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You don't need to do anything special, because there's no risk of data corruption at all: the Transcend 2.5" PATA SLC Industrial SSDs do emulate IDE disks quite perfectly. That said, I personally think you should use MS-DOS 7.10 instead of 6.22, because then you can use FAT-32, though. But this has nothing to do with any data corruption.

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Gurgelmeyer is the now mythic author of 2k uSP5, who has disappeared over the edge of the ether way back when,,, How so? Here where?

Yes, it's related... but if one has the POSReady hack but no IE8, havin IE6SP3 instead, the last update for IE6SP3 comes next week. All others continue until 2019 (exept for IE7, which also stops further on, this year). Absolutely! From the MS Update Catalog, as always! Don't know whether they'd install on Vista if unmodified, though...

Whats the relation between /M and the File Cache, if I may ask?

Well, yes... then again, this other page is also relevant, and particularly noteworthy are the following dates: Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 3 (SP3), Extended Support will end on Jan. 12, 2016, meaning the last updates for IE6 SP3 shall be issued next Tuesday !!! and Windows Embedded for Point of Service SP3, Extended Support will end on April 12, 2016, when IE7 updates shall be issued for the last time... Hence, after April, the oldest IE still supported ought to be 8... as always with MS, the more interesting info must be read between the lines...

Mainstream support ended on 13 Jan 2015 (in 8 days that'll be one year ago), but extended support ends only on 14 Jan 2020 !!!

Rest assured RLoew will certainly help you with your issue swiftly. It's the 1st new issue found with the patch in a long time, so I bet he'll chime in quite soon.

I think both datasets for December agree quite reasonably: if 90% of the market is on Windows, and we have solid 3% 8.0 and 10% XP, and both 8.1 and 10 jockeying for 10% each, that puts 7SP1 at about 57%... All the above numbers agree reasonably also with StatCounter, except for 7SP1! There's a reason for it: mobile OSes!!! Did you notice their about 6% for iOS? And if, so, their unix should include Android, too! That's what drains the percentage that otherwise would be given 7SP1... Mobile and Tablet data. That's the other difference, besides not counting unique users. Of course, this is nothing more than my own 2¢, so feel free to disagree.

You prefer StatCounter, while I prefer NetMarketShare, mostly because it attempts to count "daily unique users"... However, in fact, they tend to agree reasonably (the more so as it's difficult to defend either statistics are truly precise to a tenth of a percentual point, let alone to a hundredth of it) especially when rounded to integer values. Yet, I think maybe StatCounter does underestimate the XP user share somewhat... There's a good comparative discussion about them in this article (over at ZDNet).

The kitchen sink is the 1st piece one must replace, that's for sure!

Hi Dibya, could you please state which sys files you replaced exactly? Do visit his thread over on RyanVM's, and you'll sure find out...

It seems not many more people are moving on to 10, isn't it? These are NetMarketShare Desktop OSes, FTW.

Digital sold excellency, MS sells fads and gives away for free FUD galore... times change, for sure!

Easy. My main machine, and most others I own run XP SP3, and up to 2007, they were on 98SE... I simply know, by experience, that's just FUD. Simple as that!

As per my self-quote above, the ISA enumerator port yellow bang is caused by a port range conflict and is solved by setting a non-conflicting port range by hand (by trial and error, among the possibilities offered). It's a long-time known issue, albeit it didn't become usual until the advent of those more recent boards, way back when.

Happy New Year to you all!

When you reach the "It's now safe to turn off your computer", if you type blindly "mode co80 <Enter>" (or elde just put it on the line below "win" in the autoexec.bat), you'll get the command prompt back. But it MUST have been started with the win command, and have the BootGUI=0 in MSDOS.SYS, or it won't work.

If one sets BootGUI=0 at MSDOS.SYS, then starts Win 9x by running WIN.COM in AUTOEXEC.BAT, one can add an APM shutdown command for after Win 9x has finished, because then the batch file will resume, although not visibly, because the screen will be showing the "Safe to Turn Off" screen. Try this one (it'll just print a message about APM missing and fail to turn it off, in case the machine is ACPI only, as the newer machines use to be): APMOFF.7z

IR11 (and 10, IIRC) have incorporated Adobe Flash into the browser, such that they're automatically updated and you're no longer in charge of making sure you're on the latest version. Their updating seems to run on its own mysterious schedule; for example, IE11 on my Win10 test machine is still on Flash version 228, and since then there have been at least two newer versions, 235 and now 267. So much for the vaunted protection of the paternalistic "you stay out of the way, we'll do it for you" model of software updating. As we've noted so many times before, those who give up liberty for security, end up with neither. Sure. Then again, there's some light at the end of the tunnel (which might just be another train, comming towards one, of course)! KB3132372 was released today. It is Flash 20.0.0.267 for IE11. They actually even do it for you... just not fast enough!!!

IMO, anyone can get over 100 years old, on 200g of pumpernickel and 200g of casu marzu thrice a day... however, is it worth it?

Don't you have anymore car tinkers in the US? In Brazil (and probably even more so in Cuba) there's many of them, who'll do from a quick fix or cosmetic job to a "like new" state, depending on how much one is willing to pay and how long one is willing to wait...

+1! Ivy Bridge is the best for XP SP3... Skylake? You're in for a lot of headache and scarcely any useful results... 7 SP1 is the right one for it. Then again, this is just my 2¢...

BTW... is it impossible to get IE11 to use Flash 20.0.0.267 ??? Never had IE11 before, but I'm just now configuring a machine that has it in (it's on Win 8.1 SL (ENU)).