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My experience with Antimalware Service Executable – while continuing to run Windows XP

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OT I know but I am curious if there are any similar experiences out there.

I plead guilty to being a bit of a slow learner when it comes to taking on a new operating system.

I stuck with Win98SE till about 2006 and here I am still persevering with XP Pro.

I saw news that support was ending on 8 April so I downloaded what updates I could that day.

Easter Thursday the PC was sluggish to boot – often needed several re-boots – and was prone to crashing/freezing – took me back a decade or more.
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All that was worse Easter Friday am and messages started appearing – one was just a warning that XP was not supported – but there was also one of those MS message popups saying to effect – “we are sorry but Antimalware Service Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close” – how I know that feeling.

I had never heard of that file MsMpEng.exe – anyway, I must have rebooted 40 times that morning and got a few minutes online and found it was a Windows8 file and connected with MS Security Essentials which I have used for a couple of years.

So perhaps it was inserted with an update to MSSE ?

Anyway seeing I had no chance of getting any work done I decided to take a risk and see if REGEDIT would solve the thing. Searching for MsMpEng.exe using REGEDIT found about it in about 8 locations – I deleted them all and XP has never run better. I hope nobody else has their beloved XP reduced to rubble like mine was yesterday.

IPCC, Sea levels

Global Warming alias Climate Change [the non-existent, incredibly expensive, threat to us all, including to our grandchildren]

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by Dr David Kear (former Director-General, NZ DSIR; United Nations consultant; & South Pacific geoscientist)

I remember Dr Kear as Director of the NZ Geological Survey when I was at University in the early 1960’s – hence my interest in his article now.

INTRODUCTION

“Climate Change” has become an important international topic – one might almost say religion. It began life as “Global Warming”. So very many people, including politicians and “news people”, appear to have been overwhelmed by it, and have led others to believe, and follow the doctrine. It has sponsored a good deal of international co-operation, which can only have been good.

However, the cost of “Combating Carbon” has been extremely high, and the debt and economic consequences are being passed on to present citizens, and, worse still, to future generations, including all our grandchildren. This booklet 180KB pdf – attempts to raise, in citizens’ minds, questions regarding the enormous sums of money and effort being wasted on this topic.

 

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ACORN SAT

Bureau of Meteorology adjustments to construct ACORN SAT Adelaide temperature data Jan 1910 to Feb 1979

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The Adelaide temperature history has been discussed at Jo Nova’s – Forgotten: Historic hot temperatures recorded with detail and care in Adelaide –

First – Adelaide weather data was collected at West Terrace for around a century then in Feb 1977 a new site commenced 3.2km away at Kent Town. The new BoM adjusted ACORN SAT data is named Adelaide – there is a downloadable ACORN SAT station catalogue if you go to the TAB ‘Data and network’ at the above link.

I wanted to make a start showing how the daily ACORN SAT (Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature) adjustments vary from day to day – seemingly inexplicably. Interesting patterns appear – interesting results emerge – the reasons for which I can only speculate on.

ACORN used West Terrace data till Kent Town started Feb 1977. Then ACORN used Kent Town minimum untouched from Feb 1977. However ACORN adjusted the Kent Town max Feb 1977 until end 2001. West Terrace closed end Feb 1979. The overlap period 1977-1979 for West Terrace and Kent Town showed the raw minimums differed over a greater range than the max diffs.

Here are the daily ACORN minus West Terrace adjustments 1910-Feb 1977 – Three interesting step changes in the minimum adjustments are seen circa 1943-1951 and 1961 – were there site changes?


This Table shows daily details for Jan 1939 – month of record max at time of the 1939 bushfires – now the Adelaide all-time highest max of 46.1 on 12 Jan magically becomes 46.4 according to the god-like BoM.

Here is an example of ACORN producing seven outlier cold nights in April 1960.


Kent Town 23090 max was adjusted to end of 2001 in ACORN – Looking at ACORN max minus Ken Town max we see that mostly the adjustments make ACORN warmer except for a period ~1983-1990 where the adjustments are more balanced either side of zero. Were there site changes ~1983 and 1990?

If the steps are due to Kent Town site changes – then this should have affected the minimums – but ACORN does not touch the Kent Town minimums.

For those interested to pore through spreadsheets –

[1] ACORN has minimum on 16 April 1961 at 5.8 yet no other station in District 23A went that low.

[2] April 1970 example of mystery missing minimums in ACORN on 5th and 27th – what was wrong with the West Terrace data ? Or is it related to those days being slightly warm peaks. An example of many ACORN mysteries.
It is not uncommon for ACORN to reject a days data for no apparent reason. There are many examples of ACORN missing out an extra day if West Terrace misses a day eg Jan and Jul 1913.

[3] In May 1972 from 4th to 10th ACORN makes no adjustments to a string of warm nights where West Terrace is usually the warmest night site in district 23A. This puzzles me – I can understand that the minimums at West Terrace are often too warm and I thought ACORN was tweaking these down so I ask – why this string of zero adjustments to a run of standout warm nights. Is this an indication that the ACORN algorithm was fully up to quota in May 1972? A contra result like this leaves me puzzled.

I am sure readers can come up with many ACORN puzzles.

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Another $1.7Billion was to be spent by GreenLabor over six years through The Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board

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This page describing The Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board looks to describe an additional set of QUANGOS to that addressed in my previous post – A Quarter $Billion in climate change grants over three years 2010-2012 –
Downloading The Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board 2011-12 Annual Report – taking the five or six year funding totals from pages 12-13 I make the grand total $1.7Bn.

We can only hope the new Govt has kneecapped the worst of these schemes before they can squander too much of our taxes. Apologies for my adding to their Calendar.

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A Quarter $Billion in climate change grants over three years 2010-2012

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I see the biggest single grant was $94Million in 2010 to birth the Australian Carbon Trust Limited headed by one Michael Rann – that later transformed into Low Carbon Australia which later again was integrated into the
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).
CSIRO seems to be the biggest single grants recipient with about $48million – followed I think by the BoM with about $22million. Click more for hopefully a spreadsheet of the main details for all grants 2010-11-12 Continue reading A Quarter $Billion in climate change grants over three years 2010-2012 →

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Ninti One Ltd – a skilled operation gets $1 million from Fed Govt Climate Change Fund

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Checking out who gets what in the world of Climate Change grants I came across this neat little operation – – Ninti One Ltd in Alice Springs. Many involved seem to be big city academics who would be funded anyway by their tertiary education institutions. But I am sure Ninti One Ltd can put the Govt funds to good use.