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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/02
If you get this error:
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RunDLL
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There was a problem starting C:\ProgramThe specified module could not be found.
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OK
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Then it is likely a process trying to run an unquoted path like this:
"C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe" C:\Program Files (x86)\ThinkPad\Utilities\PWMTR64V.DLL,PwrMgrBkGndMonitor
Searching did not reveal anything unusual, nor did [WayBack] ProcExp (there were no parent processes), or [WayBack] AutoRuns:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/02
Because fewer and fewer people have used them in real life: this is how geeks communicated even before the internet era.
Below a series of videos with modem sounds. One as recent?! as 2008 when dial-up was still possible in many places. Now it’s a not just a thing from the past, but an area where mankind learned a lot about signal processing, for which the knowledge is still in use today.
Related blog posts:
Edit 20250318 added [Wayback/Archive] Dial Up Modem Sounds: Telebit Trailblazer Packetized Ensemble Protocol (PEP) – YouTube plus Wayback/Archive links where appropriate.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/02
When safe mode is a good thing: [WayBack] Windows XP Pro won’t boot, safe mode boot hangs at agp440.sys – Microsoft Community
During the regular boot, after a minute or so on SSD, a legacy Windows XP SP3 machine didn’t reboot.
During safe mode, it hung after loading agp440.sys. Apparently this is a Good Thing ™ as it means that chkdsk is running in the background as the post above explains.
Nice to know!
–jeroen
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