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

See if this is of use: http://nayuki.eigenstate.org/page/fast-md5-hash-implementation-in-x86-assembly Gilles Vollant made some tests some time ago (experimenting with Win 64): http://www.winimage.com/misc/readfile_test.htm http://www.winimage.com/md5-amd64-ms.htm And possibly this (this should be "pure" assembler) http://www.asmcommunity.net/board/index.php?topic=14399.0 which seems written NOT with "speed", but rather with "size" in mind, but maybe still worth a try. See also this: http://blog.rewolf.pl/blog/?p=163#.UWGnx_nLLnE http://code.google.com/p/rewolf-md5/ and this: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/76976-md5sha1crc32rc4base64xxtea-machine-code-version/ jaclaz

Again OT , I have found a very similar syndrome in otherwise very good guys when it come to two subjects: unattended install multi-boot USB sticks with Linux idistro's 1) I am currently running a machine to which I installed XP in 2007 or 2008, all the other machine I have/deal with at home and at office (more or less 15) are running NT 4.0, 2K or XP, NONE of them have ever been re-installed, exception made for one (replaced motherboard). If you assume that 45 minutes is a "reasonable" time to install a MS OS like those, I have totaled around 12 hours installing all of them over the years (and not "full attention" time, I just had to keep an eye on the machine while doing something else, allowing to have a walk, or take a coffe in the meantime), and let's double that to take into account the "base" apps that I install anyway. If you have a look at the forum most of the people "fighting" with "unattended" installs spend tenfold that time to get a "perfect unattended" with such "refinements" as custom coloured setup billboards (which BTW, if it is actually "unattended" noone will see) and possibly sophisticated and including each and every driver, etc., etc.. Now a minority actually have used this "perfect unattended" CD/DVD to install hundreds or thousands of times (because they work in a Computer Shop or are IT and deal with a large number of machines) , but I suspect that the majority have used it ony a handful of times or simply re-installed over and over routinely as a ("wrong" BTW) "maintenance step". 2) When it comes to bootable USB sticks, I am very perplexed by the number of people that have (or want to have) any completely senseless number of Linux distro's on it. The good thing about the Linux OS is that it is perfectly and fully customizable (in a much easier way than MS OS are, obviously) from an "exactly same" core, and since there is this possibility what does a lot of people do? Add more and more distro's (which apart some graphical effects/looks) contain exactly the same programs. To me it is logical to try (one by one) a few distro's, then choose one and use that one ONLY the I fancy, learning little by little to use it at it's full potential, adding/changing a few specific programs, removing others that I don't use, etc., i.e. exactly what I have always done with MS OSes. A lot of people fall instead in what I call "collector's frenzy", the desire to add to a bootable stick each and every distro (which again contain more or less exactly the same tools under a different "skin") and never learn to use in "advanced mode" any of them. I suspect that somewhere there are (underground) meetings where these peeps boast the number of distro's they manage to assemble into a single USB stick and that they never used after the initial booting and desktop appearing. jaclaz

As often happens, OT but not much (and NO, NOT "News"): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/apple-hit-with-class-acti_n_849936.html http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a378026/apple-sued-by-us-parents-over-addictive-kids-games.html These are actually (almost) "News": http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/02/25/apple-settles-in-app-suit/ jaclaz

(small) Pearls of wisdom for today (directly from MS Windows 8 site): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/how-sign-in-as-administrator Sure, but I actually asked you how do I know if I am ALREADY signed in as an administrator, if I wanted to know how to to sign in as an administrator, I would have asked that question INSTEAD. Listen, pal, if I had an administrator available, I would have asked him/her this question, and not come here to be told to find an administrator! But I don't want to change any setting! I just want to know if I am signed in as administrator... Ah, OK, thanks. Really I actually was unable to draw this conclusion myself, I can §@ç#ing READ, you know (otherwise I would have asked an administrator, hoping he can actually read .... ) jaclaz

Sure it does, with the "right" switches: http://ss64.com/nt/rd.html In case of need....: BUT here we are in "Windows 9x / ME".... jaclaz

Sometimes they return : Caps (can I call you "Caps"? ) have you actually checked the reply by dencorso in the above? Just to try and keep everything as together as possible : jaclaz

On second thought: You lose. The /minint parameter was added to the Kernel with XP. There is NO way to make a PE (which LiveXP is, notwithstanding the name) from Windows 2000 files. BUT it is (was) possible to make a "full" Windows 2000 run from CD. (and consequently I presume to have it run from .iso) Unfortunately the (Commercial) software that allowed to do so (basically a couple of smart drivers) went lost in the midst of time, company acquisitions (and thus re-focusing) and what not. See: ?hl=2000#entry54885 And YES, I am citing (mostly) myself, so these info are not suitable for Wikipedia and you won't find it among the "most popular" on CNET... XP on Cd is on the other hand possible and documented (JFYI): BUT, a nice chap made something like that possible with 2K too (besides with XP, different method/approach than ETBOOT) : http://www.resqware.com/ Windows 2000 should work, but it is not officially supported, see FAQ's: http://www.rescueboot.com/help/FAQ.htm http://www.resqware.com/faq/faq.htm#6 Of course since less and less people are running "only" Windows 2000 there is very little work done to "better" the thingy, make it more flexible, etc. jaclaz

Of course Opera would be better But two out of three is not at all that bad jaclaz

Here: you can find a chill pill (that you definitely need to take, NOW!). If you check your own signature, you may see how it spells : Everyone knows how if you send ProductId if there is a transmission error it comes out as ProductKey. Seriously , a mistake can happen to everyone , and this does not in any way authorize you to feel offended, or to accuse others of not being attentive enough. The issue is clearly originated here: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19/ and in the mentioned REF.CHM. Problem being that BOTH are related to Windows XP (and possibly to XP SP1(a) or later). if you simply did your homework in your attempts to solve your problem, you could have possibly found quickly this one: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250985/en-us this one: http://people.consolidated.net/veeger/XP/xpinstall.html and (not so far in the internet ): jaclaz