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Here is a tweak that should revert the XAML start menu to the non-XAML start menu: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"EnableXamlStartMenu"=dword:00000000This will allow sub folders and lets you manually resize the start menu to any size (not just full screen or auto). Cheers and Regaards

Let me guess, sheeple farming? Cheers and Regards

In addition to submix8c's suggestions, look up member tomasz86 and check out his site. You can find the link in his signature or in his profile. Cheers and Regards

I also used to move stuff around quite some time ago. This is a copy of a post I made over at RyanVM's forum almost five years ago - (Win 7 Profile Manipulation) - but with an updated link, along with a follow up post by vmanda: became so, if you add folders paths strings at top of script by using SET commands this will make script easy to be edited by users itself. 2. The script will be a single file. This command line tool, reg2cmd, let you convert registry files to cmd script. Usage: reg2cmd profiles.reg profiles_1.cmdSpeaking of users preferences, for example, i wish a folder structure more likely old "Documents and Settings" from XP, in place of "Users" from Vista/Seven. Anyway, many thanks for finding the way to change this settings. I never got around to improving the script using vmanda's suggestion, so I'll leave this up to you or anyone else who wishes to do so. But using this as a model you should be able to do what you want. Whether you end up with leftover folders that you can delete since you no longer need them will all depend on exactly when you run the script. If anyone improves the script, please post it here so that others can benefit from it. Cheers and Regards

Welcome to MSFN! Cheers and Regards

Welcome to MSFN! Cheers and Regards

@ptd163, you haven't answered submix8c's question from the other duplicate, locked, thread: Cheers and Regards

The link opened for me yesterday, but not today for some reason. Cheers and Regards

Just curious, but since the behavior of Search is not what you want, (unless a fix can be found), would you be just as happy with an alternative free search program that might be faster and more effective anyway? I think there are several. Cheers and Regards

@jaclaz, I believe you have an extra period "." in your link above after "com" - ntlworld.com./jonathan. Without it, the link works fine. - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/dukhat-on-foolishness.html. Cheers and Regards

Thanks for your hard work for our benefit. Cheers and Regards

I'm just curious what your end goal is with this project, besides just playing and maybe doing it because someone said it couldn't be done or something. Is there a reason you want to use NT 3.51 instead of NT 4.0? What does Paint do that Paintbrush doesn't? Why do you need an end user app like Paint in a server OS anyway? Cheers and Regards

Noel, if you are responding to: and thought "WTF???", like I did, then I think mikedigitize must have seen this article - Microsoft Cortana NFL Picks, Conference Championship Games - and was trying to suggest that sugabeats could use Cortana to predict OS Rankings. Cheers and Regards

What do you mean "temporarily" and "unless I absolutely have to"? The way I understood that it worked was that once you have logged in using your MS account the system then "knows" your account and when you go to the store it enters the info automatically, telling MS everything that you do. Or do you usually log in using a local account, and only log in using your MS account when you "absolutely have to"? But I didn't think the store would work without a MS account, even for free apps. So when do you "absolutely have to"? Just curious since, as you can probably tell, I don't use Win 8.x and hope I never absolutely have to. Cheers and Regards

As jaclaz said, that is usually not a factor with third party software, but rather comes more into play when moving parts of the OS. So it will probably depend on what, exactly, you are trying to move. If you are just wanting to move some of the 3rd party apps you have installed, or parts of them such as where that app's data is stored, it might work OK. You will probably just have to try it. Just be sure to have everything backed up and have all the necessary install discs available so that if it all goes wrong you haven't lost anything but time. Cheers and Regards

I think that Noel was being sarcastic, taking a page from jaclaz. Cheers and Regards

@jaclaz and @Dave, once you both are satisfied with this "new" tool, could one of you please post the final script and all other necessary components, such as the revised elevate and dsfi or links to them, etc, and an appropriate ReadMe in one place to make it easier to refer others to who might have this same problem? Thanks in advance. Cheers and Regards

Probably not a factor then. Cheers and Regards

To throw another question at you, do you have the eSATA and USB links connected at the same time? I have had problems in the past, for example, when I connected a printer that had two different interfaces to two different computers at the same time, so I thought that there is a possibility that this situation might be similar. Cheers and Regards

MSFN has had a heck of a time the last 17 months. I think MSFN has been down at least 15 times during that period. That's an average of almost once a month. Some were hardware related, some were board software updates, and at least one was a DDoS attack. It's strange that all that has happened to MSFN while I'm not aware that either RyanVM or WinCert has been down for any appreciable time during that same period. I think they have been down occasionally, I know WinCert did at least one or two board software updates during that time and they use the same software that MSFN does, but it was brief enough it didn't cause any real impact, while MSFN has been down for over a day at a time in more than one of those instances and the rest of the outages were usually for several hours. I wonder why? Cheers and Regards

I know. I was also talking about USP 5, which even though it has been worked on for a long time, it still has not been released in final form, and I don't know if it ever will be. I have not seen anyone ever discussing any kind of USP 6. Do you have a link to any discussion of USP 6? The work by tomasz86 - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156521-unofficial-sp-52-for-microsoft-windows-2000/ - is the most recent work on a SP for Win2K that I am aware of. Cheers and Regards

That's because when you add the %% then you are referring to the value of the variable, not the variable itself, and you are trying to find out whether the variable has been defined. So it all depends on whether you are talking about the variable or its value as to whether you use the %% or not. Read again the syntax of the IF statement at ss64. Of course sometimes you have to surround the variable with !! instead of %% to find out its current value. One more 'gotcha' for you to learn about. Look here - http://ss64.com/nt/delayedexpansion.html. I've never seen the written rules for that, I just tried various combinations as an experiment. Cheers and Regards

Yes it is OK, and no you are not checking "whether the variable equals two quotes rather than being empty". Situations like this is why I tend to use square brackets rather than quotes. If you rewrite the above using square brackets: if [%brand%]==[]does that make it clearer? You are comparing what is inside the brackets, or quotes. The brackets, or quotes, that are common to both sides get factored out, so to speak. Or you could do as I suggested above: ----------------------------------- The xcopy command is evaluated as: xcopy "e:\install\os\windows images\win7_"x64"_"en"" d:\win7 /e /i /h /k /y As you've seen, xcopy is tolerant of paired, or an even number of quotes when they are located in that particular part of the command string. As you said. "It seems like no matter what documentation I read, there is always a case where it doesn't apply somewhere." Cheers and Regards

Well, yes and no, 'SET' statements and compare tests are extremely literal and very, very picky as to format and can easily cause annoyingly hard to spot problems, especially for new programmers. This time the quote marks are messing you up in your 'set' statements The way you are setting 'type' is causing 'type' to contain embedded quotes, ie: set type="-ja" ... set type="-ntb" means that [type] will NOT equal [-ja] or [-ntb] which is what I assume you intended, but rather [type] will equal ["-ja"] or ["-ntb"], including the quote marks. So, assuming the case of '3:my own PC', when you had quote marks surrounding %type% in your IF statement if %type%=="-ja" ( actually evaluated to: if ""-ja""=="-ja" ( which would fail every time. You could change your set statements to: if errorlevel==3 set "type=-ja" ... set "type=-ntb" or just if errorlevel==3 set type=-ja ... set type=-ntb to fix that particular problem. I assume you are relatively new to batch/cmd programming? Cheers and Regards

Too little information. What are the possible values of "some string"? Can you share both the section of code where %type% is set and the section where it is tested and used? Cheers and Regards