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Well, Google actually maps odours too: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/ jaclaz

You mean UNICODE? jaclaz

In what sense precautions? The file TYPEd must be "plain text", that's all. jaclaz

See if anything here is of use/help/etc.: ?p=160588 This: should work alright (but is about Windows 8 on USB hard disk, so you will need to experiment, reportedly it is possible to use a Windows 7 VHD with this, though cannot say if in the "native" mode). jaclaz

Just to keep you informed, you have at least one satisfied user of the new set : http://reboot.pro/topic/11852-make-pe3-program-to-create-portable-windows-7-pe/?p=170386 jaclaz

It would be interesting to know HOW exactly you got to know that it is "rubbish" (it is not ). If you want to learn WHY it is not, read : (where you will also find some links to simple, clear, complete Tutorials by Steve6375) Well, if you are looking for a multiboot USB stick you are in the wrong place, this is: MSFN Forum > Unattended Windows Discussion & Support > Multi-Boot CD/DVDs Since what you really want is a multi-boot USB stick to install from it different flavours of windows, this is more suited : MSFN Forum > Member Contributed Projects > Install Windows from USB http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ jaclaz

See if this works: http://md5sum.codeplex.com/ Executable is 7168 bytes. Or this one: http://keir.net/md5file.html 6656 bytes. jaclaz

Try with a "plain": FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=, " %%a in ('TYPE 1.inf') do echo %%a,%%b jaclaz

Pipe it into FIND. FINDSTR/IR "sp.qfe" 1.inf | FIND /i "SP2QFE" jaclaz

You must be joking, I pointed to a 28 Kb file which I thought being "huge" . The mentioned dsfo.exe is around 6 Kb. The 2 Kb sized one seems like the "right" thing, it would be nice if you could find it, maybe there is a version suitable fro Windows 2000. jaclaz

Well, I don't see any issue in using a FREE (freely redistributable) MD5 calculator and "embed" it in a .script (i.e. creating it on the fly or more simply including it in the "main" download .zip or whatever). Point might be to find a no-frill one (tiny). This one is a good candidate: http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/ The DSFOK dsfo.exe is MUCH smaller but unfortunately it is not redistributable "by itself". Another point of interest would be WHY choosing MD5. (if the idea is a check for consistency MD5 might not be needed and a simpler hash like CRC32 might do) jaclaz

Let's say you didn't do much to convey the idea that you are instead a very expert PC user. For the record, if you were such an expert, you would have known that XXCLONE (notwithstanding it's name) is actually a tool capable of doing incremental backups. On the other hand if you were a real "newbie", maybe you might have listened to Browncoat's suggestion and at least have checked what XXCLONE can do. I presume you must be "catalogued" as "expert, but not enough" or as "less expert than what you think" . Sure , but it sounds a lot like : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes jaclaz

Remember that DriveIMageXML images drives and NOT whole disks. (just to disambiguate between "whole drive" and "whole disk drive"), there is a lot of confusion on the terms DriveIMageXML deals with the *whatever* that gets a drive letter. See: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22563 jaclaz

Yep . And guess WHAT exactly you use if your Windows 8 cannot download/install an App from the Store? (let's say SkyPE ) http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/2012/12/06/windows-8-store-dealing-with-this-application-wasnt-installed-error/ http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_store/windows-8-apps-not-downloading-all-stuck-on/5e70122e-7bac-456d-a318-e8aae43fa2c3 BTW, that is also the "official" method by MS for similar issues: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/windows-update-error-0x80246002 interestingly the approach is the same since Windows 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958046/en-us this might tell you something about how "new" and "revolutionary" is the actual underlying OS .... jaclaz

I can browse and access the list of Apps on the apple App Store from my XP (and Opera) with no issues whatsoever, I cannot on MS Windows 8 store. Of course I cannot download the apps, but I would expect (though I haven't tried that) to be able to download an iPad app from iTunes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS) As a matter of fact, my mom has an iPad and from time to time I check for her/search for her an App on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios/id36?mt=8 jaclaz

Some old news (and predictions ): http://www.cultofmac.com/65968/why-microsofts-mall-of-america-store-will-fail/ Of course there must be some bias, I don't expect someone on a site titled "Cult of Mac" to be particularly neutral , but some points are (were) interesting IMHO. jaclaz

On a side note, I got curious about the Windows Store and looked for some info about it. As you all surely know, the store is not browsable if not from Windows 8 (or at least I did not find a way ). Which is a good thing, so noone will be able to use the office connection form XP or 7 to download an app that he/she wants to later deploy to his/her home PC and as well prevents old grumpy dinosaurs like myself from seeing what actually is in it and comment on the contents. Imagine how useful is a shop's window (forgive me the pun) that you can only see through if you already have a given make/brand set of special glasses. I mean, let's imagine that I am out shopping for a tablet, maybe my choice could be based not only with the feeling of the thingy in my hands, but also by what Apps there are available for it. Am I the ONLY one finding ironical that if you go here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/windows-store#1TC=t1 you are asked to install Silverlight? But someone had a peek inside : http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/5-reasons-why-the-windows-8-store-is-a-complete-mess/ jaclaz

There is an evident misundertanding. They are NOT "commas", they are "double quotes". Comma: , Quote: ' Double Quote: " Check: http://www.ascii-code.com/ Is it possible that you have in Czech the same "false pairs" as in Latin languages? jaclaz

We know, you were attracted by the nice looking , colourful icons on the screen. jaclaz

Yes, but can you check which are the contents of one of the folders that you have issues with permissions AND list the folder permissions AND ownership? (few things are as tricky as permissions/ownership on NTFS ) Other approaches/tests: If you create a new folder and put in it a single file and you try to backup just that folder, what happens? Try creating a new user, with Administrator privileges and try again the same test above when logged in as the "new Admin". If your "D:\" drive is now (temporarily) ready for "sacrifice", try re-partitioning it with a smallish FAT16 pr FAT32 partition and do the same test (FAT has no permission/ownership attributes). . If there is NOT *somehow* a general issue with NTbackup you should have no error, if you have the same error, that should mean that the error is a "false" one jaclaz

Sure OT, but not much , if you ever happen to stab a Marine , watch your step! jaclaz

Strange. Are you sure it is a "valid" file? What is the EXACT size (in bytes) of that file? It should be a bitmap 320x400, 256 colours , exactly 129,078 bytes in size. jaclaz

Yep , and the same idea (from data gathered form the same source and with exactly the same manner) has semingly been manifested against Linux, Apple, iOS, etc., etc. (and with similar amounts of page counts): What this tells us is that there are around people showing interest in boycott *anything* and *everybody*. A quick search: boycott JorgeA=About 204,000 results (0.33 seconds) reveals how a lot of people are after you! (and strangely enough the actual results seemingly do not include -yet - this forum page) The problem of large touch screen (and the implied distance of them from the operator) has already been analyzed (and solved by the good Japanese guys ): @Charlotte I don't really understand how you are still thinking about those small sized displays See here, but BEFORE opening the spoiler, can you guess WHO exactly is "behind" the company "Perceptive Pixels", which sells a handy 82" touchscreen (1920x1080)? jaclaz

What do you mean you didn't find? or get cabarc: jaclaz

Yes, but you were talking about the recovery partition, NOT about the DVD's. Follow me. If you have a "botched" System, you press a hot key and you access (through the special MBR or *whatever*) the HDrecovery option. To do so, *something* in the hidden HDrecovery partition is booted and this something will restore *anything* BUT itself. If you use the DVD, it means that either: you have a "botched" MBR and you cannot access anymore the HDrecovery partition that the recovery partition is "botched" or both the above. (otherwise you would use the HD recovery partition through the MBR to restore) So, the set of DVD's must necessarily restore *everything* including the HDrecovery partition. As a matter of fact, though I cannot say how exactly the Toshiba works, the "normal" way is that the DVD(s) ONLY contain (and restore) the MBR and the recovery partition, then in a second phase, the "main" system partition is recreated from the (just deployed from DVD) HDrecovery one. jaclaz