dencorso

Sloppy copy/pasting. And then the crappy IP.B (it's got poltergeists inside!!!) decided to prevent me from fixng it. But it's fixed now (I hope)... Thanks a whole lot for the head's up!

VirtualBox Windows 98se step by step on the 9x/ME forum. Why do you think it's pinned? Now, thanks to IP.Bs crappy later software, @Kurt_Aust got fed up and moved it to the VirtualBox forums, but some goodies remain here at MSFN's original thread. However, for the latest guide, just go to the thread of the same name at VirtualBox Fourums. It just works.

You may be right. I couldn't just now find that scene to check, but I did find out there's an underflow scene in Thor: Ragnarök, which certainly is not the one I had in mind, because I hadn't seen it before, ever. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5mdir2ycgM I'm getting 403:Forbidden when I try to post this video, so I've scrambled the url. 5h later: now I can deobfuscate the url, but it does not become an embedded video anymore... but I've captured the relevant part into an animated gif (below):

No... Well, not quite. Of course, "Bottoms Up" is real and exists, all right, but what it does is not a real underflow, because the beer is injected through a hole in the bottom of the glass, which then closes by means of a magnetic seal when the filled glass is removed from the dispenser. Now, in a real underflow, which cannot happen in the real world, the beer would appear magically from the bottom of an empty glass. It cannot happen in the real world, but it can happen in the computational "reality", in which one can extract more numbers from a buffer than were put in, by reading arbitrary memory below the buffer start. And that is called a "buffer underflow",.. which is why I, at 1st, imagined I had seen that scene in one of the Matrix movies.

Well, the animated .GIF below is a small part of a commercial of the "Bottoms Up" beer dispensing system, but it illustrates nicely what an underflow would be, were it possible in the real world. In the sequence, all glasses are underflowing until the first one, which was almost filled up ends actually overflowing. Now, I do remember seeing one underflow scene (I once thought it was on one of the Matrix movies, but it's not). It may have been on a movie or on a series episode, like Heroes or the 4400... I'm sure I saw it, though. Have any of you all also seen it? And if so, can you pinpoint where, exactly? TIA!

Replacing the keyboard by a not broken one?

That's no answer. This thread is precisely about what isn't. And no, that´s not all that is: there're also ASMedia USB drivers for XP, as well as XP drivers from other manufacturers, too. What there are not are Intel drivers for USB 3.0, which is the reason of being for this thread. Maker-agnostic universal USB 3.0 drivers would also be welcome, if there were any. All the rest is off-topic.

@glnz: OK. Do it this way: (i) Get joakim's great RunAsTI. (ii) Run it as Admin. It'll open a CMD box as the infamous TrustedInstaller. (iii) At the prompt of that CMD box, type regedit and hit enter. (iv) regedit will open at TrustedInstaller level. (v) Go to the problematic entries, delete the duplicates and correct the rights of what remains. It should just work! Consider, however, that I've given you a loaded .50 so make very sure you don't mistake the business end for the butt, please.

Of course. links to the Wayback Machine (representing old MS links) are also OK.

Try. But I doubt system restore can fix it. Or run cleanup. Reboot, then try system restore followed by reinstall of the older version.

Get the MB CleanUp Utility <2> <3> and run it. Reboot. Reinstall the older version of MBAE and disable auto-update (I don't know how to do it but there must be a way). Voilà, it's done!

Try to use a time server different from the default (which still is time.windows.com). The most obvious altenative is time.nist.gov, but that's also in the US. pool.ntp.org (or ntp.psn.ru) might be better for who's in Europe. A good read on it is this site. Enjoy!

Good things never die (for long): OpenVMS! I'm considering moving there... Current State of the x86-64 Port

Android will kill Windows. Wait and see.

And it works, of course! But one must be careful to search all needed strings and replace (using u152 as the old one and u181 as the new one for the sake of this example): "jre1.8.0_152" by "jre1.8.0_181"; "8.0.1520.16" by "8.0.1810.13"; "1.8.0_152-b16" by "1.8.0_181-b13" and "11.152.2" by "11.181.2"... All the needed version numbers are easily findable in the File Properties of java.exe and javacpl.cpl, of course.

The .REG expects one to keep the name of the directory the newest/latest java is in as "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_152" and sets the 3 fundamental variables programs use to find out which java version is in the system to the correct value, so it has the lines: "PRODUCTVERSION"="8.0.1810.13" "FullVersion"="1.8.0_181-b13" "JreVersion"="1.8.0_181-b13" set to the right value. These lines must be changed accordingly for each new java version installed. It also disables java updates. N.B: Now, if one does change the name of the directory the newest/latest java, then there're numerous other places in the registry that should be adjusted, which is the reason for my suggesting to keep it as "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_152" .

Here is the .REG file for the latest jre-8u181. NewJavaRegs181.7z

For now, just keep cool and hang loose.

Not at all! The board software is behaving strangely after the latest update... what with random unwarranted "403 - Forbidden" errors and the like. But I'm sure xper will fix that soon.

@cc333: of course one can... @jaclaz @xpclient @dencorso ... I don't see why not... Now, changing subjects, @jaclaz, the finder, is always right (by definition) If not, the pillars of reality may crumble! All others may or may not be right, however...

Dietmar got NVMe working on XP and even XP to boot from it. More about it in this reboot.pro thread.

Just as a test, change the mouse for another one. A brand-new el cheapo will do. Then keep the new one on for a whole day and see whether the issue disappears...

Use this: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm