tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173677.post7266681226870861732..comments2023-08-03T10:01:21.218-07:00Comments on Conor's Web Log of Esoterica: A painful VistaConor P. Cahillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18408504477586184299noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173677.post-82860109471185011632011-01-11T08:15:25.611-08:002011-01-11T08:15:25.611-08:00I bought my Mother a computer for her birthday las...I bought my Mother a computer for her birthday last year and i was slightly worried about it due to the fact that it had Vista operating system and I had heard so much bad things about it, such as blue screen errors, random crashing. I actually considered reformatting her computer with XP Pro if she started having troubles, but to date she hasn't had any problems.NW Professional Taxhttp://www.nwtaxpreparation.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173677.post-90028053766865609992008-01-02T06:53:00.000-08:002008-01-02T06:53:00.000-08:00Thanks for the link. That is an interesting artic...Thanks for the link. That is an interesting article and an especially clear description from Microsoft. <BR/><BR/>It's also interesting that none of the people in that thread complained about the corrupt filesystem problems I experienced. Perhaps they did not let their systems run long enough to experience that problem.<BR/><BR/>In any case, my re-install so far seems to have done the job as I'm now at the 3 month point and so far no similar problems with corrupted file systems. I do have to admit that I haven't installed <B>all</B> of the tools I had prior to the reinstall, so it's possible I could run into it again (and hence why I have been in no rush to install them).<BR/><BR/>ConorConor P. Cahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18408504477586184299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173677.post-55343769802285135042008-01-02T04:51:00.000-08:002008-01-02T04:51:00.000-08:00See this thread from the Acronis True Image forum:...See this thread from the Acronis True Image forum:<BR/><BR/>http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=175737&page=2&highlight=transaction+resource+manager<BR/><BR/>QUOTE:<BR/><BR/>October 30th, 2007, 05:35 PM <BR/> CGAllred_MSFT <BR/>Infrequent Poster Join Date: Oct 2007<BR/>Posts: 1 <BR/> <BR/> Re: Acronis On Vista Blocks Task Creation <BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Hopefully somebody is still monitoring this thread; I have some information that you might like to hear.<BR/><BR/>My name is Christian Allred and I'm a developer at Microsoft on Transactional NTFS (TxF). TxF is the component responsible for the transactional resource managers mentioned in the NTFS 137 events. I just wanted to let you guys know that we've fixed this issue for Vista service pack 1 and Windows Server 2008.<BR/><BR/>Acronis provided us a copy of TrueImage, and we were able to determine that the issue is a bug in an NTFS routine that handles the FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME control code. The bug was in the mechanism that we use to get TxF resource managers out of the way to allow a LOCK_VOLUME request to work. The result of a bug was that if sombody used an asynchronous handle to issue FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME, we'd erroneously keep a flag set that would prevent us from starting TxF resource managers again on the volume until you dismounted/remounted the volume. It turns out that some backup and defrag products, including TrueImage, issue FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME on async handles, triggering the bug.<BR/><BR/>The reason that putting a page file on a volume prevents the bug (and cause the "Analyzing partitions" part to move faster, as mwang noted) is that TrueImage doesn't bother to try locking the volume, since it knows already that the lock will fail in the presence of a page file.<BR/><BR/>The info you guys provided in this thread was quite useful to us in narrowing down the cause and figuring out how to fix this. Thanks.<BR/>__________________<BR/>Christian Allred<BR/>Software Development Engineer<BR/>Microsoft Corp. <BR/> <BR/>UNQUOTEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173677.post-58956371276644430472007-12-06T10:24:00.000-08:002007-12-06T10:24:00.000-08:00Hi Conor,I am trying to add Alert Task on Vista th...Hi Conor,<BR/><BR/>I am trying to add Alert Task on Vista that will trigger batch file to run. The problem is my batch file won't run.<BR/>Now, I am sure that the triggering event does occur, but somehow I miss configured Alert Task so it doesn't run the batch file.<BR/>What I wrote at text box for "Run this task when alert is triggered" is C:\Users\zacimovic\Desktop\sutdown.bat<BR/>Other text boxes I left blank. Also I added Alert Action to trigger monitoring certain perf counters. When my event does occur, monitoring of counters does begin, but my shutdown.bat file is not run. Do you have any idea what should I write in those other fields at Alert Task dialog? These fields are: "Run this task when alert is triggered", "Task Arguments", "Task argument user text", "Example task argument". My batch script does work on WinXP and when run manually.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173677.post-72583490020797089882007-10-04T06:52:00.000-07:002007-10-04T06:52:00.000-07:00As far as I can tell, Vista only uses the TPM as i...As far as I can tell, Vista only uses the TPM as it's root of trust & security store for bitlocker -- a somewhat limited disk encryption methhodology that will only protect your system (boot) drive. Since I keep all my data on my data drive, it doesn't offer me much value.<BR/><BR/>I don't understand the implied issue with the TPM. Seems to be a useful capability, though I'm just exploring how/where I can make use of it.Conor P. Cahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18408504477586184299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29173677.post-62325528646039730402007-10-04T04:22:00.000-07:002007-10-04T04:22:00.000-07:00Oh!!! But Vista uses that TPM that Intel so loves!...Oh!!! But Vista uses that TPM that Intel so loves! So in a sense y'all deserve each other... SorryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com