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Hmmm. I would call the video largely incomplete and inconsistent (not entirely unlike the MS crappy Windows 10 it talks about) The video can be summed up in three points: 1) there are evident inconsistencies in the UI design 2) it is undeniable that these inconsistencies exist and that the good MS guys didn't care about them 3) it is unfair to say that they are not capable of making the UI - if not visually agreeable - at least consistent, but simply they prioritized other things over the UI design The missing point is WHAT (the heck ) are the other things that: a. kept the good MS guys so busy to make a mess of the very thing that was sold to us as being innovative (the UI) b. are so good (and innovative) that allow them to be excused for the lousy work they did on the UI jaclaz

Hmmm. The goal is seemingly to use a shortcut (special key combo pressed on the keyboard) and that should open a given app and switch its windows to another tab. The use of a .LNK file is some means to the goal that you believe is a suitable one. If the goal is confirmed, I would rather use AutoHotKey (that has AFAICR very good provisions to send keys to programs): https://autohotkey.com/docs_1.0/commands/Send.htm and - as the name says - can be invoked/started with a hot key. If you want to use sendkeys.exe with a shortcut: http://cpap.com.br/orlando/SendKeysMore.asp you will need to make a batch file (or a VB script) that first runs the "target" app and then runs sendkeys.exe and point the shortcut to the script. jaclaz

Autoit usually works fine, but of course you need to either compile the script or install the program. Since Send in itself can in some cases be not reliable, they also have a controlsend, said to be more reliable: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/Send.htm https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/ControlSend.htm jaclaz

Simple batch, using info-zip unzip (version 6.00): @ECHO OFF ::ZipDir.cmd by jaclaz v0.001 31/07/2018 SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION IF %1.==. (SET DirPath="%~dp0") ELSE (SET DirPath="%~1\") SET DirPath=%DirPath:\\=\% IF NOT EXIST %DirPath% SET DirPath="%~dp0" ECHO Directory of %DirPath% ECHO Size Filename ECHO --------- ------------------------------------------ FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /b /s %DirPath%') do ( SET Size= %%~zA SET Size=!Size:~-9,9! ECHO !Size! %%~dpnxA IF %%~xA==.zip ECHO ³&CALL :listzip "%%~dpnxA" ) GOTO :EOF :listzip FOR /F "skip=2 tokens=* delims=" %%B IN ('unzip -l -q %1') DO ( SET Thisline=%%B IF "!ThisLine:~0,4!"=="----" ECHO.&GOTO :EOF REM IF "!ThisLine!"==" -------- -------" ECHO.&GOTO :EOF ECHO !ThisLine:~0,9! Ã!ThisLine:~28,50! ) jaclaz zipdir.zip

Good. You are very welcome , will do . jaclaz

I cannot access that page (rather obviously as these are supposed to be communications between seller and buyer) but the Windows title "Richiedi il totale" I can see in the browser means "ask for the total", which implies (or should imply) that you bought more than one item from the same seller and - to avoid a surcharge on shipping and handling - you ask for the total to the seller that combines the items in a single shipment and sends you a new total to pay (that should be less than your current total). jaclaz

It depends on the size of the SSD, usually they are not that big in size. Personally I would procure a USB hard disk, a 500 GB-1 TB (should be as low as 50-60 bucks), and make on it a full image of the disk before resetting the device to factory. Then you can mount the image (read only) and copy back whatever file you actually need when (if) you will need it. This way you don't have the risk to forget (now) to copy this or that file (that will be gone after the reset) and you won't lose the time needed to "hunt" the files. Conversely, a full image would allow you in the future, when you have time and will, etc., to revert the situation to the current one, allowing you to attempt to fix the "old install". About these attempts to repair, having a full image is also handy for this, as you can "risk" more "crazy" (or "radical") attempts/fixes, as you know that you can, any time, go back in time and have the thing again as it was. The SSD MMCRE32GEDXP-MVBL1 is seemingly a MSATA MINI PCI-E device, it shouldn't *need* any particular driver on Windows 7, but it is possible that you accidentally deleted some needed related entries in the Registry. If the issue is the SSD (or controller) driver, you should have a STOP ERROR 0x0000007b "Inaccessible Boot Device when attempting to boot. jaclaz

*Any* would do, I would suggest you trying with a Puppy Linux (as it is "simple enough"), here is a "full" tutorial: http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/274691-use-puppy-linux-live-cd-to-recover-your-data/ (it is for an oldish version, but it is not like you need anything newer, and you have the advantage of a smaller size). jaclaz

If it is a setup.exe, then it is not strictly *needed*. I.e. the latop should work normally, boot and then allow to execute the .exe (that possibly replaces a "standard" driver with a "supposedly better" one). Is the thingy BIOS or UEFI? If it is BIOS, *anything* including some DOS/FreeDOS could possibly be used to boot and access the internal SSD (to copy the needed files). Otherwise get *any* suitable Linux Live CD and use it to just copy the files, or use a dd of some kind to make an image of the SSD. jaclaz

Well the SSD is a Mass Storage device, so the Intel Matrix Storage Manager (besides the Intel Chipset one) seems like a good candidate. You are using the AOMEI PE builder, but did you use it to build a Win 7 PE (using your install disk as source) or did you use the Windows 10 WIM? It is entirely possible that the Windows 7 doesn't contain (too old) a suitable driver and that the Windows 10 WIM has one of the many incompatibilities the Windows 10 has (too new). jaclaz

Windows 10 CE ? You sure? The DOS prompt is of course a command prompt, not actually DOS. jaclaz

Yes and no. Seemingly they (they must have been inspired by the good MS guys) removed most of the info, but drivers are there alright. The drivers linked to on this page: https://www.notebook-driver.com/lenovo-ideapad-y460p-windows-drivers-software/ are actually seemingly downloaded from Lenovo servers, at this address: https://download.lenovo.com/UserFiles/Driver/en/Downloads and Drivers/Y460pY560p/ (not an open directory, unfortunately). Searching on Lenovo for Y460 or Y560 (withut the trailing "p") still provides some results (though not as many as needed/useful) jaclaz

The code "^+{TAB}" doesn't look like valid. The "^" means CTRL, but the "+" means SHIFT: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vba/language-reference-vba/articles/sendkeys-statement The "^({TAB})" seems correct though braces shouldn't be needed, i.e. "^{TAB}" Sendkeys is very tricky, and has often timing issues, maybe the 1000 is too low. In this example, 5000 is used: https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/01_w02/386787/Cycle-And-Reload.txt jaclaz

You mean that - even for a mere second - there was any doubt about that? I will tell you something more, until late 2004/early 2005 internet "on the move" was used ONLY for work. Professionals traveled with their own laptops with a PCMCIA rectius Cardbus with a SIM and used the cellular network to connect to the internet. In hotels, period circa 2005-2010, at least here in Italy, Wi-Fi was usually provided for a (often rather high[1]) fee (and again almost only professionals on the move actually used it). jaclaz [1] If I remeber correctly (and I do ) something in the range of 3 Euro/h for 1 hour, 6 Euro for 6 hours, 12 Euros for 24 hours.

Sure they are opinions , but there is another little thing, called experience (amount of and dating since ). Not at all to attempt to endorse my opinions indirectly by boasting my (unfortunately) old age, but it seems to me clear enough that besides different opinions, we had different experiences with computers in different periods, and probably also at a different scale/with a different final scope. What was the first NT family OS you actually worked (not played) on? [1] How many machines did you have migrated from NT 4.0 Workstation to Windows 2000 (and/or from NT 4.0 Server to 2000 Server) and maintained in year 2000-2001? [2] How many machines did you have migrated from 98 or 2000 to XP and maintained in 2002-2003 ? [3] How many servers did you have migrated from 2000 Server to 2003 Server and maintained in 2003-2004 ? [4] Please understand how my involvement with the PC's and their OSes comes only partially by my personal interest in this field, the main part has always been connected with using them as tools to make some professional work. To attempt to bring you back in the right timeframe - Wi-Fi began to be largely used only after 2003 (i.e. 802.11g) as the earlier versions (802.11 and 802.11b) were way too costly and slow to have any practical utility, this is a Wired article about that time: https://www.wired.com/2003/05/wifirevolution/ At the time the good MS guys were (obviously) all-in on XP and Windows 2000 was already considered "dead". If you go back in time and look for actual hardware pre-2003, you will soon find that: 1) there were NO phones or tablets (at all) 2) there were very few laptops/portables with Wi-Fi card embedded/included Same goes for USB, Windows 2000 was actually released BEFORE USB 2.0 was even approved. jaclaz Answers in my case: [1] NT 3.1 [2] 40-60 [3] 40-60 [4] 3

I thought that the good ReactOS guys were "slow" and (sometimes) a tad bit fixated on the minutiae (said in a friendly way , I know that their resources are scarce), but compared to this Open VMS people here, they definitely seem kids. Of course I am perfectly ignorant of the difficulties involved , and definitely a "hairy reasoner" (and a grumpy one, while at it), but more than two years and the thingy doesn't even boot to print on the screen "Hello, world" Cannot say why exactly, but the apparent pride with which they enthusiastically announce their first two "proof points" somehow makes me cringe. Don't get me wrong, I hope that the remaining difficulties will soon be overcome and that the road map will be respected, but even if everything goes according to plans, we have a full year before the start of the (maybe) availability of the new OS. jaclaz P.S. I am not sure which is the latest-latest roadmap, but I believe it is this one, instead: http://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20180605.pdf

Sure , but that wouldn't be "MS style". Sometimes I wonder if they have some internal competitions where employers/programmers that manage to (slightly) harass users/customers in the most subtle ways win a prize. There is no doubt whatsoever that the "slightest&subtlest" prize is won every year by the people that write their documentation (or that mantain it) as it is invariably almost accurate while still vague or fragmented enough to lead to misinterpretation. The guys that write the new error messages since 8 (you know the type "An error occurred" or "Something didn't work as expected") try every year to win but surely they are always disqualified for not having understood the "subtle" part in the title of the competition. Programmers sometimes are friends of the documentation guys, a recent example (JFYI ): https://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=16852/ https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fc85630e-5684-4df6-ad2f-5a128de3deef/260-character-explorer-path-length-limit?forum=windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues jaclaz

Unfortunately on this specific topic, and notwithstanding the carelessness with which the good MS guys manage the information, they are not entirely wrong. 32 GB is an artificial limit, and was imposed when RAM availability actually meant something, but it is not a very good idea to go for large FAT32 filesystems, unless there are very good reasons for them. 64 GB? Ok. 128 GB? Ok. 256 GB? Hmmm. More than that? Naaah. jaclaz

The issue - as often happens - is the lack of memory (not RAM, actual historical memory). When XP came out it did not offer to the user *anything* more than Windows 2000 (in practice) exception made for bells and whistles, and - as a matter of fact - until SP1 (or SP1a) arrived it was not even fully suitable for professional use. The enhancements (compared to Windows 2000) under the hood were not appreciated initially (in the business/enterprise), essentially because of the need for much more powerful machines, the requirement on disk was almost tripled ( from 650 MB to over 1500 MB) and the requirement for RAM was almost doubled (to actually work on the machines, 128 MB of RAM was more than reasonable for 2000, but you had to have 256 MB for XP). On the home side, just as it will later happen for Vista, the new OS was proposed by OEM's on seriously underpowered machines and home users (who had never even seen 2000 and all had 95 and 98) had new, shining, machines that were much slower than their counterparts and introduced a lot of little nuisances in common use (such as user management) no more "real" DOS, etc. Of course a very little amount of programs, for several years, took advantage of the "enhancements" introduced in Windows XP Also remember how untiil at very least late 2003, all the servers were (and remained) Windows 2000, so for three years or more until Server 2003 came into use, most enterprise "backbones" were using 2000 technology. And if I had 25 cents for each time a user asked me to get back Kodak Imaging (from 2000) instead of the new "fax viewer" and 50 cents for all the machines where I installed the files (coming from NT4) to fix the issues with "Simple File Sharing" : ftp://www.bf.lu.lv/pub/Service_Pack/WinXP/droshiiba/Security_Tab.html on corporate networks I wouldn't be rich, but surely much more well off. The basic issue was the "paradigm shift" of unifying (with XP) a "same" OS both for professionals and home users, managing obviously to make both categories somehow unhappy. You want an example of the non-enhancements in XP? Take the FAT32 drivers on USB: https://msfn.org/board/topic/125116-fat16-vs-fat32-vs-ntfs-speed-on-usb-stick/ Now, if you compare (on relatively modern hardware) an updated XP (SP 2 or later) against a (necessarily outdated) Windows 2000 (SP4) you can find quite a few improvements in XP when compared to Windows 2000 SP4, but it would be not a "fair" comparison. jaclaz

Or maybe he understood it all right but found it "not funny" (IMHO it is not only "not funny", but also confusing to many members). jaclaz

In one word, NO. It is simply Windows 2000 with some bells and whistles added on. jaclaz

For the record, it depends on the size of the volume. Microsoft tools won't format anything bigger than 32 GB as FAT32 (even before Windows 8), that's why the Ridgecrop tool (and other similar ones) were made: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/140365/default-cluster-size-for-ntfs-fat-and-exfat Please note how the article sports: and: but in the actual contents only goes up to Windows 7/Server 2008 ... Whether it is "smart" to exceed the MS recommendation depends a lot on the specific usage of the volume. See also: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partFAT32-c.html Possibly the stupid Windows 8 has removed the possibility also for smaller volumes, but I doubt it. jaclaz

There are (were) two main unattended guides, they are (largely) available via Wayback machine. Since their content has not been updated much (if at all) old archives (like 2008/2009 or even earlier) are the same as more recent ones. you will need a bit of patience but everything (or almost everything) should be retrieveable, start here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080707160900/http://unattended.msfn.org:80/unattended.xp/sitemap The Gosh's site is an issue as it fails to render with *any* browser if not (I believe) Internet Explorer 6 or 7, see: https://msfn.org/board/topic/74166-goshs-homepage/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070911081305/http://gosh.msfn.org:80/ (you might need to search for direct links posted on the board) Still most available (or otherways try the Wayback Machine) threads listed here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/9817-threads-of-interest/ may be of use. jaclaz

It is a very definite "niche", namely only tablets or tablets like devices with less than 4 GB RAM. As an example, I do have an el cheapo (but honestly not too shabby) Chuwi Hi8 Pro tablet that dual boots Windows 10 and Android that is 32-bit UEFI. jaclaz

Should be this one: http://www.triotablets.us/tablets/windows-tablets/pro-book-10-1/ also called "pro-book 10.1" Should have come with Windows 10, not 8.1. Nothing of any use on the above manufacturer's site. Usually (not always but usually) the manufacturer can provide a "factory reset image", on some models (again not always) the device (like a phone) can be put in a state so that if connected to a Windows PC its internal storage is seen as a (USB) Mass Storage device. jaclaz