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try thegopherarchive http://www.thegopherarchive.com/index.php?q="swiss+army"&x=0&y=0

But AltaVista was there and the Internet Archive, too. Don't give up on the Wayback Machine without giving it that extra try... jaclaz's idea has potential, but some really intensive spelunking may be needed.

I have Patriot and Kingston pendrives and a WD MyPassport, all USB 3.0, all work with Win 98SE /NUSB and all report being "USB 2.1" in my machine, which means USB 2.0 compatibility mode. So, compatible with 98/ME (with NUSB) they sure are. They are also noticeably fast on 2.1 mode, better than any native USB 2.0 drive. Now, they all claim to be USB 1.1 compatible (and maybe report being in "USB 1.2" mode) but this I cannot check because I don't have any USB 1.x only hardware anymore, so I cannot test it.

After about 30 min from boot, open an elevated DOS Box and type AT <Enter> If you get any output different from the default "There are no entries in the list." message, please do post it here.

Sure. Me, too. A BIOS for a different board, particularly if from a different manufacturer, is almost guaranteed to kill your motherboard. There can be a few exceptions, but the odds are so against success that's not worth trying it at all, IMO.

+1

L'Aura ft. Nek - Eclissi del cuore (Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart reimagined, rather than translated, in Italian)

There was yet another database rollback yesterday. Did we loose any content? This time, it seems to me no content at all was lost, but I'm giving this heads up just in case... it gets more and more difficult to reconstitute content from memory the more time gets elapsed.

I am a customer at amazon from incept time. I may have been one of the very first customers they've ever had abroad. I never owned a Kindle up to now, and do not intend to acquire one ever. Of the books I've decided to buy since that technology exists, only a handful were Kindle only, and each and everyone of those few I desisted from buying precisely because they were Kindle only. Although I do use web mail, that's the only form of "cloud storage" I decided to accept as unavoidable. And I don't leave extensive collections of old e-mails there, I download what I think should be kept and delete all the rest regularly. I've drawn my personal line in the ground at Win 7. I don't use it for anything important at present, but I'm experimenting with it, with a view on the day (I do hope still very far away) neither 98SE nor XP SP3 will suffice for my daily chores. But that's that. Even if I made a concentrated effort, I still wouldn't be able to care less for Win 8+ and/or any kind of cloud tech than I do already. Yet, it seems it either didn't serve as a warning at all, or if it did, people forget way too fast (it happened in 2009, after all).

1. Probably because IE11 might just be a kind of local front-end to the actual browser, which should be running fully (or maybe just mostly) on the cloud... That means one can open some tabs on each device but all devices see all the open tabs, and one can also close anay tab on any of the devices involved, regardless of whether that particular tab had been originally opened on the selfsame device or not (and meanwhile any number of eavesdroppers from the many third-parties with access to that cloud might be inspecting what you do). 2. Probably not. Maybe Google, on afterthought. Remember when amazon.com sent Animal Farm and 1984 kindle editions down the memory hole? And remember that all involved fully failed to see what was being done in Orwellian terms, at least until customers began to point it out while complaining? Consider that a (technologically primitive) preview of what's to come...

True. Then again, as in the OP you stated you both (i) won't donate and (ii) use [the software] everyday, that means you don't have any reason left to complain, because not only you did not but also you don't have the slightest intention to ever donate, things remaining as they are.

ATM, IE is the only way to get the updates/hotfixes requiring validation. MS will sure eventually fix it again, but nobody knows when...

Yes. At RyanVM's. Unofficial updates for WinXP SP3.

It is possible to install each OS in a partition one of the HDDs with all others disconnected, and it sometimes is the safest way to do it. It is possible to set all up then so that each OS never sees the others, in normal conditions, as described by LoneCrusader above. It also is possible to set all up so tha all see all, like I do (but then it becomes much easier and safer to avoid NTFS entirely, installing all the OSes in FAT partitions). Were I you, I'd assemble the machine, install XP and test the hardware thoroughly. Once I got satisfied all is working OK, then I'd plan how to set the multiboot system and set it up, not forgetting to backup each OS profusely throughout the process.

On running GenuineCheck.exe, one gets the message: "This version of the Windows Genuine Advantage validation tool is no longer supported."

There's nothing wrong with your OS (which is Genuine and remains Activated) nor with your computer. No. MS didn't stop supporting it, not there is any newer version around (the latest remains v. 1.9.42.0). Someone at MS blorked something **again**. Rest assured they'll fix it. Last time it happened is the subject of this thread: Microsoft downloads validation failure All versions of GenuineCheck.exe started again to give the message: "This version of the Windows Genuine Advantage validation tool is no longer supported." I noticed it just today, but from a rapid Google search I see it had began already on Aug 23... This time around IE is still working, but "use IE instead" is no real solution, just a temporary stopgap: GenuineCheck.exe exists precisely to allow people to choose freely which browser they wish to use.

My disclamer (although it maybe could include a proper emoticon) is an admission that I may be more enthusisastic about GRUB4DOS than warranted (although I do think my enthusiasm is warranted) and, at the same time, my way of poking some fun at myself -- poker-faced (that's why no emoticon) -- precisely because I think such excessive manifestations pro-something should always be taken with several grains of salt. No offence at all was meant, in any way: I'm aware of diddy's Guide, and I think he (and you, BTW) deserve much respect and gratitude (and even some awe) for having created such a great documentation (and, in your case, also for the considerable online support you've been providing people regarding, but not restricted to, GRUB4DOS, since way back when). But GRUB4DOS is a fast-paced in-progress project, so that keeping any documentation up-to-date is almost impossible per se, but it's even more here, because the developers of GRUB4DOS document (when they do) their additions/changes in Chinese only. [bTW, this is also the case for other great freeware, like ChipGenius and the Gavotte ramdisk... I guess we should consider starting to study Chinese, at least for reading...] ---- IMO, multibooting itself is both one of the most infuriating *and* one of the most rewarding experiences one can have in the realm of "advanced" computing.

Thanks, JFX, you rock! Just for the record, the x86 build of oscdimg.exe (new compilation but same version as before) still runs OK on Win XP SP3 (being thus the most up-to-date version of it to do so): oscdimg.exe -- version: 2.56.0.1010 having 135,272 bytes; MD-5: 0D82B993BEA949906A3589DB5CB0B9B1 OTOH, the new x86 build of bootsect.exe (version: 6.3.9600.16384 having 100,968 bytes; MD-5: 0D3C65224934D71BD02D03F1251C6E10) requires at least Vista to run, so the last version to support Win XP SP3 remains 6.3.9431.0, from the Win 8.1 Preview.

Try this: Advanced Tokens Manager

Let's start with the standard disclaimer: As I said before, I simply *LOVE* GRUB4DOS. That said, I agree with LoneCrusader, if your brain BSODed with RFDISK, there's risk of burst "brain capacitors" with GRUB4DOS, I don't dispute that. However, if the idea is to have multiple HDDs and some OSes booting from each of the HDDs (from primary and/or logical partitions) and maybe even some booting from images, perhaps even memory maped ones, then GRUB4DOS is the best there is at what it does (although, differently from Wolverine, what it does sure *IS* pretty!). My point is, on post #1 the OP said:

The OSes C:\ Partition have to be on the First Physical Disk, so they are all in one HDD. You can setup Profiles on the other HDDs so that you can choose what is visible to the selected OS. In particular, GRUB4DOS is a *very* versatile freeware bootmanager, which is capable of booting various OSes, each from a different HDD by design, without any need for hiding the other OSes at all. I do just that, and I love GRUB4DOS. However, with all the existing documentation, GRUB4DOS is not exactly well documented, and may require help from experienced users (like jaclaz, BTW), experimentation and patience to attain the sought results. OTOH, RFDISK is fully featured, better documented and comes with RLoew's superb, patient and detailed support. In both cases you'll be well served, and each has its advantages, but I think you should consider at least GRUB4DOS, too, as an alternative solution to your problem, before you decide.

ExamDiff Pro holds its own against Beyond Compare 3, for sure, but neither is free, and, BTW, they cost about the same.

Which freeware alternative is nearly as good?

Using HDDs > 137 GB (128 GiB) with Win 9x/ME

Beyond Compare WinHex