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@MagicAndre1981: Great find! For the record, for XP, there's a further problem because MS's crippled the hal, starting from SP2. So, for a patch to be useful, someone'd have to backport to the SP3 hal what has been removed from SP1. The main reference for this is daNIL (Galimov): read his replies to this blog entry, starting in 2009. Until this is solved, PAE aware ramdisks are the most reliable solution, IMO.

There's little else to be said, since that other thread just mentioned. But I'd like to stress one thing I said there, in any case: It's really quite difficult to ignore a ~38% minority... just because we're about 1/3 of all users. Simple like that!

Just for the record, the x86 builds of the two files listed below run OK on Win XP SP3 (being thus the most up-to-date versions of those apps to do so): bootsect.exe -- version: 6.3.9431.0 having 119,912 bytes; MD-5: EB9398CD972316ECC278D6DD367F42E2 oscdimg.exe -- version: 2.56.0.1010 having 135,272 bytes; MD-5: 23F4002FEB768A48C725FB7D79959721 Later edit: However, one needs GWT v. 1.5.0 (which is not anymore the latest) to get the above files. GetWaikTools_150.7z

Sure. "It's only called paranoid when they actually AREN'T after you"... :ph34r:

OTOH, when MS stops issuing them, we'll manage without them all right... the most serious issues will end up fixed by unofficial patches for XP, in similar manner to what happens at the 2k and 9x/ME communities. And, with time, some capabilities expanded likewise, too.

Welcome and thank you!

"System Restore" should restore a previous state of the registry all right. However, "Repair Install" apparently does not do it at all or does it in a very limited way (I'd think the latter)...

I think it *is*... However, let's try one or two more: I suggest the Workstation service (aka lanmanworkstation, Wkssvc.dll) as one possible choice or the "Automatic Updates" service (aka wuauserv, kept on even when Automatic Updates are disabled, to allow manual use of WU or MU sites). But there are many other choices, so you may find this reference useful, although I'm sure you know it already (it's Black Viper's).

Read carefully M-D's notes on the usbstor.inf, particularly for NUSB2x, and his comments about it on-thread also (yeah, that's a lot of work, I know, sorry). IIRR, he used shortened strings and some other tricks to reduce character numbers with no info loss. He did not use "MS" for "Microsoft", IIRR, but could have, and it clearly illustrates the point, since "MS" is 2 characters long, while "Microsoft" is 9, not counting the inverted double quotation-marks, of course. Considering labels are an important part in the structure of .INFs, this approach goes a long way. But, besides that, he used yet another grouping trick which I do not quite remember details about (it has to do with entries containing strings like "PID_1XXX" and "PID_600X", though).

I wouldn't be surprised if the scriptwriter knew either the rock opera or even the comicbook by Luiz Ge it was based upon. I have known the rock opera from way back when, but I've just found out about that comicbook (which I've never seen as a hardcopy, I've just found some scans of panels), so it was really rather underground, but a comicbook may be more efficient at overcoming the language barrier than sung music, I guess. In any case, it's unusual enough as an idea, to appear twice, fully independently, I think...

Wow! That reminds me of "Tubaroes Voadores" (= Flying Sharks) a rock opera (in Portuguese) by Arrigo Barnabe', from way back in 1984!!! Although, there, the killer sharks actually flied!

Fascinating find!

Yes! That sure is like what I was envisaging... These multicopters (the 4-helixes one being a tetracopter) seem to be the 1st type of drones to have started to be available to the consumer (even here in Brazil)... but, for the time being, they're controlled by someone like any other radio-controlled aeromodel, so they're drones but not automatons. Now that one jaclaz found info about works without human intervention, so it *is* an automaton *and* a drone. But I still think I'd be more confortable issuing voice commands to a "big dog" type of robot, than to an intelligent tetracopter... but that's me, of course.

Happy birthday, Whatever420!

Well... judging by the plume of smoke, I'd say it was a tad bigger than insect sized, don't you agree?

Of course, I'd never forget we'd probably not have done it yet, were it not for Dietmar Stölting! And, BWT, I've never done it with 2k either, but I've done it many times with XP, and I'm very familiar with some of the variations of the method for running XP from a pendrive. But that's beside the point. The OP apparently is thinking of either SATA or USB pendrive. If so, SATA is much easier: it's a matter of buying RLoew's SATA patch, installing it and one's all set. Or, in the rare cases for which there're manufacturer's drivers (the ViA 8237 and derivatives, for instance), just install the driver. However, only a handful of SATA I controllers have manufacturer's drivers for 9x/ME. No driver exists for SATA II, let alone SATA III, controllers.

Yes. It is possible. It has been done... I never did it, though, so I cannot help with it, sorry. It's way easier to install XP to run from a pendrive than it is to get 9x/ME to do the same.

Besides RLoew, the only other member I know for sure wrote at least one sucessful .VxD (albeit not a hardware driver) is Xeno86, who is mostly retired from 9x/ME, but still remains contactable by PM.

I confirm it: it's working as intended now. Thanks a lot, once more. Keep on the great work!

I'd unsubscribe, leave MSFN, clean the browser's cookies and close the browser (all instances of it)... Then open the browser anew, login to MSFN, go to the thread and subscribe. Do it to just a couple of threads and let's see whether it makes any difference.

Did you try to unsubscribe, then subscribe once more? Now that the IP.B software was upgraded it may solve it...

Thanks a lot for your hard work! GetWAIKTools sure rocks, and you do, too! Sorry to say v 1.5 has a bug, but it seems to be minor. See the attachment, a figure is worth 1000 words.

When you have time, please do bring back the "Delete My Cookies" option in the forums' footer menu, or, even better, add it to the "More" tab, on the top menu. It sure is handy, but there's no hurry at all, of course!

I'm really sorry, but I did research only the USB functional patches for Win XP after SP3. Those between SP2 and SP3 I haven't any info about, I regret to say.

We have a member who decided to use an username written in Katakana: viz. ハイドン (strangely enough it means "Hydn", a European name). There's no way to cause the forum to show his profile now (the error is different in FF and in Opera, but certainly is due to the strange characters used.). Before the upgrade it used to work. Also some of the other members with odd names one can see in the 1st page one gets after clicking in the "Members" tab on the top row of the forum UI also do show the same issue... in fact, all usernames containing the hash (or sharp) character, as well as those containing "bigger than" and "less than", fail to be displayed. So, in other words, up to now I know that, besides Katakana characters, the presence of the following characters in the username do cause the issue I'm reporting here: # > <