Power Shadow

[como212]

how is the memory usage of this program?

[Espresso]

It's recommended not to defrag the drive while running PowerShadow. Any changes too the file system have to be saved in the PS temp file so a lot of defragging will build up a huge temp file.

[Franklin]

Originally Posted by como212

how is the memory usage of this program?

Here - Shadowtip.exe - 3,432 kb
- Shadowservice.exe - 1,052 kb

[solarpowered candle]

Originally Posted by como212

how is the memory usage of this program?

My pc flies along. with only look n stop and powershadow running . there seems to be quite a diffirence in surfing speed in shadow mode .
I stopped Shadowtip.exe from starting up and Shadowservice.exe is running at 1008k here.

[Perman]

Hi, folks: There is no major known issues so far, however, it does caution that power shadow does not support these:
64 bits O/S; RAID; win98/ME or vista: multi O/S with linux.

[aigle]

Major issue-- phoning home.
Sidabled hibernation on my laptop(that is only for me of course).

[MaB69]

Hi all,

Anyone know if they are incompatibilities with my setup (in my sig) ?

Many Thanks for your answers

MaB

[Perman]

Originally Posted by aigle

Major issue-- phoning home.
Sidabled hibernation on my laptop(that is only for me of course).

Hi, aigle, I totally agree. Why would a shadow app( they call power shadow this way, instead of sandbox/virtualization, why? I have no clue at all) phone home? Strange indeed. No one has raised this issue on their support section( Chinese).

[sukarof]

Originally Posted by aigle

Major issue-- phoning home.

Interesting. What else than checking for updates does PS do when it phones home to China?
I guess it is easy for an educated user to check with a packetsniffer to see what is sent?
I do not know anything about that stuff but this is what it sends in my machine:

?Æ...........xxx.ensurebit.com.....À........~...wineh-web-g09.xinnetdnsÀ.À/......7®..Ò3¨d

this is how it looks with HEX:
3FC6 8180 0001 0002 0000 0000 0377 7777 0965 6E73 7572 5662 6974 0363 6F6D
0000 0100 01C0 0C00 0500 0100 000D 7E00 1A0D 7769 6E65 682D 7765 622D 6730 3909 7869 6E6E 6574 646E 73C0 1AC0 2F00 0100 0100 0037 AE00 04D2 33A8 64

This is what shadowsettings.exe sends when I look at the log from port explorer. the xxx is www, I had to change it because wilders wont show the whole line other wise. It connects to (openDNS) DNS server fo a second or so, no more connections.

This happens only when I view the settings in SP. I will check shadowtip.exe next time it tries to connect.

[Meriadoc]

Using verson 2.8.2 now with everything working fine so far. ShadowTip.exe wants access out.

[twl845]

Just one more product made in China. Now our computers will feel at home. What's down the road, Windows Fong?

[solarpowered candle]

Meriadoc is that an english version of 2.8 and where did you find that.

this phoning home is a hassle. I emailed to support@ensurebit.com and asked them why it phones home. So far it hasnt been sent back as undelivered.

[Pinga]

Originally Posted by twl845

Just one more product made in China. Now our computers will feel at home. What's down the road, Windows Fong?

This is neither the time nor the place for racist remarks. Please consider your wording more carefully in the future. Thank you.

[Chuck57]

Maybe Microsoft will let the Chinese develop their products. If PS is an example, they might do a better job than Redmond.

[solarpowered candle]

yes they both like to phone home

[twl845]

Pinga - Not a racial remark, but national free trade policy. More jobs lost to China trade imbalance.

[kr4ey]

I have been using version 2.8.2 a few days.
Phoning home issue... Easy... Block it with your Firewall.
I have NO ill effects when blocking with a Firewall.

Rick

[Chuck57]

Originally Posted by solarpowered candle

yes they both like to phone home

I use a little thing called XPAntispy that turns off most of the phone home stuff in Windows - and there are a few things. Plus it can turn off a lot more unneeded stuff besides.

I don't know what the phone home thing with Powershadow is. If its to monitor websites visited, they'll be bored to tears with me.

[Pinga]

Originally Posted by twl845

Pinga - Not a racial remark, but national free trade policy. More jobs lost to China trade imbalance.

If you would make the effort to step over your own shadow, perhaps you would see that this is not about 'our' computers or 'lost' jobs at all. We are one planet and US-centric thinking has not been very helpful in its development as of late. I am not asking you to agree, just to consider that there are people of different nationalities on this board and that we're here to communicate, not to compete.

[solarpowered candle]

i suppose with a few billion pc s in china thats a lot of interesting statistics they can gather.

[Chuck57]

Originally Posted by yankinNcrankin

I did something crazy and ran a SH*T load of live active trojans and viruses files in shadow mode just for the hell of it. Total count I believe I clicked and ran over 75+ files claiming to be live anyways I did all of this while on-line and surfing the net. Tcp view showed alot of services trying to access the internet.Lucky me my system never froze or BSOD I was able to quit shadow mode and reboot. Restarted no problems Tiny Watcher scanned upon system start and found no changes, ran Kaspersky, Avast, and Avira, found nothing. I'm
enjoying this program alot!

Even if your system had frozen, all you gotta do is manually turn it off and turn it back on and you're out of shadow mode and everything is back where it was.

As far as I'm concerned, and I'm more comfortable with a manual typewriter than a computer, Powershadow is one of the best software programs to come along in a long time. I'm waiting for the day they come out with a version where you can disable shadowmode without a reboot. I'm betting it won't be long - and hopefully will be have an English version.

[Meriadoc]

Originally Posted by solarpowered candle

Meriadoc is that an english version of 2.8 and where did you find that.

this phoning home is a hassle. I emailed to support@ensurebit.com and asked them why it phones home. So far it hasnt been sent back as undelivered.

Yes, go back abit or read your pm.

[Chuck57]

Originally Posted by solarpowered candle

i suppose with a few billion pc s in china thats a lot of interesting statistics they can gather.

Might have something to do with the Chinese Govt. I read somewhere years ago that they don't allow their people unlimited internet viewing. It could be that the phone home thing is part of that - to tell them who is going where.

I don't know if the above is true, or how they could even compile all that and do anything about it. I think it's just a thing to check for updates/upgrades or something similar. With millions of copies of the program out there, they'd need an army of people to handle all the info.

[solarpowered candle]

that may be what it is all about. However i have the english version and i really dont fancy paying $39 ( not that i will ) for the privilege of being monitored by the chinese govt

[Meriadoc]

Originally Posted by Chuck57

Might have something to do with the Chinese Govt. I read somewhere years ago that they don't allow their people unlimited internet viewing. It could be that the phone home thing is part of that - to tell them who is going where.

I believe they're heading towards their own government run internet, country-wide intranet tightning up the already gov.run web anyway your probably right in...

Originally Posted by Chuck57

I think it's just a thing to check for updates/upgrades or something similar. With millions of copies of the program out there, they'd need an army of people to handle all the info.