This was quite an annoying error that wasted around 30 mins of my time today when i tried to connect my Nokia mobile to PC using CA-53 data cable. When i tried to connect the phone for the first time after updating PC suite, it gave me "Cannot install USB Phone parent" and "Fatal error during installation" error messages. A bit of Googling and i found out that the PC suite version i had installed at that time (6.86) was a little retarded and apparently the cable driver that came with it did not support CA-53.

Tried various suggestions on Nokia forums including removing all Nokia software in the system, cleaning registry and then installing version 7 of PC suite only to be greeted with the same error message. Here is what i did to get rid of this problem (It's pretty shorter than most methods mentioned; some of which even suggested using devcon to clean the system).

1. Remove you mobile device from the PC if connected.
2. Uninstall any older versions of PC suite and install the latest version. [Link]. Don't connect the phone just yet.
3. Browse to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder.
4. Locate the file WDF01000 and make a backup of it.
5. Now delete WDF01000 from System32\Drivers folder.
6. Launch PC suite and connect your phone. Installation should complete.

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System Mechanic^® keeps your PC running faster, cleaner and error-free. Its powerful arsenal of 40+ award-winning precision tools fixes stubborn errors, cleans out clutter, optimizes internet and download speeds, ensures personal security and maintains maximum computer performance automatically.

• Makes your PC run like new
• Boosts PC and internet speeds up to 300%
• Eliminates frustrating slowdowns, crashes & freezes
• Repairs problems and errors, and prevent them from recurring
• Cleans up system-clogging clutter
• Maintains reliability and speed

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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Features

• VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. (For example, files still downloading via BitTorrent or eMule). It also plays m2t MPEG Transport Streams (.TS) files while they are still being digitized from an HDV camera via a FireWire cable, making it possible to monitor the video as it is being played. This is because it is a packet-based player.
• The player also has the ability to use libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.
• VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by FFmpeg. This means that DVD Video and MPEG-4 playback as well as support for Ogg and Matroska (MKV) file formats work "out of the box". However, this feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including MPlayer and xine-lib-based players, can play those formats without need for external codecs. VLC also supports codecs that are not included in FFmpeg.
• VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as ASCII art.
• VLC media player can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag. An entire library of tapes (or about 50 D-VHS 2 hours long) can be placed on a single terabyte sized hard drive. However, they must be imported by playing the tapes in real time, and can't simply be copied as data files.
• Using a FireWire connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.
• VLC media player can display the playing video as the desktop wallpaper.
• On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party DLLs.

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• Windows
• Mac OS X
• BeOS
• Syllable
• Debian GNU/Linux
• Ubuntu
• Mandriva Linux
• Fedora
• openSUSE
• Familiar Linux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Slackware Linux
• ALT Linux
• Arch Linux
• YOPY/Linupy
• Zaurus

VLC Media Player Portable edition 0.8.6.h

VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

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Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Moreover, if you want to annotate a PDF document, you have to pay US$299 to buy certain software.Now with Foxit Reader, you don't have to endure such pain any more.

Features

• Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.55 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
• Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
• Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
• Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
• High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.

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Pop Art Studio is a very easy to use graphics editing software. It supports BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG and TIFF formatted images.
The effects include Paul Klee, Piet Mondriaan, Random Pop Art, Flags of all Countries, psychedelic, color accent, texture, unsharp mask, slide show and many more...

Features

• Andy Warhol effects and the famous Roy Lichtenstein effect
• drawing tools
• filters
• gradients
• color adjustment capabilities
• text editing capabilities
• shape-background tools

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ConvertXtoDVD (formerly DivXtoDVD) is a software to convert and burn your videos to DVD. With ConvertXtoDVD and in a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player. ConvertXtoDVD supports most popular format such Xvid, MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, MP4, AVI, WMV, DV and stream formats. It converts your files into a compliant DVD Video set of files and burns it on a DVD media. The aspect ratio can be automatically selected or forced to a specific format. The program works for NTSC and PAL video formats and creates chapters automatically. Multiple audio tracks are supported. Version 2 uses a completely rewritten interface with subtitles support and a lot of new settings.

Features

• Video formats supported: avi, divx, xvid, mov, mkv, flv, mpeg-1, mpeg2-, mpeg-4, nsv, dvr-ms, tivo, ts, ifo, vob, asf, wmv, realmedia, rm, rmvb, ogm, existing files from digital camcorders, TV/Sat, capture cards, etc. No external codecs needed like avi codec download
• Create DVD menus with different templates available, possibility to add background video, image or audio, have chapter and audio/subtitle menus
• Conversion advisor wizard, control of the conversion speed vs. quality* Fast and quality encoder, typically less than 1 hour for converting 1 movie, and supports Multi-Core processors!
• Included burning engine with burn speed control choice of SAO or packet writing methods, supports all DVD formats
• Custom and or automatic chapter creation with markers and preview window* Advanced file merging possibilities
• Audio formats supported internal and external: AC3, DTS, PCM, OGG, MP3, WMA and more...
• Subtitles files supported internal and external: SRT, .SUB/IDX, .SSA with color and font selection, and supports tags like italic, bold
• Video output for video standard (NTSC, PAL), TV Screen (Widescreen 16:9, Fullscreen 4:3) and DVD Resolution (Full D1, Boradcast D1, Half D1, SIF), or choose automatic for all choices listed above. Also convert video from NTSC to PAL or PAL to NTSC
• Video post processing settings like video resize-pad/cropping and de-interlacing options
• Multilingual support* Optimized for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista

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Run any version of virtually any application on a single operating system without conflicts. You can even run multiple versions of the same application. Plug VMware ThinApp, formerly known as Thinstall, into your existing management infrastructure and accelerate your software development and desktop deployment.  Deliver and deploy applications more efficiently, more securely, and more cost-effectively with agentless application virtualization.

Features:

• Package each application with its own DLL file and registry changes to eliminate installation conflicts
• Execute applications on locked-down PCs in 100% user mode
  -Run applications from any media without needing admin privileges
• Application isolation - Isolated applications run in a virtual bubble in restricted user accounts without requiring any host modification. Deploy Office 97, 2003, 2007, and .NET applications on the same OS without conflict as the applications run independent of one another.
• Zero-runtime execution. -With no installed agent, no footprint is left on the endpoint device. Applications run directly from the compressed state without first caching data to the hard disk, achieving better performance and security of data.
• 100% User Mode execution. -Client runs on locked-down, unmanaged PCs without Admin rights to execute applications, enabling it to be used on managed and unmanaged PC.
  Block-by-block network streaming.
• Applications virtualized - execute once the minimum amount of code required to run the application is available in the memory. For example, less than 10% of Microsoft Office needs to be physically streamed to the client in order for it to run. LAN streaming has an average start-up time of just a few seconds.
• Sandbox environments for terminal services. - Provide sandboxing for applications running in a terminal services environment so that multiple users can run their own sandboxed application without affecting each other. If one instance of the application tries to make system-wide changes, other users running the same applications are not affected.
• 64-bit operating system support. -Enables applications to be virtualized and run on 64-bit systems.
• Execution on thin clients. -Tested and certified to run virtualized applications on Windows XP-based thin clients.
  Compatibility with a broad range of applications.
• -Proven deployments on simple-to-complex applications ranging from basic Microsoft Office to custom applications with Java or .NET.
• Active Directory integration. -VMware ThinApp does not require any distribution, streaming, or activation servers or agents. It works with AD, ESD enforcement tools, and open protocols so no additional hardware, software licenses and ongoing maintenance costs for backend infrastructure is required.
• Execution from USB key with portable profiles/user settings.
  -Enable a user to run critical applications from a USB key while maintaining corporate security requirements.
• Integration with 3rd-party application management solutions. -Creates .MSI and/or .EXE file that plugs into existing electronic software delivery systems (Inventory, Configuration Management Database, Definitive Software Library, Packagers) without additional integrations required.
  Application Sync.
• -Enables application updates for mobile users as well as third parties on the corporate extranet, ensuring availability of the latest version of the application, reducing patch risks to machines that are taken off the network. Update virtual applications via http/https over the LAN or WAN leveraging existing software delivery systems.
• Application Link. -Allows packaged applications to dynamically establish dependencies ("links" with other packaged applications. Administers create separate packages of interdependent components such as Java or .NET runtimes and the applications that rely on them. Each component is delivered independently while sharing resources across multiple ThinApp packages.
• Package it once, deliver to many. -Execute a packaged application on Windows NT, Windows PE, or XP Embedded without retesting or repackaging the application for each operating system.
• System snapshots. -Provides administrators with a rapid three-step process for pre- and post-install system states for packaging simplicity and for supporting applications that require a reboot during the installation process.
• ISV embeddable. - Organizations can deliver their custom application throughout their extranet using VMware ThinApp application virtualization technology.

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TorrentBytes is one of the best private trackers out there. It's well known for its exclusive packs and free leech periods.  This tracker does not have an invite system so the only opportunity users will get to sign up is when the tracker opens its signups (which are normally closed). TB has once again raised it's user limit from 65000 to 70000 and 4500 more spots are available for the taking (at time of post). If you hurry, you may be able to get in (read signup notes below).

Site Name: TorrentBytes

Signup URL: http://www.torrentbytes.net/signup.php

Description: General 0Day, Excellent movie/tv/app/game packs

Signup Notes:

• Captcha is insanely hard to recognize and is case sensitive.
• Read the FAQ and Rules (open them and scroll) during the registration process (before the countdown reaches 0 and you hit 'signup').
• Use Upper case + Lower case characters and and a minimum 10 characters in your Password (or signup will fail).
• If you mess any of the above up, you will have to keep trying again till you get the registration form.

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Popular semi-private tracker Demonoid.com has opened registrations. Readers who couldn't get invites in our last two giveaways can now get one for free. Demonoid site says it opens registrations 2-3 days a month but last time signups opened it didn't last that long. So be quick.

Site Name: Demonoid.com

Signup URL: http://www.demonoid.com/register.php

Description: It's the best semi-private tracker out there and perhaps the best torrent tracker ever. Nuff said.

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There have been many stories about how the scene groups are inept at defeating the new SecuROM protection. RELOADED proves the rumors false yet again. Devil May Cry for the PC has been released by the veteran group a day before the game's street day. RELOADED's cracks for the new SecuRom have been controversial since they use emulation without completely stripping the protection. But that is not to say they don't work; RELOADED release seem to be working fine and have already made it's way around to bit torrent sites across the world. Anyway i wonder where HATRED is. As far as I know those guys were the best in the business when it came to pwning SecuROM.

Devil May Cry 4 immerses gamers in a gothic supernatural world, where a new protagonist clashes with a familiar hero. As the new leading man, Nero, players will unleash incredible attacks and non-stop combos using a unique new gameplay mechanic, his powerful "Devil Bringer" arm. Dynamic action and undeniable style combine with explosive fighting options and a gripping story to produce the incomparable experience that only a Devil May Cry game can deliver.

Features

• Turbo mode will turn-up the action to insane speeds
• Legendary Dark Knight Mode will harness advanced PC processing power and fill the screen with an unbelievable number of enemies for extra difficulty
• Familiar enemies from the console versions will show-up in new locations
• High resolution screen settings allow the cut scenes of the game to run at up to 120 frames per second (up from 60 frames per second)
• Benchmark Testing lets users test PC performance to run DMC4 through a series of intense boss fights
• PC Settings allow you to customize graphic resolutions, texture sizes, and a frame rate in accordance with your PC
• Compatible with Games for Windows, DirectX 9 and DirectX 10

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz
• Memory: 512 MB (1 GB for Vista)
• Video Memory: 256 MB (nVidia GeForce 6600 SM3 Required)
• DirectX: 9.0c

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows XP/Vista
• Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO
• Memory: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
• Video Memory: 512 MB (nVidia GeForce 8600)

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