jaclaz

FIrst recorded statement about someone being happy to be back on 8.1 . jaclaz

It depends on how you want to boot it (i.e. using only MS tools/boot files or if you want to use a third party boot manager) and there are likely a number of other possible issues much more likely to apply besides making a partition bootable, typically the position, size, geometry of the NT boot partition and the file system used (and using a FAT32 driver on a NT 4.00 boot volume even if possible may have a long series of strings attached ). But I don't understand. Is the NT 4.00 inside a VM (i.e. it is on a disk image) or outside it? And you want to boot it from a physicaldrive "directly" on real hardware or as a VM? Try to describe in more detail what you have and what you would like to obtain as a result. jaclaz

Let's say "unexpectedly" http://glass8.eu/win_future.html jaclaz

Which would be Version: v0 Beta 2 (v0.0.1.2): http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot/ "Doesn't work" may also need to be better described, the page lists a number of common "Troubleshooting" suggestions. jaclaz

http://glass8.eu/guide.html https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee416588(v=vs.85).aspx#getting_the_symbols_you_need You have to understand how this software is experimental and for the moment reserved to "advanced users" and the Windows updates continuously change something, however read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174355-aero-glass-for-win81-14/?p=1107168 jaclaz

Do you mean this one : http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2357464 http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2356109 The actual site is not anymore: http://droneind.com/ was: https://web.archive.org/web/20150511100211/http://droneind.com/ However, from the little I can understand of the matter, until there won't be capable enough (or affordable enough) "solar film" it would be very expensive in maintenance as an encapsulated solar cell will anyway be fragile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32011644&postcount=158 http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32012548&postcount=159 jaclaz

Sure, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173752-how-to-avoid-being-upgraded-to-win-10-against-your-will/ 7 and 8/8.1 users have a distinct advantage (though not at the same level of good ol' 2K or even XP users ). jaclaz

... and of course , you need to watch out for them: https://www.droneshield.com/products and once one is detected, you can "down" it: https://www.droneshield.com/drone-net-gun though seemingly not exactly a new "invention" by the good guys at DroneShield , a simple re-branding of a tool devised to catch (I would presume smallish) animals: http://www.thenetgunstore.com/ http://www.thenetgunstore.com/2014/11/20/net-guns-for-drone-defense/ jaclaz

@zilexa See if - by chance - this thingy here still works : http://profiletool.sourceforge.net/ since essentially it is a Python script, unless something really "revolutionary" was implemented in Windows 10, it should be possible to make easily minor adjustments if needed. jaclaz

A Pentium III with 16, 24 Mb or 32 Mb of RAM was what was a "good" configuration in Windows 95 times, the actual requirements were much less than that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/138349 As a matter of fact very few machines at the time had more than 32 Mb of Ram, just for the record the typical Windows 3.1/3.11 machine had 4 Mb of Ram and with 8 Mb it became very fast (in relative terms). Re: NT 4.00. The 7.8 Gb limit is only a "virtual" limit, it is related to the "system" (please read as "boot") partition and it is due to the use of the BIOS INT 13 (pliease read as CHS addressing): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/224526 and it is only related to the bootloader, if you have access to a later version the limit is nowhere to be seen: http://www.nu2.nu/fixnt4/ BUT the actual "setup limit" is lower, actually 4 Gb, so you will need "external" means to create the partition: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/119497 Consider how these sizes shoudl be compared to the actual size of a "normal" NT 4.0 install which is around or below 150 Mb, and there is no need (actually it makes very little sense) to make a huge "system" volume. The real issue (if you are going for NTFS, created outside the NT 4.00) might be the change in NTFS specs, you need at least a SP4 integrated source, see: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/169500-chkdsk-refuses-to-check-ntfs-volume-under-windows-nt-40/ jaclaz

It may depend on several things. Some "power adapters" are actually "battery chargers" (i.e. they provide enough current to recharge the battery but not enough to actually start the laptop without a battery or with a battery at 0 level) or as well over the years some capacitors inside it may well become defective and provide not enough voltage or current. You will need a multimeter to test the power adapter or see if you can get one of those el-cheapo replacement with adjustable voltage and several connectors to test the laptop with it. But - as another example - a number of laptops have a micro-switch that is pressed when you close the lid/display (and that is released when you open it), depending on the model this microswitch may simply switch off the video or put the device to "sleep/hybernate", it is rather common that this switch gets stuck if the laptop is "dirty" and remains closed for years (or the contacts are oxidized - it depends on how it is made), and more or less the same can happen to *anything* else, including the main switch and connectors on the motherboard. jaclaz

Just a few minutes earlier ... battery charge lowering ... jaclaz

Well, next step would be packet sniffing, think WireShark/NetCat or similar, and once you have a dump of the data transmitted decode the contents (if needed). For all we know some of the attempts to connect to some servers may well be - if not legitimate - at least innocuous. Let's say that some stupid service has been mis-coded and *needs* to "ping" (by - still say - downloading a short string of text) a given server to make sure that the local PC (and/or the given server) is/are online BEFORE starting some "real communication" (that is what actually should be blocked), the "ping" may be stupid or not needed, but all in all it is not an issue. jaclaz

But not all .dll need (or can) be registered through regsvr32, or if you prefer, if you use wildcards to re-register all .dll's in a system it is expeceted that you will have tens or hundreds of similar errors. Even on older MS OS (NT/9x/2k and XP) the re-registering all .dll's on a system resulted in several similar errors and since I believe 2K for some .dll's re-registering them does not "fully" create the proper Registry entries, that is one of the reasons why the Nirsoft tool can come handy, see this (only seemingly unrelated): http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and-ntfs-below-10-mb/?p=154017 jaclaz

I am not. It simply means that an absurd amount of unneeded services were bolted on the otherwise fully working "OS core", something that was largely expected . jaclaz

Well, no , "support" is a thing of the past, there was *some* support for NT 3.1/3.51/4.00 and for Windows 2000. It never happened later (and it won't likely happen in the future), if not - maybe - for corporate users (which BTW are the same that had NT/2K at the time). Something like (say) 90% of existing XP/7/8/8.1 are OEM and the a key point of the OEM license (besides "linking" the software to the hardware) is that support is to be provided by the OEMs (which obviously completely fail at it). All you got all these years were KB's, which you cannot logically find from MS search - you need google or some other search engine to find one that is relevant to the problem - and you cannot even imagine how an automatically translated KB appears in non-English Then you can call MS and you have three choices: 1. be guided to perform a set of basic, common, generic troubleshooting steps that have nothing to do with the problem at hand by someone that very likely, besides being often not even talking properly your language on average knows more or less the same as (or much less than) you on the matter at hand and that invariably ends in the suggestion to reinstall the OS. 2. be told that the issue at hand is "by design" and that you should upgrade to the last version of the OS (possibly getting also some new hardware). 3. be told that your issue is not among those covered by support and that you need to pay a fee for the assistance (usually provided by another clueless - though usually very nice - chap that will completely fail to pinpoint and resolve the issue if not by upgrading and reinstalling) If you think a bit about it, sites like MSFN.ORG have - say - a 20% or maybe 30% part dedicated to new programs, crazy hacks and similar and 70% to 80% dedicated to help/assist fellow members that have issues with this or that product (of which 90% is MS originated) and that are at their wits end after having attempted vainly to find information or support. And there are tens or hundreds or similar "third party" forums all around the world, all full of users that need assistance that MS and OEMs evidently fail to provide. To give you an example in another field, how many forums are there where members help each other with the difficulties of mounting IKEA furniture? Would this mean that assembling a stupid cabinet is easier than having - say - a stupid computer stupidly connect to a stupid printer or have a stupid screen actually display properly?[1] Or maybe it means that their support actually works? Mind you, there is nothing "bad" (in the sense of "evil") in providing no useful or very scarce support, but - as always - let's call things with their name. jaclaz [1] And just for the record, yes in latest years, thanks to the senselessly complex "optimized" drivers from the hardware manufacturers, the lack of valid industry standards (or the existing ones being ignored) and the flawed way newer Windows NT systems manage them, yes, connecting a printer or a display, installing the corresponding driver and have the devices work properly has been a nightmare, even for very experienced and knowledgeable people.

It seems UTTERLY inappropriate to me (here), hopefully if of the same opionion a Mod/Admin will split your post to a new thread, no need to delete this and re-post it. jaclaz

Meanwhile in (or around) Cupertino: 1. They found out that an "Orthodox File Manager": http://softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml]http://softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml may work nicely (better than an "Explorer" or a "Finder") to move/copy/organize files: http://mac.eltima.com/file-manager.html 2. They are definitely going to allow blocking ads on iOS (though for the "wrong" reasons, i.e. to re-centralize their iAds platform or their "News App"): http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/08/24/ios-9-content-blocking-will-transform-the-mobile-web-ive-tried-it/ and there is already some bickering about the impossibility of doing proper A/B tests: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/08/27/content-blocking-in-ios-9-is-going-to-screw-up-way-more-than-just-ads/which of course are (mostly) meaningless as this A/A test report highlights: http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/aa-testing/ jaclaz

As a side-side note, the screenshot shows how old I am , I recently criticized the use of name/paths like: <drive letter>\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\6To_60S7K_FU06yjEhjh5dpFw96549UU\scout.exe http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174083-seems-legit/ as being a clear giveaway that the thingy was a malware/spyware and now the good MS guys use on an official OS release a similar one? Hmmm, no, wait, Cortana/searchui.exe actually is a form of malware/spyware, I was right after all. jaclaz

Let's say that it has some diffusion on the net: https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&hl=en&q=scared+cat&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSigEahwELEKjU2AQaAggEDAsQsIynCBpgCl4IAxIojQSPBOsL7AuOBIMFzwvyCtALgQWjLbsksCK8JIMqoC2iLeszoS2aIxow8R-IlhDpIoV-_1rHw3rX1XzJNuuk9IGTN_17CDYXCli55RlcswuaLhuQnMs1VupYt_1DAsQjq7-CBoKCggIARIE-9-ESww&ved=0CBsQ2A4oAWoVChMImuLU34bOxwIViPJyCh3-OQJ4&biw=1680&bih=916 Though the cat originally had BOTH ears , one was most probably photoshopped away to provide some dramatization) : https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1680&bih=916&q=marketing+cat&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSJgnCBBWHk7rNkRoSCxCwjKcIGgAMCxCOrv4IGgAMIQesm3z-eYR0&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ2A4oAWoVChMIiPnHuofOxwIVB_ByCh2HlQyn jaclaz

Yep, Windows 98 on 32 Mb is definitely "border line" (while Windows 95 would be more than happy about it). Most probably you can get away with a "mixed mode" 95/98 install. What I would suggest you though (as I believe you are more into experimenting/having fun than anything else) would be to try on it also an unconventional OS at the time it was the fastest thing on earth on low RAM machines: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815060709/http://www.be.com/products/freebeos/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000815094229/http://www.be.com/support/guides/beosreadylist_intel.html Working download link (around 45 Mb): http://tecnologia.tiscali.it/download/scheda.php?id=94952 jaclaz

Yep . I would add that once upon the time the Alpha and Beta software was given to (and tested on the field by) knowledgeable users (as opposed to the large mass of people), i.e. the feedback was provided based on quality (though with smaller, more manageable quantity) whilst now everything revolves around quantity. Oligarchy vs. democracy, the one or the other being valid approaches (of course debatable) in politics but hardly so in computing. jaclaz

To be fair the 90 IQ is the combined one of the product managers/marketers, the engineers are more or less as intelligent as they were before, only they are asked to produce nonsensical and predatory programs. jaclaz

Good , and now I will actually surprise you by telling you that that title is editable by you in your user panel, i.e. if you want to have in there (say) "MSFN uncategorized", you can do it. jaclaz

Yep , before you were just a simple "friend of MSFN" http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E9hjn0QEH28J:http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174179-nostalgia-this-was-a-bargain-in-1979/%2Bhttp://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174179-nostalgia-this-was-a-bargain-in-1979/&client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=cr,ssl&hl=it&&ct=clnk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xLPFT8GL6eEJ:http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174340-german-millennial-lives-on-a-train-rather-than-pay-rent/%2B1,000+posts+monroe+site:msfn.org&client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=cr,ssl&hl=it&&ct=clnk jaclaz