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Windows Forum / Windows Me / System Tools / February 2005PING Mike M: re: Nirsoft's ShellExView
Just got around to installing this free tool. Wow. What a powerful and detailed tool: ShellExView v1.10 - Shell Extensions Manager Copyright (c) 2003 - 2004 Nir Sofer http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html So please explain briefly how you use it, Mike.  SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ Jack, The most common reason for my using ShExView has been when I have been unable to delete certain AVI files due to them being in use. The fix being to open ShExView and to temporarily disable the AVI Properties handler. Other times I've used it have been to temporarily disable shell extensions that add to the right click context menu entries such as WinZip, WinRAR, UltraEdit, etc. I also use an application MP3Ext which is an Explorer add-on that adds several columns to Explorer relating to ID3 fields in MP3 files. Sometimes I want to disable this as it can occasionally seem to get "confused". ShExView enables me to do all of this and more. I'm sure Chris can provide many far more useful examples. ShExView also allows you to see what might have been added behind your back (sort on Product name or Company). SignatureMike > Just got around to installing this free tool. Wow. What a powerful > and detailed tool: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > So please explain briefly how you use it, Mike. I've just noticed that ShExView is now v1.10. I was still using v1.01. I see there are some interesting changes including highlighting non OS extensions that have been added. Gets better and better. SignatureMike > Just got around to installing this free tool. Wow. What a powerful > and detailed tool: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > So please explain briefly how you use it, Mike. Ditto here, Mike - Thanks for spotting the update. Mart > I've just noticed that ShExView is now v1.10. I was still using v1.01. I > see there are some interesting changes including highlighting non OS [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >> So please explain briefly how you use it, Mike. Mart, I nearly missed Jack's reference to 1.10 rather than 1.01. I don't know what it was but something made me return to his post after my initial reply and then it dawned on me what it was that had caught my attention. :-) Done all your patching yet? I prefer on my main PC to install each patch separately so I can log the changes and am not overly pleased that on XP five of the 8 critical patches need a reboot! At least on the other boxes I maintain I can install all at once knowing already the changes made by each one. Thank Goodness it's only once a month nowadays. SignatureMike > Ditto here, Mike - Thanks for spotting the update. > Done all your patching yet? Not on the laptop yet - tomorrow. But, yes on the desktop. Did all 9 in one go - total confidence? (This man's a fool <g>) BTW - Since the xmas catastrophe, the desktop is now running as sweet as a nut (subject to the 9 patches <g>) I now rely on XP Firewall and the one in my Router and have abandoned ZA. That's speeded things up a bit too. I'll give you a bell sometime using my 1p 'phone calls - thanks for the advice/recommendation. Mart > Mart, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >> Ditto here, Mike - Thanks for spotting the update. >> Done all your patching yet? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I'll give you a bell sometime using my 1p 'phone calls - thanks for > the advice/recommendation. I'm still hanging on to ZA simply because it gives me some idea as to what is calling out but am becoming increasingly tempted to drop it and fall back on XP's Firewall (and the router of course) as ZA can sometimes get into a frenzy and really consume cpu cycles. Hope to get a chance for a chat sometime soon, Cheers, SignatureMike <lol> If you're a fool so am I <vbg> I did them last night all 9 without any problems and one reboot. I did John's machine this morning and I must say since going broadband the speed things go through now amazes me <g> Joan PS: My calls are free in the evenings <g> >>Done all your patching yet? > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Mart Well done Joan! - Thanks for reminding me <g>. I've set my laptop and it's d/ling now. The system Mike put me on to is 1p per call, 24/7. Mart > <lol> If you're a fool so am I <vbg> I did them last night all 9 without > any problems and one reboot. I did John's machine this morning and I must [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >> Mart Thanks for all your comments. I must say Mr. Sofer's tool is very sweet. I noticed immediately the column labeling the MS vs. non-MS additional extensions as a very useful way of immediately identifying possible pests. BTW, for those of you depending on the router NAT to stop trojans phoning home, are you configured to receive popup warnings of such activity, or do you have to review the router activity log to see the evidence of such activity? For the casual user, I think the ZA popups are very helpful about warning of malware attempting to get back to the "mother". Few such users are capable enough or disciplined enough to read a log repeatedly, esp., since it most often has nothing interesting to report. What do you think? SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ <SNIP> Jack, re: ZA - I was reluctant to have to abandon ZA for those very reasons that you and Mike have both highlighted. But it kept 'timing-out' or more specifically 'locking-out' my ASDL connection - a re-boot seemingly, the only way I could re-connect. Several uninstalls & reinstalls repeatedly pointing to ZA as the problem. - Maybe a setting that I have missed? However, due to the reasons I mentioned previously - along with other issues (ZATrueVector Security engine) giving me serious grief - I decided, reluctantly, to pull the plug - it became a pita. I may revisit at a later time (next update?) and see if it improves. Mart > Thanks for all your comments. I must say Mr. Sofer's tool is very sweet. > I [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > What do you think? In the same circumstances, I think I would have done the same. Certainly if neither my DSL provider nor Zone Labs could offer a solution. OTH, Process Explorer reports just now that the cpu idle time, using a DUN connection here, is >98%, and no ZA modules are using > 0.5% of cpu time. In fact, even the notorious Symantec modules are not above 0.5%. The free ZA firewall is certainly no performance hog here under WinME. I don't doubt that your experience is different, and you are quite unlikely to have made a silly configuration error. SignatureJack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ > Jack, re: ZA - I was reluctant to have to abandon ZA for those very reasons > that you and Mike have both highlighted. But it kept 'timing-out' or more [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > > > What do you think? It all depends on what the box is doing and being used for. I have an XP box here which was last booted 1 week and 19 hrs and 18 mins (that's 187 hours) ago and shows vsmon.exe at 20hr 13 min, explorer at 5:38 and idle at 135:06. IOW vsmon has used 10.8% of all cpu cycles since the PC was last booted. SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com > In the same circumstances, I think I would have done the same. > Certainly if neither my DSL provider nor Zone Labs could offer a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I don't doubt that your experience is different, and you are quite > unlikely to have made a silly configuration error. > It all depends on what the box is doing and being used for. I have > an XP box here which was last booted 1 week and 19 hrs and 18 mins > (that's 187 hours) ago and shows vsmon.exe at 20hr 13 min, explorer > at 5:38 and idle at 135:06. IOW vsmon has used 10.8% of all cpu > cycles since the PC was last booted. Eight hours later and I eventually shut down ZA Pro at which time vsmon cpu usage had risen to something over 22hrs. More importantly though memory usage had risen to something over 500MB and even with 1GB of RAM this was causing the pagefile to increase in size. Something not quite right and could be due to a problem with UDP packets. Note this was, as I mentioned earlier, on a box running XP Pro SP2. SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com Yes he told me about that but I'm with Onetel for everything just have to pay BT for the line rental which has gone down by half since getting broadband and being able to get rid of one of my phone lines. Joan > The system Mike put me on to is 1p per call, 24/7. > > Mart |
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