influenced dot net » Windows http://www.influenced.net Mark Hutton Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:59:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Windows 7 File Sharing Issue http://www.influenced.net/2009/09/22/windows-7-file-sharing-issue/ http://www.influenced.net/2009/09/22/windows-7-file-sharing-issue/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:36:34 +0000 Mark http://www.influenced.net/?p=157 I have come across the following issue on Windows 7 Pro x64

File sharing broke itself very quickly.. I enabled Public Folder sharing, disabled need for password, copied a few files into it.

Next I tried to copy the files to 2 different Vista 32 machines & an XP machine

The first Vista machine managed to successfully copy the files, the 2nd would show the folders but no files and the XP machine just failed completely citing “You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Not enough server storage is available to process this command.”

After a bit of googling I ended up modifying the following registry key

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size

Set it to: 3

Source: lamielle.net

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]]> http://www.influenced.net/2008/09/03/google-chrome/feed/ 0 How to stop Quicktime hijacking audio/mpeg (mp3) in Firefox http://www.influenced.net/2008/08/27/how-to-stop-quicktime-hijacking-audiompeg-mp3-in-firefox/ http://www.influenced.net/2008/08/27/how-to-stop-quicktime-hijacking-audiompeg-mp3-in-firefox/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:31:28 +0000 Mark http://www.influenced.net/2008/08/27/how-to-stop-quicktime-hijacking-audiompeg-mp3-in-firefox/ This frustrated the shit out of me. My setup: Vista Business SP1, Firefox 3.0.1, Quicktime 7.5 (861).

No matter how hard I tried, besides disabling the Quicktime plugin in Vista, moving/deleting npqtplugin4.dll in the Firefox plugins folder or hex editing it, Firefox 3.0.1 would always play any mp3s I clicked in a full screen Quicktime plugin.

The about:plugins shows the following:

QuickTime Plug-in 7.5 (861)

File name:
npqtplugin4.dll
The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
video/mpeg MPEG media mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1v,m1a,m75, m15,mp2,mpm,mpv,mpa Yes
audio/mpeg MPEG audio mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm, mpa,m2a Yes
audio/x-mpeg MPEG audio mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm, mpa,m2a Yes
video/3gpp 3GPP media 3gp,3gpp Yes

How the hell do you change one of those values to say “enabled: no”?

Changing Mime Type associations in Firefox via Options -> Applications does nothing – Quicktime always gets there first

Changing Mime Settings in Quicktime Preferences launches Vista’s Set Program Associations which is also fruitless

After much digging around, I have worked out that the following will let you handle audio/mpeg (mp3) the way you want:

  • Go to about:config
  • Type ‘plugin’ in the filter box (minus quotes)
  • Look for ‘plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types’
  • If it already exists and contains a value, add ‘,audio/mpeg’ to the end of it, otherwise just change the value to ‘audio/mpeg’
  • Fully close Firefox, wait a few seconds for it to clean up and die
  • Launch Firefox again.. click an MP3 link.. voila! it does whatever you’ve specified in your Firefox Options -> Applications
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Thanks to decheung.com for the heads up!

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Anyway, using the new Reliability and Performance Monitor I could see that a service was writing lots of data to the folder that System Restore uses (i.e. \System Volume Information). Disabling System Restore solved the drive thrashing, however as I am running Vista Business, it also disables the ‘Previous Versions’ feature (this may have been the actual culprit anyway)

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Anyway, I googled it and the solution is to disable enhancements for the playback device in use. Screenshot below!

Screenshot

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You can get Windows working if you boot with your XP CD and go to the recovery console.. then type:

disable uagp35
exit

Now windows will boot but your display will be extremely slugish

That should sort it out for you

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The last thing I did yesterday on my “gaming machine” was install the ATI Catalyst 5.8…

I come to play GTA:SA today and it doesn’t work.. wtf – spinning CD icon then nothing.

Numerous reboots later and still no luck.

  • Disabled reforce
  • Updated BIOS to latest version (1.30->1.A0), Neo2 Platinum MB
  • Restore BIOS settings to overclocked state

No joy

Search on google… find some forum thread about GTA: SA not working after 5.8 driver update! Uninstall 5.8′s, install 5.7′s

GTA:SA crashes after 2mins now

Setting ATI Tool back to use default values seems to work alright – so now I can’t overclock my graphics card

The BIOS update seems to have fixed the stalling on “Detecting IDE drives” which I sometimes get.. strange

So I don’t know if I should restore my 1.3 version of the BIOS with the original settings or what!

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