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  1. I don't know , one can be a spammer (or anyway professionally do bad things[1]) BUT have good taste, after all. jaclaz [1] I mean, think of art thieves or forgers, they are not "good" according to common society standards, yet they are on the same level (if not on a higher one) of many art professors and critics.
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum (but probably there should be a limit ) jaclaz
  3. Maybe the builds here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/177308-ffmpeg-windows-xp-updated-builds-by-corone/ https://rwijnsma.home.xs4all.nl/files/ffmpeg/?C=M;O=D jaclaz
  4. Oww, come on, that would be normal if you actually owned the OS, nowadays it is "their" OS and there is a (sophisticated?) AI in Redmond that chooses what you will see (or not see) on the taskbar. Welcome to the new normal. jaclaz
  5. Well, one could use Edge, now with embedded financial services : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-buy-now-pay-later-in-microsoft-edge/td-p/2967030 (and no the article is dated November 15th, not April 1st) jaclaz
  6. You could ask to have your member name changed to NotHereToInstallScriptsWithoutScreenCapsNoSeeNoGo ... Though probably such a long name would wreck for good the forum page layout. HereJustToGainsay would be short and effective, though . jaclaz
  7. It seems like it is "by design" https://www.dell.com/community/Storage-Drives-Media/Dell-Dimension-Blinking-Hard-Disk-Light-SOLVED/td-p/1078513 jaclaz
  8. Sure it is, what is the problem? For the record I paid for it (the Nokia 1280) new some 25 or 28 Euro including 15 Euro worth of calls on the SIM circa 2010 or 2011. jaclaz
  9. Are we going on the personal anecdata route? That disk had a number of bad sectors (all concentrated in a same area), which I believe is a sign of a "head crash", what I did when I salvaged it was to simply find out the area where bad sectors were concentrated and exclude it (+some small area before and after it) from the partitioning, making a volume just before it and an extended partition starting just after it. jaclaz
  10. Great minds : tend to think (and behave) alike. I have a Nokia 1280 as daily driver and a 7 inch[1] tablet at the office. Well, only as a single data point, I managed to live a relatively happy life without it till now. jaclaz [1] any "normal" sized phone has too tiny keyboards, that I either cannot see properly or cannot type on decently.
  11. That is not a recommendation, that is vague, generic advice. When (if) "they" will give you a small list of suitable devices and tested, easy to follow specific instructions, then it will become a recommendation. About "alternative" Operating Systems they tend to be - usually - "poor", i.e. their functionality is severely reduced on most (of the very few supported[1]) phones. So you have to choose (on trust only) one of these alternate OS's, then choose among the list the specific device that is reported to be the most functional, then procure the specific device. At this point you have good probabilities (but NOT certainty) that you'll manage to root/sideload/whatever the chosen OS on the specific device you have following a complicated sequence of steps (usually very poorly detailed, contradicting or however very much NOT clear for anyone already familiar with the processes involved), with the concrete risk of bricking the device unintentionally. And once you hopefully succeed you will have a smartphone with quite a few missing capabilities. The above is not at all to put you down, but you need to be aware of the limitations and possible caveats, this is something (IMNSHO) that you should take as a (fun) project to learn new, strange things rather than a sure path to google-freedom. jaclaz [1] LineageOS namely has a long list of devices that are not supported anymore (why?) and for which you need to build yourself the OS (what?), given the amount of these devices you have no guarantees whatever that the specific device that you choose and are able to procure today won't be "abandoned" tomorrow.
  12. Well, you have the toothpick at least, around here you have to spin cardboxes in your hands, and few people can get more than xbox 270, most people are between xbox 90 and xbox 180. jaclaz
  13. So you have something that contains some 1,465,149,168 (onebillionfourhundredsixtyfivemilliononehundredfortyninethousandsixtyeight) "items" + a considerable number of "spare items", ready to replace any defective one, and you throw in the trash the whole thing. It must be very comfortable living, when you are rich. jaclaz
  14. You are right, re-looking at the values, they aren't that bad (set apart the ECC errors), the issues are likely related to age more than anything else supposing that the SMART data is accurate or - rather - if the way they are interpreted is correct, which is something I always greatly doubt. It is something I simply hate, there is not any real, definite standard, each manufacturer uses RAW values that seem random and each and every tool seems more like guessing what they actually mean., the scarce documentation that you can find is either inaccurate, or wrong, or contradictory, or wouldn't apply to the model you have at hand, it's simply a huge mess. jaclaz
  15. Sure, I do have some familiarity with them, but a common mistake is to believe that the make (as opposed to specific model and even firmware version) means anything, some Seagate models were better than - say - WD, and WD often (but not always) have been better than another make - still there have been some WD models that were crappy to say the least, and eben on a same exact make/model and firmware there have been reports of reliability differences depending on the actual factory in which they were made. But I was talking of something else, "weak sectors", these may develop in time on *any* disk and either remain "weak" "forever" or turn into bad sectors, even if - generally speaking - they are usually spread on the disk, if there is a certain number of such "weak" sectors near an area with a concentration of actually "bad" sectors it makes sense to exclude also the "weak" sectors, besides the "bad" ones from the partitioning. BTW the reknown, at least here on MSFN, Seagate 7200.11 saga wasn't at all about "bad" drives, only about a "wrong" firmware and a complete mismanagement. jaclaz P.S. @XPerceniol Those are just the "smart" data, no need of Victoria to read them, and they are largely meaningless, see: https://msfn.org/board/topic/153191-does-copying-several-giga-bytes-on-a-daily-base-screw-the-hard-drive/ what you need to do is the "test and repair", but - personally - I would try that only after having imaged the disk drive (or at least having made sure to have a recent, working backup). Sure your SMART data, unreliable as they may be: https://msfn.org/board/topic/177196-is-my-drive-still-healthy-seagate-sshd-1tb/?do=findComment&comment=1146918 don't look any good , particularly most of the "key" (I would call them "only meaningful") 5 ones: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/ The main thing you must care about is to not stress the disk too much, and it would be a good idea if you need to image it, to do it in chunks and making sure (placing an old PSU fan near the disk is good enough) to keep it cool.
  16. I endorse (for what it is worth) RainyShadow suggestions. Making a "full" format may be not entirely a good idea, it depends on the specific "type" of bad sectors and the amount of them. BTW tools like Victoria or MHDD will tell you not only which sectors are actually "bad" but also those that are "weak". Now, there are two most common cases: 1) all (hopefully few) bad sectors are spread here and there on the hard disk then the full format is the way to go. 2) but if bad sectors are concentrated in a given area (which is typical of a head crash) it makes more sense to "isolate" the area, partitioning the disk in such a way that no partition extends over the "bad" area, as the number of "spare" (please read as re-mappable) sectors is limited, so if you have more than a few of them, you shouldn't "waste" them for a largish contiguous area jaclaz
  17. I have a word for you, psst, come nearer, previous. No, it can NOT be interpreted as a feature, unless we accept the concept of "stupid feature". Anything that prevents, obstacles or make overly cumbersome pursuing the scope of the board (which is exchanging information, reading each other advice, comments and ideas) is NOT a feature, it is a bug. BBCode provided (and provides) all the basic, useful text formatting options (bold/italic/font/etc) and nothing more, i.e. it does what is *needed*, adding (or converting to) HTML is one of the many senseless "enhancements" of the board software that noone (I mean noone with a working brain) has ever possibly asked for and that was "forced" to everyone. jaclaz
  18. Good. Erunt has saved my XP installs more than once, it is something that MS should have provided built-in as recovery tool. Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "time bombed"? I never heard of issues with Anyburn. Maybe it is a specific issue with your install^ Imgburn remains IMHO the best option, but of course - as you say - it misses some of the more recent possibilities, and probably any newer tool won't work on good ol' XP. jaclaz
  19. jaclaz

    System_Info

    @DaveH Technically, the zip archive is a container. Some of its contents are encrypted/password protected, some (the mentioned .txt file) are just stored inside the container in plain text. If you open the System_Info-48-E.zip in 7-zip and check all the columns, you will see how it contains two items: 1) the System_Info-E.txt file with method "store" Encrypted "-" 2) the inner System_Info-48.zip file with method "AES-256 deflate" Encrypted "+" The outer (or External).zip can be opened normally (without password) and the .txt file can be read/extracted as well without password. 3/4 to 7/8 of the internet uses password protected archives with the password published on the forum or blog post where the link to the archive is posted. So the user downloads the archive and opens it with the provided password or - exceptionally - creates *somewhere* a *randomly named* .txt file. The some time later he/she wants to re-use the archive but cannot find anymore the post where the password is nor the .txt file on which the password was copied. You'll have to convene that Wimb's approach is better. To nitpick, the .txt file should be named System_Info-pw.txt (as opposed to System_Info-E-pw.txt) or - better - System_Info-48-pw.txtand contain as opposed to: jaclaz
  20. d.exe might well have been a piece of malware. Anyway, it isn't part of any normal install, and since the .exe does not exist it cannot autostart/autorun, so you can well remove those entries safely. jaclaz
  21. jaclaz

    System_Info

    Like you had not inside your safe at home a scrap of paper with the combination of that same safe ...
  22. Somehow, someone needs to state this, to avoid possible misunderstandings. Javascript in it self is not bad or evil. It is the (terrible) use of it by incompetent or - worse - malicious web designers (and executives over them) that created the mess. Besides (and this is a pet peeve of mine) it is some 15 years that I am told how "we have new technology X (or Y) that allows us to target advertisements, to show you relevant items". Still it is 15 years that all I get is: 1) completely unrelated ads to my search terms 2) completely unrelated items to my navigation history 3) ads related to something I have ALREADY just bought (often on the same platform that processed the order, now, while something like toilet paper or soap may be something one re-buys often or periodically, I doubt that many people - like it happened last week to name an occasion - every day a wheel cart for transporting and lift demijohns (5 days of ads for similar wheel carts, 10 out of 10 at almost double the price I had paid ) or home Wi-Fi Range Extender[1]) jaclaz [1] actually I needed a Access Point, but nowadays they are the same thingy that can be used for both AP and RE, then after I had bought a small piece pertaining to a (home) network, I (obviously) was in need of some related accessories (namely a couple Rj45 wall sockets and some spare RJ45 plugs) but waited before searching for them, just to see ifthe new smart technology was actually worth something, and obviously for 3 (three) days all I had were ads for access points and not a single one about Rj45 plugs and sockets, not for anything else network or Wi-Fi related that was not an access point (I mean this smart technology might have thought I needed a switch or a router or an external antenna).
  23. I have to understand your current setup (and also what you want to achieve). 1. You now boot to a DOS, then either run (say) win.com and load 3.11 or (still say) win98.com and load Windows 98? 2. And you want to (once in one of the two windows) go back to the DOS prompt and from it load the one (or the other ) windows without rebooting? How (exactly) are these two windows setups made (which volume partitions they are on, which paths do they use, etc. The traditional (generic) hack is to rename one of the two files to (say) IFSHLR.SYS and hexedit all the calls to it in the corresponding system. (this might either work brilliantly or fail miserably, no way to know in advance). BUT if the requirement is to not go through the BIOS, you can use a DOS external program to switch between two separate installs, grub4dos contains grub.exe (which works as a pure DOS program) that allows to boot *whatever* and *any which way you can*. jaclaz
  24. @Trip, that must have been "Lightning Calendar (which is part of Thunderbird) @All A simple, self-standing thingy is this one here: UK's Kalender http://www.ukrebs-software.de/ jaclaz
  25. I am not sure to understand. I mean, doesn't ERUNT do all you need for Registry backup and restore? (I thought that it was ubiquitous among the few surviving XP users) The site is long dead, here it is via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20171215214009/http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ The program remains the good ol'one "(v1.1j, 10/20/2005, Freeware, English and German)", it can be found on one of the original hosting sites: http://www.aumha.org/freeware/freeware.htm both the normal and install versions. jaclaz
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