22 August, 2013

BSOD using Vuze

English: New icon for the Vuze client (formerl...
English: New icon for the Vuze client (formerly Azureus); is a departure from old icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
22-August-2013


The laptop I am using isn't one that is perfect, and while it may be blazing fast and surprisingly efficient and can withstand my habit of opening many applications in quick successions with 1 or 2 seconds, it still gives me the blank face of blue screen sometimes, and just spurts our numbers and letters that I don't understand.

However, one very consistent behaviour I know is my use of Vuze.

Searching on the error codes would come out with an endless list of posts and articles, and looking at some, there is a consistency that I found. It is the use of Vuze - due to some setting in Windows 7 network usage (limit). And I for one would like to push things to the limit: I would often open up a lot of torrent files, since my internet service plan is unlimited, and fast, I expect that everything else would be the same: unlimited and fast.

Well, some things would comply, but differently: a fast Blue Screen Of Death response, right after I click on Vuze application shortcut.

Like I said, I found out that the cause is the heavy network traffic, which kicks in when Vuze starts up due to the many torrents currently active.

The suggested solution to tweak some settings, disable some checks, turning on some, blah, blah, blah... well, I can't follow. Not to that level.

So what I did was reinstall Vuze. That required uninstalling Vuze first, and deleting the settings, so whatever uploads and downloads are active will be cleared. And of course, I did a backup before that.

After reinstallation, I put back in torrent files, one after another. And each time, I would close Vuze, then open it again after a while. When the BSOD came back, I noted down the number of active torrents, and set the limit to a number lower, to be safe.

Do I still get BSOD when activating Vuze? You bet I do. But at least, I know why now. And that is something within my control.

Sometimes, it is even with no torrent running but with many other resource-heavy applications and programs, activating Vuze will surely throw out a BSOD. So I just make sure that computer has stabilized for some time before I turn Vuze on.

The thing is, you can't have too many torrents active when opening Vuze. I am able to go over the limit when Vuze is already opened and running stable, only that I have to be sure that these torrents will complete by the time I have to shut down my laptop or before I close Vuze. And that, also, is within my control.

Till then!
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XCOPY on paths with space

Xcopy | 17th Feb (3/28)
Xcopy | 17th Feb (3/28) (Photo credit: Rob Hayes.)
22-August-2013


I have missed posting a number of articles, and many things that I should have noted down, I have failed to note down. I would recall that this blog was created with the intent of having my own resource later on, and having it published online, also for others who may be looking for the answer(s) to the same question(s) they have in mind.

I must admit that a lot of the important things that I should have logged down, I have forgotten - now that my web applications are running. And that is, even if I still have the links I to the reference articles and posts from other developers like me. Shame...

So just to break the silence, let me just note this down. And hope it helps many others.

I came across the problem of the need to copy some files to other PCs, and I thought it should be a very normal thing. "Easy," I thought to myself. Well, not so, because the file path of both the source and the destination have spaces. The moment I ran my batch file, I got the error(s).

I searched, "xcopy file path with space", and the top few links, I checked. I got what I wanted. The file path with space is simply needing a double quote enclosure. That is like

C:\Program Files

becoming

"C:\Program Files"

and all other definitions or switches remain the same.

Very simple solution, isn't it?

I should now say, till then!

Reference:
using XCOPY when directory has a space in name
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