jaclaz

See here: http://reboot.pro/topic/16214-wow64/ http://theoven.org/index.php?topic=250.0 http://reboot.pro/topic/18071-32bit-applications-on-64bit-pe-session-winpe-4/ If you cannot (or don't want) for any reason use in of the ChrisR Winbuilder projects 7PESE (or WIN8PE) or the wimb makePE3 builder that do include the WOW64 subsystem, you may have better luck in replicating their behaviour than the OP's in the above threads. Some additional info is here: http://reboot.pro/topic/16544-create-a-bootable-winpe-40-usb-drive/ and consequently here: http://reboot.pro/topic/16544-create-a-bootable-winpe-40-usb-drive/?p=151209 http://reboot.pro/topic/11852-make-pe3-program-to-create-portable-windows-7-pe/page-31#entry151208

Some manufacturers provide suitable "TRIMming tools". Intel, Samsung, Corsair for sure: http://wp.xin.at/archives/920 The one by Samsung is called SSD Magician. Please understand how the TRIM command doesn't actually "do" anything, it simply points unused areas to the "garbage collector" (which is in the actual SSD firmware), so there is not in practice much difference between a "TRIM enabled OS" that "continuously" updates this "list" and a tool that "periodically" does the same. Moreover, the part that actually does the work, the "garbage collector" has evolved in the meantime and some SSD's sport a "background garbage collector" that automatically/automagically scans the SSD in background and "finds itself" which data is to be reused/optimized. Remember how the TRIM doesn't work, even in 7, on "non-single" SSD's (as an example on RAID setups), it is only logical that either motherboard manufacturers or SSD ones try to make the thingy as efficient as possible independently from the OS TRIM command availability. jaclaz

Try the RegPad I posted a link to before, this could give you some ideas on a possible different way to view a "plain text" file which is a .reg file. jaclaz

Maybe, since Nuhi is back, we may ask him the actual "intentions" behind the original nlite license. It seems to me how the idea was well before the current (BTW senseless) BYO device approach (which is probably what Rhetro is needing the nlite for). Just for reference BYOD madness considerations: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163387-byod-ideas-opinions-whatever/ @Rhetro Basically nlite is not particularly needed in your case. Apart the "fun" of it (I mean "liteing" XP), the issues with a "stock" XP installs are two: amount of space on disk occupied amount of memory/resources/CPU neededthe first one is not (nowadays) much of a problem, a "normal" XP install + Office + some "normal" archiving space would go within 4 Gb, in a VM the actual disk access is usually very fast, so it is not a "real" issue. If you are truly "Commercial" as said before a XPlite would do and 40 bucks or so won't make that much impact on a budget that implies a Mac and Parallels, or you can serach and locate the n articles here and there on the 'net (though nowhere like the nlite and/or XPlite efficiency/thoroughfulness) there are a number of "tricks" that allow to reduce the used space, examples: http://www.marcofolio.net/tips/tips_to_shrink_the_windows_directory_to_create_space.html or http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=192199 the second one can be obtained through the advices on the mentioned blackviper site, by removeing/disabling the zillion unneeded services otherwise normally running in the backgroundjaclaz

A blast from the past : http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/437292-regpad-alpha-011/ http://web.archive.org/web/20070208094439/http://redllar.virtualplastic.net/regpad.html BTW NOT really-really what was asked . jaclaz

Curiously enough EXACTLY the SAME reasons why a multitude of people still use the MS Operating Systems on a PC, that is because they have "legacy", see here the actual meaning , please: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/legacy-is-not-a-pejorative.html application/tools/whatever that do not (or do not easily) work on Linux or OsX (or my preferred "alternate OS, which is FreeBSD). What the MS guys broke (intentionally) with Windows 8 (and of course with Windows RT in a much more effective manner) is the non-written agreement about the possibility (often with just a few, simple tricks) to run "legacy" software. In the last few years (some examples): They removed (almost) direct disk access. They removed the possibility to run, simple, easy, .com files. They made the usage of a PC (for a non technical savvy user, possibly with limited access credentals) a "nightmare", they forced all the "home" users to implement a "corporation like" structure, with any PC being multi-user, having an Administrator and an user with limited powers, de-facto forced the use of NTFS (which makes very little sense on a personal device), invited everyone (thanks to the BIG OEM's too) to have the possibly most stupid setup with a single "monolythic" filesystem (anyone having run a CHDKSK /R on a laptop with a 500 GB hard disk, obviously a single huge volume with the pagefile on it - Windows cannot access this volume, do you want to schedule it on next reboot - from "safe mode"? ) . They forced the (senseless) Silverlight (deceased) and the (also senseless) mass of bloat which is .NET, besides all the crappy vearious Internet Explorer's. They made the system so complex (while still keeping it insecure enough ) that you (or at least the common user) is forced to use an antivirus, that will typically hog the system, devouring at least 1/3 of RAM and up to 100% CPU when booting. They actually deserve IMHO the lack of success they are now experiencing. jaclaz

Very likely, as said before, what you get is the TTL of the return packet, and it is the router that only sends TTL 64 On my (XP) PC, if I ping "self", I get TTL 128, if I ping my router I get TTL 64, if I ping other PC's I still get TTL 128, but if I ping a (network) Brother printer I have, I get TTL 60 , so I believe that is the "target" that sets what you get back. jaclaz

Well, you can try to ping localhost (or 127.0.0.1), which gave you 255 against pinging "self" with the actual PC IP address 192.168.x.y and pinging other devices in your intranet (if it gives 64 the matter is nicely explained, IMHO). jaclaz

Well for all you (or I) can know, it is very possible that the PC "attributes" a TTL (time to live) of 64 for packets belonging to the intranet (192.168.0.1 and most probably 255.255.255.0) and a longer 255 one to the ones going "outside". jaclaz

It is possible, but what you get is not AFAICU the "remaining" from the TTL you attribute to the ping (which is the time to live that you give to "your" ping, i.e. how many hops are allowed to get to the target) but rather what remains from what the target attributes to the "return" packet, i.e. how many hops were encountered from the target (if the target gives to the return packet of 64 - like a number of servers do, this would explain the behaviour nicely). Try running this : for /L %A IN (1,1,20) do @ping -n 1 -i %A 8.8.8.8 | FIND "TTL"then ping the "intermediate" servers and see what results you get. Or use this as a batch (pingttl.cmd): @ECHO OFFSET target=8.8.8.8FOR /L %%? IN (1,1,20) DO (FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=: " %%A IN ('ping -n 1 -i %%? %target% ^| FIND "TTL"') DO ECHO %%? %%A & ping -n 1 %%A | FIND "TTL")Any intermediate "hop" may provide a pingback or not, and decide to give to the forwarded packet a different TTL. jaclaz

Try doing another thing: ping 127.0.0.1or: ping localhostWhat do you get as TTL (64, 128, or what)? Then check this: http://www.corenetworkz.com/2013/08/change-ttl-value-set-ping-packets.html jaclaz

The "last freeware" (stable) version should be 2013-08-01, which is available from a number of hosting sites, namely MajorGeeks, here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/parted_magic.html The Source Code which should be here is seemingly also not updated (at least the tar): http://beefdrapes.partedmagic.com/source/ We will see how this change in distribution will affect the popularity of the thingy, since it is free (as in free speech or "freedom") software, anyone is free to get a copy (paying for it) and to redistribute it, so I wonder how long it will take until newish versions will be all over the net. jaclaz

No, you cannot "remove" a password that is NOT there. jaclaz

There are some reasons for the change, see here: http://adrian15sgd.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/making-money-out-of-rescatux-and-parted-magic-binary-being-pay-only/ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQzNTI Obviously (but I doubt how much "fairly") all old versions have been removed from the sourceforge repository. jaclaz

Most probably you do not want to "remove" the password, you rather want to by-pass it. This may (or may not ) be what you want to try: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163190-passpass-bypass-the-password/ YMMGV jaclaz

Good, happy it worked for you. Just in case, and for anyone coming here, it is complete nonsense to talk about colour of cables of a CA-42 (or similar phone USB adapters). One of the reasons why a CA-42 is NOT advised is that most people that will use a CA-42 are not very practical with this kind of things and will have issues in finding the "right" cables. To this you add that there are at least TWO kinds of CA-42 (one that needs an external 3-5 V power supply and one that does not as it takes the power from the USB side) and that the CA-42 has been manufactured in several factories (the original Nokia one) and in countless other ones (the "fake" ones, even those perfectly working). In each of those factories, in various periods or "batches" of production every possible wire colours may hae been used to connect anything to anything else. To find which is which use the known connector pinout on the "Nokia phone" side, see here for an example: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/?p=881965 or just google for the pinout: https://www.google.it/search?&channel=suggest&biw=1283&bih=854&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=ca-42+pinout&oq=ca-42+pinout jaclaz

But you got the wrong link , in this case jaclaz would have most probably earlier used the Standard Litany one (which is introductory to the chocolate covered banana issue) : http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

No need to speculate, it's another form of Apple-envy If Apple can have no idea of what it has sold (and thus provide not detailed information, and actually sort of get away with it): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155290-windows-8-deeper-impressions/?p=1050032 then so will do MS. jaclaz

Yep , and they came totally unexpected! (which was actually the general idea ) jaclaz

Something like: http://reboot.pro/topic/18744-quickpe/ jaclaz

That's exactly the point. The Spanish Inquisition did not record videos, and this is among the reasons why no videos of similar "interviews" ever leaked . They also did not make (lousy) Powerpoint slides to illustrate to the apprentices/newbies how to carry an interview or listing what they could do through the use of the tools they had available. jaclaz

Well, the contrary of "announced" is "secret", which the Beta9 and/or rc4 (and later versions, be it beta, rc or *whatever*) are seemingly not, since you actually published a link to download them. Adding to the filename a date, possibly in iso-like format yyyymmdd or yyyy-mm-dd is just a way to know easily which version is more recent, without trying to "decode" the otherwise complex naming convention that the developer uses (and that of course is never publicly disclosed). More generally, there are a lot of sites with completely unuseful/unneeded/not working programs, and when we happen to have an actually useful/working program, it has not a site. Life is tough! If you are nice , I could consider your nomination for the "developer that makes good tools AND actually talks with the other peeps, BUT manages nonetheless to fail in publishing properly his/her works 2014 Award". You have good chances to get the 1st prize for that. jaclaz

I would say that you are lucky in not being particularly interested in entomology (just sayin'), JFYI : http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 jaclaz

The sheer fact that TWO DIFFERENT versions of something with the same filename of "Win Setup_1-0RC4.7z" exist would be enough to allow some (heavy) calling names at you . However you have just been awarded 2nd prize for the "2013 Developer that makes his/her products less easily available and/or that uses the least reliable hosting service on Earth and/or incoorectly naming files Award". You could have got 1st prize , if it was not for al-jo over at reboot.pro, who clearly deserves it. . (and beware that Olof Lagerkvist is currently in the race for the 2014 award. and seemingly well placed with his newish released tool) For no apparent reason, I just downloaded a copy of your "less older" version, renamed it to: Win Setup_1-0RC4_20130930.7z and uploaded it to zshare: http://www2.zshares.net/5gs5428liw79 jaclaz

I wouldn't be so sure. The whole point of the Spanish Inquisition coherence was that they NEVER proclaimed to be "defenders of freedom", nor that the *whatever* they did was in the interest of the general public, they simply had the power and exercised is they way they see fit. They claimed to be defenders of faith and of the Roman Church, which is something different from freedom. They may have been bad guys, but at least they didn't try to be loved. As I see it, the real issue with *whatever* the secret agencies do is that it is not secret enough (they fail at keeping it a secret) and that they try to justify it. On the other hand, given the nature and size of the known leaks, it is preoccupying that they could have happened at all (it means that they also fail at running their surveillance programs), so seemingly not only a zillion dollars are spent into what can be seen as a breach of rights of the citizens (and of constitutional rights) but also they seem to be quite ineffective (the Spanish Inquisition had a surprisingly high success rate, something like 99.99999% of suspects being found guilty ). If you prefer, the Spanish Inquisition guys appear to have been more professional in their activities, and protected their correspondence/reports/meeting drafts/whatever with higher efficiency. jaclaz