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Very good The conflict on the PS/2 port is "strange", however traditionally 2K has a tendency (whenever *anything* is not exactly as it expects) to start creating "crazy" IRQ/resources conflicts (often very difficult to solve, if possible at all). jaclaz

Often (but of course not always) disassembling a CD or DVD drive and cleaning it thoroughly solves this kind of problems. Typically, whenever a disk is inserted (please read as the tray is closed) the head with the laser pickup "seeks" for the disc tracks and if it fails to detect a disc *whatever* is in the cache remains there. Both a dirty laser lens or any kind of dirt making the head "sticky" can prevent this to be done (the "queer sound" may be the head failing to move as expected to get to the track due to some dirt or dried up lubricant on the sled). jaclaz

Nice guide ! Though I didn't know that driver signing was different between Vista and 7 http://www.davidegrayson.com/signing/ is it possible that the issue is due to the change in the .inf (and thus of the hash in the .cat file)? jaclaz

Should we wait 84 years for this feature? jaclaz

Do you mean that the army (of which country?) is not legit or that it is "gross stuff"? Actually if I had to find a number of kids willing to use weapons/combat I would be likely to place ads on a gaming platform, on specific games, like on Call of duty or other FPS's , more than I would on the Wii and on Guitar Hero or on a smartphone on Candy Crush Saga. jaclaz

And once you "detect" a drone, what is next step? jaclaz

Yep, by "warm" I meant (as an example) that capacitors would still be charged if a reboot is done after the thingy is powered on a few minutes), still on the "pure anecdotal" style, I had once a PC with a PSU that simply could not bear the "spin up" current of two internal hard disks when "cold" started, but that could "just make" it in a reboot. jaclaz

Is the message "missing bootrec" or "missing BOOTMGR"? jaclaz

When you say "power down and restart" you mean: the PC the monitor the PC and MonitorIf #1 or #3 it sounds like an issue on the PC side (which more or less means the video card). Is it an "onboard" card, right? Which EXACT make/model? Which EXACT driver are you using? Is the monitor recognized by its EDID or is it "generic"? What I would do (in this order): Clean throughly the inside of the PC. <- this won't make any harm, and actually is "good maintenance" Try with another monitor <- (only if you have one handy) Try running another OS <- (let's say a Live Linux, as long as it has a 1600x900 resolution, to exclude the OS/drivers) Check the PSU (or change it temporarily with a new, surely working one <- I know this sounds "weird" but I have seen PSU's starting to degrade creating every kind of strange issues[*}, the fact that once the PC is "warm" everything works may be connected with a power issue, like when "cold" booting some higher peaks of current are needed.jaclaz [*] JFYI, most recent case was an old motherboard that ran NT 4 and Win2K for years, to which I reinstalled a "fresh" Win2K that developed (at random) a "phantom" Serial and a "phantom" Parallel port, creating a mess of IRQ's/resources conflicts (while the non plug 'n play NT 4.00 worked fine on it), a new PSU and hep! everything was back to "normal".

Well, the point is that they are allowed (by you) to use one. Whether it is there and can be remotely activated, or it can be downloaded automagically (and as well activated) does not change the authorization you gave them to use one. It is entirely possible that the provision is the result of some retarded MS engineer mis-explaining the "feature" to a retarded MS attorney (or that the latter mis-understood the former), or it could be just a "preventive", "demonstrative" provision, just a social experiment to see how much retarded are the final users, still it represents one of the reasons why I put to use my good ol'sticks (the 10 feet ones that were too d@mn heavy for NOT touching Vista ) for NOT touching the stupid new OS: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/125258-nlite-and-microxp/#entry807225 Let's put this into perspective. When you want to track usage of a product, you ask (possibly politely) your customers (final users) to provide feedback, usually by asking them to fill a questionnaire or poll. When you want to beta test something, you find a number of beta testers that usually are a restricted number of "advanced" users asking them to report bugs, inconsistencies, provide suggestions, etc. In any case BOTH approaches have two key characteristics: 1. it is done on a voluntary basis 2. the user knows EXACTLY the information that he/she provides No issues with #1. Many about #2. Now, IF the data gathered and collected was in the form of a plain .txt file (or a .xls, or a .mdb or the awful .xml, etc. or the format was OPEN and a viewer for it was provided) AND the feedback would consist of a limited (human readable) amount of data (say compressed into an archive) and sent to MS - say - once a week AND there would be an explicit consent required to send the data AND the data was collected in a public searchable/accessible database (in an anonymous form) THEN MAYBE I could THINK of sending them some detail on the usage I make of the OS. That is a generic issue with any kind of statistical result, if no RAW data is public, the results may well be wrong or manipulated. Remember that Windows 8/8.1 is (according to them) the result of telemetry/users feedback, so, someone, somewhere and en masse must have made them think that it was a good idea. OR they lied to us, inventing the consensus that never was (and this is not a good precedent record). jaclaz This is connected with oligarchy AND NOT democracy, the process implies that there are a number of people that have a certain number of working neurons and use them when providing feedback.

Sure and clearly they are FAILing at it. If you think a bit about it, there is nothing really "new" in the "workflow" or "interface" of either 8/8.1 or 10, only some (IMHO hideous) graphical changes to the UI (some of which you are trying to revert through the use of Aero Glass) and the perfectly unuseful "global" search. The only "new" thing in the 10 UI is maybe the multiple switchable desktops, something that I have in Litestep/blackbox since several years. jaclaz

Sure , especiallly if it has a single 1 Gb RAM stick that would be a nice solution. Seriously , there are normally no particular issues, BUT some tweaking may be needed: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/118097-day-to-day-running-win-9xme-with-more-than-1-gib-ram/ Typically a couple of settings in system.ini are needed: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/79756-512-mb-ram-and-above/?p=578205 jaclaz

You are welcome . Another happy bunny in the basket: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128727-cant-access-repair-my-pc-option-via-f8-startup/?p=828512 jaclaz

Well, NO. That article, like a zillion other similar articles, points out how by accepting their privacy policy you allow them to keylog, which does not mean that there is (at the moment) a keylogger, nor that it is activated. What Trip is asking is actual proof that such keylogger: a. exists b. is active jaclaz

Not really-really, a RAW (or non-native VHD) booting actually has the disk drive image mapped BEFORE the bootloader gets control and is "hooked" by the suitable driver (say Firadisk or WinVblock) just like a "real" hard disk is "hooked" by the controller driver. As a matter of fact a "fixed" VHD is ALREADY a RAW image (with a sector appended to it). Which BTW does not mean that hibernate work (or does not work) with RAW image booting. Which actually (the header for monolithic, fixed, non-sparse, non-growing non-differential VHD's) is NOT a header but rather a footer, i.e. a single sector "appended" to the RAW image, JFYI: http://reboot.pro/topic/9715-firadisk-and-vhd-img-images/?p=83781 http://reboot.pro/topic/8480-clonedisk/ jaclaz

An image is worth a thousand words. jaclaz

Just in case, an alternative strategy : http://www.holytaco.com/25-awsome-homeless-guy-signs/ http://www.images-graphics-pics.com/signs/sign-generator/simple.asp?text=A+few+bucks+for+an+Aeroglass+license%3F&align=center&align2=Middle&fontsize=20&font=headache&color=red&transparency=255&color2=orange&watermark=&move=0&move2=&parody=&rotate=&allow=5611&left=&right=&up=&down=&pic=HomelessGuy&x=31&y=182&w=220&h=137 jaclaz

Last time I provided someone with 01 March 1927 I was flooded with ads for denture adhesives and some horoscopes for Pisces. While the former were pretty much uninteresting to me, the latter were actually more accurate than the average ones for my actual astrological sign. jaclaz

I don' tget it. Where does that script come from? Have you written it? What does it does? (I mean does it actually, even minimally, work?) If you set a variable inside a FOR loop, it's "%" value won't be altered, you need to use the expanded "!" value. Example: @ECHO OFFSETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSIONSET Variable=A suffusion of yellowFOR /L %%A IN (1,1,10) DO (SET Variable=%%AECHO %Variable%ECHO !Variable!)jaclaz

Send a PM to Mim0 and ask him directly: http://hfslip.altervista.org/contact.htm jaclaz

Well, maybe originally version 2.27 was not used (but rather some other "really internal" version). At least for the single Windows 2000 .iso I tested, I was able to recreate it EXACTLY with a hexedited 2.39, as posted. It is entirely possible that you need some more esoteric command switches in order to make use of the CDIMAGE v2.39 (hexedited) to recreate 9x iso's. jaclaz

https://www.wireshark.org/ https://www.wireshark.org/about.html http://www.howtogeek.com/104278/how-to-use-wireshark-to-capture-filter-and-inspect-packets/ jaclaz

I consider it a "turnpoint". Wasting 2.5 Gb of RAM is "waste". Still, it is IMHO "not enough" to completely justify the *switch* to 64 bit, which has a number of strings attached, including more space on hard disk needed. In my perverted mind 6 Gb corresponds to what in the good ol'times was 96 Mb, more than 64 Mb, but sensibly less than 128 , if you do "normal" things, 4 Gb (or 3.5 Gb) are "enough", if you need more juice, go for 8 Gb. jaclaz

It is not beeping , it is chirping . Sounds a lot like it cannot spin up and produces that chirp instead. Of course there is NO way to exchange the PCB (unless you also desolder and re-solder, transferring it) the chip containing the firmware. The reasons why a disk won't spin up (besides an actual electronic component hardware damage) can be *any* among: sticky bearing stuck head bad contact between PCB and motor <- this can happen if the PCB was removed and not refitted with tightened screws or if contacts are dirt/not cleanIn practice, all you can do is to remove the PCB, clean contacts/check "spring effect" of them and reassemble tightening correctly the screws. (which may work if situation is #3 above). If it is #2, there is *nothing* you can do. If it is #1 there are some cases where, holding the disk vertically (and using some very light percussive maintenance) the motor can just make it to spin up. jaclaz

There is NO difference whatever that you can actually appreciate (not even through benchmarks) between running a 32 bit or a 64 bit OS. There is also NO actual noticeable difference between a 3.5 Gb and a 4 Gb system. (if you need a lot of RAM for the specific use you do of the PC, then you need A LOT of it). IMHO: If you have 4 Gb, run a "normal" 32-bit 7 (no need to "risk" a patch for no practical gain). If you have 4 Gb a 64 bit OS may result as actually being slower/worse as it will likely use MORE RAM than the corresponding 32 bit one, vanifying the 0.5 Gb "more accessible RAM" you have. If you have sensibly more than 4 Gb RAM (let's say from 8 Gb, up) then it would make sense to use the 64 bit version. jaclaz