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

That's good , I will gladly agree to a "softer "definition, what do you call something that can be proven wrong by reality or that another/study/poll/statistical analysis can contradict? However, statistics has some diignity, , ESTIMATED google counts do not (and they are NOT "statistics"). jaclaz

Sure it can be done, see the first post on this thread, as long as the recovery .iso can access the internal hard disk, the same command would work alright. But I am missing the need/usefulness of a temp file. jaclaz

Exactly, you can measure popularity by making a poll, then, provided that your sample is large enough and casual enough you can, using statistical formulas (which may include contrasting theories and consequently different results) extend your (limited) sample to the totality. It is in any case an educated guess, which does not demonstrate anything. You are expressing (mathematically and statistically) a synecdoche: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche (the part for the whole) So at least you have a "real" (though limited) base of data. (from which you can anyway draw the wrong conclusions) In the case of google results counts you have NOT this base as the google counts are ESTIMATES: https://developers.google.com/search-appliance/documentation/62/xml_reference?hl=it-IT#appendix_num_results now, if JorgeA would manually examine (or write an "intelligent" program doing the same) each and every page returned (not "counted" )by the google search, dicarding duplicates, false results, etc. then he would have a "base", i.e. a verifiable list of web pages where the intention of boycotting Windows 8 is actually expressed by someone. Fresh google results: jorgeA = About 5,970,000 results (0.23 seconds) HalloweenDocument12=6 results (0.26 seconds) jorgeA is BY FAR more popular than you . jaclaz

Demonstrating is impossible. Attempts to it are futile. We have all before us examples of how well paid specialists in "market reserch" or "trend forecasting" often publish (basing themselves on far more "solid" data than a lousy google search results ESTIMATE) completely wrong conclusions. Or look how "exit polls"(which are much more "tangible" and subject to statistical corrections and what not) often, when the result of the votes becomes official can be often largely disproved. No it makes it a statement, NOT a demonstration. This statement, which is however a guess, educated as it might be, remains a statement, and nothing more Popularity exists, the way it is measured is fallible, and of all the methods using the ESTIMATION of google results is one of the more fallible, the given link: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/google-result-counts-are-a-meaningless-metric.html explains in more detail why exactly. jaclaz

There are NO methods that offer *any* kind of reliability, and certainly not for a common word like "windows". BTW I just showed you how small diferences (such as the "broken windows 8" example) can lead to VERY different results. Fresh from my google: boycott Linux = About 870,000 results (0.24 seconds) boycott Mac OS = About 386,000 results (0.23 seconds) boycott "Mac OS" = About 333,000 results (0.25 seconds) boycott Microsoft = About 3,010,000 results (0.33 seconds) boycott windows = About 3,700,000 results (0.34 seconds) boycott windows 8 = About 3,000,000 results (0.31 seconds) boycott "windows 8" = About 425,000 results (0.30 seconds) boycott iOS =About 519,000 results (0.28 seconds) So, we have a similar number of people talking of boycotting "Windows 8" and Mac Os, and almost double talking of boycotting Linux. Moreover it seems like the people talking of boycotting Microsoft or Windows in general are many more than those talking of boycotting specifically "windows 8", which are about the same amount of those talking of boycotting Mac Os or iOS, that means that Windows 8 is a success . Meaningless metrics, more: boycott surface = About 3,350,000 results (0.32 seconds) boycott surface RT = About 40,400,000 results (0.60 seconds) boycott "surface RT" = About 210,000 results (0.33 seconds) boycott iPad = About 9,760,000 results (0.30 seconds) boycott Apple = About 4,970,000 results (0.30 seconds) Interestingly: boycott Asus = About 2,860,000 results (0.33 seconds) boycott Acer = About 3,060,000 results (0.38 seconds) boycott Samsung = About 2,180,000 results (0.30 seconds) boycott google = About 23,900,000 results (0.27 seconds) Samsung make better products than both Acer and Asus and is far more popular than Apple (and incredibly MUCH less adversed than google). jaclaz

If you want to lower yourself at the level of those we tend to criticize in this thread, go ahead. Before that, please try googling for: YES, with "windows 8" enclosed in double quotes. Another example: broken windows = About 72,000,000 results (0.33 seconds) broken windows 8 = About 151,000,000 results (0.26 seconds) broken "windows 8" = About 14,400,000 results (0.26 seconds) If you want to insist on this meaningless approach, you are obviously free to do so. The word for today is polysemy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy jaclaz

TurboPascal 5.5: http://web.archive.org/web/20060322203829/http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,20803,00.html A few more "ancient" versions: http://web.archive.org/web/20060321230133/http://bdn.borland.com/museum Lazarus: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ jaclaz

The shutdown is logos.sys and the wait is logow.sys Add it to C:\Windows, i.e. add a file C:\Windows\logos.sys, this should apply: http://www.themeworld.com/support/walls-change.html jaclaz

Let's see THREE questions: TWO answers: None of them descriptive, let alone "actual", "exact", "complete", and "precisely". NO, you are not providing enough meaningful data, of course if you want some botched guess, that's OK, examples: jaclaz