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That is the software. I don't know the last version because I keep using what I got already: 2.2.1.1 works and 3.8.6 works with a bunch of dependencies. It takes files from a Windows CD or ISO and will copy them to the system drive, which normally happens during the blue text-mode setup. When the computer is rebooted, these new files will run and continue setup. At that time it is a parallel installation of Windows.
Yes, nLite for customizing Windows installation. If needed, you can integrate disk controller drivers. One option it offers is another folder where Windows will be put. I mention this because if the new OS doesn't work, you can still keep your old one (in \windows) and try another way. There are other ways to specify the directory, and you can use those instead. WinNTSetup also offers an option to set the directory (windir @ ... ). It might work ok, but I don't remember if I've used it.
If you have already wiped the HDD and have no OS, then you can't use this method. It would not result in a perfectly clean installation because the old Windows would remain to be deleted later.
I have used WinNTSetup to install one laptop, and a couple other times.
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You can install Windows from HDD using WinNTSetup from within a functional copy of Windows (including booted mini-XP from CD). But you need to find an older version of it because the developer has abandoned old versions of Windows. It basically replaces the first part of setup and sets up boot .ini to boot into the newly copied files. If you have no partitions, there will be a bit of a challenge. Put the new Windows into a different directory like \winnt with nLite. Then you can still revert to the existing Windows from the boot .ini menu (set a few seconds timeout). If that goes wrong, your system becomes bricked without a means of booting from an emergency CD.
If you partition and format the disk, you have no Windows anymore at that point.
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You could try writing data at random locations in WinHex and see where it appears, and not incur extra writing cycles. Reading/searching is probably faster. If you buy these fake products, you're giving business to scammers. There are other testers who do it too. There is no brand to harm with negative publicity. They can pop up with another name to sell more.
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So how much faster can Firefox clones now be on YouTube? I don't think that the bottleneck on an old PC was the video, but the layout around it. If I open too many tabs, because I forget which ones have served their purpose, they shrink so much that I can't read any text on them without the tooltip and I need to open even more tabs. I tend to always open links in a new tab to not lose the already displayed content.
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My RoyTam1's browsers don't have this, and my Opium 93 is too old to have this. If these are switches that enable and disable stuff, why hide them under a secret menu, and then say that nobody uses them?
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I suspect that the data might wrap around some smaller block of real flash. Let's say you write something at 258 GB, and it could show up at 2 GB or so. There are other Chinese companies like XRayDisk that sell flash disks at reasonable prices. If these disks were real, those sellers would be out of business. The fake disks can't be considered reliable, and maybe it is little loss to break them open.
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Nothing wrong with restarting the browser to get a clean slate. I've heard multiple times of people keeping numerous tabs open and relying on them for organization (instead of bookmarks), but I've never practiced that even back on Windows XP (with 512 MB of RAM). With dynamic content that been standard for more than a decade, an open webpage more or less reloads completely when a link is followed, and I might as well load it when needed from a bookmark.
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Software expands like an ideal gas in a container to fill all available memory. What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
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What work on their part does "supporting" a version of Python involve? Is it a matter of avoiding certain functions in code?
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The BS behavior looks like this if I try to grab the scrollbar "brick". Frozen and doesn't scroll. I have to close and reopen the application for it to work normally. I suspect one of the web browsers that has h/w acceleration in the background might trigger it. If I click on the free space to move one page, it keeps scrolling as if I held down the LMB.
The problem doesn't happen on Win2003 on the same computer.
I don't have the Vista Aero theme because I don't want the Desktop Experience Pack "bloat" on the computer. I suspect the issue might go away with it.
This guy thought that the Windows controls even with Aero (apparently) are crippled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM
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If you don't want to see or write comments, what is the use of the stripped down web interface? You might be able to watch 720p downloaded to disk, with more precise and responsive seeking. Search from Alphabet using site:youtube.com gives better results. The internal YT search tries to guess too much what you really meant and suggest synonyms.
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If a person already owns this graphics card, he can try to do the best to make it useful. Not everyone can buy new parts.
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I installed this driver 355.73, but didn't observe an improvement. I wanted to let the system run for a while because the glitch only appears part of the time. Unfortunately it also happened that I lost all my cookies in New Moon (for an unrelated reason of the system disk filling up with a swap file).
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Can you give me a link to a quality arrangement & recording of this music? I know nothing of Chinese music. I want to have it because it is forbidden.
Is there a way to view ImgUr files without loading the whole site? It is giving me a Grey Screen again in New Moon. It works on and off sometimes depending on the weather. The site used to be bypassable by giving it a direct link that is used for embedding into a forum, but now it responds with "302 Moved Temporarily". I tried giving it a referrer with the RefControl extension, but still get a 302. It loads about 100 requests with an overhead of 3 MB.
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In 7-Zip directories are added as items separate for any files they may contain. You can see they have dates and attributes. Most archivers do this. The XPI contains only files. Each file header in the Zip central directory has a 36 bytes long extra field. With many files and directories, this adds up. Old archivers like RAR do not add this, but the Deflate compression there is worse.
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I've been disabling QUIC in all my browsers because it is a Google format and I don't like the concept of the server deciding what resources to push, and more excuses to cram more overhead into webpages because they are quick enough. Is this quantum thing a threat to old browsers because basic HTTP/1 is on its way out?
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What was MCP's reasoning for not adding it until now? Developers always want to show that they have more security.
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I use driver 368.81.
Sorry to hear about your health issue.
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I am experiencing a weird issue that can't be reliably reproduced. Occasionally scrollbars in listviews and some "rich" textboxes (such as the application JPEGsnoop) behave erratically. When I click on the blank space to move the view one page further or behind, the scrollbar registers multiple clicks and keeps scrolling until the end. A large area of the GUI window around the scrollbar becomes inverted (dark grey/blue) and stays that way until refreshed. Normally only the scrollbar itself changes color. The listview may scroll very sluggishly, with a smoothscroll animation, taking several seconds to advance.
It happens only sometimes. Basic system stability is not impacted. My current uptime is 108 days.
I suspect it might be an interaction between multiple software programs. Another reason might be the use of Windows Classic theme without DWM (as is default on Server), and NT 6.1 might have not been tested without the Aero. I've read that it lacks basic GDI acceleration that was present in earlier versions of Windows. The Nvidia display driver might also not be tested in Windows Classic. I can't say which of these to blame for sure.
I have: Server 2008 R2, Core 2 Duo E6600, 8 GB RAM, GTX 750 Ti, E-MU 0404, 5 various HDD, 1 XRayDisc SSD.
I feel like I switched from XP only just now, a couple years ago. But today I was told that 2008 R2 is already OLD! It feels very modern to me, and could handle a PC five to ten times faster. And 3rd party software developer won't look into issues with it. Maybe the Windows 7 forum should be moved into the "Older systems" section already.
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With more support for DNS over HTTP it may become the only option in the future. And then simple, low CPU overhead adblock on the router will no longer be possible.
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Memory read error has to do with a program trying to read outside of what is allowed for it in the OS. It is not a physical error in the hardware. It's a common fault. Usually memory errors proceed silently because there is no mechanism for detecting them, or the PC would hang.
I went to github.com using New Moon and tried to sign up or log in. I was presented with an unbelieveably resource intensive screen of flying through a starfield and a greeting appearing one letter a time as if being typed by a person. It should be just an ordinary login prompt. That design might fit an "art gallery" or a music album, not a site for programming. It was unusable on a Core 2 Duo. But when I opened the page in Opium, expecting it to go a bit faster, I got none of the animations. The login box had the same design, but appeared instantly.
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7 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said:
Yes, almost everyone uses the same e-mail they have in their smartphone
[..] Proton Tuta [..] free account.
That's close to the situation that I described. Proton and Tuta relatively new services. One signs up them for free to solve a need, and then forgets about them (because they are slow, the security need has passed, or they made a radical change). After some time I don't remember anymore what I used to sign up. I did use Proton once for a sensitive thing, and it was quite impossible with RoyTam'š browsers.
I'm vary of trying to upgrade a smartphone to new Android. It's not a PC where I can insert a boot CD and fix it. Even if 4 would work, that is still old. I tried to use Telegram on it, which at its core is just a text chat, and the old versions wouldn't work. Authentication would also come as some app with requirements for new OS and SSL.
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On almost every forum or forum-like website we need an e-mail. Using it we can change passwords almost unrestricted, in rare cases there might be a secondary security question (your pet's name). Some websites now enforce a password change every once in a while. Even some simple discussion boards. The e-mail is assumed to be much more trustworthy than whatever else that is password protected, and access to the e-mail is set in stone. But that is not necessarily true. We can forget the password to it just the same. Increasingly often an e-mail is just a website, and not something tied to my person.
Back when Google was still young and brown, I used to juggle a few accounts there to access to some stuff that had "X per user". Over time the site became bloated as it is, and I let those accounts lapse from my memory, and maybe from their cloud.
My ISP decided to discontinue its e-mail service in favor to a freemium bloat site. If I had quit my contract with the ISP, I would likely lose access to the e-mail within some period of time. (This didn't happen, but it should be expected.)
Even before Baidu came to be, I used a mail server provided as a public service by my city council. It was free of ads, had POP access, simple web UI, and a decent amount of space: 5 to 15 MB. No need for more for plain letters that will be retrieved regularly. But people eventually expected more. And the city repurposed the domain to create some modern app service. They did give us an advance notice.
But there are hundreds of internet sites that I can't remember to reassign. Some software or video game support site that I may need once a year. They keep chugging along just fine, until years later they decide it is time to up the security game and reset the password. Like the almighty Discogs. They have some money element to them because, besides ripping metadata, you can also trade records. I can't even recall which of the above options I used for signing up to it 12 years ago.
I was without Internet for for about two years. When I returned, I used my old ISP e-mail to reset a whole host of sites. (It was old school and managed by the admins manually.) If one were to hack it, they could do that too. Because it unexpectedly is the "master key". I suspect that the smartphone might become the "master key" in the future. What if that fails or is lost? Or more likely deemed obsolete and unsupported. I have a Gingerbread 2.9 something smartphone, and I can do zero current "apps" on it. And it is younger than WinXP.
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I haven't caught that moment. If I did, I might have a clue what caused it. If the scale was linear (excluding that it stops at 1), then a rating of 11 would put the counter at 76-82 thousand, which is over the 16-bit mark. The other values of seeks/errors done are happily holding 34 bits, and the temperature is two fields packed with something in bits 37-33.
High-fly writes (0xBD) also seems to top out at 1. It seems to be a strict statistic, but hasn't caused problems yet.
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R.I.P. AnandTech
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What are the costs of such a website? They say that the server will be kept up, so those running costs are not the main expense. Is it the purchase of items they review?