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I tend to think that the technical service at Seagate is very similar to the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation : http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation jaclaz

Let's start again from scratch, OK? HOW is the directory structure you use made? Example (this is what I would personally use): ROOT --------->Mynicebats -------------------------->Launch.bat -------------------------->Winxp.bat -------------------------->Win7.bat -------------------------->Apps [DIR] ------------------------------------------>Winrar [DIR] ------------------------------------------------------------>winrar.exe ------------------------------------------>Chrome [DIR] ------------------------------------------------------------>chrome.exe ... etc. Now, you can use: @ECHO off CD /D %~dp0 CD "apps\winrar\" ECHO Installing WinRAR winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... Which will change the directory (no matter which drive it is) to the "Mynicebats" directory and then change it to Mynicebats\apps\winrar or do something easier (two possibilities): @ECHO off CD /D %~dp0apps\winrar ECHO Installing WinRAR winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... There is seemingly no need to actually change directory at all. @ECHO off ECHO Installing WinRAR %~dp0apps\winrar\winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... or: @ECHO off ECHO Installing WinRAR START /WAIT "" %~dp0apps\winrar\winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! .... jaclaz

I thought my idea was clear enough and anyway Geej explicited it. Did you notice how the output of the added DIR command was NOT the same in the two runs? In the original batch you are using relative paths" that may be NOT the same when you run the app manually and when you run it from runonce. The: CD %~dp0 should make a whole lot of difference (at least the program will run always from the directory where win7.bat resides. jaclaz

Do you want to check for all duplicate files in C:\downloaded and D:\backup ? duplicatefilefinder C\downloaded: D:\backup notepad duplicates.txt jaclaz

Try running this modified win7.bat, both form command line and from runonce.... @ECHO off DIR ../apps/winrar/ ECHO Does this throw an error? PAUSE DIR ECHO In which PATH (directory) am I? PAUSE CD.. CD "apps/winrar/" ECHO Installing WinRAR winrar.exe /s cls ECHO Installation completed ! ECHO All Applications installed ! pause > NUL jaclaz

Good, another happy bunny . jaclaz

Sure, that's why I tagged is as "basic" . It' called DuplicateFileFinder and not DuplicateFileFinderAndDeleter However the approach used by Coderforlife is particularly interesting as it allows very fast "matching" . BTW, on NTFS filesystems and IF filename remained the same, this is also fastish (but of course only partially answers the OP question): http://ndff.hotbox.ru/en/ (there are several tools similarly based on direct $MFT parsing): jaclaz

Sure, one must start somewhere . Anyway, read here WHY exactly you started your new experience with the wrong foot : http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12166 http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=12166&f=1&start=0#p79321 (not that the good guys at hddguru are particularly friendly/easy with non-pro's, but from time to time you can get some useful info from there). Sometimes things simply "hang". Start again from scratch, including re-booting the PC (it could also depend on the OS you are running). Then, after having powered off the drive (possibly for sixty seconds and not thirty), see the recommended guide: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html but you can also try NOT powering it of BUT remember to change level or try closing the hyperterminal window a start a new session. jaclaz

If a basic one would do.... http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/utilities/#DuplicateFileFinder jaclaz

Please describe the feature(s) that you need (or that you think you need) and that is not among the ones of zback: jaclaz

Well, there is a thread dedicated to this: summing up all the various tricks and tweaks and what not that people has uses and uses to run 98 day to day with more than 1 Gb Ram . Of these, not all use the Ram limitation patch by R.Loew. jaclaz

I would dare to say that the images on the original john's phone are slightly more understandable for a child than the printout: On - Off End call Answer http://johnsphones.org/ There are by now what, tens of "simplified phones" around, not really a "new idea". Wait, but those have all the figures from 0 to 9 (very difficult for a child that can easily fix your dvd recorder, set your radio alarm clock, and reset your smartphone - all without reading instructions - in under two minutes ) This is better: http://cnipopman.en.made-in-china.com/product/YqzxgMLCHXVG/China-A88-Child-Mobile-Phone-Q6-Ibaby-Kids-Cell-Phone.html though it has icons for headset on and off hook, that a child cannot understand and numbers from 1 to 4 This is better: http://cnipopman.en.made-in-china.com/product/lMLEzPuKYvhG/China-Gk301-Kids-Mobile-Phone-With-GPS-Tracker.html And this is even better: http://www.dhgate.com/promotion-ibaby-cute-baby-mobile-phone-kids/p-ff80808132a4f51a0132b9e392a437d1.html our good Chinese friends - having a few thousands years of cultural background and some experience with ideograms, clearly much more cleverly thinking than the UK buffoons that "invented" the ownphone, hypothized that a kid would likely want to call (or actually be allowed to call): Mom Dad Home School SOS and risked to pre-print those along with nice sketches of the words. And once again, we have proof that the Simon like interface and colours are aimed to kids . jaclaz

Good , then you failed to understand how this thread in which you posted is ONLY related to the 7200.11 model (strangely enough it's title is ."The Solution for Seagate 7200.11 HDDs" and not "Generic thread about any issue with any disk"). You dont' really want to open a disk (at all) and certainly not "to see if the heads are moving". In any case, once you will have opened it , unless you have a suitable CLEAN environment (and if you have one or know how to build one, probably you would not be here asking for help) and you have some previous experience in repairing disks (and again that would make improbable that you would be here), the disk has around 99.99% of probabilities to never work again once re-assembled. Seriously, DON'T EVEN THINK of opening a disk (of course if not for fun, after having decided that the disk - and any data in it is of no value for you). jaclaz

Well, I don' t see any possible way in which that can be a response connected to my previous post. Three clear statements: there is no need to update or "mantain" XP (actually there is no real *need* to update XP since SP2 if not for security reasons, and for security related to connection to the internet or to an insecure LAN) (see note below) NASA or the agency managing the International Space Station (hopefully) provides (on Earth) a well secured system (IF they provide Internet access to the astronauts ) NASA or the agency managing the International Space Station (hopefully) does not use Excel to calculate trajectories How good you are at programming , how smart or dumb the USAF may be in using NT based systems (supported or unsupported) for the *whatever* they use them, the whatever changes in compilers, have NOTHING to do with my post. Note: Hey people, remember that when we talk of XP, we talk of a system that (with it's defects and "quirks") has been working for many years in the very large majority of PC's on Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP Service Pack 1 was a "needed" bugfix on September 2002 Service Pack 2 was mainly an "added features" on August 2004 (and contains lots of "security" related fixes) Service Pack 3 was almost totally "security related" in April 2008 At least since Service Pack 1 Windows XP has worked. I am running a SP2 XP, with NO issues whatsoever. For all it matters, once excluded the "security related" fixes, and updates directly or indirectly connected to the changes in the Internet, (i.e. as an example a PC NOT connected in a LAN and/or the 'net) and/or the *need* to use the latest software, any SP level XP normally does what is supposed to do, it's not like for 2 years between 2002 and 2004 and for 4 more years between 2004 and 2008 everything stopped working and humans reverted to living in caves due to the failure of computing technology. Every office in the world continued using their PC's to do what they had done before, actually if there were issues, there were initially with SP3.... Strangely enough humanity survived even without latest Service Pack, and without *essential* features like UAC and DEP (and Silverlight ) . (and BTW before that we managed to live without WFP and plug 'n play) jaclaz

Really? Guess why the README FIRST: (yes the one that you should read BEFORE posting here, that is linked to in big red bold letters on first post and is reminded on the top of each and every page has this to say on the matter: Who knows? But surely the second you said. jaclaz

Since that is seemingly the same model that Tripredacus originally linked to, what remains to know are the names of the "Startech tech support" guys that talked to Trip... jaclaz

Something like : http://titan.fsb.hr/~dzorc/zback.html jaclaz

Well, with all due respect , besides the fact that Windows XP didn't make sense (as OS on laptops - or whatever - on the International Space Station) even when it was supported by MS, the only meaningful updates to XP are or could be "security patches" and particularly those preventing "remote code execution" and similar. Now I would think that the good NASA guys (or whomever is the International Space Station ISP ) have some "sound and solid" firewall/filtering and that astronauts don't do much browsing/searching for p0rn, warez and similar possibly "insecure" sites.... As well I don' think the good NASA guys ever used Excel to calculate vectors and routes.... http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/users/vuik/wi211/disasters.html ...and certainly never multiplied 850 by 77.1: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/excel_2007_bug/ BTW, in that occasion (strangely ) the good MS guys misrepresented the bug: jaclaz

Naah, much earlier than that : http://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html jaclaz

I don't think there is a way, if not by using a VBA function. Something *like*: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/342753-insert-alt-enter-into-cell-column-defined-comma-counted.html Once said that, the reasoning: may not be "exahaustive enough". Why not using on the same rows more columns, one for each telephone number? Those could be the "rightmost" columns (possibly also hidden or "closed") and you could have as last right column of the area you print (or whatever) something with a formula like: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/298732-formula-insert-alt-enter-into-cell.html Say that you have: A1 Name B1 Surname C1 Telephones A2 John B2 Doe C2 =TEXT(Y2;"(000) 000-0000")&CHAR(10)&TEXT(Z2;"(000) 000-0000")<- this will result as the phone numbers on two lines and formatted as you like. Y2 5551234567 Z2 9875554321 jaclaz

What is a "1080p" screen? Seriously, the quality of what you see (in my personal scale) is connected to (remember, games were excluded, thus fast changing images are not that much an issue): Quality of video card (and it's drivers) 40% Quality of display 50% Quality of the connecting cable 3% Type of connection (VGA/DVI/etc.) 1% Prejudices of the onlooker 6% <- and in any case beauty is in the eye of the beholder . Until we are within "normal" resolutions (and in the case of a LCD display "native" resolution - a 23" is likely to be 16/10 1920 X 1080 @ 60 Hz ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/66949.aspx http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10216488-1.html The difference could be only if - for any reason - the VGA port of the monitor has "worse" circuitry than the other ports. I.e. it is well possible that a given couple video card + Display may work sub-optimally with VGA,, but I would call that a (rare) exception. Probably on non-native resolutions, it is more likely that a difference can be found. jaclaz

Surely not, but you just gracefully descended off the paranoids' bus today. Noone was even thinking that you were not fully qualified for the *whatever* you are qualified for . It was just myself and puntoMX remembering the good ol' days.... jaclaz

@puntoMX Sure , and there are also Gold coated Audio cables, and coat hangers, just google for comparisons. jaclaz

It's not like a (say) 1280x1024 screen will have more (or clearer) pixels through displayport than through VGA. Check: http://superuser.com/questions/15884/hdmi-vs-component-vs-vga-vs-dvi-vs-displayport There may be very rare cases in which the VGA signal may "catch" some disturbs/noise, but apart from that, there is actually no difference in the way the signal is transmitted. Think of beer the difference from getting the SAME beer as bottled beer or canned (or directly as draught beer ) is barely noticeable (if noticeable at all). The quality of the beer will make a difference, though . jaclaz

As a "general rule", even if you find only the XP drivers, you can have a look at the inf files and use some of the pid/vids inside them to search for other OS drivers. Is your PC one of these? http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-of-2-Dell-OptiPlex-GX150-SFF-Desktop-Pentium-3-Small-Form-Computer-PARTS-/261212632640?pt=US_Wholesale_Desktop_Computers&hash=item3cd17c7640 The GFX150 comes in different form factors. The good guys at DELL have not (yet) understood that different products should have different names. Manual is here: ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_optiplex_desktop/optiplex-gx150_User%27s%20Guide_en-us.pdf Drivers here: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/Product/optiplex-gx150 (select Windows 98 in the drop down list) should apply to all of them. jaclaz