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Are you sure it is 78 (seven eight) and not 7B (seven Bravo)? jaclaz

@perfecthog05 A good, simple, lightweight browser that works just fine in XP is QTweb (JFYI): http://www.qtweb.net/ jaclaz

I am not sure to understand (actually I am pretty sure I don't understand). Are you referring to the "kernel32.txt file? Is it a "source file" of *anything*? How (exactly) one is supposed to be using it? jaclaz

Are you sure of the model ? K8T800 and 8237 are just the chipsets by VIA, the motherboard model from Gigabyte should have a different name, a Gigabyte should be something like GA-K8VT800: http://www.gigabyte.sg/Motherboard/GA-K8VT800-rev-2x#ov anyway the "base" drivers should be the VIA 4 in 1 drivers, but before using them it is better to double check the motherboard model. As well the 6200 is officially supported AFAICT: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_archive.html most probably these would do: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_81.98 jaclaz

I have this feeling that you are *somehow* astroturfing. but I will pretend that there is somehow a language barrier instead. This thread (the WHOLE thread, not any single post in it) is NOT about the ES.2, but ONLY about the 7200.11, and rather obviously it didn't help you. I will repeat, in case you failed to read that it is ONLY for the 7200.11. (this info is written EVERYWHERE) There is another thread with some info about ES.2 drives, which you may have found, and of course the video is about a tool consisting in a few bucks worth USB to TTL adapter, a small piece of plastic and a crappy "user friendly" interface to terminal that these nice greek guys - in their simplicity - sell for a mere EUR 56.99 apiece, without specifying how it won't work with ES.2 drives, simply because you won't have access to terminal, unless you briefly short two pads on the PCB: In a nutshell: 1) the procedures described in this thread are for 7200.11 ONLY (NOT ES.2) 2) the video is about a 7200.11 (NOT ES.2) So, if you decided to buy that tool, but you haven't actually used it to attempt recovery of an ES.2 drive, WHY did you post here? jaclaz

Well, the whole thing revolves around what "computing" is. Many years ago the usage of any computer was reserved to a "niche" of (usually highly skilled) workers that used it to do faster things that were complex or lengthy if done by hand, i.e. the computer came in little numbers AND it was a working tool. Fast forward everyone has a computer (in the form of either a computer or a smartphone, usually both) and uses it for anything, including knowing what the current weather is (personally I open my (glass) window and know what is the local weather even without being connected). So, you have with you at all times this nice shiny little rectangle with rounded corners and you compulsively check news, facebook, mail every 5 minutes or so or - even if you are not an addict - you have a few minutes to wait - say at your doctor's - and instead of reading a stale magazine you find in the waiting room, you go looking for some youtube lol videos ... I have no doubt that "internet usage" of Android is large and is going to increase ... jaclaz

... in terms of internet usage ... jaclaz

1) Don't worry, Windows 7 by default aligns partitions/volumes "correctly" (provided that 2048 sectors alignment is "correct") 2) to check, peek in the bootsector of each logical volume, the "Sectors Before" field represents the sectors from the EPBR, you may want to use a disk viewer editor with a template for bootsectors or (much easier) use Clonedisk: http://labalec.fr/erwan/?page_id=42 (once you have the "Advanced menu" available there are provisions to read the bootsector data). Please understand how NTFS filesystems are "inherently" aligned to 4096 bytes (good) while non-NTFS are usually not aligned (what may matter is the alignment of the filesystem, not the one of the volume or partition). jaclaz

A good question would be whether on average a PC is kept in use more or less than a game console. I would instinctively say that gamers tend to renew their hardware far more often than "normal" users, but does the same applies to consoles? And - set apart a few kids - how much time is a game console in use (more or less than a "common" PC)? I am pretty sure that a SSD will last more than both, unless an early defect (possibly specific to a make/model) arises, at least I have not seen around a relevant number of reports of SSD's being worn down, and it is several years since they became common enough on new systems... jaclaz

No prob . Good, but don't fill too much. Sure, that would be perfectly fine , but remember that once you played it, that card is gone and cannot be re-played. jaclaz

Good , and then maybe you will have a project comparable to the other ones mentioned. Sorry if I made you cry, but you can't play the "boy of 14" card at will. I tried in every possible way to give you hints and suggestions on the parts that I personally saw as "problematic" in your project in the past, just like you are perfectly free to ignore them (as you did and do) I am also perfectly free to call things with their name. The current file is a set of modified non redistributable files assembled in an installer that is misrepresenting the source and license of the thingy: As said it is not comparable to the other projects mentioned. jaclaz P.S.: @Heinoganda Happy that you took the "comparative" adjective for what it was meant to be

Well this is actually on topic, it seems that some recent Windows 10 KB (and OS releases) broke some VBS (yes, the built-in scripting engine) behaviour, JFYI: http://reboot.pro/topic/21459-mistype-windows-10-pe/?p=203033 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43043683/vbscript-binary-array-help-wanted-windows-10-1607-bug jaclaz

Nice. And it is good to know that it is developed in FreeBasic. jaclaz

I find it unfair to compare the "extended XP" to the other mentioned projects, these latter ones: 1) do exist 2) have some (at times minimal) functionality 3) they can (at different levels of easiness) tested without disrupting the test OS 4) provide verifiable sources the "extended XP" is more a moving target than anything else, see a few posts starting from around here: basically it is six months or so that a number of patches (most of which undocumented or - to say the least - highly experimental) are collected into something that is undocumented, of extremely complex installation and that implies potentially the corruption of the OS, without any meaningful tests carried (or reported properly) by any of the (few) people experimenting the thingy. The issue is not much about the availability of the source, but rather about the fact that the source does not exist at all. I don't want to be overcritical, but when (if) that project will have the dignity of a project, then it will deserve a mention among the other ones, till then it is just an assembly of experimental (and potentially dangerous) "random" modifications. If you prefer, common sense is enough to stay clear (unless you are in extreme experimenting) of any file that is password protected, particularly if the name of the file is Av6W0km6g3G2U817Fs4xqt5.rar and the password is 9Tr3"yCj6K§vM9Vb1%v2A7eU3BYzI42P&n5D$h9Kh , in my already perverted mind anyone that chose that filename and password has a more perverted mind than mine . jaclaz P.S.: BTW the provenance of the thingy is additionally misrepresented as if it was an original MS supplied extension

To be picky (as I am) not exactly, if you do not throw thousands of photos, games, etc., you can buy a smaller SSD, the problem does not arise when you throw a lot of data on the SSD (that's the actual reason why it is made), it is when you continuously overwrite those data. Even in this case, modern SSD's have a life that will in most cases will largely exceed the life of the PC http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead jaclaz

Go to it from the home site: http://www.glass8.eu/ http://www.glass8.eu/download http://www.glass8.eu/files/AeroGlassGUI.7z jaclaz

Well,you are mixing more things in the same bag. Let's go back to our 16 sectors device, and simplify the setup with a single partition/filesystem. You see the mapping as: 0123456789AB(CDEF) and let us assume that that (by pure chance) does correspond to the real device mapping, i.e.: 0123456789AB=0123456789AB You write to the device 4 files, each a sector in length, which is symbolized as xywz: 0123456789AB 0123456789AB xywz---------- The particular file z is often (re-)written, so after a number of rewrite attempts the wear leveling algorithm kicks in and makes the thing: 0123456789AB 012B3456789A xywz---------- After a huge number of rewrites and after a number of wear leveling sector exchanges, let's say the next is: 0123456789AB 012AB3456789 xywz---------- one sector (A) goes bad, and is thus removed from the available pool, replaced by C (which is in the overprovisioning area): 0123456789AB 012CB3456789 xywz---------- For all you know (and for what the OS knows), all this time, xywz occupied sectors 0123, while in reality xyw always stayed on the initial sectors 012 BUT z has gone through all the other sectors (exception made for 012) and when a sector eventually died, an overprovisioning area sectors was put in use. You have to think about two (complex) systems (one is the OS, and the filesystems, and the partitioning, etc. and the other is the device processor and its internal OS) that only talk between themselves through a (standard) protocol that simply does not allow the exchange of detailed information. When the OS asks for the location of file z, the device replies "Not your business, the file is wherever I see fit, all you need to know is that you can access it by querying for fourth sector, whether what I provide you when you ask for fourth sector is actually the fourth sector of the device or an arbitrary one that I temporary address a "fourth sector" is irrelevant". As well when the OS asks for a (contiguous) extent on the device (let's say to create in it a partition), the device simply provides a sequence of contiguous addresses (that are internally translated to either contiguous or not contiguous areas). There is also a difference on the philosophy of the two tasks (wear leveling vs. over provisioning) the wear level algorithms attempt to have at all times all cells/sectors be written (roughly) the same number of times, the overprovisioning only comes into play when an emergence (a cell or sector has gone bad) providing a replacement. Now imagine a hotel with 16 rooms, with on average 10 of them booked. The hotel manager will attempt to assign the rooms to customers in such a way that all rooms are used the same number of times in a year, that is wear leveling. But the (smart) hotel manager will always rent no more than 15 rooms, keeping one free until - say 11:30 PM (i.e. until after most if not all booked guests checked in) - for emergencies (an appliance breaks, a last-last minute customer, etc.), that is overprovisioning. When you book the room, you don't actually know which room number you will get, all you know is that you have a room (with given characteristics) booked, and even when you check in, until you are given the room key you don't know which room number the hotel manager will give you, and - even once you are given the key to the room you don't really know for sure if that particular room yesterday had the same room number it would be possible that the (mad) hotel manager every day re-numbers his rooms and re-tags the keys ... jaclaz

*Need* for play? I mean, usually gamers have the latest, newest of everything including both hardware and software (and OS), whilst to play (say) Hearts, a small lag is not that much relevant. jaclaz

There is another related thread, here: about using a proxy. jaclaz

@1024x768 To clarify (if needed) VirusTotal is an "aggregator" of antivirus engines, it lists a large number of them, some really of doubtful quality and/or of very limited diffusion. Each and every antivirus will use its own "method" to determine if a file is a risk or not, and it very often happens that one or two of the "minor" ones (but sometimes it happen also for "mainsteream ones such as - say - NOD32, Avast, Avira, Bitdefender, etc.) mark a "new" file as dangerous even when it is perfectly clean, and particularly with new releases of installers it is rare to get 0/60. The Virus Total user is expected to analyze the result and decide if the file is to be trusted (because 59 out of 60 antivirus engines consider it clean) or if it is not to be trusted (because a single antivirus engine out of sixty marks it as "dangerous"). Additionally in the case of tools like StartisBack, which Author is a long standing, well-known member of the Community, the only thing to do is to check that the file you have has been downloaded correctly and without modification from the Author's repository, i.e. you should trust the Author and his reputation much more than anything a stupid antivirus engine may believe. jaclaz

What do you mean "restart"? You can have a batch (or vbs, or other script) initiated by TaskScheduler (or good ol'AT) to kill a running process and then restart it, you will need to provide some detail, or, even without task scheduling involved you could have an autorun script at login that check the current date and does (or does not) something based on some calculation on the date. If you want a free, no hassle thingy (with the advantage of being capable to run on *any* MS OS) this is one: http://www.freebyte.com/fbtaskscheduler/ jaclaz

Sure it is not a direct MS responsibility, but surely it is an indirect one. What do you think that dumbifying everything produces? Smarter, more informed people or careless morons? jaclaz

Not really-really Windows 10 related, but close enough: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/doxed-by-microsofts-docs-com-users-unwittingly-shared-sensitive-docs-publicly/ jaclaz

Maybe you are underestimating yourself. Please meet dumphex: http://rbach.priv.at/DumpHex/ So you could easily dump the first four bytes of each .pdf and compare the output with the result of a good .pdf, such as: C:>dumphex /L4 /nc agoodpdf.pdf DumpHex Version 1.0.1 Copyright (c) 2003 Robert Bachmann 00000000h: 25 50 44 46 BUT, trid: http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html might be easier. Of course using a "whole" database would be probably a tadbit slower, so creating a specific definition file might be better. Unfortunately current version of trid seemingly chokes on .xml files created by tridscan, you can however use the attached, it is Trid version 1.56 with ONLY the appropriate adobe_pdf.trid.xml C:\VSS\VSS2\tridpack\Simple>trid agoodpdf.pdf TrID/32 - File Identifier v1.56 - (C) 2003-04 By M.Pontello Collecting data from file: agoodpdf.pdf Definitions found: 1 Analyzing... 100.0% (.PDF) Adobe Portable Document Format (7000/1) C:\VSS\VSS2\tridpack\Simple>trid abadpdf.pdf TrID/32 - File Identifier v1.56 - (C) 2003-04 By M.Pontello Collecting data from file: abadpdf.pdf Definitions found: 1 Analyzing... Unknown! jaclaz Trid_for_Den.7z

Guillaume. you have an excess "IF" (on a line by itself) and, besides that, you should check the FOR syntax. The /R switch applies to "each item in files" while you are using it for a "list of names of files" (the kb.txt), see: https://ss64.com/nt/for.html Post the first few lines of your kb.txt, so that I can understand if they include a path, etc. jaclaz