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The only issue that may exist is in case of very large .iso image size. I have not checked the mkisofs.exe that comes with current nlite, it should be fine, but it is possible that you may need to replace it with a more modern build, see: (seemingly unrelated thread): http://reboot.pro/topic/19660-use-drivetofile-to-make-a-bootable-vhd-iso-bin-image-from-a-pen-drive/ and: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171350-textsetup-wont-accept-nlite-dvd/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171350-textsetup-wont-accept-nlite-dvd/?p=1072315 jaclaz

Sure, and with me that makes two of us (I downloaded it and re-uploaded it attached to post #8). I am using 7-zip 9.30 Alpha. 7-zip format is however IMHO the de facto modern standard (modern when compared to PKZIP). Nomen can you try downloading the attached one to see if behaves the same? jaclaz

Yep and, before I forget, a few words of warning, remember that Voltaire (long before Peter Parker's uncle Ben ) said: and - to be fair - the concept is also in Luke 12:48 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+12%3A48&version=KJV Kids, don't play with System or TrustedInstaller at home! jaclaz

I was just joking, hence the emoticons. However, if you took this as offensive in any way, I apologize to you , as it wasn't meant as such . I will gladly reword the sentence as : jaclaz

The even stranger thing is that noone (or very, very few) know how to use Word or Excel (which by now are like 15 years old and haven't changed that much in functionalities) besides writing a (badly formatted/punctuated) simple letter or put together a (totally unclear) simple columnar report (often with "typed numbers" and not "formulas", let alone "proper" ones). I see it a lot like those people that spend big money on a supercar and then cannot drive it properly. I have run for years (to candidates that had in their curricula stated "good Excel (or Office) knowledge") a simple test, i.e. create a simple multiply table from 1 to 10 in the least possible number of steps (either key presses or mouse actions), i.e. recreate this: http://www.mathsisfun.com/multiplication-table-10-bw.html in Excel. No real time limit given, say 15-20 minutes to think and make some tests. I can make it fine in 33 of such "moves" (i believe that the real minimum is 30 or so ), it is rare the case of a candidate that can make it in less than 100, most often tens or hundreds more. Same goes for Word, ask anyone in your office to make a "common" template for your business letters and use the "mail merge" feature to send it to a few people in a contacts/address list... jaclaz

Well, that depends on the intensity of the cats. jaclaz

The diagnosis is: *something* does NOT work in the disk that is not working There are 3 (three) possibilities: it is a BSY <- in this case it is possible that the procedure to exit BSY state may work it is a LBA0 <- in this case it is possible that the procedure to exit LBA0 state may work it is *any* other malfunctioning different from BSY and LBA0 <- we have NO idea of any procedure (if existing, and if existing without needing specialized proprietary software/hardware) that may workI hope the above is clear enough. jaclaz

Sure, but - to be picky - the "elevate.exe" does not actually "elevate", it is a form of "Run As" (Administrator with UAC), and - to all practical effects - can be replaced by a few lines of script (thus saving much of the 5 Kb) Something *like*: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.utilityspotlight.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/elevationpowertoys/archive/2010/06/20/creating-a-self-elevating-script.aspx http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1855254/batch-file-elevates.html http://www.cammckenzie.com/blog/index.php/2013/01/16/elevate-uac-admin-rights-for-a-batch-file/ Or, something that I would advise to anyone actually fiddling on Windows machines with command line and batches, get Nircmd: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html NIRCMD.exe elevate command In other words, whilst the elevate.exe is a nice thingy to have not the stupid right click->Run As Administrator, it doesn't provide "extra" powers, while being System (or TrustedInstaller) does provide them. jaclaz

For some reasons, I cannot see the attachment in the post, here it is: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=38121 The error is related to XCOPY.EXE which is not found (in that folder or in your PATH). jaclaz

Well, actually we can elevate to a much higher level as System or even as TrustedInstaller : http://reboot.pro/topic/17501-runassystem-and-runfromtoken/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155910-taking-back-the-registry-from-trustedinstaller/ jaclaz

We are talking of this, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Universal_Print_Driver And you are looking for something which is #4.7.2.38 (February 2009) < hypothetical HP UPD < # 5.0.0.106 (July 2009), do I have this right? jaclaz

: Would this be of use? L2TP/IPSec: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff687761(v=ws.10).aspx http://torguard.net/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=67 Also, any reason why you cannot ask directly to the "someone" who is sending you the PSK? jaclaz

Well, noone said "the DISM improvements that MagicAndre1981 failed to post news about in a timely fashion on msfn.org", only "scarcely publicized" (meaning by the good MS guys). I can find alright traces of them in your posts: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/150347-win-7-ignorant-please-help/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/167877-important-update-for-windows-7-to-cleanup-updates/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/153742-dism-improvements-in-windows-8/ But I am failing to see the point What I believed were "news" were just: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2014/03/06/what-s-new-in-windows-servicing-part-1.aspx the others were just "background info". jaclaz

HECK! Even when they do the right thing, the manage to make it *somehow* wrong. Preamble: DLL Hell was HELLWinSxS is pure Evil (not in itself, but in the way it is setup/used)The news are that besides the (much needed but scarcely publicized) CleanUp tool for Windows 7 which came with KB2852386: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2852386/en-us and with the /spsuperseded DISM option (still in Windows 7 SP1) (and in addition to the also scarcely publicized DISM /online options in 8.1): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251565.aspx The good guys at MS have decided to AUTOMATE the cleanup Here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2014/03/06/what-s-new-in-windows-servicing-part-1.aspx I am sure that a lot of people will appreciate this effort to simplify their lives , I am much less convinced of the practical outcome IF something goes wrong . jaclaz

Pittsburgh? See what happened in London: http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/greatsmog.htm jaclaz

A good idea where Junctions or Symbolic links are involved, is to use the nice Nirsoft thingie NTFSLinksView here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ntfs_links_view.html jaclaz

It seems like you are in the situation described (and hopefully solved) here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/05c15c0a-0ba0-4c09-8f1d-471352a43a56/windows-7-rc-wpa-and-wpa2-will-not-connect-with-any-router-for-lenovo-t60s?forum=w7itpronetworking i.e. you cannot find where to supply the WPA2-PSK login credentials? Or is the issue something else? Please try to describe your issue in more details.... jaclaz

Have you tried with "%L" instead of %1? I.e.: @="mplayer.exe" "%L" jaclaz

Good, I guess issue is solved. jaclaz

@dencorso To be fair, as-is the title explicitly forbids any reference to good ol' NT (4.00) , my bad jaclaz

What do you mean "mass partition"? You make a USB stick and you connect it to one machine and by sheer magic it partitions all of 250 of them at the same time or you insert the stick 250 times? I mean it is no tlike the USB will wear much, i.e. there is not much difference if it is 1, 2 or many laptops. Seriously , what do you really want to do? Really only partitioning them? Or partitioning the disk and formatting the created volume(s)? Or partitioning the disk and formatting the volume(s) and deploy/install an OS on the volume(s)? Are these laptops all identical? There are several (unofficlal) tools to create PE's, which "base" OS are you willing to use for the PE? Quick summing up: XP/2003-> PE 1.x Vista :ph34r:/2008-> PE 2.x 7/2008 R2-> PE 3.x 8/2012-> PE 4.x 8.1-> PE 5.x For a PE 3.x/4.x simplest/quickest way is to use the QuickPE project: http://reboot.pro/topic/18744-quickpe/ http://reboot.pro/files/file/340-quickpe/ or a MistyPE: http://reboot.pro/topic/18917-mistype/ though your report of issues with DISM may anyway affect it's creation. In it's simplest incarnation the QuickPE project does not make use of DISM, so it may work even in your setup jaclaz

Good. The actual tool can still be found here: http://www.pcwelt.de/downloads/KMCS-Registry-Compressor-Pro-4-5-starten-551580.html the download is actually the "whole" KMCS suite, which includes the Registry Compressor jaclaz

@Tremun, sorry, didn't mean to suggest to "freeze" your thread , only the speculations about what will happen to XP64 once the infamous April 8 will arrive. More in the sense of "whatever will be, will be, the future is not ours to see" than anything else. Back to topic, about chipset drivers, there are IMHO two points to consider: 1) is the chipset compatible with existing (not specific drivers)? 2) even if yes, how good will those non-specific drivers affect performance? If the answer to #1 is no, then you won't be able to even boot on that machine (or have stability issues, possibly even worse ). If the answer to #1 is yes, will the "legacy" (stupid definition, but is what is used - wrongly - in the industry) mode have a serious/noticeable performance drop? It is impossible to say right now. To give you an example, let's take an old OS and SATA drives. Notwithstanding what you may find here and there, when SATA came out (SATA I) the performances of a "new" disk drive on a machine with BIOS set in IDE compatibility mode was not in any noticeable way worse than that of the same machine with BIOS set in SATA mode and the "proper" SATA driver (and for that matter not even noticeably better than a comparable ATA 133/ATAPI 6 IDE disk). But, with faster disks, SATA II (and NCQ) the difference with IDE becomes more noticeable. jaclaz

Why don't you all put this topic in a "suspended" state and see what will happen on April 9th, 2014? I mean, at the time Jody Thornton started panicking/whining about the end of support of XP 64 bit the deadline was far in the future, but now it is just a coupe of weeks away. @Jody In any case, should the more optimist 5eraph's take on the matter be verified, you should know that support will end (for real) on 14/07/2015, and need not to make the same amount of posts revolving around this issue . jaclaz

Maybe it was added in XP (for folders) . I haven't a suitable 2K machine handy to check , in XP the setting should be: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Advanced] "FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000 to disable and 1 to enable. jaclaz