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It's the fifth function, third argument from the left, that is invalid and that conflicts with MS09-012 (956572) . http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978835/en-us jaclaz

I guess you should tell those guys that they won't be admitted to the "2013 time keeping championship", you apparently became a member there when you were -11 jaclaz

With all due respect (and trying to bring back the discussion on "productive tools" and "content creation" as opposed to "content consumption") what do you do to make a living? listen to music ? watch movies ? MS had till now an almost complete monopoly on "business users", the news are still the same, instead of bettering the experience of their "real" user base, they try to pursue the "leisure" one (which is a perfectly fair attempt) the issue at hand is that in order to do so they are managing to alienate what they already have (besides failing in "stealing" users from "the other part"). jaclaz

@Coffefiend, JFYI the guy has replaced the whatever was cited by Business Insider with this: http://www.rubicondev.com/blog/windows-rt-born-to-fail/ Personally - and being notoriously expert on grumpy businesses - I call this "behaving as a brainless mercenary and selfish clown" instead of "fair play", though. What the heck does he think, that by deleting that text he will make everything as before? Some excerpts are all over the net, example: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/378562/hit-game-makes-52-in-first-week-on-windows-rt jaclaz

I guess this should be posted under "News" You see how useful is your smiley? jaclaz

Let's see if I get this right You wrote yourself a MSGINA replacement or add-on, compiled it and you don't know how to troubleshoot the issues coming from the use of the .dll you wrote? jaclaz

Sure, it also surprises me, but nonetheless lots of people spend time in doing these kind of things and in making their boot menu "pretty". Personally I use "plain text", the only exception being (on some sticks) the use of a splash image (that a friend made for me some time ago for a project that was never actually released) that you can see here (first image green text on black background): jaclaz

Done. Well, still you have a computer, when you boot it you have (I presume) no choice about which Operating System you are going to load. A lot of people like to use more than one operating system on their PC and they use a "bootmanager" i.e. a small program that allows at boot time to choose which OS to boot. Even "plain" Windows NT based systems have it, either NTLDR + BOOT.INI or BOOTMGR + \boot\BCD, but their look is pretty much "dull": grub, grub2 and grub4dos are bootmanagers that besides a "plain" text can also add static images (spash images) or even animated ones (GFXboot) making the "booting phase choice" a "graphical experience", like the "Christmas theme" I posted earlier). jaclaz

BTW this is not only connected to "free" and not only to "cloud", another "horror story": http://www.edrants.com/3am-magazine-how-twelve-years-of-literary-content-disappeared-in-an-instant/ jaclaz

I don't want to be grumpier than usual, but you came here and asked for some ideas and were given a suggested procedure. Why don't you simply try doing what you were suggested? Mind you I have no way to know if it will help, it is merely what I would do if I were in the same situation you are, but until you try it (and hopefully *something* changes in the startup) there is not much else that you can do. Since you are having issue in the "recognizing hardware", it is only too obvious that the less hardware Windows finds the less probabilities it has to choke on a given item (if the item is not there anymore), but of course you are perfectly free to ignore the given advice and do another thing instead. You could try - but this is a "high risk" procedure - to delete the VMM32.VXD and restore the "base" one from the install CD: http://www.easydesksoftware.com/news/news10.htm jaclaz

A "hint" from an actual "horror story": http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/ jaclaz

Fixed. Though if you would be not so shy (or even if you are BUT I can talk you into it ) there is the whole world of animated GFXboot, example in the mentioned Christmas theme: http://reboot.pro/topic/15689-ripper-gfx-with-gui-gfxboot-editor/ that could well make use of your capabilities and creativity... jaclaz

I guess the message (whatever it is ) has come through : Something related to XP lifecycle published in 2010 it's hardly news (for XP lovers) jaclaz

Had you actually followed the chain of links to the actual source of the statement, which is seemingly here: http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2010/07/12/public-beta-now-available-for-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2-service-pack-1.aspx I presume that there won't have been doubts about this. jaclaz

Which could open the way to void the old approach to "lifetime" software licenses and inaugurate the new Saas (Software as a service) era, you will pay a yearly fee and it will be our pleasure to make sure that some new senseless changes to file formats and protocols will be issued periodically, in order to make the life of those still making use of the old paradigm so tough that they will beg us to be allowed to shift to the new model (and pay dearly for it). Of course, in due time, and as soon as the large majority of customers will have shifted to the Saas, we will be able to stop making those changes, fire quite a few of the programmers we now pay to make the senseless changes, and earn even more money. The guys who invented planned obsolescence were kids compared to us..... jaclaz

Good to know you found the solution to your issue . You see, that would be highly logical and consequent IF you assume that MS wants Corporate IT to have BOTH Windows 7 and 8. IF the scope is to kill for good Windows 7 and push the stupid 8, then making the co-existence "easy" starts appearing a lot like ILlogical. And no, in both cases, it is NOT fascinating . jaclaz

Easier would be to forget about them and get either SP2 or SP3 from MS and integrate it. jaclaz

AND, you are now officially the Author of the thingy : jaclaz

But that would have left an unanswered question, is a movie like "Ice Age" considered a masterpiece because of the abilities of (choose one): the director the copywriter/story/plot the animators jaclaz

The only flaw in your line of reasoning being that BOOT.INI belongs to the NT family of OS, XP in this case. A "normal" 98 booting: BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking io.sys)->IO.SYS-> Win98 A "normal" XP booting: BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR Invoking NTLDR->BOOT.INI->Implied Choice->NTDETECT.COM->XP A "normal" XP+98 dual booting BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR Invoking NTLDR->BOOT.INI->XP Choice->NTDETECT.COM->XP BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR Invoking NTLDR->BOOT.INI->98 Choice->Copy of previous PBR invoking io.sys->IO.SYS ->98 A "normal" 7: BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking BOOTMGR)->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->Implied Choice->7 on first disk A "normal" 7 on second disk: BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking BOOTMGR)->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->Implied Choice->7 on second disk A "normal" 7 on second disk + XP on first disk: BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking BOOTMGR)->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->Implied Choice->7 on second disk BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking BOOTMGR)->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->"Legacy" Choice->BOOT.INI->Implied Choice->NTDETECT.COM->XP A "normal" 7 on second disk + XP on first disk +98 on first disk: BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking BOOTMGR)->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->Implied Choice->7 on second disk BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking BOOTMGR)->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->"Legacy" Choice->BOOT.INI->XP Choice->NTDETECT.COM->XP BIOS->MBR of first disk->Active partition PBR (invoking BOOTMGR)->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->"Legacy" Choice->BOOT.INI->98 Choice->Copy of previous PBR invoking io.sys->IO.SYS ->98 Which EXACT error are you getting? Set your Explorer to show hidden and system files. Do these files exist in root of Active partition on first disk ?: NTLDR NTDETECT.COM BOOT.INI IF BOOT.INI exists, open it in Notepad ad paste it's contents on your next post. Open a command prompt in Windows 7. In it run BCDEDIT [ENTER] copy and paste the output on your next post. jaclaz

Just "OK " and not "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" ? Perhaps (?) "OK " in Italian translates to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in English. Unlike what people think, Italians do love understatements.... Besides the issues with spelling, before thanking you I had to wait .... Seriously, the result is magnificent, thank you very, very much for your time and dedication . jaclaz

Last one is OK : http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa403/larryb123456/jaclazDUCKEMOTICON_04.gif jaclaz

Additionally (and yes I am old) a sentence like this: http://www.scroogled.com/pdf/Official_Bing_Blogpost_-_A_Campaign_for_Honest_Search.pdf Is ONLY acceptable on a document DATED and SIGNED by Mr.BING. For NO apparent reason : jaclaz

Yep , but if you read it attentively: it says that L would whistle and walk away on the right, i.e. the scene would be about L whistling and walking from left to right and momentarily impeded in doing this because of the "angry" R throwing the brick. The "original" idea is that L is perfectly knowing he did something "naughty" and nothing, not even a brick thrown at him, would stop his path (or "naughty" behaviour). RIght now it seems like L is somehow intimidated but the thrown brick and decides to change his direction. Maybe one could "revert" the entrance of L on the scene (making it enter from the right instead), and have R appear like if he is following L (in order to throw the brick at him). If there are technical difficulties in making the "kilroy" appear a bit earlier, no problem, it was just an idea to "compact" a little the cycle time and size of the .gif. jaclaz

Sure, the document sucks big (as well as the Iomega software and the actual Jazz hardware and - if we are at it - your choosing that crap as backup solution), I find "queer" however that TWO floppies are made calling them "emergency restore startup disk set" if they are not an "emergency restore startup disk set", in the sense that by using them you are not able to perform an emergency restore . If they are a "normal W98 start up disk (x2) set", they are actually ABnormal as a W98 startup disk is a single floppy and not a 2x set. The fact that an "introducing" document "Getting Started" does not enter in the detail of how to use those disks and merely cites them should mean that another document, like a "full manual", exists that details the mentioned floppy disk set and their use. It is well possible that the good Iomega guys just decided to have you waste 2 floppies that are completely unneeded/unuseful, though. jaclaz