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The old DOS soundcard emulation on Windows XP is not good for gaming. You should use either DosBox or a Windows port of Doom, such az ZDoom or GzDoom (old version).

You can reduce the workload for the hard drive by avoiding processes that write small fragmented pieces of data to it. Get more RAM and don't use the swap file. Download in one or a few continuous streams. Keep temp files on a separate partion and wipe it out occasionally. It's rare that you would practically run into the limit of the drive's linear speed.

A linear sector by sector copy should be the way to go because it is much faster, unless you want to defragment in the process. One reason why I wanted to mount both disks was to use the OS tools to allocate the remaining free space before booting into the cloned system.

No, you don't want to rename the SYSTEM key. It holds a lot of settings besides drive letters. You would have to open the value for C: and put the new disk identifier and volume start in it, which can be copied from a system where Windows has seen the new disk already. If you clone both disks to have the same identifier (stored in disk sector 0 at 01B8h), and mount them in Windows at the same time, the system will correct one of them to be different. I think that Windows NT 6 holds the identifier in the BCD data inside the boot menuu. Instead of referring to "disk 0" or "C" it uses the number. For less pain, and avoiding the need to edit the BCD, you should keep the identifier the same and partition start the same. Allocate any extra space to a data partition. The OS doesn't need 128 gigs. You can set it more easily with a BootICE's hex editor than edit the registry. Edits with other programs may not stick.

In Roytam's Serpent you can activate the multi-process mode. Then it can divide the memory among multiple processes on a 32-bit PAE platform, where each one doesn't approach the limit. Plus you get some increase of stability and responsiveness.

I have never heard of it. The problem has already been solved. It was caused by letting Windows mount both disks at the same time, and change the identifier on the new disk. It would have happened regardless how the disk was initially copied.

Try upgrading to Server 2003 to see all available RAM. But if it doesn't work, you do need to provide the /MAXMEM switch in boot.ini to limit available memory again. It will likely work with drivers of common onboard devices, but not work with a Creative Labs sound card, and other rare or old expansion boards.

Now Serpent and New Moon are going under the same directory. If you have 4 versions and only two names, you can't fit everything. Doesn't the randon number subdirectory underneath wary? (NM28: 4kpw3dp8.default, Basilisk: c6fz7ylx.default)

For WinNTSetup you need to boot into a Windows system (mini-xp or similar) to use it. The author hasn't included essential exe files by Microsoft, and the "ADK" download that was called up by older versions compatible with WinXP is no longer available. I'm almost certain you cannot use the latest version, but have to use either 3.8.6 or 4.2.5 with the ADK files forbidden to be shared by the copyright police. I like to use WinNTSetup and rely on bootable Windows that already exists, or secondary OS on the disk.

Are these moebius regex, property escapes things included in new releases of New Moon, or do I need something else?

Good Old Games also patch their titles to fix problems with new systems by including new libraries that depend on NT6 functions. They have their own steam callad Galaxy.

There are two possible cores GF108 and GK208. F is old and K is new. Another thing that can go wrong when buying. 730 has 384 cuda cores vs 192, but the same number of render outputs. I think both 710/730 would run into the same resolution limits that max out the ROPs, but 730 would have more compute performance for pixel shader and general processing. I think if if it has "GD" in the model name visible, it should be the new core and with the better memory. The next small card is GT 1030, but it no longer has an XP driver or VGA output.

I have custom resolutions working with the last ICafe driver. But I've only tried small screen sizes, and have no means to test extreme resolutions. The last "small" form factor card for XP is GT 730. But the cooling might be insufficient in this chassis if you decide to launch games in summer. On the big markets like ebay or aliexpress they want unreasonable money for it. Only reasonable choice is a local trading board.

The issue with UEFI BIOS prevents the computer from booting entirely. It occurs on some brandname computers of the Sandy Bridge era. If the PC boots and you get a picture, then you are good. The GT 710 has DDR3 memory with a relatively low bandwidth. This really sucks, because if you go on used market, you will generally not find GDDR5 or the memory type won't be indicated by the seller. Your screenshot show that the card uses 8x PCIe but version 1.1, which is fine because the bandwidth only matters when uploading data to the GPU during loading screens or using video playback at extreme resolutions with copy-back (CUVID in MPC-HC). The volume of models and textures is relatively small. GPU-Z has a monitor for the link utilization.

To speed up YouTube, it would be handy to redirect the /watch?v= url over to /embed/ with 2 menu items to access both when you need to browse or comment and see a single link. The opening time is reduced dramatically and there is less contunuous CPU usage. It seems ot also not show as many advertisements. With normal video codecs, most of the CPU is spent drawing the page in New Moon.

You can't put the switch as the first device because you only get one IP address, and the router's job is to unify the computers behind it through it. The switch could act as a repeater between the modem and the router, but you can't plug anything into its other ports. You could extend the network cable and place the router elsewhere in the house or get another router to serve as an access point (the softwre configuration is a bit complicated with this).

The program "ForceTrim" creates a file across the free space (as known by the operating system) and then deletes it. It expects Windows 7 to then send a trim for all sectors belonging to this file. This works if Windows 7 normally does it for your drive (with a different driver than you have now in XP). You could run it after a significant number of files have been changed, once a month or so. I've tested it by writing some data onto an empty sector with WinHex, and it disappeared after a few seconds.

Can a program stop Windows from writing to the disk while it is working? What if it finds free space, then the system puts some files there, and a moment later a trim is sent to delete the new files. Usually various low level disk utilities require the disk to be unmounted to work. On Win7 when trim is working, deleted files immediately appear as 00 00 and cannot be recovered. Maybe you could install NT6 in dual boot, and occcasionally run ForceTrim from there.

People seem to vote for controversial claims, sometimes very expressively laid out with ranting, to which they agree. On modern forums where the thread itself gets voted for, I feel discourage to make a post because the opinion of the crowd is difficult to predict. It is a social suicide to make an unpopular claim, even if it is articulated calmly. I usually don't bother to open a heavy website to press the like button. Sometimes I do it to acknowledge that I've read what the other person had to say, but don't have anything further to add.

Access the the USB disk with a hex editor like WinHex and see if you can interpret its contents. If so, then you can image it and recover the files.

GTX 750 Ti is a decent entry level video adapter for a general purpose PC when you're looking for playing "legacy" games only or watching videos in h.264 format. It is quiet with very low idle power consumption, which is important these days, and requires at most one 6-pin 12V plug. It does not have a h.265 decoder, for which you'd need Maxwell 2, but those are much more power hungry. One more thing to keep in mind that 9xx were the last cards with a VGA port. Anything described as a "gaming" computer usually requires the latest stuff of the day. I think you will able to run basic 6-8 year old games with zero anti-aliasing in HD with a GTX 750.

Many Internet forums now operate the extremely heavy, new generation "Discourse" engine. Old browsers including New Moon receive a read-only compatibility version, which is completely unusable. It may be "clean and modern" and completely crippled. The page extends below the screen, and there is no apparent way to scroll it at all. Disabling JavaScript doesn't do it. I just found out that appending ?_escaped_fragment_ (or &_escaped_fragment_ ) to the URL makes the page scrollable normally. It's perplexing why Discourse doesn't work like this by default. For example, https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428?_escaped_fragment_

It was simpler than I expected. There is a 32-bit identifier at 01B8h in sector 0. After the new disk was mounted by Windows for creating the third partition, a new ID was generated for it. The solution was to write the old ID there and reboot without making more changes to the disk. To make the edit to the boot sector persist, I used Bootice. I was also mistaken about BCD editing not working outside Windows 7. I confused it with UEFI. It does work, but was not needed. All drive letters remain the same.

I cloned with WinHex by selecting sectors from 0 to the end of the second partition. But it's a simple direct copy, so other tools could do the same. Having the OS partitions of minimal size makes this part easy. I want to replace a 128GB SSD with 512GB to have more space for programs and games, but now got demotivated.

I've cloned my system disk to a larger drive. The new drive won't boot. Apparently I need to convince the OS that the drive partitions are the same. The cloned volumes are exact same size with same serial numbers. I recall I need to go into the registry and edit DosDevices. What complicates the setup is that I have Windows 2008 R2 with its new complicated BCD bootloader. I'm posting here because the problem is mainly with NT6 that I know little about. I can only edit the BCD while having booted into Windows 7 (not from a boot CD) with BOOTICE, and it refers to different drive letters of the current system. I do not want to edit the present system with Microsoft tools, but the cloned one. The new disk is currently connected to a secondary SATA controller. I don't know if it matters to how the BCD sees it. • Partition 0 4GB: BCD boot loader, Windows 2003 SP2; C: for NT5, B: for NT6 • Partition 1 24GB: Windows 2008 R2; C: for NT6, B: for NT5 Neither of these would boot with a message from the BCD boot loader. The NT5 is never loaded. What steps do I need to perform to complete the clone?