In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:05:07 -0400, Paul
wrote:
micky wrote:
I installed some software and the event viewer under Windows logs /
Application says "Installation success or error status 1603"
That's a pretty big difference! How come it doesn't know? Any chance
it was a success?
Maybe installshield keeps a log ?
As you saw later, I looked at everything with log in the name, although
I think all 4 I asked about continued to update
What about Control Panels : Programs and Features ?
I'll look. The laptop is folded up now.
Does it have a new entry ?
Is there any place to look for more details.
It's a driver program. I don't even know where drivers are usually
stored. Oh, yeah, maybe I do. Device manager. Vehicle Interface
Module. This device is working properly.**
**
Can it really say that
before the thing is connected to the car? Anyhow, no added information
here.
Drivers are stored in a driver cache. The INF directory keeps
INF files which have been anonymised to prevent collisions.
If you look in "oem23.inf" you may find it's a copy of a
different-named file from the supplier. Doing a "content search"
on the INF files, using the right kind of search term, may
identify which INF did the device installation.
I might be able to do that. And even if I get this working some other
way, I'll pursue the leads in this post.
This part is just a narrative. I'll get to questions later: I took
everything out to the car and although the driver I said above it says
**"is working properly" still was, another new device I hadn't seen in
the list before (I forget its name) had no driver. I had it search my
computer, no luck. I made the cell phone a hot spot and it spent a lot
of time looking online, but it found something. Then it spent a lot of
time downloading (with no indication of how many bytes, etc.)and then
iirc some measurable amount of time for installing. And it said it was
done, finished with no error message.
But when I looked in Device Manger under the device, it said the driver
needed updating, but the Update button, in fact all 3 buttons were
greyed out. Only the top button worked.
Later, the whole device disappeared from Device Manager. I unplugged
the car and pluggged it back in, but it still didn't reappear. This
means it will be harder to fix without going out to the car to see if
it's fixed.
Even one of the ebay reviews for this said that one had to get the
driver from Google, and I think there are a variety of possible drivers
online.
It's easier to install them on my desktop than the laptop (which is
folded up and takes up a lot of my deskspace when open.)
If I install drivers on a win10 desktop that have no use for the
desktop, does that matter? Is it just a tiny bit of harddrive space
and one or more entries in a list of drivers. So does that mean it
doesn't matter? OR, can I later uninstall drivers that have no use.
Usually I see a button for deleting drivers in device properties, but if
a driver has no device to go with, it won't be there, will it?
The Device Manager represents a registered loading of the
driver. Maybe the files come from the driver cache for
example.
You definitely need the right search tool at a time like
this. Windows Search is fine... if you configured it
correctly. For everything else, there's Agent Ransack.
I have Ransack. In fact, before I heard about the program, I
misunderstood the proper English meaning of ransack. I thought it
required that one make a mess, I thought that was the essence of it, not
the searching.
Which is a brute force search, but will find stuff...
eventually.
Used Anywhere to find all the files with ins log , install logs
and found two copies of winsat.log, one from an hour ago. What does
winsat mean? At any rate, that's another install that worked fine. (The
other is from 14 months ago, before I bought this laptop, and its in
C:\windows.old**, and it's only 1/4th as long.) **I can get rid of
this folder eventually, right?
Winsat, it's hard to tell if it's deprecated or not. It's a
performance evaluation of your hardware. "A fast processor
is a 6". It used to be popular in some cultures years ago,
to post the benchmarks for your particular hardware,
as a form of bragging. "My SSD is 8, your HDD is 6."
I'm not sure what this all has to do with running an
OS though. Maybe if you were a dumb ass, you'd
notice that the cheap video card you bought is slow.
What a surprise. Obvious tool is obvious.
In some cases, it may make it possible to determine
something is wrong with the driver config. For example,
if a video card was running a VESA driver (Microsoft
Basic Display Adapter), perhaps a WinSat number would
tweak the user to that fact. "Your video is 1 because
the current driver stinks." But because WinSat is almost
invisible now, what are the odds of that happening ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...ssessment_Tool
I'll read this later.
It's almost like receiving a shoe shine, but not
being able to enjoy it, because it's pitched black
dark in here.
I used to shine my shoes, but it's hard to shine sneakers.
Looking at any file with log in the name and sorting by date and
looking at files at 12:37AM, when the Event Viewer said I installed the
other program, I find files called
edb.log which I can't look at, in use by another program What is EDB?
Psi.log incomprehensible. What is PSI?
a minute later:
AVGUi.log in use. I know what AVG is, but I didnt' get a virus warning?
idpagent.log incomprehensible What is it, ID Page NT?
Well, a file like Windows.edb, belongs to Windows Search.
It's an inverted index (indexes content) for searches.
The database type is ESE Jet Blue, a Microsoft favorite.
Having an edb.log implies something related to a
running copy of a database. So EDB means
"ESE Jet Blue DataBase".
*******
Perhaps psi.log belongs to Secunia PSI.
https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftw...od_but_bye_bye
*******
idpagentdetection.log
idpagent.log.*
secapi.log.*
located in C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\log ?
Behavior Shield ?
That's what I need, a behavior shield. Although now that I'm older I
don't need it so much.
*******
You are in a twisty place full of passages.
You were eaten by a grue.
"Zork's grues fear light and devour human adventurers,
making it impossible to explore the game's dark areas
without a light source."
Paul
I'll let you know how it goes.