O.T. - How can I delete Firefox add-on

Mark Twain wrote:
Hello Paul,

I tried it again with the new command:

http://i57.tinypic.com/4vqtxt.jpg

I don't know if I did this correctly since it
didn't reveal any files:

http://i60.tinypic.com/16c06ww.jpg

so I typed what you gave me

http://i58.tinypic.com/25i9nac.jpg

and it gave this:

http://i59.tinypic.com/152c0lg.jpg

Robert

OK, you missed the fact that there is a space
in the command

type= own

The space character occurs between "type=" and "own".

And the list of commands I gave, you are supposed
to verify with "tasklist /svc", which service host
or "svchost" is the suspicious one.

Then, look at the entire list of services inside,
such as "audioendpointbuilder". The purpose of doing
these commands, is a temporary measure, to place
things like "audioendpointbuilder" in its own
private svchost.

Then, the next time a svchost uses up a lot of CPU,
you can look in Task Manager, get the PID. Using
"tasklist /svc", if the svchost only had
"audioendpointbuilder" inside, then you'd know
for sure that was the one causing the problem.
And then you'd Google for reasons that
particular one was broken.

When you're finished, you can put things
back the way you found them, by issuing the
sc command again, only this time the part
on the end would be

type= share

And you would do that for all the ones that previously
you used the type= own option.

HTH,
Paul

Mark Twain wrote:
I re-read this page and saw that
I did not leave a space after the
equal sign, so I re-did it with
a space and this is what it gave:

http://i57.tinypic.com/14xjbb9.jpg

Robert

You missed the "end" part :-)

audio pointbuild
audioendpointbuild

The Audio Endpoint Builder would be
some piece of software that glues sounds
from applications, to one of your sound
output cards. It might include functions
like a volume control for each application
playing a sound. That sort of thing.

Paul

Mark Twain wrote:
It shows Avast is on and I'm protected:

http://i61.tinypic.com/b7dyc5.jpg

Yes, but my point is that I had the same stuff
on my computer previously and its never given me
the Action Center message. So why now, especially
as it shows Avast is working.

Robert

It's a software race condition and it is
just slow getting started.

You've already tried disabling shields and
re-enabling shields, and that's about all the
folks at Avast have to offer.

As far as I know, the WMI Repository is the
information store used by Action Center.
Avast registers some information in there.
Action Center reads it out. The scheme
is something like that.

In this example, you can see an attempt
to verify the Repository is working OK.

winmgmt /verifyrepository

You would do that in an elevated cmd.exe
(Run as Administrator). This is my result.

http://i60.tinypic.com/ic08t1.jpg

The commands that go with that, in cases
where there is damage to the repository,
include

winmgmt /salvagerepository
winmgmt /resetrepository

but there is no reason to be interested
in those commands just yet. The first
command is safe to run, as all it does
is check that the repository is consistent.

Paul

It seems I'm missing everything and not
doing anything right. I need to re-read
your instructions.

So I have to wait for a lag to do all of
this?

Right now I'm tired and my upper and lower
ruptured disks are killing me as well as my
sciatic nerve.

Lets give it a days rest

Robert

Mark Twain wrote:
It seems I'm missing everything and not
doing anything right. I need to re-read
your instructions.

So I have to wait for a lag to do all of
this?

Right now I'm tired and my upper and lower
ruptured disks are killing me as well as my
sciatic nerve.

Lets give it a days rest

Robert


No problem.

Maybe when you're up to it, start a fresh thread,
as this one is "going off the side of the screen".

The objective here, is to try to gather evidence
as to what is wrong with your setup. The "take= own"
is used so services living in a svchost, can be
separated. Then, the guilty one will stand out.

So that's what that effort was about.

Paul

On 05 Apr 2015, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Your bookmarks are just a file, and it can be saved. But I'll
leave someone else tell you how and where to look, because I'm
using a very old version of FF and Win98, so i'm sure I'd be
telling you the wrong info.

Or just use the SEARCH feature of Windows and search for a file
called BOOKMARKS. It should be in a folder called Mozilla or
FIREFOX. (or both).

You are off the mark on all counts.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ores-user-data

Nil wrote:
On 05 Apr 2015, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Your bookmarks are just a file, and it can be saved. But I'll
leave someone else tell you how and where to look, because I'm
using a very old version of FF and Win98, so i'm sure I'd be
telling you the wrong info.

Or just use the SEARCH feature of Windows and search for a file
called BOOKMARKS. It should be in a folder called Mozilla or
FIREFOX. (or both).

You are off the mark on all counts.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ores-user-data

There is actually an about:config setting that can help.

browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML True

and False is the default state. So as shipped, Firefox
does not automatically keep a readable file ready for
your usage. You have to change that setting.

You can change that from "about:config", which is
something you type in the URL bar. about:config is
also accessible from the Preferences panel in the
Advanced section, as the Configuration Editor or similar.

Paul

On 07 Apr 2015, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

There is actually an about:config setting that can help.

browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML True

and False is the default state. So as shipped, Firefox
does not automatically keep a readable file ready for
your usage. You have to change that setting.

Interesting. Does that make Firefox maintain the text bookmarks file as
well as the sqlite database? Does it continue to actually the database
for it's work?

Nil wrote:
On 07 Apr 2015, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

There is actually an about:config setting that can help.

browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML True

and False is the default state. So as shipped, Firefox
does not automatically keep a readable file ready for
your usage. You have to change that setting.

Interesting. Does that make Firefox maintain the text bookmarks file as
well as the sqlite database? Does it continue to actually the database
for it's work?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...m-sqlite-files

"Bookmarks are held in places.sqlite"

"You might want to install the firefox addon "SQLite Manager""

You can see it's all a giant load of fun. As well as the
JSON or JSONlz4 files, that I can't seem to figure out
when Firefox consults or uses them (instead of extracting
from places.sqlite).

Paul