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Definitely. ADB can be used to make or restore backups, and has access to some places that normal apps would not, so these backups can be more complete than those made by other methods. It can grant or deny various permissions. It can install or uninstall apps. It can explore directory stuctures, copy, move, rename or delete files within device storage or to/from your windows computer, change file permissions or ownership, or generally do most shell commands. It can remount read-only partitions as read/write (though you still need to consider how to deal with dm-verity on some of them like /system). It can reboot the phone into recovery mode or bootloader mode, useful if you want to change ROMs. It may be able to change itself to root mode, depending if Xiaomi left some config settings on that would allow this. It also has a "sync" function in addition to the backup/restore functions. I find myself using ADB at least once a month or so, mostly because that crippleware MTP mode does not always preserve file timestamps correctly, where using ADB does. I have not looked into Xiaomi in particular, but that arrangement sounds typical for getting a bootloader unlocked. While it is not directly rooting, it is typically the first step in either rooting or in installing a custom ROM. One thing to get clear about before you do that, is for some vendors, requesting that unlock will void whatever manufacturer warranty the phone had, so best to check the rules before asking. My guess here would be that their web site is coded to want Chrome, and the needed functions are missing in whatever older browser you tried. If you don't like Google Chrome (I sure don't!) there are other chromium based browsers that are more privacy friendly. Brave ver 1.47.186, while not the most current, does run on W7 and is my go-to browser when my preferred SeaMonkey can't cope. Others might include Chromite, Vivaldi, etc; you can probably find a thread elsewhere on these boards about browsers still running in W7 for more ideas. Yeah, that is part of what I meant about the hassle factor. The card itself is usually pretty sturdy and not likely to break. But if your phone has one of those little pop-out trays that hold both cards, that thing is a lot more delicate and definitely prone to breakage, assuming it doesn't just get lost. I usually just install the card once and leave it in permanently, since ADB is simple enough for me to copy stuff out with. Yep. Even worse, for my FroYo device, doing this has about 50% odds of causing the phone to reboot, so I have to unplug everything, wait for it to finish, and start over. There's no real reason why the procedure to unmount and remount a partition should fail so often for androids when it is very reliable on Linux desktops, but apparently Google preferred to do away with it entirely rather than debug the actual problem here. Somehow desktop Linux systems solved this problem a long time ago and routinely stop trying to access a partition that is unmounted. I don't know why the same solution never made it into the android kernels. Oh, I just thought of another... if you have a USB-OTG adapter that fits your phone's USB port, you can plug in a standard USB thumb drive and use something like Ghost Commander to copy files in and out.

Hi, we've been working on these experiments for a while now. The +3TB solution from Gigabyte, Seagate, and others involves creating an additional virtual drive for capacities above 2 TiB. I don't recommend following the final link you posted to the Chinese solutions from 2011. That link recommends following all the incorrect steps we've already ruled out, which limit GPT to 2 TiB. Following those steps leads to data corruption starting at 2 TiB.

@Andalu I've found the reason why my partitions disappear when I start Disk Management in Windows XP. I initialize the hard disk as GPT, and the system automatically creates a partition called MSR. Since I don't want the characteristics of that partition, just like Bitlocker, I deleted it before creating new GPT partitions. Deleting the MSR partition isn't a problem in NT6-10, but in XP, if it's deleted, all GPT partitions disappear when I start Disk Management.

Not enough expansion slots for separate network/sound/videoadapter, considering that a video card usually covers 2 slots if it is any good.

You must follow the exact instructions I provided in the links in the first post. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181911-read-gpt-hard-disk-on-windows-xp-solved/ The version of Paragon GPT you need is 8.0.1.0, which is included in Paragon Partition Manager 15 Professional. It won't work properly if you're using an older version, and you won't be able to exceed 2 TiB if you're using a version higher than 8.0.1.0. Although solutions have also been discussed for this, the easiest way is to use the version I mentioned. It has also been mentioned that the system doesn't work with PAE enabled!!! There is currently no solution for this. With PAE, the limit without data corruption is 2 TiB. Without PAE, the theoretical limit is 256 TiB for SATA. Working with data disks initialized as GPT is solved. I have no experience with GPT boot disks in Windows XP. But @reboot12 recently claims to have succeeded. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181911-read-gpt-hard-disk-on-windows-xp-solved/page/31/#findComment-1279892

What is there not enough on micro-ATX boards? There's lots of boards even with the oldish PCI!

Could this be sufficient proof that the previous patch for 138+ was also not applicable to M132?

Out of these choices I picked an FTP Server. I couldn't find the FTP Server Ultimate. But I got an WiFi FTP Server. It works without installing anything new to my computer. A bit slow for modern times ramping up to about 5 MB/s, but no setup time. My phone is not rooted. Can I do something else useful with "ADB" to make it worthwhile having like hack the phone or disable things? I am not sure if what is called a Xiaomi Unlock means the same as rooting. I need an account with them and log in and ask them for unlock. The unlock tool wouldn't work with the old version the Windows web browser on Server 2008 R2. An SD card is really really tiny and is extracted together with the SIM chip. It would probably get broken soon. I think the disk had to be suspended when enabling mass storage device mode. And the modern phone always wants to access the disk.

New security patched release. Supermium 132.0.6834.226 R5.01 "The only substantial change in this release is a patch for vulnerabilities CVE-2025-8010 (CVE-2025-8011 is not applicable to M132) and CVE-2025-6558."

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With each new version of Android it seems Google takes away previously useful features and makes others harder to use. USB Mass Storage is one that went away a long time ago. Sadly there is no way to bring it back. Some more detail is at https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb-connections-explained-mtp-ptp-and-usb-mass-storage/ Some ideas are mentioned at https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/91900/is-there-a-viable-alternative-to-mtp-for-file-transfer but I'm not convinced they are any easier than just using ADB, especially since you still need the same USB drivers to do some of those ways too. If you add an SD card, it can be inserted/removed and connected to a laptop or desktop that has a suitable adapter to read it. Just make sure it is not set up as "adopted storage" or it will be encrytped so Windows would not be able to read it. (Modern Linuxes can work with this once you extract the encryption key from your phone but it is something of a hassle to do.) But moving the SD card around all the time is something of a hassle, and you probably want to use MTP and/or ADB depending on the content to be moved. In particular, the MTP protocol can only handle media. Meaning pictures, videos, soundclips, songs, etc. It will NOT want to let you move other content like PDFs, APKs, browser bookmarks, encryption keys, etc. It may sometimes be possible to rename something to be one of the allowed file types, transfer it with MTP, then use a file manager on your phone to rename it back, but that gets cumbersome after a while and in some locations may not even be allowed. So these other types of content are best handled with ADB. Depends on your definition of "bloated", and of course assuming you are moving only suitable file types. You will need to install some device drivers (typically under 25MB). Probably best to get these from Xiaomi if possible, or there are some generics that can be used even with Windows XP. Oh, and you might need the Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KB2685811 ?) if you don't already have it. If you want to use ADB you will need to add the platform tools package (the latest version 34.0.5 still runs on W7, possibly even Vista, and is 12.2MB unpacked). Just unzip it somewhere, open a CMD window, make sure the unzipped folder is in that window's PATH variable, and you should be good to go. In case you have not used this before, there is a bit of explanation at https://developer.android.com/tools/adb and a command reference at https://adbshell.com/

I use SAB on all of my PCs, but I'm having an issue with one of them. I have my Surface Pro 7 hooked up to a dock with a second monitor. The start menu has recently started opening up only on the Surface, and no longer on the second monitor. I can click the start button on the taskbar on the second monitor and open it that way just fine. I do have the second monitor set as my main. This happens whether or not enhanced classic start menu is turned on or off. When I turn SAB off for the current user and log off/log back in, the start menu functions normally. I was using 3.9.1.2 before downgrading to 3.9.1.1, but the issue remained. Win 11 / 24H2 Anyone run into this before? (man, I haven't posted here since 2006!)

That's why I was avoiding having everything integrated. The motherboard that had that issue didn't had integrated video. And I used a separate PCI soundcard. But I guess it was time for it to die.

Once again: Thank you very much, MilkChan. You deserved yourself a spot in the acknowledgements list of the update "OTSKB000001" and have been added to the help file. I am now able to make the update "OTSKB000001" compatible with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. --- Yes, I need to analyse all language editions of the file win32k.sys. Or at least that was necessary in Windows 2000. --- I noticed, that installing the update "Windows XP/KB4493927" in a vanilla Windows XP system is not possible. To allow installing this update the key "POSready" and the value "Installed" need to be in the registry. So I added the update to the help file and added a note in the subtopic "system requirements" as a help with the installation. --- things to do: add the update "Windows Server 2003/KB4516665" to the help file analysis of the updates "Windows XP/KB4493927" and "Windows Server 2003/KB4516665" to check whether there are any changes to the function "CreateXlateObject" and what the offsets are. Then update "code.htm". add version 4 of the update "OTSKB000001" to the help file write the version 4 of the update "OTSKB000001"

added GetLogicalProcessorInformation for my mini kernelxp wrapper: https://github.com/roytam1/rtoss/blob/master/kernelxp/kernelxp.dll

Hi! You can Use it to play Movie DVDs (there are better alternatives now for this, such as VLC) or link the media within your Xbox 360 or a supported TV box. But I personally only use it for DVDs and the vibe!

Hi! Your question is important for all Windows 7 Enthusiasts today and troubling those who play modern games on it or use game platforms. You might be forced to use offline Physical Copies of games or emulate the Game Platform (e.g Steam) on games that support Windows 7 on but require the game Platform Client. This is though not guaranteed to work. For online gaming you'll be limited to old versions of pretty old titles such as CS:S/1.6, TFC, HL:DM. But you never know, a way could be found.

Hi! Didn't Apple switch to Apple Silicon processors by 2020? If your Macbook has an Apple Silicon processor, give up. Its completely IMPOSSIBLE to install and use x86 Software, therefore its impossible to install Windows 7. they are different Architectures, with different instruction sets and are not compatible with eachother. But if your Macbook is Intel (x86) based, the architecture is supported. you can try BootCamp. But still your chances are low since the hardware is just too new.

Yes! You should do just that and get full graphics on Windows 7, since it is supported. There might be a slight bottleneck though.

Hi @Dimitris Balafoutis, hello from Belgium and welcome to MSFN! I wish you to enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

I have an iPhone 4S that i stupidly updated to iOS 9 and want to go back. How do i do that??

The thread i linked earlier does not exclusively pertain to windows 95, which is largely why i made this post as im trying to get information from those who may have experimented and / or have more front end knowledge on these things. I should also mention that it's not just shell32.dll that i want to get more information on, but also explorer.exe. According to the microsoft article below, the 4.72 line of shell32.dll would get installed on windows 95 IF using ie 4.01 sp2 and installing via "windows desktop update" route ( shell extension ), which in this case, would specifically install shell32.dll 4.72.3612.1700. it's unclear if newer versions for this line may only be supported on windows 98FE/SE or newer, but not windows 95, at least not officially? As for explorer.exe, it is mainly two questions, what is the latest that can get installed officially on windows 95 and two, whether dencorso's manual patching method of explorer.exe 4.72.3612.1700 ( for 256 color tray icon fix + any other possible bug fixes ) would also work on windows 95 without problems?..., which i suspect if 1st question is yes, then question two would also be yes as well? I do not have a system to test at the moment for windows 95, but i was working with one earlier just recently and installed ie 4.01 sp2, and it was much more responsive than windows 98SE was, and didnt have strange / unusual bugs. The thing is, i didnt check shell32.dll / explorer.exe versions at the time on the 95 system, since it wasn't something i knew about to do. for 98SE, it's a long story, but i did a lot of modification to it, specifically with the unofficial service pack 2.1a that apparently was giving me a lot of problems, at least i suspect it was related to explorer.exe and / or shell32.dll, which i still couldn't get perfectly working after using different versions. Ideally, if i can get clarification for both win95 and 98 in relation to the shell32.dll / explorer.exe questions, that would be best. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/versions

Is that MSFN post about Win95? Anyway, you can swap out the dlls by booting to DOS. C:> ren \windows\system\shell32.dll \windows\system\shell32.lld C:> ren \windows\system\shell32.new \windows\system\shell32.dll That's if at the C: root. Just rename and copy the new one(s) over before you re-start in DOS. Then you can test and look for problems. If it doesn't work, start in DOS and revert. I'm running with version 4.0.0.1112. The last version of IE, to work with Win95, probably has the "official" latest shell32.dll for Win95. I'm not sure if there is a newer one. I've 7zip and Cab extracted IE before, and found the stuff I've needed. After extracting the main packaged installer, I needed the Cab extract found in the contents. Their are folders designated for the different versions of Windows. So the one with shell32.dll and labelled with a 95 is the one you want. There are probably easier ways to get it. And, the one in the latest IE (for 95) might not be the newest usable.

Here are the specifications: CPU: Intel Core i5‑8365U GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 RAM: 16GB DDR4 Storage: 240GB NVMe Wi-Fi: Intel AC 9560 I have modded an ISO with USB 3, NVME and patched ACPI drivers. But I don't know how ill use the Wi-Fi card. it uses the CNVi technology, which is not supported on Windows 7 and i haven't found any modded/patched drivers. If you can provide me help finding the driver or a way to patch it, or you know an issue ill face which i haven't mentioned, please tell me. -Dimitris

I'm joining the MSFN forums community for stuff about Windows 7, since i was perm banned from Windows Seven Forums for not actual reason after a day of joining. Hope I'm more welcome here and the moderators here are more fair with new users!