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With the /WAIT parameter? Even if it does, let me rephrase previous post as "a black box will either open (and remain open until you terminate the "target" program) or flash briefly on the screen, to avoid that use nircmd, INSTEAD" jaclaz

Well, your explanation is completely unlike an explanation , post the full link if you want to explain something. BTW that small batch will also open a command prompt window if double clicked or added to a context menu. You might want to use a tool like nircmd: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html instead. Look for it's commands exec, exec2 and execmd http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd2.html#using jaclaz

Yeah, sure, dont' forget to put your tin-foil surprisingly better hight tech material hat on. http://reboot.pro/topic/13177-an-improved-electromagnetical-shielding-device/ jaclaz

Well, you'll have to pay a fee for re-using my aswers and a fine for using them without my prior authorization. Just like you cannot make up words : jaclaz

Do you mean something like (extremely simplified .cmd batch file): http://ss64.com/nt/start.html jaclaz

Question: Where are the clouds? Answer: They are in the sky*. Question: Which colour is the sky? Answer: Blue. Question: Very good, Timmy, do you know some other names for the colour of the sky? Answer: Cyan, Azure. The matter has been established overhearing a fifth grade class. JFYI, azzurro is not really a shade of blue in Italian, it has it's "own dignity", blu (or blue) corresponds to "navy blue". jaclaz *together with Lucy and diamonds OT, but not much :

May I ask you WHY? In any case, change the file association to the .txt file to the *whatever* program you want to call instead of notepad.exe and make sure that this *whatever* actually calls notepad.exe. See: http://wstudios.home.xs4all.nl/Associate/index.html jaclaz

BUT; as said if these two (or more) "clones" are on the same network, conflicts may (and will) arise, either trivial or "serious". jaclaz

No. You need to understand redirection (and the concepts of "standard output" and "standard error" first: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/redirection.php Every program might "decide" to write *something* to standard output and *something else* to standard error, so you should append BOTH standard output and standard error to the log: command >> file 2>&1 jaclaz

You produce the CoP (Certificate of Property ) that was given to you when you actually paid for your files or - in case of self-produced files - the SoS (Statement of Selfproducing) which is a simple affidavit with the name of the file, the license number of the software you used to produce that (if Commercial) the CoA number of your OS (if Microsoft) and the MD5 of the file. You simply sign it (with two witnesses) and then send it to yourself via officially authorized Post/Mail Service. (to have certainty of the date, attaching a photo of yourself holding the affidavit and a newspaper is entirely optional, but recommended) If your warez pusher legitimate software provider did not give you the CoP at the time of the purchase or you subsequently lost it (or it was stolen from your home by little green men or other malicious beings) , you can produce a RoLoSCoP (Replacement of Lost or Stolen Certificate of Property) very similar to the SoS, and following the same procedure. The difference is only that the Government has the right to shout "Doubt it!" when you produce a RoLoSCoP, in which case you need to bring in three witnesses (and your mom doesn't count). We call this "progress" and "simplification of bureaucracy". You ask silly questions.... jaclaz

To be fair , the good MS guys do provide Server Core option. The way they word it in this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184075.aspx however clearly shows how the authors of the article have not fully digested the meaning of the acronym GUI (which means Graphical User Interface), but are also very young, or dumb, or both : Please note the evident surprise that they presume to convey to the reader! I mean, WOW. You will need to type commands one at the time, which is slow. Or use scripts and batch files (which can help you speed up and simplify your configuration tasks by automating them). WOW. You have to consider that a Server version of the OS has not as intended target housewives (with no offence whatever intended to housewives) from Peoria (say), the intended target is IT managers/Administrators (which evidently in MS view were hit by the same dumbifying genetic mutation that affected "end users"). If you scroll a little down, you will learn how Server Core has NOT .NET (which is a good thing BTW), but this means that you also don't have Powershell (as it is senselessly dependent on .Net) so that you have something that should be mainly managed by scripts which misses latest iteration of MS script engine/processor. And, you are further warned that: Again, WOW. For NO apparent reason: jaclaz

Please consider how cars will soon be deemed as "legacy vehicles" by the journalists and - according to them - be in a short time replaced by (touch controlled ) flying saucers , you might want to start a career with a longer expected lifetime . The only remaining issue (in what the visionary expect soon) is of course flying elephants, a misknown evolutional phenomenon that hasn't yet affected mobility, but that might in the near future (if Dumbo was born - clearly out of a nuclear experiment induced genetic mutation - in 1941, imagine, even with a rather flat trend, how many of them will be born in the meantime ) . Till now, and in real world: jaclaz

Sure, reading is easy . Writing is another thing. However you would be surprised by the little thingies that this old dinosaur wrote in VBA (for Excel) . jaclaz

There are several technologies used in batteries over last years (besides main "families" of metals used in them), it is very difficult to say what is actually "inside the box", so not only it is difficult to say IF something can be done to revive a given battery pack but even IF it is possible WHAT to do specifically is even more elusive. Take some time here, interesting stuff: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/ jaclaz

That is the initial steep of the curve, after you will get the hang of it you will probably start wondering how come that some (not necessarily all ) programmers have this quirk for selling you trifling things as if they were the only geniuses on earth capable of doing that . Seriously, I have seen guys putting together half @§§ed MS Access "custom databases" (actually no more that a few forms and reports) talking as if they were Linus Torvalds or Sergey Brin jaclaz

Yes and no. You need *something* that will clone/copy over the Disk Signature (or remove drive letter assignment in DosDevices, which I presume is the "small registry trick" you are talking about). And you might well get away with using vshadow and dosdev together with robocopy (in "one pass"). In any case it is the "base" approach which is not "right", if in a networked environment, you may get issues with SID, computer names and what not. If you need to deploy a "same" operating system install to several PC's you normaly use "deploy tools", such as Sysprep, or in the case of different hardware, Offline Sysprep: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=43 (also handy in the case of "same" hardware) jaclaz

Well, first thing you need a dictionary : "dry, cool clean" does not mean "inside a fridge" ONLY the "clean" - hopefully - applies, otherwise a fridge is "freezing cold" AND "very humid" and wrapping something in plastic and putting it into a fridge, unless it is a ziplock kind of bag or perfectly sealed/airtight AND at the time of sealing whatever you put in it was completely dry AND additionally the percentage of humidity in the air when the bag was sealed was very near to 0%, wrapping something in plastic and putting in a fridge is what in highly technical terms we call "moisture condensation machine" . Apart from this, laptop batteries are one of those "non-end-user-serviceable" parts that are (mostly) actually "non-end-user-serviceable" and may contain every possible "trap" (and one more). Look - as an example - on how it was well possible to have an Acer One battery (perfectly good) NOT charging, the culprit being ..... jaclaz

Not really. It is [ code] and [ /code] (not [ /endcode]), and in practice you select what you want to insert in CODE tags, then click on the little icon senselessy representing "<>" which you find in "post" or "edit" mode. jaclaz

...and - as always - there can be n shades of gray instead of Black/White On/Off : http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&docid=DSN_F78F568BBB1BC1A0E030030ABD625AEA&isLegacy=true&DoNotRedirect=y Every BIOS has it's more or less clear "wording", this is a good overview on WOL (Wake on Lan): http://www.i-mentalist.com/support/faq/wol/ where you can find more possible "keywords". jaclaz

GREAT! and OT , but not much , of course: though the concept of "Birminhgham screwdriver" dates much back: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=birmingham%20screwdriver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument and has - I believe - other traditional national versions. jaclaz

Maybe NOT a conspiracy, but let me doubt about how "independent" these tests are and how much they are actually reflecting "real life". jaclaz

Well, no. Maybe the batch is launched "hidden" (and then you have to change the way it is started) but a pause is a pause, if that batch is launched and if it's command windows is visible, it will stop at the PAUSE commands. jaclaz

Check this line: It assigns a drive letter value to the variable CDROM IF it can find the file \sources\install.wim. It seems like this file is NOT found (and thus the drive letter is not assigned) WHO wrote that batch? It is seemingly missing some error control and is all in all more complex than needed. Change this: ::@echo off for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%i:\sources\install.wim set CDROM=%%i: echo Found CD-Rom as drive %CDROM% to this: ::@echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%i:\sources\install.wim set CDROM=%%i: echo Found CD-Rom as drive %CDROM% PAUSE IF NOT DEFINED CDROM SET /P CDROM=Enter drive letter SET CDROM=%CDROM%: SET CDROM=%CDROM:::=:% SET CDROM PAUSE What happens? jaclaz

You might be interested in a TEE command : http://www.robvanderwoude.com/unixports.php jaclaz

That is "by design". Any ATX powered PC (anything built in the last - say - 15 years) would normally behave like that, some BIOSes may allow to NOT power the network card, but normally it is powered when the PC is "off". Basically an ATX power supply is like having TWO power supplies inside, the "main one" is switched on when you switch the PC ON, the second (very small power one) will always be on as long as it is connected to mains (some but not all have a mechanical switch on the back that allows switching it "really" off). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_differences_between_AT_and_ATX_power_supply The network card is normally powered even when the PC is off, to allow the wake on lan, as well most BIOS allow to switch the PC on from a press of a key on the keyboard or a mouse click, so these are also powered. jaclaz