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No, I'm afraid it's not that either. I remove the default search engines from firefox and replace with DDG. I also use Omnibar with search suggestions disabled and I have 'browser.search.suggest.enabled' set to false in my user.js. Moreover, firefox doesn't use svchost for making searches...

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, thunderbird doesn't use svchost, it makes it's own connections. Also. the secure mail ports used by Gmail are 995 and 465. However, the IP address used by thunderbird when checking mail does fall with one of the blocks mentioned above. 25/03/2015 21:23:57 |...

I've recently installed Windows 8.1 and I noticed Svchost is constantly attempting to connect to Google. As I don't use any google services, apart from Gmail (via thunderbird) and I firefox only as my browser, I'm quite curious. My firewall log gas lots of entries similar to these...

I would suggest converting your newly formatted FAT32 volume to NTFS and running a chkdsk. To convert the volume use: 1. Open an Administrative Command prompt 2. Type - convert E: /fs:ntfs - Where E is the volume identifier. For the chkdsk: 1. Open an Administrative command prompt 2. Type -...

The beta was released on February 29th, it's called the Customer preview. The next release, slated for June 1st, will be the Release preview (formally Release candidate).

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Out of interest, I'm assuming these disks/drives are on different controllers, can you provide any information on how they're configured, i.e., which disks/drives are on which controllers.

looking at the differences between your exported registry files and default keys, I'm not sure it's worth trying to correct this in situ, there's just to many anomalies. I think, at this point, you have a couple of choices, you could follow the advice given by GMan, or you could attempt either...

Depending upon your hardware, performance may be an issue, however, I'd say the main consideration is what you want to achieve. If you're main interest is in seeing how Windows 8 works, a VM should suffice. If, on the other hand, you want to see whether Windows 8 will work correctly with all of...

Says the worst rated CEO of a large, publicly traded American company today :zip:

Do you have anything under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess Can you also check: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MpsSvc HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BFE It may be worth exporting all three keys, zipping...