Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 Crashed

Ai CC 2015

A friend of mine asked me to look into his computer problem regarding Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 crashed upon opening existing files or creating new file.

The first thing I do is googling for the problem and found some suggested solutions.

1. Set PDF printer as default printer on the system.
2. Changing files and folders attribute in AI AppData to read/write access.
3. Delete all Ai preferences (or rename the folder name) -- Ai will recreate the folder.

But, none of these works on that particular system. I noticed Ai notification about compatible GPU detected earlier when I start Ai. This giving me an idea to shut off the nVIDIA GPU support to try to isolate the problem. 

Preferences Dialog Box
Credit: Adobe.com

Go to Edit/Preference in Ai menu, the look at GPU Performance in the left side of the Preference dialog box. Untick the GPU Performance in the right pane, then restart Ai.

The problem solved.

I believe there is GPU driver problem. I shall try to update the drive.

Computer System:

A Laptop, Acer Aspire V5-471PG with

* Windows 10 x64

* 8 GB system memory

* Intel HD Graphics / nVIDIA 710m 

Further reading: GPU Performance 

Google SSL Error

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a technology to make a internet connection in secure manner.

I having this SSL error when trying to access google site or any site that required SSL connection, including any cloud storage access, eg, dropbox.

Screenshot 1: Cannot connect to real www.google.com

Security Task Manager

Security Task Manager provides comprehensible information about programs and processes running on the computer. For each process it shows in addition in contrast with Windows Task-Manger:

• file name and directory path
• security risk rating
• description
• start time
• CPU usage graph
• program icon
• contained hidden functions  e.g. keyboard monitoring, Browser supervision, manipulation

• process type e.g. visible window, systray program, DLL, IE-Plugin, service

The Security Task Manager recognizes also virtual driver software, services, BHO or processes which hide from the Windows task manager.

Download demo here

Windows Life Essentials Offline Installer

Windows Life Essentials 2012 contains Microsoft Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, SkyDrive (desktop application), Writer, and Messenger

Essentials installer files for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2008

Windows Live Essentials 2012 English / 131.35 MB  [Microsoft][DropBox]

For more WLE 2012 details and other language download, please visit this page. If you having any trouble installing WLE 2012, make sure you have install all available windows update for you system.

Windows Live Essentials 2011 

Windows Live Essentials 2011 EnglishEnglish /  214.99 MB [Microsoft][DropBox]

Save files from internet directly to Cloud Storage.

During blogwalks and internet surfing today, I found a post that could help me reduce effort for file sharing.

"With Save, you can easily upload any file from the Internet directly to your Dropbox, Google Drive or SkyDrive without downloading it the computer."

Screenshot of http://www.labnol.org/internet/download-files-directly/28049/

How to:

Click on web app link

Step 1:  Type in the file URL and click Dropbox (for example)