jaclaz

Well, it is perfectly possible to also register fonts from a batch by simply adding the necessary REG.EXE commands, *like* in here: http://windowsitpro.com/windows/how-can-i-install-font-command-linebatch-file http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/119612-how-to-install-a-font-via-the-command-line/?p=987846 but actually it makes very little sense to use BOTH a .vbs (particularly if called from batch) OR a complex batch. With an added size of 6144 bytes you can have Fontreg (same as pointed out by bphlpt): http://code.kliu.org/misc/fontreg/ and call it a day. Readme.txt: Still if the question is "How can I install fonts from batch?" jaclaz

There is NO timebomb WHATEVER in Windows 95, 98 or Me. There may be one in some BETA or pre-release versions obviously. In any case if you replace the IO.SYS with a "Final Release" version, apart the changed logo, you will be essentially running the kernel from the "final" version AND NOT the "Beta" one which you wished to run (WHY - the heck - one would nowadays attempt to run that outside a Virtual Machine with a suitable faked date set is another thing). So replacing the IO.SYS it is basically a generic non-solution to a generic non-problem. EACH different, specific BETA or pre-release build of 95, 98 or ME is very likely to need a different, specific patch. I can guess fine that you are talking specifically of the Beta 2 or Build 224 version of Windows 95, but if you had mentioned that your thread would have been more clear, and there would be no better place in the word to ask that question than on the board you mentioned: http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/ jaclaz

Just in case of need, some self-promotion : http://reboot.pro/topic/2362-makebscmd-alpha-release/ http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24649 jaclaz

And if I may, why has been the wished solution be "confined" to a .vbs (particularly if the idea is to run the VBS script from batch? I mean: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSSET MyFontDir=%1IF %1.==. SET MyFontDir=%~dp0FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A in ('DIR /B /S %MyFontDir%') DO (FOR %%B IN (".fon" ".otf" ".pfm" ".ttf") DO (IF "%%~xA"==%%B ECHO COPY %%A %windir%\Fonts))jaclaz

Still, it is the usual, "simplified" shortcut that is mostly FUD . Now 8 (eight) years have passed since Vista (and the adoption of the new, enhanced, security models like UAC DEP, ASR, and what not) and there have been not those catastrophic, selective (i.e. XP only ) security exploits, all the vulnerabilities that have been found and have been patched have traditionally been largely "cross OS" (i.e. the same vulnerability affected indifferently XP, Vista and 7, and now 8/8.1 and were patched for each of them) as they were mostly to be found in "generic" code that was common between these OS's. As always I may be wrong, but IF in any way Windows XP was in practice "not secure anymore" or "less secure" than 7 or 8/8.1, now, one full year after the end of support deadline we would have had between 15% and 25% of all the internet connected PC's compromised one way or the other , and since this has not happened yet the "not secure anymore" or "less secure than" appears like nothing more than an unverified theory or of some wishful thinking. jaclaz

Maybe , but still you'll have to pry out of my dead hands the IBM M keyboard I am writing on, and JFYI http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155361-good-mechanical-pc-keyboard-amigaatari-xl-feeling/?p=989233 No doubt that IF the good digital guys had continued ... they would .... , but they didn't. The MS guys, like them or not, and very possibly with less superpowers, did manage to make it to (almost) "world domination", whether they actually deserved it is of course up for debate, and "What if ..." games are nice and all, but not particularly productive. Would they be able to worsen so much the OS to the extent that the lead will be taken by the good Apple or by the good Linux guys? And if this happens, will the winner (either Apple or Linux or - say - Google or name yourself someone) have any merit, or will this happen only because of MS suicidal decisions? jaclaz

You can try VBEMP and/or UNIVBE and/or SciTech Display Doctor: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/ http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbe9x.htm ftp://alter.org.ua/incoming/soft/vbe/win9x/vbe9x.htm http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=346 Your mileage may vary, of course. jaclaz

I don' t know , I see it slightly differently, there is no doubt whatsoever about the fact that they are were the true superheroes of the high tech future past, and that they were able, one way or the other, to herd us (or the most of us) in what they saw as the future, the point is that it is not written anywhere that a superhero MUST be sane or good, and that he/she CANNOT turn evil in the future... What if - simply - they are not "emotionally equipped for the job"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredeemable#Creation_and_development jaclaz

Good. The "name and company" data should not be a problem, they are a couple Registry entries, you can use a batch fine for that. http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/32/ Or you can use this one: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/owner.htm (which is GUI but keyboard friendly) or you could adapt to suit your needs/wishes any of these: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/55188-change-registered-user-name-and-company/ jaclaz

Probably what you can do is "trick" the Windows setup, by providing a (partially) unattended set of "defaults" and then *somehow* at OOBE time ask the user to change these already set defaults. In other words the questions are asked once when they should be asked and answered automatically, and then the same questions need to be re-asked and the answer overwrite the previoius ones. jaclaz

The XP Apocalypse, the Apocalypse that never was! jaclaz

Look I don' t want to seem grumpier than I usually am , but if you come "here", you get help for what is "here", if you go "there", you may get help for what is "there". FORGET each and every video tutorial you have found ANYWHERE, you should follow THIS guide: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/133387-debricking-the-seagate-drives/ or the one in first post of this thread, for which I gave you a link to the Spanish translation and ONLY these guides and NOTHING ELSE. That video was made by the good guys from Greece that sell the kit for a mere 5 (five) times the cost of the components and provide with it a - most probably half-@§§ed - program called "FWbugfix" (as stated in the sub-titles of the video, which seems a lot like a "wrap around" *a* terminal program). If you buy from them for a mere 29.99 US$ the adapter, you will get also that program (which is NOT needed as Hyperterminal or Putty would do nicely). jaclaz

There is no "particular" software. Hyperterminal or Putty are used as terminal to send commands. Or - maybe - you mean a driver for the USB converter? Here: http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41 IMPORTANT: Call a friend who speaks and can understand English and ask him for help, this is tricky business, DO NOT use an automatic translator, you NEED to understand the procedure in detail before attempting it. [pseudo-Spanish] ADVERTENCIA Llama a un amigo que habla y puede entender Inglés y pedirle ayuda, esto es un negocio complicado, NO use un traductor automático, es necesario comprender el procedimiento en detalle antes de intentarlo. [/pseudo-Spanish] More Spanish resources: http://latecladeescape.com/t/El+error+BSY+en+un+disco+duro+Seagate+Barracuda+7200.11 https://hard2bit.com/blog/solucion-a-los-seagate-con-firmware-sd15-que-han-dejado-de-ser-reconocidos-por-el-pc/ jaclaz

What is a problem? Issues with English? Here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128906-reparacion-del-st3500320as-sd15-en-español/ jaclaz

Which - just for the record, converted in one of jaclaz's units of measure amount to "more than 2.5 MISNT4" http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173548-windows-10-search-process-uses-almost-double-the-ram-of-winamp/?p=1095585 jaclaz

You can use another (iconized or the like) network monitor tool for the tray. Ideas (to be tested): http://www.floriangilles.com/software/netspeedmonitor http://venea.net/?action=article&article=nettraffic http://www.itsamples.com/network-activity-indicator.html http://ispmonitor.be/software/ but I believe there are many more similar tools, most probably this: http://www.paulmather.net/lanlight.asp is what you are after. jaclaz

Example (if needed): All your software are belong to us! jaclaz

Yep, if you install the update you will be seemingly the proud owner of Gwxuxworker.exe version 1.0.0.1 which is the thingy that will download Windows 10 (and not only that, also ads/promotional messages , likely to the scope of letting you know how good Windows 10 is will be) more (same original source): http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-update-quietly-preps-windows-7-8-1-for-windows-10-06377434/ http://fossbytes.com/microsoft-adding-windows-10-downloader-to-your-windows-7-and-8-1-pc-in-new-update/ but the latter has a nice English screenshot: jaclaz P.S.: as a side note I find it funny the "translation" from the English "Get " to the German "downloaden" (or viceversa)

You may want to notice how they left some space between "The" and "operating system and its ....", enough to insert "10" but not enough to insert - say - "stupid". jaclaz

Yep another thing that may need some investigations is whether a "tablet install" and a "normal, plain desktop" is the same. I mean, it is possible that the setup of 10 can detect that the OS is going to run on a tablet (or other relatively low powered hardware) and installs only a subset of the OS or a "simplified" set of this (or that), whilst the 7 Pro install AFAIK is "just install the full thing, no matter what is the hardware". Still, I think that this kind of functionality (if this is the case) is not really new/peculiar to Windows 10 but the switch (if any) happened with 8/8.1, which was the first OS actually "designed for tablets", while till now there is seemingly nothing really "revolutionary" in Windows 10 when compared to 8/8.1. jaclaz

Of course not, they are WORM, you will need to completely wipe the hard disk to get rid of them. ...you ask a silly question ... jaclaz

Good. Well, again for the record, and hopefully for next time this is senselessly vague, it equates more or less to "the needle was manufactured in 2008 , here is the haystack, go and find it if you need it". jaclaz

Which kind of "computer" clash do you expect? The only possible one is Disk Signature collision, where there is chance that can be estimated between (optimistically) 1/(232-1) and (pessimistically) roughly 1/(216-1), i.e. between and 1/4294967295 and 1/65535. As long as you connect the USB disk to an already booted machine, IF such a collision hypothetically happens (it won't ) the duplicate Disk Signature on the USB disk will be changed to a new one with NO practical effect on the PC nor on the disk. IF the USB disk is used as bootable disk, IF hypothetically the collision happens (it won't ) the internal Disk Signature will be changed and likely you will need to repair the BCD. In a nutshell: No. jaclaz

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_traffic_view.html Of course cannot say if it would work on your 10 "beta" install. jaclaz

Possibly lost in translation (just for the record). For everyone (exception made for the good MS guys ): "boot" is the volume where the boot files are (NTLDR+BOOT.INI+NTDETECT.COM or BOOTMGR + \boot\BCD)"system" is the volume where the Operating System folder is (\WINNT or \WINDOWS) The good MS guys - for some reasons - use the terms reversed: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/system.html The net effect is that unless one specifies which convention he is using ("common sense" vs. "MS" terminology) there is a concrete risk of misunderstanding. jaclaz