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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

@dencorso Well, just for the record, even the current FAT article on Wikipedia has more than one issues. I will cite, not to make it too technical a couple sentences in the exFAT part: Someone that writes: "exFAT is an incompatible file system" <- incompatible with WHAT? "Storage devices formatted as exFAT cannot exchange data with equipment not supporting the format." <- Really? Good moorning, Mr. de La Palice! I have rarely seen a storage device actually "willing" to "exchange" data, BUT all those that were formatted with *any* filesystem not supported by the equipment, no matter what filesystem it was, had on them data that was not readily accessible by the equipment. should IMNSHO be slapped (hard) in the face to have him/her wake up! BUT, I still think that WIkipedia is nonetheless a VERY GOOD resource for the "base info" You have nailed down the real issue - which now is, in an attempt to avoid incorrect articles, an excessive, indiscriminate (and often plainly wrong) use of rules, the worst of which is "citationism", which is one of the ways to verify the contents that makes lots of sense about "established" topics, but make NONE WHATSOEVER when it comes to "news", "research" and "new development". Basically if you don't have two or three "reputable" sources to backup *any* statement, one of the "strict" Wikipedians will soon edit them (BTW without understanding them or actually verifying them). And the "English" Wikipedia is not that bad . Cannot say the other languages, but I have recently read (with HORROR ) the discussion on the Italian one about CAINE, a (BTW IMHO very good) completely Open Source, linux based, Forensic Distro, whose author, Nanni Bassetti, had the page first suspended and then deleted. I - for one - won't have anything to do with people that have that attitude ,. Since I am after all a nice guy , I will limit myself to define those guys as "a bunch of presumptuos, arrogant, good-for-nothing and useless lazy bums". Since I believe you can understand enough Italian, if you want to have a look at it, it is here: http://www.nannibassetti.com/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=182 http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pagine_da_cancellare/Caine/2 jaclaz

Strange results. I mean it is obvious that going through a FOR /F loop in batch should eat some time, but while 7-zip (as expected ) is prolly faster than both EXPAND and CABARC, when using the wildcard specification, it is greatly slower through the loop. This should mean that *somehow* 7-zip is very "slow" at initializing or that cabarc (that you have necessarily timed only in the FOR loop) is d@mn fast at it. Which version of cabarc.exe did you test ? There could be some differences, I have an oldish: Microsoft ® Cabinet Tool - Version 1.00.0601 (03/18/97) <- 114.688 byte And: Microsoft ® Cabinet Tool - Version 5.00.2134.1 <- 65.808 byte Microsoft ® Cabinet Tool - Version 5.1.2600.0 <- 62.976 byte Same goes for Expand.exe and for 7-zip (actually I think there are probably more versions of it that stars in the sky) But can you try also 7za.exe? I suspect that the extra time is because 7z is not "standalone" whilost 7za is BTW (and as a side note) 7zip may have (actually has) issues with CASE of filenames. jaclaz

Have you tried that on a CZECH Windows 2000 source? jaclaz

And how would 7-zip compare? jaclaz

Look, you originally posted that you downloaded a known warez release in order to run "Drive image". If you want to deny that, it's perfectly OK with me, though . Later it was cleared that "Drive image" meant DriveIMageXML (which of course you can legitimately download from Runtime Software site, as it is a freeware for "Private" or personal use only). Just for the record, DriveImageXML appears like being NOT a "backup" solution, but rather an "imaging" one, and it is also NOT within the first 10 results on CNET for "backup". Which right now: http://download.cnet.com/windows/backup-software/?tag=mncol%3Bsort&rpp=10&sort=downloadCount+asc are: FullDataBackup DAEMON Tools Pro EaseUS Todo Backup Free Macrium Reflect Free EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Recuva Acronis True Image Home SyncBackFree Second Copy which are largely NOT strictly "backup" solutions, some are "cloning", some are "imaging", or however "something in between", and a couple like DAEMON Tools and Recuva are completely unrelated programs. Yep, that happens to a lot of people . Many others manage to boot from USB, using one or more tricks. That's good , you have no idea how many people I manage to trick into clicking on them , it is refreshing to find someone who wouldn't . I thought we already had this exchange, see you, have fun . jaclaz

As long as you are now a happy bunny: that's fine with me . jaclaz

Next gadget Idea! A very small muppet theatre, to be placed in front of the Kinect camera, with a single figure moving from time to time (battery powered), coming together with a special correction lens that will let the Kinect think it is a single human staring at the screen from an armchair placed at approximately 2.50 m distance. Before anyone complains , the idea is not entirely original, it was inspired by : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081607/Speeding-puppet-seat-British-car-makes-muppets-German-police.html jaclaz

Just for the record, traditionally 6.21 (in the good ol' days) didn't last a lot, it was a "quick fix" (strangely enough connected with a patent infringement) before the 6.22 was released: http://www.oldcomputermuseum.com/os/msdos_6.21.html jaclaz

WHICH mklink method? (you know like in "you mentioned it, there isn't any mklink method that I know of"). But we can try installing grub4dos to the thingy and try understanding which is the specific issue (it could also be a peculiar problem of that particular specimen of transcend, like a timing issue of some kind, since another stick works fine). If this is the case, we are back to square one the next step would be to attempt using the MP tool to "re-condition" the stick. jaclaz

And you used it through a boot CD which is a known warez release, whose name you edited from your OP, but that remains well understandable in my first reply. @submix8c JFYI : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702&st=122 WHY, in MY day .... http://reboot.pro/topic/1908-why-in-my-day/ jaclaz

Unfortunately yes, in the sense that I was not only born, but was already using (very simple) computers, since a few years in 1983. Ah well, that means that you may need the Commercial US $ 60 version. BTW we never limited the discussion to freeware solutions, didn't we? Well, you already used a WAREZ to make use of DriveImageXML, which also is "XP and up" only, though last time I checked it, it did work on 2K alright: http://www.xxclone.com/ixcman56.htm Ah, well if it's not in the top 10 in CNET and has a bad review, that settles it.. As a matter of fact the one that might be of use could be the even higher priced version, that can also use a folder as target, though one could well use a virtual disk as target.... See you, have fun jaclaz

Maybe stupid suggestion, but why don't you build instead a PE with Make_PE3 or a win7PE_SE project? AFAICR there is full support on both for USB disks/devices. jaclaz

Naaah, next I would try flipping the bit (of course if you the guts for it ). Start reading here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http://www.usbdev.ru/files/alcor/ A suitable tool should be this one: http://yadi.sk/d/95HEgbZl3-ZTR If you have by any chance an USB hard disk (and it is NTFS formatted) have you ever checked if it's bootable on that PC? (it would be of some psychological support to know if a "fixed" device - NTFS - is bootable) jaclaz

First thing .chm are "standard" files alright, if your hlp/chm/help sub-system, for any reason, does not work, use xchm (or a similar .chm reader), like all the rest of the world has done for YEARS . http://xchm.sourceforge.net/ Second thing, yes, evidently you are doing something wrong , but let's wait until you have fully read the REF.CHM . jaclaz

Good, let's see if it changes something, before attempting anything else. Good, it uses an Alcor chip for which an "easy enough" tool to "flip the bit" (if needed) is available. Flipping the removable bit would make the device appear as "fixed" and thus allow to have more partitions accessible, we could then make a small FAT16 or FAT32 partition with just the boot files and the rest NTFS to hold the install "monolithic" wim, if we cannot find a way to have that thingy boot using any of the plainer approaches. jaclaz

Well, they could name it Windows Blues, was it not ready for another copyright infringement: http://www.justsomelyrics.com/704053/band-of-horses-windows-blues-lyrics.html though it has some "common points" : jaclaz