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To provide some context, a typical 2K desktop machine (new, in the short time time the OS was mainstream) had 128 or maybe 256 Mb of RAM (and was typically set with a 512 Mb pagefile), typically with 512 Mb of RAM it was very, very fast, and I doubt that nowadays you can actually (in normal use, not "intentionally" in a benchmark or similar) fill up the 3 Gb of RAM, the exact amount available depends on specific motherboard/chipset/etc.: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx jaclaz

Well, it's not Word or Excel (say) this application at its core should be a bunch of Registry Entries and a few commands (or little more). jaclaz

Sure, this is where that is currently discussed: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174120-another-reason-why-the-iot-may-not-be-that-good-an-idea/ @monroe Now for NO apparent reason, and JFYI, drone rescue[1]: jaclaz [1] Or first practical use of a drone (to solve a problem that was actually originally caused by playing with drones)

Small news : http://bgr.com/2015/08/18/drone-for-sale-worlds-smallest-aerius/ jaclaz

... meanwhile in the UK , JFYI: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3200291/Farmer-sick-poor-internet-signal-built-DIY-mast.html jaclaz

Yep, now it sounds "normal", the newest is right now 1.5.248 and is on github, including the source code (should anyone be interested in it), now only 152 Kb: https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying/releases/tag/1.5.248 @NoelC Come on , (10800000-152000)/60000 = 177 "icon deltas", it would be a rather complete icon collection .... jaclaz

Reallly? I guess that until 64 bit systems came out the world servers must have been very short of memory. jaclaz

And - just to prove that there is nothing really "new" under the sun - have a look at this: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jeremyepstein/decertifying-the-worst-voting-machine-in-the-us/ the worst fears of anyone if not actually caring about at least attentive to minimum levels of security are (were) seemingly reality. jaclaz

Well that and previous Patents (also from other firms) in a more "correct" and "formal" language the general idea is still revolving around the (partially rejected) thesis by Samsung that "there are not so many different ways to design a rectangle with rounded corners", and though it may seem obvious to me and you that a loudspeaker/earpiece would go on the top, the rectangular screen would go in the center and button(s) (if any) would likely go in the mid-bottom (and making a button a circular shape is not patentable as it has been done since buttons were invented) and as well a microphone would go on the bottom, till now this has been not "legally" obvious. jaclaz

U.S. patent office considers Apple's D'677 iPhone design patent invalid on multiple grounds http://www.fosspatents.com/2015/08/us-patent-office-considers-apples-d677.html http://www.scribd.com/doc/274897046/15-08-05-Non-final-Rejection-of-Apple-D-677-Patent I like the form of the sentence: jaclaz

Epic comment: "All these crappy tools that everyone is using is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. This is not the answer. The answer is to cut this crap off at the source and tell M$ to stop this crap to begin with." Yep , as a matter of fact these tools may actually work in favour of MS, it won't be long before the shills will start writing that "If you are really paranoid, and though it is not recommended, you can run tool x or tool y that prevent Windows 10 to send data to Microsoft, and you can thus enjoy almost fully the Windows 10 experience" or something like that, thus minimizing the other issues with the abomination. jaclaz

@maxXPsoft Yep , thanks, but my note was slightly differently scoped, even deleting all the files in the OS, one by one, is likely to need - say - a few hundred Kbytes of commands in *any* scripting language, it was more like "what (the heck) did the good MG guys use to build such a large program/download?" jaclaz

So you want to pre-order the new phone dedicated to protecting your privacy? https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/devices/ No prob , just go here: https://www.silentcircle.com/contact-sales/ and: jaclaz

Sure , but as you might know one of the dangers of spanish inquisition is that it arrives suddenly, as "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty_Python) Now, should it arrive , you were warned . jaclaz

EDID related (maybe useful, maybe not) http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172888-blurry-screen/ jaclaz

ahhh, the issues with political correctness...., the good ol' times ... jaclaz

Hey peeps, just as a reminder , this thread is (or should be) about pagefile/memory/ram/ssd/speed, not about the great abomination (Windows 10) and it's "online promiscuity", phoning home, firewall, privacy, etc., we have already enough discussion threads about the latter ones.... jaclaz

Well, out of curiosity, I wonder what (the heck) is inside the MajorGeeks one, I mean the O&O thingy is 107 Kb (and of course the actual settings if applied through a script are a few kb at most, while the "Destroy Windows 10 Spying 1.4.3" is a 10.8 Mb download. jaclaz

but: http://www.oo-software.com/en/made-in-germany-made-in-berlin jaclaz

As a side note, BYOD makes no sense whatsoever anyway so it is a non-issue for anyone even minimally "sane". jaclaz

No prob, I guess that everyone - one way or the other - has his/her own form of madness. If you want to go that way, it is perfectly OK , as long as you know that there might be other methods. Now what is the problem? You have the setptn1.g4d (which needs WENV, now deprecated, not because it is not good, only because grub4dos now includes most corresponding commands so that WENV now represents an unneeded complication), the "original" mbrview.g4b and a new version of it which uses direct grub4dos commands, all together they provide good related examples, though most probably they are overall more complex than needed, as they represent a "generic/general" script whilst what you actually need are no more than 4 commands that can be actually hardcoded to the location and extents of your wanted partitions. Personally - if I was to follow your line of reasoning - I would use actually 5 partitions (of which only 1 or 2 actually accessible at the same time). Follow me please, imagine that you have a device of 1,002,048 blocks and you want to divide it in 4 same size partitions+a very small fifth partition (bear with me). These partitions would have these data: a. NTFS ID 07 Start=2048 Extents=250000 b. NTFS ID 07 Start=252048 Extents=250000 c. NTFS ID 07 Start=502048 Extents=250000 d. NTFS ID 07 Start=752048 Extents=250000 e. FAT ID 01 Start=63 Extent=1985 Now, let's imagine that you create ONLY the "e." partition and you write its addresses in second slot of the partition table (slot #1) leaving blank the first slot (slot #0), and that you install the grub4dos grldr.mbr to the MBR + a few hidden sectors and copy the grldr (and a menu.lst) to this tiny partition, that will be when booting from the stick (hd0,1). Now what would happen if you have a menu.lst *like*: title partition a. partnew (hd0,0) 0x07 2048 250000 root (hd0,0) chainloader /bootmgr title partition b. partnew (hd0,0) 0x07 252048 250000 root (hd0,0) chainloader /bootmgr etc. Of course some checks to make absolutely sure that the disk on which operate is actually mapped as (hd0) will be needed (in the rare case that for some reason the USB stick is not recognized as first disk) But you should get the idea. jaclaz

Well, I don' t see why you would want to have separate partitions for "Windows 7 install DVD" or a "Windows 8 install DVD", let alone for the PE, maybe it is your setup that is overly complicated (or too simple , it depends on points of view), I fear that you might be slipping on a chocolate covered banana (or on the xyz problem) : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html jaclaz

Sure there is a working BartPE plugin for DriveIMageXML, I don't understand the issue about floppies , the Hdhacker is fine to backup and restore a MBR, more suitable tools listed here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21768&st=6 MBRfix is a command line tool, you do not double click on it, you open a command prompt and run it there, If you want to try my good ol' pseudo-GUI for MBRFix, it is here now: http://jaclaz.altervista.org/ jaclaz

Well, you don' t need any "tool" grub4dos (in recent versions) have the needed built-in commands and an almost complete CMD-like batch scripting capability. The only limit (unless you use the fat add-on and you want to save on a FAT volume) is that it cannot create a file. Also if you use any version before one of the latest ones, you must remember that files smaller than around 750 bytes on NTFS are not seen by grub4dos because they are embedded in the $MFT (only very recent version can find them), in which case a 1024 bytes file is advised as a container. Usually MBR and partition tables are saved to either the "MBR-hole" (LBA1) if you actually install grldr.mbr to the MBR+first few hidden sectors or to an unused "hidden" sector, usually LBA62. It's just a matter of scripting a series of dd commands, and - if needed/useful, the partnew command, but maybe you can find useful this: http://reboot.pro/topic/17728-release-mbrviewg4b-a-bat-tool-for-grub4dos/ make sure you get the "pure" grub4dos (no WENV needed) version by Nando4 . Some hints/examples of grub4dos dd usage are given in this only seemingly unrelated post: http://reboot.pro/topic/20238-improving-grubinst-and-grubinst-gui-in-windows-and-linux/?p=189578 And some more in this thread: http://reboot.pro/topic/20557-grub-commands-on-bootable-usb-to-completely-ignore-a-partition/ jaclaz

DumpLX provides a (I presume primitive ) disassembler: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172894-windows-95-usb-support-and-the-task-of-ntkernvxd/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172894-windows-95-usb-support-and-the-task-of-ntkernvxd/?p=1087484 jaclaz