jaclaz

Well, the output would be the same with this: FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims==" %%A IN ('TYPE "1.txt"') DO CALL :strip_readd_quotes %%A %%B GOTO :EOF :strip_readd_quotes ECHO %1="%~2" GOTO :EOF jaclaz

Any idea if there is anything even slightly respecting actual facts in this? : If there is, then - as said earlier - humanity is really doomed. jaclaz

Can you please elaborate. Been looking for info on it for a long time. If I recall correctly 7-zip supported initially only some types of .wim compression, but not all. To date the 7-zip 9.30 beta seemingly supports all of them. What was the question? jaclaz

@TheArtfulDodger Try with 7-Zip 9.30 alpha or with 7-Zip 9.25 alpha @submix8c WinPE 4.0 means based on Windows 8 source. You opened a Vista source. .wim format has changed (a little), actually it did not really-really, but 7-zip 9.20 has/had only partial support, if I recall correctly. @both It's OK : http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-3-apples.html jaclaz

Manual: http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/index.html http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/TriGem/manuals/index.html PW3041.zip: http://www.helpdrivers.com/sound/Cirrus_Logic/CS4630/ PW5026.zip: http://www.helpdrivers.com/sound/Cirrus_Logic/CS4281/ wme-j5-30-1-b02.exe: http://www.helpdrivers.com/video/Ati/Rage_Serie/Rage_PRO/ jaclaz

Note. Forget about the built-in Registry editor and get a good tool capable of listing found items . I personally still use the good old "lite" version of Registrar: http://web.archive.org/web/20050706043434/http://www.resplendence.com/downloads jaclaz

Well, network install has never been a problem, though it was a bit troublesome to setup. JFYI, there is a relatively newish "all in one" TFTP and RIS/BINL server, that makes network install "a breeze": http://www.vercot.com/~serva/an/WindowsPXE1.html jaclaz

@jeff it is not about grub. It is about grub4dos. Though grub4dos is derived from grub (legacy) it has a whole lot of added features. If you use network booting you won't have issues with drive lettering, if you do it from USB, you will, as 99.99% of the motherboard will set the USB device as disk 0 (and thus first active partition on it will get C: drive letter). @ponch it is also in the mentioned links. page__view__findpost__p__956290 jaclaz

Why not? jaclaz

Go here: http://windows.microsoft.com/ Search for Windows 7: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/upgrade Say that you already know that you PC is compatible yadda-yadda, click on "Get Windows 7": Get Windows 7 jaclaz

Well, no. That is a USB bootable SETUP for XP. I.e. it is what has been talked and is being about here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ something that you can install XP FROM USB stick. Only issue is that you'll have most probably issues with disk numbering/letters assigned if you don't re-map disks, something that Syxlinux/Memdisk cannot do AFAIK, and that's mainly the reason why grub4dos is generally used instead (besides allowing NTFS, support for it in Syslinux exists, but it was still experimental last time I checked). http://reboot.pro/topic/15086-experimental-ntfs-support-for-syslinux-please-test/ BTW, there is no real need to press F6, see: jaclaz

Mileage varies a lot, IMHO not really because of a program being "good" or bad at "extracting", but rather on how badly was the original .PDF made. This is a freebie, normally works allright and has a bigger brother that is Commercial: http://www.nativewindsofmontana.com/software/tpdfplus.html If the question is "getting a properly formatted Word document from a PDF" there are the issues before mentioned, one of the best one (at least in an early version) is the Foxit one: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/phantomPDF/comparison.php http://www.foxitsoftware.com/PDF_Editor/ which has however a 30 day trial, so your friend can try and see if it does what he needs. jaclaz

Every time I brought my car for servicing to the same car dealer I bought it from I was greeted similarly: Since warranty expired I have it serviced by a local ("authorized" BTW) workshop, that NEVER suggested that I should change my car. I wonder WHY exactly people making repairs tend NOT to suggest to buy new cars, whilst car dealers do . Besides that I would like to know a few "customers" to which Dot Matrix tried to place the new Windows 8 (only to know if they are still among his customers). jaclaz

I think, as said, that it is a "side effect". To provide the "Windows to go" feature to the Enterprise customers they had to implement, besides good USB support for booting (which BTW has already been achieved by third parties) also something like a "mixed mode" between "SystemSetupInProgress" 0 and 1, something like that was already made at the time of Longhorn. This modification neededly affects the whole "architecture". If you think about it there was a BIG change between the old two different loaders (SETUPLDR.BIN and NTLDR), different for install or setup and for "Installed System" and the "unified/unique" BOOTMGR. If I am guessing right, when it comes to hardware drivers, the setup is "always in process", or, if you prefer, the system is EITHER in a permanent "generalized" state and it is "re-specialized" at each boot (I doubt about this) OR (IMHO more probable) when a hardware change is detected it "triggers" it into a "generalized" state. To understand the above use of "generalized" or "specialized", you might need to be familiar with the Sysprep approach (online or offline), see: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=43 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22064 And still, I believe that when you do that, with an already activated Windows 8 you will most likely need to re-activate it, and this may or may not be possible based on the License of the actual version you are using. Additionally, and most probably, this is going to work for a limited period of time, in the sense that as soon as new hardware (needing new drivers NOT already included in Windows 8) will be used, we will be back to 0x000000xy STOP ERRORS and BSOD's (unless the drivers will be slipstreamed, adding more bloat to the already bloated install). jaclaz

Are you talking of "direct connection" or USB connected extenal disks? I am presuming "direct connection", i.e. you connect the disk as first disk through IDE/PATA or SATA. Most probably it is a (nice) side effect of the "Windows to go" new feature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_To_Go (though Windows to go is fully implemented only on the Enterprise edition) jaclaz

Yep , that was also my general idea a very simple program keeping a handle open and not "needing" a CMD Window, didn't thought much to the environment in which it is run, sorry . Of course one could use nircmd to simply hide that window but it would be a little like "cheating" jaclaz

Not for windows, so, no alternative at all. Well you will be the first one that cannot use xchm on Windows: http://xchm.sourceforge.net/ Now, if you are not capable of getting (from the above) to here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchm/ and from the above to here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchm/files/?source=navbar and from the above click on either of: Download xchm-1.19win32.zip (906.5 kB) or get here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xchm/files/xCHM%20for%20Win32/ and click on: xchm-1.19 you might want to take a course on "navigating the internet". jaclaz

Possibly related : Why Tech Projects Fail: 5 Unspoken Reasons http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/why-tech-projects-fail-5-unspoken-reason/240152282?pgno=1 jaclaz

Well, you shouldn't post here just links to your site, and particularly your approach seems offensive towards rabbits Bunnies are cool. B) And they have NO copy protection (results in cloning may vary, though ) jaclaz

it's on the shelf, on the right, just behind winnsi.dll Here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766156(v=ws.10).aspx BUT read also: particularly: page__st__12 jaclaz

@tomasz86 Just so you know, Ryan is not a very popular name in Italy . @Ryan Giving up is NOT an option! Maybe something else is the issue (too many tings together, HFslip+nlite integration besides the actual SATA drivers). As well it is possible that WinsetupfromUSB, in the latest before latest Beta has an issue with that source. Maybe if you are willing to try again, we can do something more complex (please read as "simpler") and manually install to a FAT16 or FAT32 partition from DOS, with just the drivers integrated. BTW it is well possible that WinSetupfromUSB is using firadisk that has some issues with 2K (at least had them last time I checked) so it is possible that 0x0000007b comes from firadisk and not from the AMD driver. jaclaz

OT but not much , you can probably do the same by running something *like* these http://www.bgreco.net/reminder.php http://code.google.com/p/removable-drive-reminder/ Or put together something in AutoIt ... http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/9683-dont-forget-your-usb-key/ jaclaz

Even more simply, you can add a "column" in Task Manager and see which processes write (or read) the more bytes, it is not "exact", but give pretty much the idea of what is hogging. http://www.myitforum.com/articles/1/view.asp?id=5254 jaclaz

Start by reading FIRST, the READ-ME-FIRST AND the FGA's: (they are "stickies" for a reason ) Come back after a successful loopback test. Search on the board? Here: jaclaz

Caps, dencorso, who usually provides very correct advice , replied you almost 4 (four years ago) here: Besides NOT having the decency to reply AND thank him for the assistance he provided (NO matter if useful or not) you simply CANNOT go on like this . dencorso provided you with a piece of info, which is either accurate (most probably ) or it is not. Have you §@ç#ing TRIED following it? (simple try using the UNmodified SP1.0a .dll?) WHAT were the results? jaclaz