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I would have assumed that when the OP said the disc had been "wiped and used for installation" that he actually meant it had been formatted and used for installation. If the disc had "just" been formatted, then there is a chance that data could be recovered from it, at least the data that was not written over by the installation. ANY use of the new installation. however, would continue to make that task harder as temporary system files are written and erased from the disc. There are several programs available that do a fair job of recovering data from accidentally formatted discs, and their prices are fairly reasonable. Cheers and Regards

I'm surprised that fdv says that you do not need to add to SETUPREG.HIV, while tomasz86 feels so strongly that you do. Hopefully fdv will continue to interact on this thread, because I believe that with his experience he will be able to shed light on what can and cannot be done in this area. Cheers and Regards

So which is it? Does the headset by itself work with this board or not? Or is the problem only when you have both the headset and the mic plugged in? I would think it should work, but you shouldn't need both since the headset has a mic built in, right? If the errant behavior is anytime the headset is plugged in, then it sounds like the headset has a loose wire. The problem could be in the connector on the board or on the front panel or a cold solder joint, but it sounds more like it's either in the headset or in the cable that goes from the board to the front panel. Does the headset work reliably on a different PC? Cheers and Regards

So, do you still have a problem? If so, please describe it in more detail - 1. Which exact OS is this and is it completely clean or have you made any modifications to it in any way, and if you have what exactly did you do? 2. What are any software or hardware particulars of your system that might be relevant in any way? 3. What happens vs what you want to happen? 4. Did the problem occur from the first time you installed the OS or had things been working for a while and then it "broke"? 5. If it had been working, what hardware or software did you change just before it quit working? 6. What have you tried to fix it and what happened when you tried each of those attempted fixes? Please give us as much info as you can. We are not mind readers. Cheers and Regards

Did you mean TILE instead of title? That's what your link is about, but everywhere in your post including the post title, you said title. Am I confused, or are you? Cheers and Regards

Glad to hear it, Fred. I hope your career and life in general are both doing well. Cheers and Regards

First, please forgive me if I have misunderstood how any of this works since I do not use nLite. @andros - If I understand your question, after using nLite on two different PC's, if you remove "HIDE" in the line in SYSOC.INF, then you see nLITE in "adding / removing components", but if you try to uninstall or remove nLite it doesn't go away and you want to know why and how to get rid of it, do I understand your question? Have you searched in Program Files to verify if the nLite executable is actually there? If the nLite executable is not on the PC, then it is not installed. @submix8c - I've never used nLite, but from what I've read about it and from reading your answers here, even though nLite is used in building the image that is installed, nLite is not actually installed on the resulting PC, so the nLite entry in "adding / removing components" is just a phantom entry, only visible if the "HIDE" is removed, which is why the "HIDE" was put there in the first place, is that correct? If andros does not want the phantom entry there he should just leave the "HIDE" alone or eliminate the entire line in SYSOC.INF, are those his only options? Is there no other way to eliminate the nLite entry after the fact through the registry or something? Perhaps someone should contact Ricktendo64 or someone else who might be willing to lend a hand with translation to/from Spanish since that seems to be part of the problem in this thread? Cheers and Regards

You also might want to check and make sure that you do not have some kind of write caching or delayed write enabled for those discs. The behavior you describe, at first not working, but working OK later even though you did nothing else to "fix" the problem made me think this might be your problem. Cheers and Regards

Thanks for the additional info sources. Personally, if any disagree with each other, I would take Black Viper's word over the others. But if any of them supply extra info, then that is great. I haven't been on XP in about a year now, I'm on Win7 x64, but in both cases I've tended to take the easy way out - set things to Black Viper's "safe" settings and leave them alone unless I have a particular problem. My Workstation setting is currently Automatic. As to what I would do about the Manual settings that always seem to be "started"? If they seem to be able to start by themselves from the Manual state, I would leave them in Manual. If I was getting an error because they couldn't start, then I'd change them to Automatic. Cheers and Regards

One of the more accepted and detailed sites for service recommendations for XP and most of the other variants of Windows is Black Viper's site. Here's the link for one of the XP SP3 (32 bit) pages - http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-xp-x86-32-bit-service-pack-3-service-configurations/. Cheers and Regards

Google. Read. Come back and tell us what you tried, what happened, then ask specific questions. Cheers and Regards

From everything I've seen and heard, the Android phone is comparable to Linux, ie more flexible and powerful but it can get complicated to use so it's a power user phone, while the iPhone is like a Mac, it just works, even your grandmother can learn to operate it. The Windows phone looks like a toy, but it's market share is so small that it really doesn't matter. The Android vs iPhone comparison has been reinforced to me twice lately. Once was at a dealer where my wife asked which phone they would recommend, and they said the iPhone for ease of use. I asked "What about the Galaxy S III?" The salesman agreed that was the phone he wanted, but he still recommends the iPhone if asked, even though it was lower priced and he got a slightly lower commission because of that. My wife got the iPhone. Then tonight we were talking with a friend of ours who is the IT guy for a small local company and is in charge of supporting the smart phones used by their employees. He personally loves his Galaxy S III and has it unlocked, overclocked, and tweaked like crazy, but he prefers the employees who are not as technical to have an iPhone because they are less likely to "mess it up" so it makes his job easier. Cheers and Regards

WTK = Win Toolkit Cheers and Regards

"Impossible to finish" meaning impossible to come up with a progression starting with John L. Williams and ending with Anton Volchenkov and using all the names in your list? In your original Name Association challenge, how did you know when you were finished? When everyone got bored with it, ran out of names (impossible), or what? Sorry, but I'm a little bit confused. Cheers and Regards

According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/104011, and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573817/where-are-environment-variables-stored-in-registry, and http://best-windows.vlaurie.com/environment-variables.html, for XP: Cheers and Regards

I'm not clear what you are asking. The WINNT.SIF page says: What else did you need to know? Many of those items you are mentioning are environment variables. If you are wondering what their normal default values are you could look here. Cheers and Regards

LOL I think there are MANY that will argue, rightly or wrongly, with that statement. I also agree that Vista was probably underrated, but that is not the point Seriously, I am not trying to start a flame war and I will not participate in one. If you like Win8, or Win7, or Vista, or XP, or Win2K, or 98, or any of the various flavors of Linux, and it meets your needs and you have no reason to change, then by all means continue to use it, be happy and have a nice day. Cheers and Regards

It goes back to the distinction between "general purpose" and "specialized". A general purpose function that might end up being used anywhere needs all kinds of error checking for safety for the app and the system it is run on. The more specialized the function is, the more conditions are assumed or required and the smaller the code can be, as long as it can be guaranteed that those conditions are always met. The error checking always needs to be done, explicitly by the function or implicitly by the programmer. Either in the function itself, or external to it as jaclaz stated: And then it gets down to programmer's preference. Some like to have redundant checks everywhere, trying to make their code absolutely bulletproof. It will never happen, human error, machine error, and fate will prevent it, but you can get close. Others like to program lean and mean with the absolute minimal checks. That produces smaller, faster code, not as big a requirement these days with processor speed and memory and disc sizes and prices being what they are, but in a perfect world it will run very well. Or you could do a middle ground of the minimal checks plus some extra ones "just in case". If the extra checks are just a line or two and don't take a lot of time to execute, then put them in. You can always pull them back out later as you are optimizing your code and you see which conditions are most likely to occur. That is what you are doing now, and you are doing it the right way, carefully. -::End of philosophical programming methodology rant::- Cheers and Regards

True, and just because you like it doesn't mean it's an upgrade. Win 8 is definitely a polarizing OS. There will be folks that like it and those that don't. Members of either group can change their mind after using the OS for a while. All of the changes from Win7 can each be spun by the respective group into either an advantage or a disadvantage. But none of that should really matter to you. Objectivity does not mean anything in the context of how well a tool works for you. How it feels in your hands and if you are able to use it to do the jobs you need it to do are what matters and are what should shape your opinions. As MagicAndre1981 suggests, How it performs for you, on your hardware, with your software apps, and if it meets your needs is what is important, not what any of us say. After you've tried it, come back, chime in and lets us know your experience and your opinions as a result. Good luck. Cheers and Regards

I know that What I don't know is whether these lines may have any impact when the script is used like I do it. In a perfect world, where things always work the way they are supposed to, no I don't think so. But as Den explained, just because those files are "supposed" to be closed automatically when the script exits, there is no guarantee that they will, due to system error or whatever. I know that there is never a guarantee with computers anyway, but to decrease the possibility of error with very minimal effort on your part, it is always best practice to clean up after yourself and do what you can to ensure that files are closed and system resources are released when you no longer need them. Cheers and Regards

I don't get it. That would be a check to make sure that exactly 2 arguments are passed to the script, if the script is invoked only from a batch and only with the correct 2 arguments there is no need for that check (which should be made BEFORE in the calling batch). Or am I missing something? jaclaz You are absolutely correct, of course, as long as the assumption is assured. I think both Den and I were looking at the code snippet from a "stand-alone" perspective, or as a function you might paste into another piece of code or share with someone else. No comment was made in the last few posts as to any assumptions or requirements, either before or after yanklines.vbs is invoked, so not knowing if the proper error checking had been done before the function was called ... What do you mean by "closing" files? He's talking about objInputFile.Close objOutputFile.Close Cheers and Regards

This looks like it has real potential! It's a shame it has to be connected to the internet rather than offline, but it's better than having to do it completely manually. Now if there was only an easy way to get the full names of the all the updates you desire to hide, especially the 34 "xxxxx Language Pack - Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (KB2483139)" updates, into your script. Thanks for getting us this far! Cheers and Regards

Sent you $10 Kel. Cheers and Regards

I believe (1) is very necessary, or or least the "< 2" part is, since I'm not sure what will happen, besides error, if you do not specify both the input and output file. If you have extra arguments, ie "> 2", they will just be ignored but it is an indication that something is screwed up in the program call. AFAIK, (2) is not "necessary" since both files "should" be closed when the script exits, but it is best practice and I would always do it. You should always try to clean up after yourself, and not depend on what "should" happen. But that's just my opinion. Cheers and Regards

Only two? The VC++ packages are known to have this problem a LOT. And you are right. It's because of really poorly built setup routines. I really wish I knew a good answer. My defense is to try and only use installers that are rebuilt by folks I know and whose work I trust that know enough to pull out the VC++ packages from the setup routines. I wish I knew enough to do the rebuilds myself, but I have to rely upon the kindness and generosity of others. Cheers and Regards