Tuesday, January 17, 2017

What happened to Dr Thomas Pabst, founder of TOMSHARDWARE

After a bit of digging, here is what's available:

Starting from this page:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/21347-9-what-happened-thomas-pabst

Within here, first link came across is dead. The content is as below:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130605231232/http://antonchouinard.hubpages.com/hub/How-Toms-Hardware-Guide-pwnd-the-industry-then-lost-it

How Tom's Hardware Guide pwnd the industry then lost it

Has the famous Tom hammer smashed its own site?
Has the famous Tom hammer smashed its own site?
 
When Dr. Thomas Pabst launched his eponymous website Tom's Hardware Guide in 1996 the internet was a relatively new phenomenon on the world stage. Practicing as a medical doctor in his native Germany and with no firm computer technology background, Dr. Pabst's website was at first intended to be a place where connoisseurs of personal computer components could meet and chat about the product reviews the Doctor was posting from his own hobbyist experiences. Tom's Hardware Guide was not the first, or even the most comprehensive such website in 1996, but what put it firmly on the internet radar was that within a year it became the epicenter for a seminal moment in the development of the world wide web.
Dr. Pabst had obtained through Ziff-Davis magazines in Germany pre-release versions of the Pentium II CPU and published critical reviews on the chip, pointing out its various failings. These reviews made world-wide David vs. Goliath headlines when Intel threatened to withdraw its ads from those publications unless Dr. Pabst's articles were taken down from the Tom's Hardware Guide website. The media had a field day in pointing out on how the typical arm's length relationship between technology editorial coverage and advertising placement had been violated by Intel. The New York Times trumpeted that this was an "incident shedding light on the sometimes too-close-for-comfort relationship between computer publications and the companies they cover."
Intel's actions and the resultant media firestorm drove an unprecedented amount of traffic to Dr. Pabst's hobby website. Within months, American Megatrends purchased a then-unheard-of $10,000 of banner advertising per month, and mighty IBM became an advertising partner. Tom's Hardware Guide quickly became "the" site for personal computer technology information. Within three years, the website was being visited by an astonishing 120,000 readers per day, and when Dr. Pabst wrote a highly critical test of the new Pentium III flagship, the 1.13GHz CPU, Intel actually withdrew the processor outright. This incredible turn of events drew readers to the site in even greater droves and quickly put Tom's Hardware Guide into the rarefied stratosphere of websites with technology advertisers lining up for the available ad space. The quality of reporting and testing at Tom's Hardware Guide became the industry's Gold Standard and challenged the long established large circulation print magazines for content.
This marked the zenith of Tom's Hardware Guide's dominance as a long, slow decline soon set in. When Omid Rahmat became General Manager of the website many of the keen-eyed vociferous participants in the site's lively forums began to notice that the quality of the articles was beginning to fail and outright errors were creeping into the tests. Dr. Pabst soon had no further connection to the site, and Mr. Rahmat had begun to pepper his front page with wholly unrelated articles about boutique accessory gadgets and automotive spyshots, alienating many of the site's hardcore PC tech enthusiasts and driving them to the plethora of competing sites such as Anandtech.
By the time that France's BestOfMedia purchased Tom's Hardware Guide in 2007, the site was generally acknowledged to be a mere shadow of its former self, its articles incomprehensibly mangled in translation from their original German, and the majority of the long established "forum gurus" chased away to Xcpus after a feud with a rabid AMD enthusiast nicknamed Baron Matrix who later disappeared (most likely in shame) when AMD launched its disastrous Phenom line. In a marketing decision which has to rank as one of the most absurd in technology publishing history, Mr. Rahmat kept the rights to Tom's news pages and proceeded to staff them with writers known for their fact-light sensationalism. To this day, many of the site's remaining knowledgeable forum participants still are not aware that these are now two separate companies and still wonder out loud about the befuddling content of those now-unrelated pages.
The history of Tom's Hardware Guide is a perfect parabola: A website which came from nowhere to reach for the stars and then return back to nowhere. It is a cautionary tale which illustrates to all website owners that even in the fast moving ethereal world of internet websites, there is never a substitute for quality and integrity.
This Hub was last updated on July 2, 2008

  1. I was searching in Google to find out the background of my estate's management council member (and neighbour) Dr Thomas Pabst and was surprised to see his photos online and that he is the founder of the Tom's Hardware Guide website that I used to visit often years ago.

    Thomas is now staying in a 2-storey town house unit at my condominium estate in Singapore. He just had a months-old infant son with a local Chinese wife.

    I would try to snap a photo of him if I can ...
  2. Given that he has chosen to lead a very private life, I think it would be inappropriate to publish an unauthorised photo of him. It would be nice just to tell him how grateful many thousand of folks are for the Forum he founded.
  3. Given that he has chosen to lead a very private life, I think it would be inappropriate to publish an unauthorised photo of him. It would be nice just to tell him how grateful many thousand of folks are for the Forum he founded.

    Yes on second thoughts it is inappropriate. I am grateful too as his site provided me great knowledge many years ago when I was still addicted to over-clocking and PC stuff. I never expect to bump into the guru himself in my little corner and becoming a neighbour. Anyway, let's keep his private life private...
  4. He's a Consultant at the department of medical oncology of a Swiss university hospital

    Cheers
    Gammalino (MD)
  5. Has anyone bothered to work out how many people named Thomas Pabst there are? Pabst appears to be about the 750th most popular surname in Germany, and Thomas isn't exactly rare.

    Do we know we're all talking about the same person?
  6. This gent looks similar but having suggested he may not wish to be hunted down, I'm disappointed to see gammalino's post.

    I'm removing the link because it leads to private e-mail addresses.
  7. Someone Somewhere said:
    Has anyone bothered to work out how many people named Thomas Pabst there are? Pabst appears to be about the 750th most popular surname in Germany, and Thomas isn't exactly rare.

    Do we know we're all talking about the same person?


    It's not difficult nor intrusive to search his name in Facebook. You should see public photos of Thomas and his young family in Singapore.

    I have nothing more to add other than to say that he seems to have taken up a new interest with his bikes. Maybe he has no more interest in CPUs and systems benchmarking ....
  8. Founder of Tom's Hardware, Dr Thomas Pabst. joins VR World, a IT media company headquartered in Singapore:

    http://www.vrworld.com/2015/03/16/vr-world-names-it-industry-veteran-dr-thomas-pabst-as-fellow/



    Singapore and Taipei (Taiwan) – March 17, 2015: In conjunction with the start of Supercomputing Frontiers 2015 conference in Biopolis Singapore, we are proud to announce the return of one of industry legends to the ever-hot computing arena. Dr. Thomas Pabst is joining VR World as Industry Fellow, a newly formed think tank of opinion leaders which can share their wealth of experience and positively influence new developments.

    In 1996, Dr. Pabst founded Tom’s Hardware as one of the first globally recognized technology publications. Over the next 11 years, Dr. Pabst built a media organization which spans across North America, Europe and Asia.

    In a new role as an Industry Fellow, Dr. Pabst will work closely with Mr. Nebojsa Novakovic and Mr. Theo Valich, founders and publishers of VR World media publications on building an independent organization focused solely on evolving the global media scene. “We view the world of tech media as stagnant and predictable”, said Mr. Valich. “The way how the current media scene operates stipulates a direct relationship between the allegedly independent news outlets and vendors using third party marketing and PR agencies which dictate what content is allowed to be published… or face expulsion from the limited number of media/blogging/analyst-turned-blogger/journalist seats.”

    “The arrival of Dr. Pabst is just the beginning of a new think tank which will operate independently of PR and marketing agencies, focusing on predicting and depicting future technology trends. The world where organizations maximize every available fund in the budget can only be enabled by enabling an open path between ideas turning into projects, projects turning into technology, technology turning into products and ultimately positively impacting the world around us,” Mr. Novakovic added. “With Tom’s unparalleled understanding of the PC ecosystem and its key vendors on both sides of the Pacific, we are on board to lead the next generation charge.”

    VR WORLD Pte. Ltd. plans to expand the newly established think tank enabling new industry initiatives. More announcements are to follow.

    Contact:

    Mr. Sam Reynolds
    Email. Sam@vrworld.com
    Web. www.vrworld.com
    Twiter. @vrworlddotcom

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    VR WORLD Pte. Ltd. is an independently owned dynamic consulting and media company, which publishes VRWorld.com as well as specialized publications for scientific and business community. Headquartered in Singapore with outlets in California, Croatia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, VR WORLD works on delivering news, analysis, interviews and reviews from the dynamic world of ‘computing everywhere’.

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THOMAS PABST: IS THE COMPUTING BUSINESS GETTING BORING?


pentium3
Hello, how are you?
Yes, it is me, the guy who decided to get out of all the CPU or GPU tests and reviews almost a decade ago. And do I feel regret? Can’t I wait to jump right back into it like Michael Schumacher, God bless him, when he returned to F1 with rather mixed results? Trust me, and please believe me I don’t mean to offend anyone, but the days of motherboard reviews and sleepless nights spent trying and testing the latest and greatest PC components are gone for good.
Funny as it is, time has not stood still in the last eight years, since I finally turned my back on Tom’s Hardware, oh yes, with money in my pocket, yet that wasn’t and couldn’t have been the reason why I was oh-so tired of it all. True enough, there are still those who care about a new chipset, new motherboards, new graphics cards, even overclocking, but the numbers have dwindled and why? Because the PC is dying, along with it the notebook, go figure!
We are running out of excuses for building or buying a new PC system, a new motherboard, a juicier power supply and even a new graphics card. What is so power hungry that would justify the pain, the expense and the time spent on such a project? The latest computer game? Yes, for years that was the one last stand for the power users, but let’s be honest, how many really good games have been released in recent years? Do we really want to sink tons of money into the hottest new components, just to be bored to tears by yet another first person shooter with yet even greater graphics, but a thin or even idiotic story, or a totally dissatisfying end?
So what are we looking at today? Oh yes, there would be this company named Apple. It came out with the greatest gift to man, the first ever true smart phone. Boy did that revolutionise the world, hasn’t it? Today, years later, we are at the nth reiteration of the iPhone, we acknowledge the iPad, we look at all the Android devices, but do we still feel the excitement we experienced when 3dfx, long gone but not forgotten, released Voodoo2? Do you remember that time? Oh how pathetic it looks today, but weren’t we blown away back then? Are we shaking in excitement the same way over the iWatch, or Nvidia’s latest addition to the world or 3D-graphics? Not really, right?
Much has happened in my life in the last eight years. Today, I am the husband to a beautiful wife and the father of an amazing 6-month old boy. Family life has got me in its grip, and I would not want to have it any other way.  You know what upsets my little son the most? It’s mommy or daddy reaching for and staring into their smartphone, instead of giving him the attention he wants as well as deserves. Oh yes, I am a smartphone addict like the next man, but little Ciarán’s disdain for this device made me realise that this cannot possibly the future of mankind.
It makes us antisocial assholes – thank you so much Apple – and if we should believe that our future might go along the lines of the Terminator movies, then becoming antisocial would have to be the first step of humanity losing what it takes to differentiate itself from and be better than ‘the machines’. I am not gonna be a daddy who hands his child an iPad once he turns one and a half years old. I made that oath, and believe me, I am still as technology savvy and hungry as you remember me, but not at any price!
People asked me to talk about how the PC and other technology business evolved to what we are looking at today, but I better be careful, feeling a little bit of an outsider who hasn’t been invited to the hush-hush back rooms, the trade shows or intimate dinners with vendors for a long time. What I can see is Samsung going to produce everything, and the kitchen sink soon, focusing along with other Asian producers on creating yet the best copy of something invented by somebody else. I see Intel apparently busy digging its own grave, Microsoft also somewhat out of wits, the Taiwanese producers, Asus et al., concentrating on squeezing the last little bit of margin, so they can continue selling their stuff just that little bit cheaper once again, and Apple predominantly concentrating on making money, rather than creating something the world is really waiting for.
My dear friend Anthony, fellow dedicated daddy as well as technology editor, suggested I should write about VR and I would love to. When it comes to gaming, it seems to be the next big thing. However, I haven’t played with it yet, so who am I to comment? I’ll get my hands on one of those funky devices as soon as possible though, and I can’t wait sharing Anthony’s genuine excitement about this technology, … or not.
I have the request to give my view of what things will be like in 2030, and what to tell your child now in preparation for our glorious future. I used to be asked that kind of question a lot in bygone times, and my answer was always the same – I ain’t no oracle! I was just about to go there and embarrass myself, but the word count of my article made me reconsider, so why not wrap things up by speaking about the current state of computer journalism? Has it evolved, improved, withered? Well the landscape has changed, hasn’t it?
It feels very much as if all the good guys are gone, while the bad ones still remain. It has become more and more popular rewording press releases rather than doing research, hard work and arriving at one’s own point of view. I wish I could say why. If you allow me taking a wild guess, I would say it has plenty to do with balls versus greed. If it is money that you are after in this business, you cannot possibly say you’re searching for ‘the truth’ or ‘justice’ or – modestly – ‘the best interest of your reader’, can you? What it takes is drive, ambition, a certain level of fearlessness and inspiration. You have that and the money will come by itself. Just watch it arrive, nod if you have to and continue with your mission.
I have joined a team of people with ambition, balls and the determination to provide quality. I would not be writing this, would I not firmly believe in it. I never wanted to return to publishing, because it is a rather ugly business. However, things are going to change, and I have my own little idea how the publishing of old will be turned into something brand new and very exciting.
I have enjoyed writing this, certainly not exactly ground breaking or overly meaningful little piece and I can’t wait getting back into the scene and mixing things up my way. Give me a chance to assimilate all that I might have missed before I can give any kind of fundamental guidance. I’ll be there.
Tom’s back, for better or worse.

And at last, the internet time machine of the original website

https://web.archive.org/web/19960615000000*/http://sysdoc.pair.com

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Need feather? Just over 3000 Line ID - all IDs are validated on March 2015

Are you short of feathers?

Just made the chart. About 3000 ID's. All ID are valid as of March 2015.

The chart is too big that cannot post the full chart here (even here at blogger.com LOL), so please go to the google sheet to view the full chart. Feel free to share it with you friends! Hope it helps :)

Most of the ID here are not used by anyone. But some are! I can't go through one at a time by myself. So, if that matters to you (which it should), please also put in some effort to distinguish them!!. Part of the chart is not protected, feel free to mark whichever ID should be removed.

Also feel free to add more (but why do you need more, there are 3000 already...) at end of the chart should you wish to.

Below is a peep of the first 50 or so ID.

complete 3000 Line ID chart here

欠羽毛嗎?

剛更新好的表格。約3000個 ID。部分表格開放更新,歡迎進去增加及修改。FB上限一萬字 (對 blogger.com 也是太大哈哈),所以只貼了一小部份。完整內容請至以下 Google Sheet。

歡迎分享給你的好朋友們~

對了,這些大多是空頭帳號。我知道有些不是,但一個人很難一個一個再分遍一次。表格部份有開放修改,歡迎發行非人頭帳號在旁加個註記。謝謝!!

如果你有更多人頭 ID 能分享,歡迎加在此表格最下方(最下方沒被鎖)。但已有 3000個在這了,真的有人會需要更多嗎 :P

以下是頭 50 多個 ID 先嘗個香 ~

完整 3000 ID 表在這

chrisameliahttp://line.me/ti/p/xqUSByjxEp
chrislinegaminghttp://line.me/ti/p/qjneNIn_7H
1100http://line.me/R/ti/p/~1100
1110http://line.me/R/ti/p/~1110
2002http://line.me/R/ti/p/~2002
2022http://line.me/R/ti/p/~2022
2200http://line.me/R/ti/p/~2200
2222http://line.me/R/ti/p/~2222
3330http://line.me/R/ti/p/~3330
4000http://line.me/R/ti/p/~4000
4040http://line.me/R/ti/p/~4040
4400http://line.me/R/ti/p/~4400
4440http://line.me/R/ti/p/~4440
5005http://line.me/R/ti/p/~5005
6600http://line.me/R/ti/p/~6600
6606http://line.me/R/ti/p/~6606
6660http://line.me/R/ti/p/~6660
7700http://line.me/R/ti/p/~7700
7707http://line.me/R/ti/p/~7707
7770http://line.me/R/ti/p/~7770
8000http://line.me/R/ti/p/~8000
9099http://line.me/R/ti/p/~9099
12010http://line.me/R/ti/p/~12010
13055http://line.me/R/ti/p/~13055
30901http://line.me/R/ti/p/~30901
51645http://line.me/R/ti/p/~51645
61802http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61802
61804http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61804
61806http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61806
61808http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61808
61823http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61823
61828http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61828
61831http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61831
61833http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61833
61838http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61838
61853http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61853
61856http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61856
61859http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61859
61867http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61867
61873http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61873
61879http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61879
61880http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61880
61882http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61882
61883http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61883
61885http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61885
61886http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61886
61891http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61891
61896http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61896
61898http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61898
61899http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61899
61900http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61900
61901http://line.me/R/ti/p/~61901

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

How to fix Live Messenger installation error "hr:ox80070643" - WLM forced upgrade on 16 Sep 2009

you are visiting my blog because you want a quick, direct and effective solution right? i am going to make this really short

below solution is for you if you have experienced any of these problems

  1. if you are trying to upgrade your Live Messenger but ran into this problem "hr:ox80070643"
  2. if you are trying to install Live Messenger but stupid windows doesn't give you the option install
  3. if you have successfully installed Live Messenger but cannot log on (sorry i forgot the error code), and that you should uninstall Live Messenger then reinstall again, but stupid windows doesn't let you reinstall

option 1 - run zapmessenger. it can be downloaded here

option 2 - run deepclean. you can download it here


if you prefer to download offline installation version live messenger, here it is (134MB). i have tried many offline installation, so far only this one works


big thanks for the authors of zapmessenger and deepclean!!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

How to remove the blacklist and re-enable your Directory Opus

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what is DIRECTORY OPUS
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Directory Opus is an alternative windows explorer. if you find windows explorer not as customisable as you would like it, or found windows explorer crashes too often, or whatever other reason you want to dump windows explorer, first alternative you should consider is Directory Opus. trust me this is a very good piece of app. it totally replace windows explorer. it even remap the hot key Win+E!

below is the the features that i like about directory opus
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Designed for Windows: Directory Opus 9 has been designed and written from the ground up especially for Windows. Full support for the latest Windows Operating Systems from 2000, XP and 2003 and Windows Vista.

Familiar Interface: Unlike many other file managers, Directory Opus defaults to an Explorer-compatible user interface. You can immediately begin using Directory Opus, with no learning curve, because it will feel extremely familiar and comfortable to you. But, you will find that you can easily configure the interface to fully personalize your system including the use of dual file displays or multiple displays for special folders.

Fully Configurable Menus, Toolbars and Hotkeys: Directory Opus supports unlimited menus and toolbars. Toolbars can be attached to any side of a Lister display or can be independent free-floating windows. Directory Opus supports user-configurable hotkeys, both for use within Opus, and globally throughout the system. The Windows key is also fully supported!

True Multitasking: The object-orientated multi-threaded design gives you unheralded power to perform multiple operations at the same time. Why should you have to wait for your computer to finish? Now you can begin one task and immediately move on the the next. Zip one folder whilst unzipping into another, at the same time as you are downloading files from a remote FTP site and copying yet more files between your local folders, independently and reliably.

Built-in Viewer Pane: Quickly view pictures, text files and other types of files in the Opus Viewer pane directly in the Lister window. Opus supports a viewer plug-in system so you can add new drivers for the specific file formats you wish to view as they become available. Directory Opus comes with plug-ins for many popular image and document file formats. Third party libraries can extend the viewing capabilities to include Word and Excel documents, Acrobat files and many other types of files. A free SDK is available for developers to write their own viewer plug-ins.

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the built in viewer is exceptionally good. it is fast and, most importantly, it opens files with unicode filename! yeah i have found no other program that opens image with unicode filename except directory opus (well, windows picture and fax viewer doesn't really count as it lacks zero customisation capability)

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directory open BLACKLIST issue
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if you installed Directory Opus and by mistake updated or allowed it to auto update, and subsequently have Directory Opus blacklisted, this is how to get it working again without reinstalling windows

below is direct copy from the above link. many thanks to weicker for sharing this method with us

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The following text was written by jjkarrington working with some stuff that I initially found out. It's applicable for an older version of Dopus but the same "theme" holds true here - the same hidden registry key and file concept. Work with this and see if you can unblacklist yourself.
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PRELIMINARY DRAFT:

Caution: You are advised to backup your registry (and perhaps even your computer) before proceeding. In other words, proceed at your own risk.

Directory Opus 9.1.0.2893 YAG (dopus aka dopus 9.1) uses a licensing scheme based on certificates. YAG provided the "thomalla" certificate that unlocks dopus. The problem is that eventually the thomalla certificate is blacklisted by dopus. Dopus stores the blacklist certificates in multiple registry branches and in multiple file locations. You can uninstall dopus and reinstall but the certificate will still be blacklisted because the blacklist information is not deleted.

What follows is not a minimal set of instructions but rather the steps we used to get dopus working again with the thomalla certificate. Simply put, its just happened to be the way that worked for us.

Although we did this by installing dopus 9.0.0.4, applying the thomalla certificate, and then upgrading to dopus 9.1.0.2893 (YAG), we don't see why these instructions won't work with 9.1.0.2893 directly. The 9.0.0.4 release was just a convenient starting point for troubleshooting the issue.

Step 1: prevent dopus from contacting home to obtain the blacklist. Step 1 is a must even if you have a working certificate or have never installed dopus before.

1a. Either create your own firewall rules or do what we did and add the following to your windows host file:

file: %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

127.0.0.1 gpsoftware.com.au
127.0.0.1 www.gpsoftware.com.au

1b. reboot

1c. test - ping both gpsoftware.com.au and www.gpsoftware.com.au and make sure the reply is from 127.0.0.1.

Step 2. Uninstall Dopus, reboot. Step 2 and what follows are for those whose thomalla certificate has been blacklisted.

Step 3: Optional: clean the registry of all non-trivial references to "gpsoftware" and "dopus". Personally, I don't think this step is necessary but I did it anyway.

Step 4. Remove the black list from the registry

4a. For each of the registry keys below, delete any values and subkeys but do not delete the keys themselves:

The registry keys are:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Time
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Clock
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\File Manager\Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket\TrashInfo\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\DlgInfo\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Management\AppDataBucket\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DesktopInterfaceMethod\

Example:

For this branch

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\DlgInfo

you will see subkeys like this

{93E77B44-276F-4A71-B9AA-F2CF4E99B7B3}
{5E2948B7-58F8-426D-B0CF-8221822BC084}
...

Blow the subkeys away but leave the branch intact (it will be empty when you are done). If the branch is already empty, then fine, go to the next.

4b. Search for the following value: {CBE4B0D2-C4FC-45E3-976C-7D2E951DD34B} and delete the key. If you have followed the steps above, you should not find this but just in case.

Step 5. Remove blacklist files:

5a. Delete the contents of C:\windows\system32\inf32 but leave the inf32 directory (it will
be empty when you are done).

5b. delete the following files. If the file is not found, go to the next one.

del /Q /A "%programfiles%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopus.dat"
del /Q /A "%appdata%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopus.dat"
del /Q /A %windir%\xpcc37.log
del /Q /A %windir%\system32\argtmp39.dll
del /Q /A %windir%\system32\inf32\*

attrib "%Systemroot%\..\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopus.cert" -s -h -r
del /Q /A "%Systemroot%\..\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopus.cert"

NOTE: don't make my mistake - I went to the dos prompt and looked for the files and did not find them. Some are hidden at the dos prompt. The thomalla certificate was not accepted until the files were deleted.

6. Install dopus 9.1 YAG and see if the thomalla certificate is accepted.

NOTE: as stated we installed 9.0.0.4 first and then upgraded to 9.1. However, installing 9.1 and bypassing 9.0.0.4 in step 6 should work.

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