Helloween Edition - beta 1

[pudelein]

I downloaded and installed the halloween Edition Beta1 this afternoon and gave it a whirl. I am happy to report that it totally removes the "slow loading" issue: the initial progress bar appears on my 1.7 GHz P4 in around 4 sec now instead of more than 4 min(!) before. The scans are significantly faster than in 1.5.1.15 and even somewhat faster than in 1.4 All this is excellent.

One comment, however: I had some trouble turning off the "usage trace" scanning. It would be nice if this feature could be made more prominent. I do not want such because I manage cookies using CCleaner and having to deal with cookies selectively in more than one place (browser, CCleaner, SSD, ...) is a pain.

The shredder option in the context menus is an interesting touch. However, this should be made optional: make an option parallel to those for TeaTimer,
selected perhaps in the installer and/or in the SSD settings menu. Again this is a feature I personally do not need since I have SecureDelete and Privacy Guardian, both of which already are in the context menu.

Looks like a winner from here! Good work!

[PepiMK]

Oh, the context menu option is actually not the shredder, but a tool that allows you to remove (for example malware) files even if they're not removable through the Explorer, because they're associated with a running process, loaded as a module or as a file into another application, etc..

But you're right, both additional tools should be optional. I had in mind to add options to the installer, but due to those unexpected changes I was making to the localization of the installer, I somehow didn't make it in time

[DrDemento]

As a novice could someone please explain how I go about installing this new beta .17? Do I uninstall version 1.5 that I currently have with the .16 beta patch first and then download and intall this new Beta as a full install?

[sims39]

Windows Vista Home Premium
32-bit Operating System
1014 MB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2450 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
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1. When i installed the Halloween Edition i selected download updates, unticked languages and blinduser. I got this error

Unable to execute file:
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SDWinSec.exe

CreateProcess failed; code 740.
The requested operation requires elevation.



2. When the steps window popped up, with the 1 out of 7 steps displayed i pressed 'Next step' or whatever its called and it went straight to the 7th step, where did the other 5 go?



3. Why is it when i selected Update there was available updates and one called 'updated immunization database' when i selected download updates immediately in immunization.



4. When i clicked immunize after all the updates i just downloaded, the immunization and English files and startup entry, i clicked immunize and i got this dialog error
'You are missing administrator rights to perform this action.
If you need to do this, please run this application elevated as administrator.'
The problem is i went to control panel - user accounts. And my User account is the only one there and it says it is an administrator and password protected
e.g

heath
Administrator
Password protected


I than pressed ok and it went to the immunize screen in SB and the scanning to see what was immunized and what wasn't started and i had 0 immunized and so i pressed immunize and i got a different elevated administrator rights warning but it than immunized 26975 items and35941 remain unprotected. Whats going on here?



5. Why is English and Esperanto under languages, i chose English, i love Esperanto but i didn't install it or choose it, its a universal language but default it why?

[PepiMK]

I've been told that it's Halloween, not Helloween. And that for an Ireland fan like me Well, see the name as a tribute to Helloween, which I like to listen too too often it seems

5. Well, I guess since language files are so very small that Esperanto is kind of equal to English... perhaps Offered as a default alternative to English because many speakers of roman (latin) languages might be somewhat able to understand it a little bit.

The administrator rights thing is probably FAQ 042 (a new security concept on Vista), but I'll read and answer more carefully tomorrow

[michhala]

As a novice could someone please explain how I go about installing this new beta .17? Do I uninstall version 1.5 that I currently have with the .16 beta patch first and then download and intall this new Beta as a full install?

I have not seen a reply on the forum to DrDemento's question? Did I miss it? I have Version 1.5.1.15 with the slow loading problem. I downloaded the Hallowe'en version, but before installing need to know if I should first do a clean uninstall of the 1.5.1.15.

My thanks.....

Miki

[wk357mag]

I think there should be no issue with installing over top of your current installation. But, for me, I always do a clean install, but, thats just the way I am.

[michhala]

I think there should be no issue with installing over top of your current installation. But, for me, I always do a clean install, but, thats just the way I am.

Thank you......that's just the way I am, too Whenever there is an option, I like to do a clean install. However, I was not sure if the Hallowe'en Beta was a complete version or just a fix for the existing 1.5.1.15.

Miki

[DrDemento]

Thanks for bringing my question back to the forefront. I was still wondering whether I needed to uninstall the original version with the .16 patch or not.