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[Q] shagctrl crash at startup

Hi everyone,
I didn't find any answer on the other thread.
My problem on Win7 is shagctrl.exe crash when I launch it. The controlcenter.exe crash too because he launch shagctrl.
I've tryed many things, software reinstall etc.. but nothing works.
at begining it was working but not anymore.
I just would like to start/stop the wifi, I don't need shagctrl, is someone has another solution i'll take it.
Please help me

As far as I know shagctrl does not work on windows 7. I've tried every method that claims that it works on windows 7 but I could not get it to work and I've read that so many people are having trouble enabling shagctrl. Only method to turn it back on (Wifi and BT, if it's off) is to download a file which will give you ability to turn those on and off. I forgot where I've seen those file but it doesn't hurt to use search button. Everything else works perfect except for that control.

strange, after installing W7 and before doing any update it was working fine. It was after lot of update it stops working.
Now, sometimes, I can launch the control panel, and after a reboot it's not working again.....so strange

What build of Windows 7 are you using? I use Ultimate RTM, fully updated, and my ShagCTRL works just fine, everytime.

Mine works fine too. I installed Windows 7 from DVD.

ShagCTRL certainly DOES work relaibly, on both of my W7 Shifts and those owned by others here. You just have to follow the instructions!
Please follow EXACTLY the instructions in my sticky post "My fast shift with 2GB etc". That links to a step-by-step guide. The most important part is:
"IMPORTANT When you've finished installing your drivers but still need to restart to take effect, go to your display settings (right click the desktop) and select a non aero theme. save settings after that. Windows 7 Basic is a non aero theme and it looks good. If you leave Aero enabled, your shift will blue screen of death crash when it boots into high res mode.
Windows 7 can not run Aero in high res on the shift. (for now, at least)
When you install the drivers – beware that you have to install them with Vista Compatibility mode enabled and run as Administrator. Right-click the driver setup file – click the Compatibility tab – select Windows Vista and mark “run this file as Administrator”
But please read my post and the linked post. In my experience ShagCTRL crashes or does not start on W7 if you fail to switch to a non-Aero scheme before installing, forget Vista compatibilty or to run as Admin.
Richard

RSargeant said:
ShagCTRL certainly DOES work relaibly, on both of my W7 Shifts and those owned by others here. You just have to follow the instructions!
Please follow EXACTLY the instructions in my sticky post "My fast shift with 2GB etc". That links to a step-by-step guide. The most important part is:
"IMPORTANT When you've finished installing your drivers but still need to restart to take effect, go to your display settings (right click the desktop) and select a non aero theme. save settings after that. Windows 7 Basic is a non aero theme and it looks good. If you leave Aero enabled, your shift will blue screen of death crash when it boots into high res mode.
Windows 7 can not run Aero in high res on the shift. (for now, at least)
When you install the drivers – beware that you have to install them with Vista Compatibility mode enabled and run as Administrator. Right-click the driver setup file – click the Compatibility tab – select Windows Vista and mark “run this file as Administrator”
But please read my post and the linked post. In my experience ShagCTRL crashes or does not start on W7 if you fail to switch to a non-Aero scheme before installing, forget Vista compatibilty or to run as Admin.
Richard
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Some time has gone in between...
Sorry, but: i had followed your Instructions carefully when installing Win7UltimateSP2, and never returned to an AeroTheme.
Everything worked fine till some days ago my Shift had an automatic Windows Internet Update containing some new Marvel driver.
Since then ShagCtrl neither via hardkey, nor by doubleclicking its .exe can be started- in 19 of 20 attempts
You can see this little circular arrow spinning and then vanish, while taskbar is in a way slightly flickering.
The only good thing about it: since then W-Lan connects in about 2 seconds, before this it often took 20 or more...
Any one here has got some good idea?
Maybe find this driver, re-download it and install it manually in Vista compatibility mode as admin?
edit: lucky me Win7 has got some really cool restorefunction- five days back, reset of wifi setting and everything runs smaaart
edit#2: afterwards i remember you told us updating drivers may be no good idea if device runs fine.

Never touch a running system...
B-44 said:
Some time has gone in between...
edit: lucky me Win7 has got some really cool restorefunction- five days back, reset of wifi setting and everything runs smaaart
edit#2: afterwards i remember you told us updating drivers may be no good idea if device runs fine.
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I was about to suggest you did a system restore, then saw you had. I'm glad that fixed things.
However it would be interesting to see what it is that is breaking the HTC, as the updates often have other important security-related fixes.
As a safety tool, I always back up all the drivers from a working system, especially Touch, so that I can get older or alternative drivers back. Most of the automatic driver update programs will do that, even the free versions. It's not worth paying for the automatic driver update facility!
I suspect that if you save the old driver, then update, delete the new driver and restore the old, you get the Windows update and all will still work.
I am still using my Touch, but the project I am working on at present means it doesn't get used much. I wish I could get Windows 8.1 working on it, but I think W7 is the end of the road.
Enjoy.
Richard

Well,inbetween i have updated with Marvell sd8686.75.Vista.BG Driver,
dated 22.08.2008 as my Shift generally had problems detecting modern Wifi devices-
which was annoying as our Router is just two years old.
Before loss of Control Center there also has been an update of Microsoft C++ 2005.
I went back to a point before this.
I now take Paragon Backup to save my System to a micro USB
(and also for replacing 40 GB disk by 128GB SSD).
edit: it definitely is caused by C++ 2005 redistributable.
When installing Shagctrl C++ gets customized,
and obviously an update kills these settings.

[Q] Annoying ( Elevated Command Prompt ).

There is a lot I like about Windows 8 Developer, and a lot I don't like.
Number One Annoying is , Everytime I Run a Program or install something, You have to execute with administrator rights.
I can't see why I have to do this, because I am the only User and in users it shows me as administrator.
Also I find it almost impossible to install programs that are located on a HDD on another computer on my network.
ie-- I have large collection of apps located in a folder on another pc on the network.
In windows 7 I can install any of these apps from tha PC, But not in 8 , it just won't let me.
Any help would be appreciated.

Admin rights are messed up in Windows dev preview. so you will have to live with that or go back to win7. if you get too annoyed by that
even in software like vmware you wont be able to run a virtual machine if you dont run it as admin.
in 3dsmax i get an error because it cant read a file from a plugin.
and UAC disabled means nothing, only you dont have to get the message. but it doesn't mean it changes something.
i already got used to that, but when you have to run programs as admin, you dont get drag and drop. so sometimes its hard to do stuff without it and i get annoyed. but oh well. thats something they will fix for beta but since its a preview for developers. dont expect a fix for that.

can anyone help me with mine

sparks79 said:
There is a lot I like about Windows 8 Developer, and a lot I don't like.
Number One Annoying is , Everytime I Run a Program or install something, You have to execute with administrator rights.
I can't see why I have to do this, because I am the only User and in users it shows me as administrator.
Also I find it almost impossible to install programs that are located on a HDD on another computer on my network.
ie-- I have large collection of apps located in a folder on another pc on the network.
In windows 7 I can install any of these apps from tha PC, But not in 8 , it just won't let me.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Have you tried disabling UAC ?
Start --> type "UAC", click on "Settings", then on "Change User Account Control Settings". Then slide the bar all the way to the bottom (Never notify), click OK twice.
If you REALLY need to run something as admin, Right Click --> "Run As Administrator"

Internet explorer 10 port?

I love the ie on the Dev preview, is there any way to get it on windows 7
Sent from my Sensation using XDA App

I think no, because they signed all files in Windows8.
If you modify IE10 to run on Win7 the signature-check will fail.

Is there a way to un-sign it? I know you can disable signature checks in win7

What you mean is the signature-check of drivers.
In Windows8 most applications checks it's own signature and will not start if there is a mismatch.
But even if you manage to circumvent this check you have to port IE10 to Windows7. Simple applications like mspaint or calculator are easy.
But IE is integrated in the OS and calls to internal windows-function.
And I think IE10 will call many functions (maybe for the ne MetroUI-mode) which doesn't exist in Windows7.
You would have to debug this and port all the needed functions.
That's a very hard project. Rafael did it in the Vista-times so he was able to run the Vista-Games and the Sidebar on Windows-XP. But it took a long time until it worked perfectly.
I can only advise to wait for an official release of IE10 and/or Windows8.
Wow! that's a long explanation

You're right. I understand now thanks

[Q] Debian Squeeze vs Windows 8

I know a few people have made threads like this before, but those were all before Windows 8 was released in its final version. Now that Windows 8 has been out for a while, how do you think it compares to Debian? The gestures and apps are cool ideas, but I don't think they were implemented as well as they could have been on the OS when it came to non-touchscreen devices. Apps are a good idea, but I spend almost no time on the start screen apart from checking mail and breezing past it on my way to search for something.
Drivers have been a nightmare for some users, me included, as a few random automatic updates (now turned off on my PC) rendered my wifi unusable without a complete reinstallation of all the Toshiba drivers. I haven't had any problems with things such as mouse drivers, but I've heard of others who had to get them from another computer and install them via a flash drive.
Graphics are superb on Win8, much better in my opinion than Debian's, but when it comes down to it, they just aren't that big of a factor when choosing an operating system. Debian, on the other hand, lacks fancy graphics while it has a much more ("power user", I guess) friendly way of dealing with files and customization when installing packages. Windows does have options while installing programs, but they are limited to what the installer offers to let you do.
As far as ubiquity, Windows wins hands down. With a Windows system, you will almost never be stuck with a file format that nobody around you can open, and Microsoft Office is just as widespread on school and work computers as it is on home computers. Debian, meanwhile, comes with OpenOffice, or you can install OpenOffice's newer branch, LibreOffice. Both use the .odf format, which is readable in Microsoft Word, but some formatting options and graphics don't translate nicely into Word format. Fortunately, they also include the .doc and .docx formats, though they restrict you somewhat on what your document can have in it (same translation issues). Back to ubiquity, programs are nearly always easier to install on Windows, and plugins such as Flash and Java require much less experience and work on many more browsers when installing than on Debian.
For customization, I like Debian better because packages can install either programs or give you new system changes, such as new window managers and graphics options. In Windows, you either have to change group policy settings, or edit the registry, both time consuming, inefficient, and risky tasks (not so risky for group policy, but whatever). Programs such as Wine (actually, just wine, AFAIK) can safely add a different file system type into Debian, while you have to use the much less well known program Cygwin to have a Linux-esque environment on Windows.
I could go on and on about information that's readily available on google, but I need to know, do you like Debian or Windows better? I've been running Debian on Virtualbox for a while now, and I like it, but the whole thing about it not being as widespread and well-supported (yes, I know it has a support community behind it, but you can google literally just about any problem for Windows) is what's holding me back. I've done a dual-boot arrangement in the past, but that doesn't work because I allot half my hard drive space to both OS's, then end up using only one. So I want to have only one OS installed. I don't use Microsoft Office anyway (LibreOffice all the way! ), but getting used to using pretty much ALL open source alternatives to common Windows programs will take more than the month of sporadic testing on a VM that I've done with it.
Is it worth the switch? Or is Windows 8 too good to give up?

Program add on features will not stay unlocked in Windows 8.

Hey all, I have a Gateway laptop running Windows 8. I have an auto diagnostics program called Auto Enginuity that I have "add ons" purchased for, when I type to put in the feature unlock key, after a couple days it will no longer be activated. Then when I installed the 8.1 update it will no longer accept the activation key, I can type the key in and it does not hold it. On the same note, I'm running Microsoft Streets and Trips gps software and when I go to update it,it updates like normal but after the update it still says update needed, like it doesn't "hold" any updates or key codes that I install. Any and all advice on this would be appreciated. Thanks.. Phil

Hmm... could be a hardware problem, actually, with data not getting written properly. Do you have an SSD or an actual hard disk? If a magnetic disk, you might try running a good set of diagnostics on it. There are diagnostics for SSDs as well, though I'm not sure if the standard Windows disk check utilities are good for that purpose.
Alternatively, it could be software interference. Do you run any third-party security software (anti-virus or firewall)? Are there any error reports (in the Event Log, or possibly in the install or data folders of those programs)? Are you running the programs in Compatibility Mode?
Have you searched online for help with this issue, or contacted the vendors? XDA is a developer forum, not a support forum. You'd probably have better luck asking MS, for example, about the Streets and Trips issue. Alternatively, there may be support forums for those programs where other users have found, and fixed, the issue.
Also, Gateway is still around and making PCs?!? Whoa... it's like 1998 in here.