can not boot any CD or USB, BIOS is a custom firmware by the IT and also that method of using F8 to get into command prompt isn't available on my laptop, already tried that. I was just asking if there's any way to fix the errors while the disc is mountable. I also can't remove the drive and plug it in somewhere else as secondary to fix it, as all the while hard disk is encrypted... I will give that registry method a try...

Ahem, that's another story, I believe nothing is gonna help you out with such situation because when the machine boots to run chkdsk, the services needed to provide the private key for EFS decryption are not running so you are stuck. My company has also applied almost the same policies which is driving the employees crazy. Still I havent migrated my laptop to the new image so still enjoying some privilieges. Maybe we are working for the same company?

[michom]

I am not sure the forum rules allows us to mention where we work? I don't think so anyway, the company i work for provides me with their own laptop, all employees worldwide using same image, same laptop series, and the encryption software runs before Vista I think. The glory of memorizing a bunch of passwords and carrying code generators, a little too much exaggerated. I don't have the privilege of buying my own laptop and use it... Well at some point I can understand them, it makes it easier for them to run the IT support desk and handle drivers, security patches, etc, whichever country I am in support is easier... unless I am stuck in a country where local IT support isn't available to do that for me

All I know is my laptop hard disk is giving me a hard time and I can't do anything about it, I hope it survives till I go back to Beirut and send it to IT department for a format...

[IA64]

Originally Posted by michom

I am not sure the forum rules allows us to mention where we work? I don't think so

Oups... I already mentioned that in my profile since I joined ...

[orange infection]

after getting tired from updating my nod32 keys daily i installed avira antivirus
.... it's not updating , always stuck on "scan for updates"
7ada 3endo this anti virus ???
any clue ?

[SputNik]

Get their latest AV signature database from Here You won't have to extract it, just go to Update---Manual Update and locate the rar/zip file you downloaded, it should update to the latest definitions release date which is 6/7 November, from now on it should do automatic update just fine, this is usually caused by slow connection or slow update servers, always had this problem after a fresh avira install and that's the only way to fix it. btw it's the best run time detection antivirus out there.