Consider adding pgfix.exe type functionality

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An old version of PeerGuardian included a "pgfix.exe" tool which could help
resolve driver-issues if PG got into a funky state.  We should try to see
if we can dig up some source-code for that tool, and if so consider adding
this functionality to PeerBlock.

Ideally we should build this functionality into PeerBlock itself, such that
if problems are found during startup we'll auto-run the "attempt to fix the
driver" pgfix code.  Need to be careful here, though, because people may
stop reporting these sorts of bugs if we're automatically patching around
them . . . and I'd greatly prefer to actually fix the bugs instead of just
using a hack workaround!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2009 at 2:13

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According to Phoenixlabs  '"pgfix" recovery application no longer needed' (
http://phrosty.phoenixlabs.org/pg2-rc1/ ).

If they don't deem it necessary to include in the installer anymore, perhaps it 
was
rendered useless somewhere along the way?

Original comment by Keefaet...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2009 at 4:44

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Good point, but I'd still love to figure out exactly what it was doing...  I've
actually seen some peoples' "reviews" on various sites complaining that we 
didn't
have a pgfix tool.  More commonly before we'd fixed the vast majority of 
issues, but
still...

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2009 at 8:29

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Having looked into this some more, it looks as though we already are doing the 
same
sorts of stuff pgfix.exe used to do, just doing it within the main code instead.

Closing this bug as it turns out it really isn't necessary.

Original comment by peerbloc...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2009 at 3:59

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