jaclaz

Maybe a dosimeter would be more handy than a Geiger counter. Personal electronic ones should be available for around 500 bucks. jaclaz

Sure , but his streaming HD/1080p p0rn may stutter a bit . jaclaz

Ponch, how exactly did you "move" those e-mails? jaclaz

Ponch, there must be a misunderstanding (or you are making the wrong examples)? With "my" approach, as an example in a dual boot with two active partitions, first partition is always C: and second partition is always D:. if you boot in "first" OS and delete (say) the file C:\myfile.txt, you are deleting the file myfile.txt on the first partition. if you boot in "second" OS and delete (say) the file C:\myfile.txt, you are STILL deleting the file myfile.txt on the first partition.When you use "C: as system drive", if you boot in "first" OS and delete (say) the file C:\myfile.txt, you are deleting the file myfile.txt on the first partition. if you boot in "second" OS and delete (say) the file C:\myfile.txt, you are INSTEAD deleting the file myfile.txt on the SECOND partition.jaclaz

Well, that is a pretty much strong statement. Really? I presume that also commercially available cables exceeding specified standards are a no-no. I will then venture to say that if it works, it works, if it doesn't, it does not. Come on ... @AmazingGecko Generally speaking the good thing about standards are that there are so many of them.... A CAT5 cable (the RJ45 you mentioned) can be as long as 100 mt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable for 100 Mb connections. For Gb connections you'd better go for a CAT6 cable (still RJ45 connector) that can go as well up to 100 m (and you can have as well some 37 m if using it on a 10 Gb connection). A RJ11 cable can be with 2, 4 or even 6 wires. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_plug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJ11#RJ11 The most common is using normally a 6P4C RJ14 connector, i.e. it is 4 wires, of which two are unused, the additional unused wires may provide a primitive form of shielding, while a 2 wires connection is better avoided if not for very short extensions, a 4 wires one may do. There is no actual standard about length of a phone line extension, BUT you have to be aware that whenever signals are transmitted "solid copper" has dramatically better performance than "stranded" wire AND signal transmission MUST be carried over twisted pair cable to limit "cross-talking" and interferences with other cables and/or radio signals, so, if you are planning to use some "solid copper" twisted pair cable it may do, simply forget about stranded cable or non-twisted pair ones(as many commercially available extension cords use). BUT, follow me please, if you have the router close to the telephone socket and a CAT5 or CAT6 extension cable to your PC (or hub or intralan router), you have at both ends of the cable an "active" device under your control (i.e. something that you can use to troubleshoot an issue - if any), whilst if you put an extension telephone cable between router and phone socket, that length of cable will be nothing but an extension of the telephone line, on one end you will have the router (under your control) on the other end there will be the ISP device(s), in case of troubles the ISP won't be able to detect if there is a problem on "their" line (up to the wall socket) or after it. Typically they will ask you how far is the router from the socket and ask you to put it as near to it as possible (i.e. with an as short as possible extension cable), and IF a technician is sent to solve the problem AND the cause of the issue is attributed (and you have no way on earth to be sure that it is the actual case) to "your" extension cable, they may even bill you for the intervention. On the other hand, the ADSL/DSL technology is designed to cover with "good" bandwidth approximately 2 km distances over copper wire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line typically having a degrading of bandwidth, with behaviour like the following: 24 Mbit/s -> 1 km 20 Mbit/s -> 1.6 km 12 Mbit/s -> 2.5 km 8 Mbit/s -> 3.0 km 4 Mbit/s -> 3.9 km Even if the 5/10/15 meters of the telephone line extension you may need are very little when compared to the amount of cable needed to have an attenuation of the signal, they may contribute to it, and surely - depending on the quality of the cable used and if it goes near other cables - they are an "entrance point" for interferences. So BOTH "common sense" and technical reasons suggest (if possible) to put the router near the telco/ISP wall socket and to use CAT5 or CAT6 cable connected to the router to connect to devices in other rooms. Mind you the above does not mean that extending the telephone line won't work, only that by doing that you are introducing a possible cause of issue (and we have anyway Murphy's Law waiting to prove itself right once again ) In the same spirit of the previous replies, do the right thing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/quotes?item=qt0362962 jaclaz

The idea of "example" is - strangely enough - that of it being an "example". BTW it seems like that thing is Cardbus (not PCMCIA), see: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141776-modifying-a-really-old-dell-laptop/ though cannot say if it can be connected to the issue. Those IRQ/Resource conflicts are usually a nightmare , and on a laptop there are very little changes you can make, but since the thingy works in XP, it should mean that *somehow* it can be solved through software only (either "better" drivers or different resource allocation). You can *try* listing ALL the IRQ/resource settings in XP and see if you can manually replicate them under Win98, possiby disabling/removing some other devices, but it is hard to say if you may succeed . jaclaz

@Moodie1 Don't worry , if you install this new instance on the "second" volume/partition, you will be making simply a "dual boot" system. The only "issue" you may have is/will be drive lettering and the two installs will "share" a common NTLDR+NTDETECT.COM+BOOT.INI on your first volume, which is and will remain the "active" partition. In your current status you have the current XP install on the first volume, which by default has got the drive letter C:, the second install will get - still by default - the drive letter D: (or a higher letter, it depends on the devices connected to the PC at install time). There are two common "theories of operation", one (wrong BTW ) adopted by most people that want their operating system to reside on "C:" (to be more "standard") and one (right ) that makes setup so that no matter which OS is booted the same volume gets the same drive letter (which limits the risk of modifying the "wrong" volume). So, you will need to make a choice, if you are OK with the second install having a non-C: drive letter you can go on, if you on the other hand need/want to have this second install be residing on a volume with drive letter C: you need further instructions. jaclaz

Check the Octopus Read starting from here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-153#entry968299 a few posts (the above link has just been re-posted in order to help Casalla1 ) up to here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/?p=968346 jaclaz

Most probably the $MFT was "small enough" and has been completely overwritten Yep, that is the issue with "pure file based" recovery, but I guess that is better to have files (eiher mixed or without original names) than having no files at all . Remember that there are no real "assurance" that a recovered file is valid (contiguous files will be, non-contiguous most probably not) so you will need anyway open/check them one by one. jaclaz

There is must be something that you either fail to report properly or that I misinterpreted. If you just (quick) formatted the partition/volume it should find (as soon as you choose the PhysicalDrive) the actual volume and prompt you for a found volume (that will be marked with green EBCF) you should first try to open that volume and then on the left side you should click on "All Found + Reconstruction". Basically the (quick) format (IF done under the same OS as the original) will overwrite parts of the $MFT (i.e. without changing the actual $MFT location), the NTFS search won't find "other" $MFT's (though it may found and detect remaining parts of the previous $MFT as "fragments" of other $MFT). In any case, provided that there was only one partition on that disk, the $MFT will normally be on LCN 786432, i.e. around 786432*4096+63 or around 786432*4096+2048 roughly 3 Gb, there is not much sense in searching a $MFT after that area, you can safely stop the NTFS search if your progress (the amount of bytes "scanned") is above (say) 4 or 5 Gb. jaclaz

See if this applies: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-fix-annoying-folder-view-type-problem-in-windows-vista/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813711/en-us This: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_bags_view.html may also come handy to inspect/detect what actually happens. And check this also: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/142961-new-win7-reg-entries-related-to-folder-views/ jaclaz

Which can be translated, more or less, into "you built a 64 bit PE without the 32 bit subsystem", right? If this is the case, won't CPU-Z 64 bit version work? jaclaz

Which exact driver version/date are you using? I believe that the drivers for the 02Micro cardbus/pcmcia are pretty much generic, I see here (example): http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS002488 that some early version cannot recognize "some memory cards" . jaclaz

bookie32, if you plainly ignore what has been posted in an attempt to try and help you, it would be particularly improbable that you will find a solution. Please check those files for ADS, NOW (so that IF that is the issue, it can be solved OR IF that is not an issue ANOTHER reason may be investigated), while there are more than one way to skin a cat, but first we need to know if it is a cat that you have in your hands, anyway READ: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/7aaa9657-123e-4b4e-b31b-4e04543c13cf/windows-7-local-shortcuts-do-you-want-to-open-this-file-warning?forum=w7itproperf There can be several reasons for that dialog to popup and several different ways to remove it. jaclaz

Good , another happy bunny : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128727-cant-access-repair-my-pc-option-via-f8-startup/?p=828512 jaclaz

Check GROUNDing! /of which you made NO mention) READ the read-me-first: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ AND the FGA's: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/147532-fga-for-the-seagate-720011-drives/ That is point #7 in both. Additionally read: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-153#entry968299 jaclaz

Actually such kind of "service offers" (and consequently - though indirectly - corresponding requests) are conflicting with Rule #13: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules You haven't got a friend more familiar with electronics? Or have in the neighbourhood a shop that repairs cellular phones (who normally already has the converter and can follow the guide easily)? jaclaz

Yep , jaclaz

No, I see the point (the goal) alright , I still find it (personally) as something "futile", but that is just my opinion, when "balancing" the hypothetical advantage against the known disadvantages (issues with updates) and the unknown but probable ones (other possible issues in the "normal" working of the OS) of the method/path you chose to get to that goal (which we don't yet know if possible at all). So, once set that straight (compare also with the "But then, why?" in my signature) we can see if there are simpler ways to reach that goal. As an example, IF your issue is about having in Explorer one less folder, set it to hidden/system (and set Explorer options accordingly), then make a junction to it in the subfolder, something *like*: http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/how-to-hide-documents-and-settings-folderjunction jaclaz

Which I would categorize as "very good news" jaclaz

Well, cannot say about Office 365, but if you want an example on how - while re-arranging the deck chairs in 2007 AND in 2010 - they LOST a (sometimes VERY useful) function, here is an example: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155923-any-way-to-cannibalize-the-windows-2000-mouse-driver/?p=1000166 jaclaz

No, actually I am not confident at all in that, personally (but that is just me) I would try slipstreaming those drivers and actually attempt install from hard disk, by preparing with WINNT32 a suitable source on another machine (this will at least save the CD/DVD). The Service Packs are needed to get LBA48 support (before or later you will need that). jaclaz

Lack of imagination/fantasy? Deviated research efforts/investments? You know like : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170503-why-not-invent-a-flying-car-instead-of-one-manned-spaceship/ Actually (no offence whatever intended ) it seems to me like you are trying to reinvent the wheel for "futile" reasons (just having a "cleaner" folder structure). It may be possible or it may be not, but since this same exact "new wheel design" has not been seemingly already invented (or not enough research efforts have been made in that), you'll have to start experimenting on your own and if not wholly "invent" it, adapt prior art to it (if possible). jaclaz

Well, as an example I have convinced my mom (in her eighties) to get an iPad, and she is very happy about it (and so am I). The device completely (and in a very simple way) fulfills her needs/desires which are: sending and receiving e-mails taking pictures (and sending them to friends and relatives) browsing the internet for information play a handful of simple "word" games (like scrabble and ruzzle) online post on her facebook account and comment/like on other people's facebook posts/profiles use Skype or similar to communicateSo, a tablet actually made her "upgrade" from "non-connected" to (mainly) "connected content user" . I have an architect friend that also has got an iPad (and it's great to be able on the very portable thingy to be able to view and annotate Autocad drawings), and now she has also a nice 8-running largish tablet, but try to actually create an Autocad drawing using the touch interface (and not a mouse or a graphic tablet) and come back telling me it is an upgrade. As well, try telling me that Office 2007 or 2010 are upgrades to Office 2003 : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170424-using-office-2003-with-vista-x64-sp2-after-april/?p=1064572 jaclaz

I have read it, rest assured, and as said, provided what I had available related to "changing default folders locations" , which I have no idea if suitable to reach the goal which you have set for yourself. Now you can try them, or try just one of them and assume that the other ones won't work, or (say) experiment with subst, mountpoints or (recursive) junction points , it's your goal, I just tried to assist you providing some related "prior art" . The mentioned kb: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949977/en-us or the related one: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929831/en-us don't mention a limitation of this kind, but it wouldn't be the first (nor the last) time that MS originated info is unclear, incomplete, misleading or plainly wrong. YMMGV jaclaz