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Since there has never even been a final release of USP 5, I would guess "No." Cheers and Regards

No argument at all that RAID 0 is the least safe of any of the RAID versions. But as to speed, if I understand what you are saying, then even though "the 6-disk RAID 5 will be reading from up to 6 disks in parallel, instead of just 5," you will still only be getting 5 disks worth of data since "the addicional capacity (i. e. the 6th disk) is virtually consumed by the parity stripes", right? And it will take some infinitesimal amount of time to reassemble the data utilizing the parity information, correct? If that is true, then it seems to me that a 5-disk RAID 0 should still be ever so slightly faster than a 6-disk RAID 5, or at least no slower. But I agree that a 6-disk RAID 5 should be faster than a 4-disk RAID 0. But again, this is just my understanding from reading and not actual experience, which I fully understand should be more accurate. Cheers and Regards

Best of what I understand about the various RAID versions, though never having run any of them myself, RAID 5 is safer than RAID 0, but NOT faster. I believe RAID 0 is the fastest of all the various RAID versions, though I could be wrong. Cheers and Regards

Considering that they carried a "Merry Cuteness" episode at Christmas that was just videos of puppies and kittens without a single human voice during the entire show, and considering that the Puppy Bowl is actual real video unlike shows about Megalodons and Mermaids, and considering the popularity of the Puppy Bowl, I'm sure you can reassure your better half that the Puppy Bowl is here to stay, at least for awhile. (It's also still listed - http://www.animalplanet.com/ - to be broadcast this year starting at 3:00PM Eastern on Feb 1, 2015. Cheers and Regards

You should. Personally, I prefer using square brackets [ ] rather than quotes " ", but both will work. A couple of references I use are http://ss64.com/nt/if.html and http://www.robvanderwoude.com/if.php From the second one: As usual, jaclaz beat me with his post. As a slight alternative to his code, this also works the same way: :ntbset /p brand="Manufacturer's name: "if not defined brand echo.&echo. No input. Try again.&goto :ntb:startOf course for both of our codes, no error checking is provided that a valid manufacturer has been entered. If the user enters nonsense, or even just a single space, then both codes will accept that just fine. (Unless some special problematic characters are entered, but that's a whole different set of problems.) Cheers and Regards

That's definitely the best attitude to take when seeing a movie. Your experience is usually greatly influenced by your expectations. That reminds me when I went to see Logan's Run when I was in college. I had read in a photography magazine about the sets, and where the movie was shot, and a few of the effects (it had more people flying by wire simultaneously than any other movie up to that time), so I went to the movie to see the stuff I had read about and thought it was great. I got just what I wanted out of the movie, while others didn't. Cheers and Regards

I'm not completely sure, but if you don't need the "language" variable anywhere else I think you could also simplify it even further with: if exist d:\win7\boot\cs-cz\nul (set language=-cz) else (set language=) copy e:\unattended\AeroNoBackground%language%.theme d:\win7\sources\$OEM$\$$\resources\themes\AeroNoBackground.theme If you do need the language variable elsewhere you could also change the AeroNoBackground-cz.theme to AeroNoBackgroundcz.theme and use: if exist d:\win7\boot\cs-cz\nul (set language=cz) else (set language=) copy e:\unattended\AeroNoBackground%language%.theme d:\win7\sources\$OEM$\$$\resources\themes\AeroNoBackground.theme In any case, it is always better to enclose both sides of your compare tests with something and not leave them "naked" like you did - if %language%==cz ( - just to prevent potential problems or misunderstandings. Cheers and Regards

Very true, and a better solution, of course. But at least now he knows why his script wasn't working. Cheers and Regards

Try changing if %language%==cz ( to if [%language%]==[cz] ( or if "%language%"=="cz" ( and/or change else set language= to else set language=notcz What I think you are running into was if language was empty or null or not defined, ie "else set language=", then your "if %language%==cz (" became "if ==cz (" and the syntax was just wrong and "( was unexpected at this time.". I hope that makes sense. Cheers and Regards

Looks like you missed a "+" CSwitch+ReadyThread vs CSwitchReadyThread Cheers and Regards

It seems that changing the stock fan might be the easiest thing to try. Cheers and Regards

I thought it was just me. I'm just as lost. Maybe, as a start, the OP could provide a labeled block diagram and say exactly where each item is plugged in. Cheers and Regards

If you have a SATA drive that you can temporarily copy any existing data to somewhere safe, I suppose you can format it as FAT or FAT32 and see if DOS can read and write to it. If so, then, if you can select that drive as a boot source and you are able to copy a bootable DOS source to it, see what happens. If you are able to boot to DOS using the drive then I would think you could install Win 98 to it as well. Sometimes it is faster to answer a question by just trying it. Cheers and Regards

You mean the image in your signature isn't the real you? GASP!!! Cheers and Regards

It seems like it might be time for alternate Windows shells to make a comeback. If I remember right, alternate shells such as bbClean were popular back in the Win2K era, but I don't remember how well they played with other apps that assumed that the MS shell was in place. But Noel, as reluctant as you are to even want to use a non-MS browser, how likely are you to use a non-Ms shell? LOL j/k Cheers and Regards

If the drive is seen as a different size and/or formatting depending on which interface you use, I would strongly suggest you pick one, and only one, interface to use. And if you are going to use the drive for XP, I would use USB since it appears you are able to use the full capacity of the drive. Otherwise I believe the risk of losing data would be extremely high. Cheers and Regads

Ponch, no offense meant and I could be wrong, but I think that jaclaz is correct. Regardless of what the BOIS says, I think that the Windows kernel is "artificially" limiting Windows to 3GB and by patching it you would be able to use the full 4GB. Cheers and Regards

Why? That's just a 2TB drive. Fairly common these days and readily available for less than US$100. Cheers and Regards

What are the exact circumstances that created these troublesome files that you cannot easily delete? If they are just temporary files that are in normal locations, then a program such as CCleaner might be able to do the job for you. If you need to delete them manually, you can usually move the troublesome files to a location closer to the root of the drive and delete it after the move. Or you can start with the folders closest to the root and rename them to a shorter name, ie a1, a2, a3, etc. Just do that until you end up with paths that are within the path limits. Cheers and Regards

Aww now Larry, you've gone and encouraged him. Cheers and Regards

You could temporarily disable any anti-virus program you have on your system while you are trying to do the updates. If nothing else it might go a little bit faster. And they have been known to get in the way sometimes. Cheers and Regards

Sorry Noel, I don't see why you're having a problem with this. The way I see it, there are 3 different levels for OS/app settings. 1) The defaults defined by the OS/app developer. 2) The settings imposed system wide, usually implied as a corporate environment but that could also be family wide in a home setting. 3) The settings for an individual user. In each level, more customization and restrictions can be imposed. In a home setting where they might share a computer, mom and dad, or a teenage boy, might not want the "My Little Pony" theme that the 6 year old girl likes. Yes, I know the point wasn't talking about themes, but my point is more about consistency. The OS environment should behave consistently. Aero Glass settings should be no different than other UI settings in the way they operate in that regard. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with having system wide settings that can be further refined by an individual user. At least that is my opinion. Cheers and Regards

I guess it is kind of similar to having JavaScript disabled, which many people believe should also be the default setting. Cheers and Regards Note: In general, I do approve of GSM's approach of providing solutions that can work on as many OS and machines as possible without changing any of the normal or default settings. While Powershell does seem to be a very "powerful" tool, I am a total neophyte in it's use. But the more tools you have in your toolbox, and know how to use them, the better off you are.

It would be nice if Mim0 would let us know what his situation is, or at least say goodbye. Cheers and Regards

And GunSmokingMan would probably be the best one to give you advise about HTA's. Cheers and Regards