The unofficial Shadow Defender Support Thread.

Interesting question...
I think it would, cause files and folders exclusions are at filesystem level. MBR/VBR then should be redirected for virtualization, just guessing.

 

What do you mean "VBR"?

I don´t quite understand your MBR question, but SD always protects the first track of the disk (first 63 logical sectors), which contains the MBR. There is only one MBR in the disk. Are you taking about several disks or several partitions in one disk?

About the letters, I checked that SD doesn´t see B. Just don´t use A and B.

 

Yes, that can be the case.
It's not forbidden to use A: and B:, but SD is simply not listing them.
The developer has only to make some changes, so that the user is able to select/see A: and B:

 

I have five different hard drives connected. I honestly don't know what the difference between MBR and VBR is. I said MBR originally, and she corrected me to "VBR". I want to keep the boot sector on all five drives clean. Outside of that, I mostly just want my two OS partitions to be fully protected. I don't want to prevent writing to the other drives(outside of the boot sectors).

 

What I have understood about SD operation:

If a hard disk has an OS partition and you select it to be protected (or it´s selected automatically by SD), the first track of the disk, which includes the MBR, is shadowed. Also, SD shadows automatically the boot partition, if different from the OS.

I don´t know if SD will shadow the first track of a disk that doesn´t have a OS partition but only data partitions, and you don´t select any of them to be shadowed.

If, in this case, you select one or more data partitions to be protected, I suppose the first track is protected.

 

Correct, and that is what I indicated in my reply to RoamMaster's original question...

But if RoamMaster enables Shadow Mode for E: but excludes all files in E: (as he later clarified) then E:'s VBR is protected.

 

And for those who never came across the term VBR, it refers to a volume boot record, which is the first sector in each data storage volume that is not partitioned or the first sector in each partition of a partitioned data storage volume.

Re SD protection, just as the MBR is protected when Shadow Mode is enabled for the system volume, the VBR of any volume or partition would be protected when Shadow Mode is enabled for that volume or partition.

 

As you already know there are some rules in labeling disk in Windows and you...as we can see...consciously breaks this rules. In some specific cases it's just "asking for problems"...and you just met them. As Robin said "Just don´t use A and B".

 

Not sure if this was already mentioned but anyone else with Windows 10 gets unresponsive start menu after awhile in shadow mode? Plus a lot of icons missing and clicking on them won't do anything?

 

No problems for me like that....sorry cannot help...

 

I've been experiencing this problem for some time now. Most of the pinned apps on the start menu disappear and also some icons on the taskbar, but the space remains there.

Are your Administration settings (on Shadow Defender) the default ones?

 

Here are examples:

http://i.imgur.com/6Kte5NE.png
http://i.imgur.com/0p7iide.png

https://gfycat.com/FrayedGiddyIrukandjijellyfish
https://gfycat.com/RevolvingEssentialGorilla

 

I don't use Windows 10 but this missing icon and unlinked icon problem goes back a long way in Shadow Defender history. I'm not sure what it's about.


Patrick

 

I have this problem too. I don't even thinked that it could be SD fault. Now I use Start10 (that to me, is better than Windows 10 Menu), but this bur really annoyed me.

Thanks to point it out.

 

It happened to me once now that you've mentioned it, that is the start menu was unresponsive, but no icon missing. I think since the anniversary update on two machines I have been in shadow mode roughly 20-30 times, and as a matter of fact at the time I didn't even think it may have something to do with SD. Good to know and see if it happens again.

My admin settings are default, but now the more I think about it, the only time I had problems in shadow mode (like sudden system freezes and exiting shadow mode) was when using RAM as write cache, normally I set 4GB out of 8GB on one machine and 4GB out of 12GB on the other, which rules out freezing due to lack of memory. But then again this behaviour is sporadic, most of the time everything is fine.

 

Shadow Defender is disk virtualization software; it does not virtualize every single area of your system - such as firmware (not drivers, but firmware - there is a difference). That means that at some low level Shadow Defender could be bypassed by a malware that infects firmware - for just a single example. What's the probability ? -- it's a small number, that's all I know for certain.

Also, Shadow Defender being software, there is always the probability (once again a small number) that there is a\are vulnerability\ies in Shadow Defender - and those can be exploited by chance or targeting.

Just because there isn't existing malware in-the-wild current pulling all this off doesn't mean it can't happen. It just means that the probability is small enough that we get into the realm of what can legitimately argued to be speculation, conjecture and what some would call a myth.

In short, everything Robin A states is technically correct.

 

It's kinda different for me, in my case I'm slowly unable to click anything on my desktop after a while. I can reproduce this easily when i copied tons of files from one folder to another. In my case, i copied a large amount of folders & tiny files from my hard drive to my ssd, and in about 2 minutes i can't click anything and i have to force restart my PC to make it usable again.

 

Maybe there wasn´t enough free space in the SSD for the SD cache.

 

I reported the issue to support@shadowdefender.com

Tony said that he will look into it. Let's see

 

I have a 180GB SSD with 70GB+ free space, an Intel i5 6500, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, i find that highly unlikely.

 

Shadowdefender is cureently free here
http://sharewareonsale.com/s/shadow-defender-sale

 

And here:
http://www.comss.info/page.php?al=Shadow_Defender_free

 

New update (1.4.0.653) is available at: http://www.shadowdefender.com/download/SD1.4.0.653_Setup.exe

Site remains at .648 and no changelog available for .653 at the moment: http://www.shadowdefender.com/history.html

 

Thanks but isn't this a test release for your specific issue you have?
Maybe Tony won't use that version number for the next public release.

 

I don't know. We will need to wait and see if Tony updates the website. He didn't replied to me about this version.