jaclaz

Yep , JFYI, and just in case, there is also the Steve6375 version which comes with RMPREPUSB/Easy2boot: http://rmprepusb.blogspot.it/2013/06/passpass-for-e2b-now-available.html http://rmprepusb.blogspot.it/2014/09/passpass-for-win-81-x64.html And there is a PEPassPass (should someone need it from a PE and/or an a UEFI only machine) by Boulcat, still JFYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163190-passpass-bypass-the-password/ http://reboot.pro/topic/20045-pepasspass/ though of course it loses some of the simplicity of the original grub4dos script. jaclaz

And, just to make you a little bit sadder you seemingly missed that the forum, as you see it now, is NOT what the IPB guys delivered, but rather what xper - after countless hours of tweaking and adapting and setting and what not - managed to put together, and is working MUCH better than "standard", and mitigating whenever possible a large number of much worse/crazier changes and fixing a number of issues. Do a quick tour here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/66-programming-c-delphi-vbvbs-cmdbatch-etc/ you will see how most (all?) CODE or CODEBOX tags enclosed snippets have been "merged" into one-liners. Now, if this was the first time something like this happened it would be just one among the 601 bugs, little problem being that at each major new version of the board the CODE or CODEBOX contents (or both) have been botched, one way or the other, and this particular kind of corruption cannot seemingly be fixed programmatically, as simply CR or LF or CR+LF characters vanished. So, not only they made things worse, they forced xper to waste a lot of time to fix things, AND damaged content (possibly in an unrecoverable way). jaclaz

A glitch in the Matrix, most probably You are welcome . jaclaz

Sure, it should, if burned directly to CD, BUT isn't this the one you already tried burning and that did not work (due to *something* connected to the "default" etfsboot.com probably used in it)? If you open the .iso in 7-zip and look in the [BOOT] folder (it is a "virtual" folder created by 7-zip to contain the bootsector of a CD/DVD) you will find in it a file (virtually) called "Bootable_NoEmulation.img" 2048 or in your case 4096 bytes in size which is the actual No Emulation image used, likely to be an etfsboot.com. (there should be a copy of it in \BOOT\ETDSBOOT.COM) If you open this file in a hex editor, you will see how it contains: so we know from where the message comes out, what we don't know is what causes the error. You can try in grub4dos command line on your current CD: find --set-root /images/7pe_x86_M.iso map /images/7pe_x86_M.iso (0xff) map --hook root (0xff) chainloader (0xff) boot This will attempt to boot the .iso image bootsector (and it either works or should give you the same CDBOOT:... error), whilst this: find --set-root /images/7pe_x86_M.iso map /images/7pe_x86_M.iso (0xff) map --hook root (0xff) chainloader /bootmgr || chainloader /BOOTMGR boot will attempt to boot the .iso by-passing the bootsector and directly chainloading the bootmgr/BOOTMGR (files are usually CaSe SeNsItIvE on CDFS in grub4dos). It is possible that some settings in the mkisofs.exe command used to build the 7pe_x86_M.iso made *somehow* the bootmgr/BOOTMGR "invisible" from the bootsector, difficult to say. jaclaz

I don' t know what other settings you have, yesterday to better assist you I quickly created one such image (without changing anything from the defaults) and there are a couple of issues with it (easy to fix manually). The default menu.lst embedded has an [iftitle] entry (it is a sort of "conditional" entry) that looks for: iftitle [set pe86e=/images/7pe_x86_E.iso && if exist %pe86e%] %pe86e% - ISO - 302 MB # find --set-root --ignore-floppies %pe86e% map %pe86e% (0xff) map --hook root (0xff) chainloader (0xff)/BOOTMGR || chainloader (0xff)/bootmgr 7pex86_E.iso whilst inside the .iso (CD) the actual .iso image is called 7pex86.iso. Since it is an [iftitle] entry it cannot be edited from the built-in menu editor, BUT there is also a menu_demo.lst which includes a "correct" entry: title Portable Windows 7 PE - images/7pe_x86.iso # find --set-root --ignore-floppies /images/7pe_x86.iso map /images/7pe_x86.iso (0xff) map --hook root (0xff) chainloader (0xff) (among other entries, one for 7pe_x86_E.iso and one for 7pe_x86_X.iso). So you can (temporarily, and to test if the build is working) press "c" (to get to command line mode) when you are on the first grub4dos then type: configfile /menu_demo.lst [ENTER] and check if there is a valid entry for the .iso in side /images you have. If not you can use the "e" (edit feature) on a similar entry and adapt it on-the-fly. Most probably there is a setting, or a manual override lost *somewhere* in the docs or in some of Wimb's instructions to set correctly the "right" menu (and/or [iftitle] menu entries) automatically, but once you have verified what commands work, you can modify the menu.lst in Make_PE3\MULTI\ and run manually mkisofs as detailed in \Make_PE3\MULTI_ISO\mkiso.txt to rebuild a new .iso. jaclaz

You must be joking, it's like saying that Twitter is useless (apart its possible use for corrupting in no time a MS bot), but - to be fair - it can also be used to have it loop in despair: http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/30/microsofts-tay-ai-makes-brief-return/ and stiil to be fair, it is symmetrical, as the bot was pretty much a nuisance for some 217,000 youths: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-tay-ai-returns-boast-smoking-weed-front-police-spam-200k-followers-1552164 jaclaz

A nice solution to a very long standing problem: http://linesquid.com/ Be sure to check FAQs: http://linesquid.com/faqs/ jaclaz

A recent one, according to Phil Schiller: https://www.techinasia.com/awkward-moment-apple-mocked-good-hardware-poor-people http://ifixit.org/blog/7998/sad-apple/ and to Matt Smith: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/is-apple-giving-up-on-the-mac/ Though surely the increased security of the OSX matters http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/30/apple_os_x_rootless/ and IOS adds the safety that each app is manually reviewed: http://uk.businessinsider.com/this-guy-found-a-hidden-way-to-skip-apples-app-approval-line-heres-how-he-does-it-2016-3?r=US&IR=T All this is definitely sad . jaclaz

We have more dynamic brands here : jaclaz

You in the US are "strange" , here it would be seriously frowned upon to loan a family cat. jaclaz

Of course, just like I was joking about the *need* or *fancy* for the mentioned apps, I hope that noone took me - even if for a nano-second - seriously. jaclaz

So that we will have some more non or much less useful Win32 programs, sure. I was almost about getting a Windows 10 machine to have handy usesful apps such as "Photo Uploader for Facebook" or "EMOJI STICKERS : for whatsapp, facebook, twitter". It would be good to have them on an older Windows OS. jaclaz

Cannot say. The nice programs by Wimb have become very complex and it is easy to get a "wrong" setting or doing the "wrong thing (it is the effect of being able to make too many things, once you learn how to use those programs they are exceptionally good, but they are confusing initially). The CDboot: Couldn't find BOOTMGR comes from the "standard" MS etfsboot.com, see: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172655-strange-or-odd-multi-or-single-boot-cddvd-el-torito-images/ It may mean that a file called BOOTMGR does not exist in the root of the .iso, but it could also come from some other error, are you sure you are using the "right" .iso? Try burning the MULTI-31-03-2016.iso in \Make_PE3\MULTI_ISO\ instead. How EXACTLY are you "burning" the .iso to physical CD/DVD? jaclaz

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Checked or not checked "CD"?

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm https://www.grc.com/never10/details.htm

Check post by Anne Hurt and reply from Windows Support:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/diligentwindows/9nblggh4rf3w https://github.com/ratishphilip/DiligentWindows

A theory being that the secret for longevity involves being NEVER examined by UNI researchers ....

You need ISO to put ISO to a usb. (and usb, and a putter)

https://twitter.com/Windows/status/715203695734972416/photo/1 a comment by Nick Taurus and the nice reply by the Windows Team: jaclaz

https://volumelabs.net/cats-love-the-internet-of-things/ jaclaz

Single posts also. TL;DR lol bro, cool! jaclaz