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-X-, I understand your being cautious, and I'm sure it is part of the reason that your site continues to operate successfully. (Thank you for that, it is a valuable resource that the community needs.) But isn't banning due to a single episode, ie on a single day in a one minute time period, of "innocently" poking around just a little harsh? I haven't tried to do it on your site, and I won't, but I'm guilty of doing similar things on Kel's, just looking for a more efficient way to download several offerings and make sure I didn't miss any. (And "full disclosure" to see if there were any older files or other goodies I might find useful. ) Once I discover that the files available for download are in a location like "/files/", sometimes curiosity will get the better of me. If I look and get 403 and 404 errors then I don't go back and figure no harm done. Cheers and Regards

Since we don't know what is in his "install.bat", I suppose he could be passing "ALLUSERS=1 /qb! /norestart" as parameters? Cheers and Regards

He appears to try and set it here: Cheers and Regards

He appears to have been brainwashed, since he seems to have bought the misguided, though well intentioned, reasoning by the the site admin. I understand the site admin's thinking from his apparent experience, but he is obviously uninformed since there are indeed a few diehards that still happily use Win95. Cheers and Regards

Not blocked here either. (SE US) Cheers and Regards

I thought of that possibility, but then he'd also need to block the use of CTL-ALT-DEL, block the use of the various corners on the touch screen, etc. Also, how does he intend to restart or shut down when necessary, use the power button? Unplug the machine? In any case, knowing his reason for asking will hopefully shed some light on the issue so we can advise him better. Cheers and Regards

MS has announced that they are willing to continue to support XP, if you are willing to pay for it. Whether that program comes to pass we will have to wait and see. Whether those updates then get out "into the wild", is then yet another matter. Cheers and Regards

Since they apparently block the IP, he'll have to go take his computer to a different site and/or go through an anonymizer to change his IP in order to try it and see. And if it doesn't work, he'll have succeeded in blocking that IP from that site. Cheers and Regards

Have you asked this question at the Windows 8 Desktop Gadgets forum, if there is one, or that of the gadgets themselves? As best as I can tell, I think Windows 8 Desktop Gadgets v1.3, is supposed to be a program that allows you to use Vista and Win7 gadgets, (the ones that I think MS stopped supporting at all, BTW), on Win8+, but I can not find the Home page for Windows 8 Desktop Gadgets. Where did you find the download link for this app, (don't just give us the DL link, give us a link to the page where the DL link is located) and, more importantly, where is its Home site? Please provide those two links. As to your question about installing the gadgets silently, it might depend on the gadgets. Please tell us exactly which gadgets you are talking about and provide links to their Home pages, not just a download link, so we can find out more about those gadgets. And are you talking about just installing the gadgets silently on a running system, or installing them silently during an OS install? So far, you have been very vague. Cheers and Regards

Problem, or preference? What "problem" does having the Shut Down button visible create? Cheers and Regards

Also, just because 7 and Vista are BOUND to get major bugs found, unfortunately this does NOT mean that MS is bound to fix them, again, unless forced. Cheers and Regards

It might be lame, but MS has proven by their actions, or lack of action, that they do not plan to do anything for "older" OS unless they are forced to. Cheers and Regards

See here Trip. Cheers and Regards

@Dogway, no disrespect meant at all, but it appears that you have exhausted our experience and knowledge on this topic over the last month. And it is something that you want to do, and your wants seem to be unique as far as the members of this forum are concerned, ie relocating the user directories in a specific way for a dual boot of XP and Win7. So I think it is time for you to do some more experiments yourself, and report back your methods and results if you would be so kind. If you run into difficulties, the specifics you report may trigger some useful feedback for you. I know you have said that you wanted to do this right, and not lightly, but if your expectation was that you would learn all there is to know then do it right the first time, then I think that was overly optimistic. You stated in post #24 that you were successful in doing what you wanted for XP, but I haven't seen that you have done any more tests for Win7, even though we have given you all the suggestions we know. Since you seem to be blazing a new trail, it seems to me that it would be useful to learn to do what you want for Win7 standalone before you try to merge the XP and Win7 installs. I know you didn't like what jaclaz said, but he is right that they have become different beasts, as you yourself have seen. Just a suggestion. Cheers and Regards

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Upload the zipped file to the file host of your choice - mediafire or whatever. You will get a link for the file there. Then when you make your next post here, paste the link to the file into your post using the "link" button in the edit box. Cheers and Regards

Regardless of whether it is a bug in the game itself, or whether something in the game interacts with some other bug somewhere else in your system, if the only time you have the crash is when playing the game, then in my mind it is either the direct fault of the game, or an indirect fault of the game such as a system setting you use only when playing the game. Why else would you not have a crash at any other time while running the same OS with the same tweaks on the same hardware with the same timings? Do you apply any tweaks at all while running the game that you do not apply at any other time? I know some gamers disable anti-virus, have special network timings, change keyboard response times, plug in unique peripherals, change display settings, etc. I'm just trying to think of anything unique to the circumstances that exist only when you are playing that game. Cheers and Regards

I don't think it is a "problem". I have noticed that was true for years. I always thought one was for Windows Explorer and the other was the shell itself, (ie the desktop, taskbar, etc.). Cheers and Regards

It might be my simplistic thinking, but if the same app/game is running whenever you have a problem then I would at least consider that it is the app/game that IS the problem. Cheers and Regards

Correct. That is what he meant by: Cheers and Regards

Thanks Kurt! Just curious if you have experimented using 98 USP3 in an installation inside VirtualBox? If it worked, it would seem that it might save some installation time and possibly add some features? (Just a wild thought with nothing to back that idea up. ) Cheers and Regards

Yes. However the recommended solution of adding the IP address of the machine to the list of Internet Explorer Local Intranet sites in Internet Options did not change the behavior I described above. Windows Explorer still seems to "protect" the "C:\Users\Administrator\Favorites\" tree. I have not tried to see if this behavior exists for other users since this machine has only one. I expect it "protects" the entire "C:\Users\" tree but that's just a guess. The favorite I used in my simple test had an .url extension. I don't know for sure what bookie32's reasons are for using Explorer for this organizational task, other than it is built-in and familiar. I don't know how difficult it is to do it in IE itself, and I have no interest in even trying it to see. But your idea of using an alternative to Windows Explorer seems to have helped narrow the behavior to being "explorer specific" and not "system specific". Doing the same tests above using 7-zip (in dual pane mode) did not produce any warnings at all, and seems a wonderfully easy and free way for him to accomplish his goals without encountering the warnings. He might also find other alternatives here - http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/470-windows-explorer-extensions-replacements.html and many other places with just a little searching. None of this answers the question why we can't seem to get rid of the warning in Windows Explorer, but then this isn't the first time we have had to deal with "that's just the way that MS implemented it and you can take it or leave it". I guess that's one of the reasons that alternatives were created. Cheers and Regards

bookie32, I just reread your posts more closely and realized you were using Windows Explorer to rearrange your shortcuts, not Internet Explorer. Sorry for my misunderstanding. Using the few default Favorites stored in C:\Users\Administrator\Favorites\, as I said, I don't use IE so there weren't many there, I tried to move them using Windows Explorer and I think I got the same error you're talking about - If I was trying to move shortcuts that way and got a popup for every shortcut I wanted to move I can see how that would be annoying. For me, the files are indeed stored on an NTFS volume, and they are just Internet shortcuts, nothing special. I tried to use NirSoft's AlternateStreamView x64 v1.40 and it didn't indicate that these shortcuts had any Alternate Data Stream, if I used it correctly. jaclaz, if I understand what I'm seeing correctly, the "issue" does not seem to be with the files themselves, but rather the location is being "protected" by Windows when moving files between two open Windows Explorer windows. I tried this test. I had a shortcut "USA.gov", ("http://www.usa.gov/"), in "C:\Users\Administrator\Favorites\Links for United States" - [henceforth referred to as "OriginalFolder"]. FWIW, Windows Explorer let me rename, and even edit the properties of the shortcut however I wanted with no warnings of any kind. I created three test folders "C:\test1" ["test1"], "C:\test2" ["test2"], and "C:\Users\Administrator\Favorites\test3" ["test3"]. Using Windows Explorer I opened "OriginalFolder" and moved the shortcut to "test3" by dragging the shortcut from the open folder to "test3" over in the left-hand column of the same Windows Explorer window. No warning. I put the shortcut back in the "OriginalFolder" in a similar manner. No warning. I opened "OriginalFolder" and I also opened "test3" in a separate window and tried to move the shortcut by dragging the file between the two windows similar to what bookie32 showed in his pic in post 9 and I got the above warning. I could also move the shortcut from "OriginalFolder" to "test1" or "test2" in the left-hand column of the same Windows Explorer window and back with no warning. Moving it from "OriginalFolder" to either "test1" or "test2" opened in a separate window got the warning. Once in "test1", I could move the shortcut to "test2" or anywhere else on any disk in my system using the same or separate windows with no warning. But once the shortcut was in "C:\Users\Administrator\Favorites\" or any subfolder, then I got the warning if I tried to move the shortcut to any other location opened in a separate window. So, any ideas how to allow moving the shortcuts between windows in the "C:\Users\Administrator\Favorites\" tree without getting a warning? bookie32, in the meantime, it looks like as long as you move the files using only one Windows Explorer window you should be fine. Cheers and Regards

Sorry, at least not with IE for me. I'm currently using COMODO Dragon as my primary browser, a Chrome variant, which lets me organize my bookmarks easily, and then I back them up and share them between other browsers and PCs with XMarks. Frankly, I only use IE when I absolutely, positively, no other choice, have to and I don't even remember if XMarks supports IE. I think it does, but if it didn't, I really wouldn't even care. Cheers and Regards

Sounds like either an app or service that is running. General answer I know, but... Have you checked to see if you have anything running that might cause it? Cheers and Regards