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To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.After you have registered and read the, you can check out the for more information on using the forum. We hope you enjoy your stay here!Note To Spammers: We do not allow unsolicited advertising! Spam is usually reported & deleted within minutes of it being posted, so don't waste your time (or ours)! I was looking for a free alternative to the Win7 Search tool today 'cuz honestly Win7's offering fails in so many ways and is not intuitive at all. Like many others, I came across nothng but dead-end search results - much like Win7's Search!However, my situation is different because I.already have. an alternative but wanted something a little less complicated for a low-tech friend of mine.While sifting through the Google results, I found an and was surprised that - 2 years later - there hasn't been anything else. At least any other freeware I could find.Consequently, I decided to join your forum just to let you know about Agent Ransack.

1. May 14, 2016  I occasionally get this on RH2 (1511) but I find Windows 10 search more useless for finding files, even ones which are index. No, not using CCleaner. I attribute the lousy search to being from the same people who bought us Bing. Windows XP search was the most practical, after enduring the few seconds it took it get rid of the dog.
2. For over a year now the windows 7 search feature in file explorer fails (most of the time). Periodically it will work, but most of the time I can't rely on it. It is affecting my job and as an engineer with tens of thousands of files to search on regular basis I am pulling my hair out.

It certainly meets Odanez's needs (the OP of that 2010 thread). Like many others, I came across nothng but dead-end search results.I decided to take a different approach to my Google search. This time I included 'Agent Ransack' as part of the query string and it returned this article on Gizmo's Freeware:' Best Free Desktop Search Utility'The original article had only 3 products in the recommended list, but it was updated with a ' Related Products and Links' section which includes Agent Ransack and 3 others. The article was revised in the last 2 weeks, so it's still current.To my surprise, there aren't any alternatives to Ransack that don't index the hard drive. That's important to me since indexing can sometimes result in high CPU usage and create large index files (one reported as large as 46 GB.!).I guess I will be sticking with Agent Ransack unless someone can recommend something better!Offline.

Contents.Security Driver signing requirement For security reasons, versions of Windows Vista (and of as well) allow only to be installed in. Because code executing in kernel mode enjoys wide privileges on the system, the signing requirement aims to ensure that only code with known origin execute at this level. In order for a driver to be signed, a developer/software vendor will have to obtain an certificate with which to sign the driver. Authenticode certificates can be obtained from certificate authorities trusted by Microsoft. Microsoft trusts the certificate authority to verify the applicant's identity before issuing a certificate. If a driver is not signed using a valid certificate, or if the driver was signed using a certificate which has been revoked by Microsoft or the certificate authority, Windows will refuse to load the driver.The following criticisms/claims have been made regarding this requirement:.

Windows 7 has a very fast search system in the sense that if it’s going to find something it finds it pretty fast. It does that by building indices in background. But the search isn’t thorough, it’s hard to use if it doesn’t find something instantly, and in general it sucks compared to the Search program Windows had from at least windows 95 through Windows XP.

It disallows experimentation from the hobbyist community. The required Authenticode certificates for signing Vista drivers are expensive and out of reach for small developers, usually about $400–$500/year (from ). Microsoft allows developers to temporarily or locally disable the signing requirement on systems they control (by hitting F8 during boot) or by signing the drivers with self-issued certificates or by running a kernel debugger.At one time, a third-party tool called Atsiv existed that would allow any driver, unsigned or signed to be loaded. Atsiv worked by installing a signed 'surrogate' driver which could be directed to load any other driver, thus circumventing the driver signing requirement. Since this was in violation of the driver signing requirement, Microsoft closed this workaround with hotfix KB932596, by revoking the certificate with which the surrogate driver was signed.Flaws in memory protection features Security researchers and Mark Dowd have developed a technique that bypasses many of the new memory-protection safeguards in Windows Vista, such as (ASLR).

The result of this is that any already existing buffer overflow bugs that, in Vista, were previously not exploitable due to such features, may now be exploitable. This is not in itself a vulnerability: as Sotirov notes, ' What we presented is weaknesses in the protection mechanism.

It still requires the system under attack to have a vulnerability. Without the presence of a vulnerability these techniques don’t really accomplish anything.' The vulnerability Sotirov and Dowd used in their paper as an example was the 2007 animated cursor bug, -2007-0038.One security researcher (Dino Dai Zovi) claimed that this means that it is 'completely game over' for Vista security though Sotirov refuted this, saying that ' The articles that describe Vista security as 'broken' or 'done for,' with 'unfixable vulnerabilities' are completely inaccurate. One of the suggestions I saw in many of the discussions was that people should just use Windows XP. In fact, in XP a lot of those protections we’re bypassing such as ASLR don’t even exist.' Digital rights management Another common criticism concerns the integration of a new form of (DRM) into the operating system, specifically the (PVP), which involves technologies such as (HDCP) and the (ICT). These features were added to Vista due to licensing restrictions from the HD-DVD consortium and Blu-ray association.

This will concern only the resolution of playback of protected content on and discs, but it has not been enabled as of 2012. A lack of a protected channel does not stop playback. Audio plays back as normal but high-definition video downsamples on Blu-ray and HD DVD to slightly-better-than-DVD quality video.The Protected Video Path mandates that encryption must be used whenever content marked as 'protected' will travel over a link where it might be intercepted. This is called a User-Accessible Bus (UAB). Additionally, all devices that come into contact with premium content (such as graphics cards) have to be certified by Microsoft.

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