A Windows editor for huge files - PilotEdit

PilotEdit is nice Windows editor for huge files.

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"Thread stuck in device driver" for Dell with Windows 8.1 - solved

You get "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER" after every sleep / hibernate in Dell Inspiron 15R notebook after upgrading Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Restoring previous state before sleep was not possible and a restart os Windows was forced. I give the solution, which helped me (copy-past-ed):

I have been reading through many, many forums to have this annoying message disappear. For 3 month I was pulling my hair because of this silly message! I also have a Dell Inspiron 15R and when I turn it on, it showed this blue message saying THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER, it then reboots itself followed by 5-10seconds of black screen. This issue only began after I updated from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. I kept records of what I read through many forums to fix this and hopefully this will work for you.

1. I went to the Dell website and re-installed the BIOS. I believe after upgrading from Win 8 to Win 8.1, the BIOS does get a little messed up. Find out your BIOS version by pressing the Windows key + R, and type msinfo32 then and go to Dell website then reinstall it. In my case, I went to the Dell UK website and reinstalled it.
2. I went to the Intel website and installed the Intel Update Tool below. http://supportkb.intel.com/wireless/wireless-display/templates/selfservice/intelwidi/#portal/1026/article/16168.
3. I uninstalled the AMD drivers which were currently installed via Control Panel, then I restarted the laptop.
4. After logging in, I downloaded the AMD Clean Install Utility from the AMD website below.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Clean-Uninstall-Utility.aspx
5. I then installed the latest AMD Catalyst Suite from the AMD website below. In my case, it’s the 64bit AMD.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64
6. Finally from the AMD website, I installed the AMD Auto Driver Detector from the below.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool
7. Back to the Intel website, I clicked on the “Check Your System For Updates” link. This detected all the Intel Drivers and showed me which ones needed updating. In my case, it detected that I needed to download 3 separate drivers.
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect
Finally, I restarted my laptop. I did them all in this order and this worked for me like a charm.

This is solution from J.King Jr which helped me. It is posted here in Microsoft's forum.

The key was to Update BIOS, and after that to make a clean install of ATI driver. I tried to skip some steps of provided how-to, but the issue continue to persist.

Windows 8: Start menu location & Startup folder location

There is no direct way of accessing Start menu location & Startup folder location, so you have to open them manually in Windows Explorer. The locations are:

Start menu

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Startup folder

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp

Utility software

This program provides access to all Windows special folders in an easy way:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/special_folders_view.html

Disable message "Windows detected a hard disk problem"

It happens in Windows 7. The current PC configuration has HDD S.M.A.R.T. problem but has worked with it for more that year. Windows XP has not such diagnostics, not Windows 7 detects the broken state and notifies me on a few hours. This is very irritating.

I found the solution of the problem:

Easier Command prompts recognition

If you use more that one Command Prompts in Windows, you probably mess them up. An easy way to distinguish them is with color command. Write in each of them color command with different arguments. Letter color changes, yeah!

Command Prompt window #1:
color A

Command Prompt window #2:
color B