jaclaz

@All There is currently an issue with ALL board attachments, xper is looking into the matter, most probably a configuration change of some kind: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174609-attachment-system-flawed/ Wait until the problem is (hopefully) solved, keep an eye on the above thread... jaclaz

Be my guest http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174604-overcoming-the-ms-dos-8025-mb-limitation/?p=1109796 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/118119-patched-iosys-for-9xme/page-7 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=33862 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/139077-7customizer-a-windows-7-customization-and-deployment-tool/?p=1109738 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=29724 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173642-mkprilog-batch-to-access-a-same-disk-under-two-different-interfaces/ http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=39283 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/152688-win6x-registry-tweak/page-4#entry1109696 jaclaz

You cannot generalize like that . Most members of this forum will have read several pages of instructions to learn and set the clock properly (once ). Then after the first blackout or after the general switch needed to be put to off for some repairs, they will have lost a few days desperately searching the instruction booklet (that was thrown away the same day the VCR was bought or that managed to somehow get under a pile of book somewhere in a storage place). Then they will have spent a few hours trying blindly to push buttons until they either completely failed or succeeded in setting the clock. In any case the next blackout neutered that. And so, finally everyone will have learned to live with the : After some time it actually seems like a nice idea when you enter your sitting room at night and see the small blinking something, a small lighthouse in the darkness. jaclaz

--JorgeA Well, it's not like it's the first time (just to put things in context) and it happened not that much time ago: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/01/22/microsoft-announces-release-date-for-most-expensive-tablet-ever.html Anyway even this new laptop notebook tablet phablet noteblet booklet *whatever* is nothing a "serious" user could not afford, that is if it provided a "serious" OS, maybe that would be an interesting deal, you pay a premium price for MS's own (BTW most probably very good) hardware and they give you in exchange for your trust in them an actually working OS without all the crap/ads/spying/whatever . Wait a minute , this sounds a lot like what Apple has done for the last what, thirty years? Let me uncheck the "innovative marketing model" in the feature list. jaclaz

There are a few recent posts about people having an error with files posted as attachments. Besides the specific files reported as MIA, I tested (through my control panel) the existence/accessibility of files/attachments I posted, and they seem "gone". With a difference, uploaded as attachment images are still viewable/accessible, .zip files are not. Usual IPB update crazyness? Unwanted change in permissions/whatever? *Something else*? jaclaz

OT, but not much, what could be a very good idea (if only many people would get the basic "common sense" inside the message, regardless of the "specific new standard"): https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/ jaclaz

And now (at least in Europe) 2016 will seemingly be the year of a pico-revolution : http://www.archos.com/us/picowan/ www.archos.com/corporate/press/press_releases/PR_PicoWAN_20151006_EN.pdf I actually could tell the good guys where they can pico-stuff their pico-gateways but maybe it would not be nice/polite : jaclaz

On other (OT) news, Verizon and AOL "combining" their users tracking https://www.propublica.org/article/verizons-zombie-cookie-gets-new-life At the end of the day - and hard as it may be to even THINK it - what the good MS have put together in 10 (re:tracking/advertising) may actually be children's play. jaclaz

Starting from Windows 8 there should be (somehow limited) support for .Net through "normal" Add-Package: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824926.aspx Or try checking "previous art". Namely Win7pE_SE, Win8PE_SE and Win8.1SE: http://w7pese.cwcodes.net/projectindex.php http://w8pese.cwcodes.net/projectindex.php http://win81se.cwcodes.net/projectindex.php have .scripts for .Net integration (Winbuilder syntax is all in all readable and relatively easy to "translate" to batch or however extracting from a .script the needed files and Registry settings is not difficult). I believe that there won't be many differences between a PE 3, 4 or 5/5.1 , the project by wimb: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143529-make-pe3-program-to-create-portable-windows-7-pe/ http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23931 http://reboot.pro/topic/11852-make-pe3-program-to-create-portable-windows-7-pe/ is "batch based" and may provide you with further insights. jaclaz

Random thoughts, but you could try using httpdisk (or curl or winhttp), see (only seemingly unrelated) here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156869-get-waik-tools-wo-downloading-the-huge-isos/ http://reboot.pro/topic/13049-extract-files-out-of-waik-without-downloading-whole-waik-first/ jaclaz

As a hypothetical comment : You must be using/buying pretty cheap olive oil (or rather smallish bottles of good quality extravirgin olive oil). jaclaz

DMDE: http://dmde.com/ though it is not an "automagic" tool, if you have the time and will to learn how to use it (the use is actually very easy but you need a somewhat "advanced" knowledge of NTFS structures) is an excellent tool. Consider how your "repair through XP attempt" possibly deleted the indexes to those folders (and/or files within them) beyond recovery so you might need to also use file based recovery tools (such as Photorec). jaclaz

Still lexical subtleties, if someone does not want to "guess" he/she needs to make a little "treasure hunt" on the forum or on your site to get "hints". If you were selling something you would publish a price list . Since you are accepting donations the amount is in the conscience of the donating party . Knowing how people tend to behave I would guess that the large majority of the donations are near the bare minimum you "hint" *somewhere*, of course I may be wrong but I doubt that you received many US$ 50 or $100 donations . jaclaz

JFYI, it is entirely possible that your MBR still contains (with overlapping addresses) both the entry for the FAT partition (the original .iso must have been a hybrid boot .iso) and the entry for the NTFS partition. Windows will not "see" a partition entry with partition ID 00, while Linux is likely to see it normally (the two OS have a different way to interpret partition ID, windows sees it as a "protective ID" and won't consider anything that is not 01,04,05,06,07,0b,0c,0e,0f or "+10", i.e. "hidden" variants or the "new" 27) while Linux will anyway attempt to interpret the volume filesystem, a now common trick to boot some Linux .iso's (not necessarily hybrid) is to create an entry for their extent in the MBR with a partition ID of 00 jaclaz

You are welcome. I am sure. The good thing about your misadventure is that very likely the .iso was a rather smaller file, either within the 700 mb or so size of a CD or the around 4 Gb of the DVD size, so that the $MFT was surely not affected by the overwrite. Even more than that the "copying on self" very likely ended up in only a partial copy of the original .iso (as at some point during the copy process the "target" voliume is likely to have "vanished" ), and thus very little was overwritten anyway. jaclaz

Yep , and as said before: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174520-optimal-page-file-setting/?p=1109062 the newish Windows NT 6 OS's allow to have a dedicated file for crashdumps (that can of course be set on a "slow" device). While I am at it, good luck to anyone that wishes to (or needs to) analyze a 16 or 48 Gb memory dump . jaclaz

Or maybe none willing to give you (or share publicly) the info "a pro" might be able to provide. Only shifting the accent from "incompetence" to "unwillingness" . jaclaz

It is IMHO there is only a base lexical issue. Once said that BigMuscle has all the rights in the world (+1) to do whatever he wants with the products of his abilities , and to sell accept donations in exchange for licenses for it in any way he likes (+1) and conversely to make sure that a proper license is on the PC through whatever technical means he finds suitable (+1) the whole business of "forced donation" and "free version" remains only "nagware" or "shareware" by another name and it smells as sweet or as rotten (smell is in the nose of the sniffer ) as the original "properly named" formula. The (nice ) twist about the guessing game about the minimal amount of donation that will be enough to obtain a license is only marginal IMHO. Still it is curious how *somehow* this particular product attracts so many people whining/criticizing/commenting about the licensing scheme . jaclaz

Seemingly a new kid on the block: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsofts-windows-10-privacy-nightmare-addressed-with-free-total-defense-privacy-shield-utility-300155431.html I wonder whether this kind of apps/tools are actually the "real thing" or they are just automating otherwise easily accessible "privacy settings", i.e. basically providing a "false" sense of security to less technically advanced (I guess representing the majority) Windows 10 users which actually care about th edata the good MS guys collect. jaclaz

...but on the other hand a computer case is usually bought because it looks cool... jaclaz

@NoelC It is not about confrontation of any kind, you are simply exposing your successes in piloting a F-14 Tomcat to people that own and fly Piper's and Cessna's, all interesting but rarely of practical use. I presume that your photoshop uses on astronomical images implies loading files that are a few zillion bytes, possibly much larger that what a "normal" professional photographer deals with daily. jaclaz

I don't see any actual "discussion" here. We all know how your settings, hardware and tuned OS's are perfect for your uses (which is a good thing). The fact that a system with 48 Gb (i.e. some 24 - twentyfour - times the minimum requirements for the OS) runs smoothly is not particularly surprising. Let's take the old (maximum) 3x suggestion for the pagefile (though as seen current recommendations are much lower, more in the range of 0.5-1.1x). On a 2 Gb machine that would be 2 Gb+6Gb=8Gb (RAM+pagefile) On a 4 Gb machine that would be 4 Gb+12Gb=16Gb (RAM+pagefile) On a 8 Gb machine that would be 8 Gb+24 Gb=32 Gb (RAM+pagefile) So you have (all in RAM) 1.5 to 6 times the maximum amount of memory available on -say - 89.37% of running non-server machines in the world. OT, but anecdotally, when in the 80's people transplanted Volkswagen Porsche 914 2 liter motors on Fiat 500's they were unanimous in reporting that the car became much faster and ran a lot smoother. jaclaz

Some media is noticing the trend : http://www.pcworld.com/article/2988223/windows/windows-10-adoption-has-slowed-down-considerably.html http://insights.dice.com/2015/10/02/windows-10-adoption-leveling-off/ jaclaz

--JorgeA Hmmm , I still find it more like Araman at the end of "The Dead Past": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past The goldfish bowl concept is the one that IMHO better describes the future of our digital lives. Well, no . You also need a new tablet/phablet or similar, without a touch enabled something you won't likely go further than - say - level 25 or so, there is simply no way to use a mouse effectively for that . As a side note, and OT as often happens, an IMNSHO interesting comparison between current privacy issues and nuclear power: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm is data going to become unmanaged waste? jaclaz

Alternatively good tools are SIW (now Commercial, but last freeware versions are still available): https://www.gtopala.com/index.php http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/siw_portable and SIV: http://rh-software.com/ jaclaz