Yea, I scratch my head at the people turning off Defender and installing what to me are clearly inferior AV/Malware programs...like Avast or even that gosh-awful McAfee's. As Murphy78 says, mostly it's a psychological, peace-of-mind thing and if you are selective and picky you don't have to worry. I like Defender whenever I--uh--download something I know that I maybe ought not to trust 100% (rarely) and then individually scan the thing before decompression (and after, before installation.) I started using it when it was a separate program, MSE, and have had no reason to use anything else in maybe a decade or so (my, how time flies when you're getting older.) One of the things I like most about MSE/Defender is how it's almost immune to false positives! I don't see 'em. That and it's got a really small resources footprint and is the least invasive of the lot, imo. One AV proggy I tried, tried to impress me by flagging *reams* of false positives that amounted to little more than partial text strings it found in the registry left behind as debris from program uninstalls--the damned AV program (Malwarebytes? Can't recall) flagged them as *possible malware*--and when I went through the log to see what was what--it was all a bunch of malarkey... Oh, and all of those supposed AV "tests" that hit the Internet from time to time? Most if not all of them are paid for by other AV developers and in one "10 Best AV programs" article I unfortunately wasted my time reading, not a single free AV program had even been tested. Heck, even Dell stupidly turns off Defender and installs McAfee...for heaven's sake! I ignore those tests and instead rely on my long experience which tells me Defender is plenty good enough.
Totally agreed. The use of Sandboxie and anything like Appguard along Defender would be the "strongest" defense against malware though.
I updated to TP from 8.1 I even modified library icons with XML and it worked fine. Applied a few reg tweaks (notepad, copy to etc.) they all seem to work. Journal clear.Bat works. @echo off FOR /F "tokens=1,2*" %%V IN ('bcdedit') DO SET adminTest=%%V IF (%adminTest%)==(Access) goto noAdmin for /F "tokens=*" %%G in ('wevtutil.exe el') DO (call o_clear "%%G") echo. echo goto theEnd o_clear echo clearing %1 wevtutil.exe cl %1 goto :eof :noAdmin exit Acronis 2014 works I even had all my SQL files. Just had to install WebDev 18 EditX works DropBox works PGP works (surprised!) Snagit 12 works Hamachi (piece of crap) works (need it for work) Team Viewer works I think it's easier stating what doesn't work.
Anyone using UNi Xonar Drivers? (with Low DPC Latency) I've read it doesn't like this Technical Preview all that much.
I wish I knew more about sandboxie. I'd like to think it's adequate protection, but I'm not so sure. I'm thinking something like a crypter that injects itself into a system process wouldn't work on something like sandboxie. In those cases only something like an actual VM would be secure. On a VM, there's really no way it could escape its little box.
Like when I mount the Alien Isolation ISO and try to start the Setup.exe, then I get a file not found error. Tested with v9.6.1.3016 Premium Edition.
And what's happen about if you right click on the ISO in Windows File Manager and choose: Mount? Works or didn't works?
PowerISO also causes an error. When you mount an image, and try to run something from the virtual drive, it displays: "Incorrect Function" Also, when I installed watch dogs, it displayed "Out of Range" error. That's strange.
That works ! Thanks for the tip ! Since when is that function available ? PS: I do pretty much everything via Total-Commander-Ultima-Prime. Edit: It worked as long I din't eject the ISO via right-click, because when I try to re-mount the same ISO, then I get the following error: Edit-2: My UltraISO Drive is M: The Alien Isolation ISO got mounted to H: The Anno 2070 ISO get's mounted to O:, after I ejected the Alien ISO via right-click.
But it seems to have some issues. Re-Read my edited post #138. Edit: If I eject the Anno ISO via right-click, I'm able to re-mount it, but the Alien ISO refuses to re-mount. Edit-2: After I removed H: (I think) via Disk Management, the Anno ISO get's now mounted to H: and not O: anymore, but the Alien ISO still refuses to re-mount. Edit-3: If I assign the Drive-Letter H: to the re-appeared drive under the Disk Management, then the Anoo ISO get's mounted the next time to O: again, but the Alien ISO still refuses to re-mount. Edit-4: Un-installed UltraISO and left the Drive with the Letter H: under the Disk Management as it was and when I now re-mount the Anno ISO it get's mounted to M: and no change to the Alien ISO. Edit-5: Removed the assigned Drive-Letter H: under the Disk Management and didn't re-assign a Drive-Letter. When I mount the Anno ISO, then it get's mounted to H:, then I eject it and re-mount the ISO and it get's mounted to O:, then eject and re-mount and it get's now mounted to M:, then eject and re-mount and it get's assigned H: again. So it cycles through the following Drive-Letters for the mount of the ISO: H: -> O: -> M: -> H: ... Still no luck with the Alien ISO, but I will have a look if a system re-boot will change something. Edit-6: If I re-boot the system, then the CD-ROM 1 under the Disk Management, which had no Drive-Letter assigned, disappears. When I then try to re-mount the Alien ISO, then I still get the Error-Message, but afterwards the CD-ROM 1 re-appears under the Disk-Management with the Alien ISO mounted to it, but no Drive-Letter got assigned. After I manually assign a Drive-Letter ( H: to the CD-ROM 1 with the mounted Alien ISO I'm able to access the ISO, but as I eject it I can't re-mount it without deleting the Drive-Letter of the CD-ROM 1 under Drive-Management and re-booting the system and repeating the previous steps. It looks to me that the Alien ISO somehow got stuck somewhere in the mounting / virtual drive system of Windows or maybe only in Windows TP. It looks at least quite buggy to me and I would like to use a better working 3rd-Party-App. Edit-7: After another re-boot of the system I'm now able to un-mount and re-mount the Alien ISO, which then cycles through the Drive-Letter like the Anno ISO before (H: -> O: -> M: -> H, at least if I do it via right-click out of the Total Commander Ultima Prime v6.0 .