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Naah, of course I was kidding, only to highlight how we are very far from AI (Artificial Intelligence) but we are well into PAI (Pretended Artificial Intelligence), which is what I call *any* program that pretends to be smarter than the user is, depriving him/her of some degree of freedom. I mean, what I have noted lately is that Anti Viruses (not necesarily Avast, but I would say *all* "mainstream" AV's) are getting increasingly more "pervasive" and often deleting, preventing access or "quarantine" perfectly harmless things (false positives) but, much more than that doing it in a "silent" (I would rather call it "sneaky") way, creating havoc without any warning. I mean there are two ways to recognize a virus: known signaturesupercalifragilistic heuristicsIn my perverted mind, the "known signature" should be divided in two "classes": really known and unique signature match possible signature matchgiving them "different dignity", whilst the first one may be allowed to delete/quarantine/etc. silently, the latter should ask the user about what to do, and as well the heuristic engine detections which have an even higher probability to get a false positive should be subject to manual user confirmation, or anyway allow the user to set the thingy "automagic" or "requiring manual review". jaclaz

Sure , guess WHY exactly the IBM M keyboard has so many fans? JFYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155361-good-mechanical-pc-keyboard-amigaatari-xl-feeling/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/138238-keyboards/ ...clickity, clickity click... jaclaz

Actually there is nothing particularly complex in the above batch. It is a rather basic use of FOR . See these pages: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.php The first FOR loop simply runs through all the items of the list, which I created by simply replacing "=" with = in the list you posted on #23: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173033-administrative-user-doesn’t-write-registry-settings-in-hkey-current-user/#entry1089363 giving to the %%A variable the value of items in the list. The second FOR loop uses the /F switch and tokens and delims to separate the first part (name) from the second part (value), assigning them to the variable %%B and %%C. This is a slightly more complex (or simplified ) version of the same batch, this time using a single FOR /F loop and some piping: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSSET My_Reg_hive=HKCU\Software\OmicronLab\Avro KeyboardFOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=:=" %%A IN ('TYPE %~dpnx0 ^|FIND "::" ^|FIND /v "FIND"') DO ECHO REG ADD %My_Reg_hive% /V %%A /D %%B /F::ChangeInputLocale=YES::PrefferedLocale=BANGLADESH::AvroUpdateCheck=NO::DontShowComplexLNotification=NO::DontShowStartupWizard=NO::StartWithWindows=YES::ShowSplash=NO::DefaultUIMode=ICON::LastUIMode=ICON::ModeSwitchKey=F11::EnableJoNukta=NO::OldStyleReph=YES::VowelFormating=YES::NumPadBangla=YES::AutomaticallyFixChandra=YES::FullOldStyleTyping=YES::DefaultLayout=Bijoy2003::OutputIsBijoy=NO jaclaz

I don't want to put you down at all , really, but the FIRST part of the: http://www.glass8.eu/guide.html reads: . it is simply "incompatible" with your declaration: It is not anything particularly difficult/complex, but you have first to get familiar with the procedures. Additionally (and unfortunately) there are at the moment several reports of "generic" issues with MS servers (or with Windows Updates or both), so that a lot of people, also those that know how to do it, are having issues in downloading symbols, see the "main" thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170850-aero-glass-for-win81-125/?p=1089433 You may want to wait a few days, until the current situation is clear (or clearer), and use this time to learn a bit about Registry editing. Downloading manually the symbols can be tricky, but the queation is common enough: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170850-aero-glass-for-win81-125/page-108#entry1089424 and has been already explained in detail: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163570-aero-glass-for-win81-rtm-rc3/page-16#entry1058721 If you have issues in following the above, no offence intended, rest assured , but you are simply not ready (yet) for using this tool (which is anyway "experimental" and likely to be subject to issues at each change the good MS guys make with their updates). jaclaz

Or maybe you started developing in Visual Studio a few moths ago something that Avast (in good faith) considered viruses and it is automagically keeping an eye open on all your activities ... jaclaz

Only good? It was is still the best one! jaclaz

I tested it but the settings is not being applied. Sure they are not: the batch as I posted it only prints on screen the commands. jaclaz

That could be hard links : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link#Limitations_of_hard_links exceeding 1023 on NTFS. Try checking the filesystem with ln --enum: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/ln/ln.html or similar. jaclaz

It is also possible (though not very likely) that the CIA or other three-or-more-letters Government Agency , aliens or little green men enter overnight your system and replace your TCPIP.SYS with a weapon of mass file transfer I mean, and with all due respect , I understand the need for making a detailed plan in advance and whenever possible foresee possible future issues , but maybe you are a little overdoing it. Just replace the TCPIP.SYS, set a (say) weekly scheduled task to check (say) it's MD5, and alert you if it has been changed so that you can reset it to your version. The small batch file by mukke essentially revolves around a single gsar command. Gsar usage: Get gsar, and extract gsar.exe in a directory, say C:\testgsar\. This is the command in the batch in a "better" formatted way: The notation used is :X followed by a hex code for each byte, since the strings are UNICODE the above "translates" to: Only the first two bytes of the full path are changed (the second you said or what ElTorqiro recommends ) jaclaz

Well, no. I did "read the price in Euro, which is € 23.75 (+22% taxes), corresponding to US$ 29.95 (+22% taxes)." Never said that they were not applied on a region basis. The mistake I made was to confuse Euro with US dollars, which I corrected soon after you made me notice it, and I quoted those as "net prices" adding in "curved brackets" the percentage of taxes I actually read. You might want to study some common punctuation to understand what is the use of parentheses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Parentheses jaclaz

The first (image on the left) attempt makes no sense. The one on the right seems like fine at first sight. But maybe you are trying to do too many things at once, try to ONLY follow the given example, EXACTLY: https://helgeklein.com/blog/2010/04/active-setup-explained/ I.e., see if you can succeed to run notepad as in the example. Just for the record, batch files on NT systems should really have .cmd extension (and not .bat). About the example batch I posted, what do you mean by "it is not working"? jaclaz

On other news, the (presumably Nokia originated) project that never was (thanks MS) will hopefully come to light: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-first-crowdsourced-tablet Sailfish: https://sailfishos.org/about-architecture.html is an OS derived from MeeGo, which was sponsored by Nokia before MS acquisition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo jaclaz

This is a very good question. Maybe they shouldn't , but I believe they all-in-all could provide, at least to the most common/known anti virus makers, let's say the ones listed on VirusTotal, a pre-release of the update (let's say one week in advance) so that the anti virus makers themselves could test those and/or *somehow* whitelist the update. No matter if (in this specific case or in the previous ones[1]) the "fault" is not of MS but rather of the Anti virus maker, what most people will perceive will be that "Stupid MS update borked my system" (which actually is what happens ). Facts (and not in any way "news"): A large user base uses Windows in some versionMost of this large user base uses the one or the other third party anti virusThe majority (I would say) of these users have not the technical abilities to solve themselves (if possible) this kind of issuesA large part of these people use the computer (and conversely Windows) as a work tool, and have more or less serious inconveniences when this tool for whatever reasons does not work or does not work properly.These people will perceive issues with their work tool as a failure originated from Microsoft and will grow - even if only subliminally - a form of disaffection to the company and it's products, deeming them unreliable to say the least.What was supposed to be the solution (Automatic Windows Updates) has over the years shown it's limits, and more often than not caused serious issues, and while it is understandable how extremely rare hardware or software combinations may not have been tested it has become obvious that, given the wideness of issues (when the issues are created) lately, it is clear how the "model" itself is a failed one and something should be done to make it better which at the moment (waiting for a brand new idea/method/whatever) cannot but be represented to double (and triple) check updates and their effects before releasing them, something that seemingly is not done or done properly. jaclaz [1] Someone may still remember when the SP3 for XP put all Norton Antivirus installed machines (again no matter who's was the actual fault) on their knees, just for the record: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/118290-sp3-registry-corruption-bandaid-solution/

Well, you want to do something "advanced" and it is rather obvious that in order to do that you will need to get "advanced" knowledge, but the procedure is simple enough. From the description in the given link: http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/appdeploy-articles-activesetup? When an user logs on, a "common to all" key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\<UID> is compared to a corresponding "per user" key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\<UID> If the HKCU key is not found the contents of the string value StubPath is executed. The HKLM key is then copied to HKCU. See if this makes it simple enough (it includes an example that you can easily replicate for testing purpose): https://helgeklein.com/blog/2010/04/active-setup-explained/ In your case you would add something like: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\KaliOmicronLab] @="Kali's OmicronLab Avro Keyboard" "StubPath"="avro.cmd" When each user logs in for the first time (and for the first time only) the file avro.cmd will be executed, of course under the current user credentials, so all you need is to make a .cmd that adds those Registry entries to HKCU and make sure it is in the PATH or provide a path to it in the above key. The avro.cmd could be something *like*: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSSET My_Reg_hive=HKCU\Software\OmicronLab\Avro KeyboardFOR %%A IN ("ChangeInputLocale=YES""PrefferedLocale=BANGLADESH""AvroUpdateCheck=NO""DontShowComplexLNotification=NO""DontShowStartupWizard=NO""StartWithWindows=YES""ShowSplash=NO""DefaultUIMode=ICON""LastUIMode=ICON""ModeSwitchKey=F11""EnableJoNukta=NO""OldStyleReph=YES""VowelFormating=YES""NumPadBangla=YES""AutomaticallyFixChandra=YES""FullOldStyleTyping=YES""DefaultLayout=Bijoy2003""OutputIsBijoy=NO") DO FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims==" %%B IN (%%A) DO (ECHO REG ADD "%My_Reg_hive%" /V %%B /D %%C /F)jaclaz

Few things I hate more than attempting to defend the good M$ guys, but I fail to see how they (or their policies) can be held responsible for (or connected to) the paltalk developers using in their code (knowingly or unknowingly) a dll function that is not present in Windows 2000 (and AFAICU not one of those "essential" or even "needed" ones). Since you are a paltalk user you could tell them how they broke Windows 2000 compatibility and how much this (BTW senseless) move affected you. jaclaz

If I may, there is a "side issue" (that may represent a good or a bad thing, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder). AFAIK if you edit a post, no notification is sent. When you make a new post a notification is sent (or should be sent) to people that subscribed to that topic or that chose to be notified about new posts generally. On one hand, an edit may pass "unseen", on the other two or more posts by the same user may annoy the recipient of the notification. In a nutshell, you never do the right thing , though it is generally accepted that there should never be two consecutive posts by the same user on the same post, there may well be exceptions, as an example when replying to different previous posts, and you quote the one or the other in separate posts, to reply to each of them separately or when, though on the same thread the contents of the posts are related to different things that are better kept separated, as this will help later to reference the "right" post, but using the board (with several posts one after the other in a short period of time) like it was a notes book to jolt down experiences in real time or so is maybe a tadbit stretching the "normal", "intended" use. Imagine that instead of a board it was a blog. Would you add information editing the blog "main" article or post your new findings in the "comments" section? In this particular case, however, it seems to me more like a "twitter use" of the board jaclaz

BUT seemingly not "all" ways. Reminder: jaclaz

You are right , but actually I was attributing it to evil stupidity. jaclaz

To be fair, by attempting to block Classic Shell install and completely failing at it, MS gave us a good topic for discussion, maybe it is just a strategy to keep people busy with trivialities while they go on with their evil plan for world domination and stuff .... jaclaz

Be aware that on a German system, there is the risk that it may do something, at least Nada 0.9 (which shares most of the same code) has mixed reports when used on German systems , you may want to use the new 0.5 version: http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/index.php jaclaz

@Nexes MIcrosoft acquired Sysinternals on July 18, 2006, you ONLY *need* previous versions of the Sysinternals utilities to "fix" a Windows 9x system, most of them are available through the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sysinternals.com/ Which you will probably need to use anyway as most of the times the relevant page contains needed or interesting info. Each specific utility (before the MS takeover) may (or may not) be redistributable, example (readme.txt for PortMon9x): jaclaz

I see now , like if the value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\<displayName>\ClearTypeLevel was totally ignored or however assumed/rendered as "100" no matters which value you actually have in it? My previous doubt was about the fact that the mentioned article as well as this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970267(v=vs.110).aspx talk of that Registry key when related to "WPF applications" (*whatever* they are ) and not as a "generic" Windows rendering engine . See also this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tmancini/archive/2008/02/07/do-you-find-the-wpf-editor-to-be-too-fuzzy.aspx jaclaz

I am not understanding. The second "magnifier lens" seems to me like using a scale of grays, while the first uses colours. What is the point/question/doubt/relevance/whatever? That the setting does not apply to a "system" info window or that it only applies in the "preview" of the Clear Type tuner(and not anywhere else)? This latter would imply that MS is lying (or at the very least mis-representing features), and you know how this never happens. jaclaz

I particularly like the: I would dare to say that the late Douglas Adams could have used this (as opposed to toothpick instructions) as exemplification of the reasons why humanity is gone insane. , or more aptly it is a good, modernized version of : http://www.planetclaire.org/quotes/hitchhikers/#Beware_the_Leopard jaclaz

Yep , that was the point of the experiment suggested in post #9. Now, what about "Active Setup"? http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/appdeploy-articles-activesetup? http://wpkg.org/Adding_Registry_Settings#Active_Setup jaclaz