“Quarantine Failed” message by Windows Live OneCare antivirus

Some useful suggestion from MS support in case you get "Quarantine Failed" for some computer infection when using Windows Live OneCare antivirus/antitrojan (they have a trial version you can use btw):

 

This issue can be caused by some core system components have been infected. Follow the steps below to try removing the Trojan in safe mode:

 

Step 1: Boot in Safe Mode

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1. Restart your computer.

 

2. When the computer completes the "Power on Self-Test" (usually this appears as a black screen with scrolling text commands), hold down the F8 key until you see the Windows Startup menu.

 

3. On the Windows Startup menu, select Safe Mode (use the arrow pad on your keyboard), and then press ENTER.

 

NOTE: In Safe Mode, your system display and Desktop will look and perform differently than in Normal Mode. This is only temporary. To return the system back to Normal Mode, we can simply restart the computer.

 

 

Step 2: Scan for viruses

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1. Click Start, click Run, type "cmd" (without quotation marks) in the Open box, and then click OK.

 

2. Type the following command and press ENTER:

 

CD /D %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Windows OneCare Live

 

3. Type the following command and press ENTER:

 

SafeModeAVScanner –s –h

 

4. The program will begin to perform a full system virus scan, when it is finished, please restart your computer.

 

Windows/Microsoft Update Error number: 0×80245003

If you get the error 0×80245003 when running Microsoft Update or Windows Update, try the following solution (see near the end of the page):

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&tid=48cc76b2-ed82-4561-a6fc-1cc4dd3d4c79&p=1

Solution for error “Cannot resolve the ‘schemaLocation’ attribute” message of XMLNotepad 2007

At a project I’m doing I have several XSD files (XML-Schema) where one includes an other with relative paths and some XML files that refer to one of the XSDs (which includes some other XSDs, which in turn include others etc.). Then when opening the .XML file in XMLNotepad2007 I was seeing the error message "Cannot resolve the ‘schemaLocation’ attribute" message of XMLNotepad 2007 and XSD types I was using weren’t resolved

 

The reason was that I was using say:

 

<DATA xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../schemas/Emergency.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

 

in my XML

 

and was using

 

<xs:include schemaLocation="General.xsd" />

 

in my XSDs since all .XSD files were in the "schemas" folder and all XML files in my ASP.net application’s "App_Data" folder

 

All XSD files were parsed ok in XMLSpy 2007 (it can integrate with VS.net2005) and with VS.NET’s XML Schema editor and also when editing the XML file. However in XMLNotepad they didn’t work OK

 

The reason seems to be that in VS.net2005 the relative paths in all included XSD files are resolved relative to the XSD file, but in XMLNotepad 2007 they seem to be resolved relative to the XML file. This might be a bug (will report to MS) with the path "resolver" class implementation in XMLNotepad 2007, but you can easily workarround it in my case. Just use "../schemas/General.xsd" instead of "General.xsd". It’s the same, but will resolve OK when resolved from both the "schemas" (where XSD files are) and the "App_Data" subfolders (were the XML files are).

 

The above "workarround" does help XMLNotepad file the child schemas when you right-click one and select "Goto Definition", but it seems it didn’t really solve the problem. The problem was eventually solved by using View/Options… menu of XMLNotepad2007 and adding all my schema files (.xsd) there. BTW, I use one schema that imports the rest, so adding just it works fine too

 

THERE DEFINITELY IS THOUGH A BUG IN XMLNotepad 2007, where if you drag-drop an XML file onto a shortcut to its .EXE file, or to its EXE file, or drag-drop the XML file onto an already opened XMLNotepad window, then it shows the above message and can’t resolve types included in schemas that the main schema imports. Using its File/Open menu option to open the file opens it up ok.

Canon PIXMA MP460

Yesterday I went to buy a Canon Lide50 or newer scanner (had a Lide20 [very lightweight/small and getting power from USB cable] and was very happy with it), but finally got myself a Canon PIXMA MP460 and I can say I’m very pleased with it’s performance and design. It’s a color copier, scanner and both A4 and photo printer, even boasting a small LCD screen on its head-panel that can preview images from various formats of memory cards that one can insert directly to the printer. Other optional add-on they say they have is a special bluetooth dongle to make the scanner cable-less (anyway it already has an IR port for sending pictures from cell-phones, laptops etc.)

Drivers and some extra software for that machine can be found here:

http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010394.asp