jaclaz

No tricks, nothing in the hands.... Google for "DIMS service Vista" Read the google excerpts returned, get here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/12/18/troubleshooting-credential-roaming.aspx Move to: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/01/06/certs-on-wheels-understanding-credential-roaming.aspx Get here: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306992 (nothing of use ) Get here : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;907247 jaclaz

No prob . Sure, you need to know how to ask it.... jaclaz

Are you sure XP does not have vss? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb968832(v=vs.85).aspx (learning that all these years I've been using something that doesn' t exist may be too much a shock for my poor, old heart ) jaclaz

Better getting it directly from the mouth of the wolf: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html the good news are that almost everyone on this thread could from now on pride him/herself with: being older that 5 years sharing the same views of a "Design guru", actually saying the SAME things long before he did (and of course the "Design guru" doesn't have an idea about what productivity is, since he praises the Office ribbon ) jaclaz

See this thread (more about SATA to IDE, but also talks about "bi-directional" ones): What you want is something like this (you have a "SATA only" motherboard - and presumably power supply connectors - and you want to install to it a IDE/ATA (ATAPI) CD/DVD drive, right? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232004 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812107112 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200787 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812705119 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200196 the point is if you have a suitable power connector coming from the PSU, the one above uses a "floppy style" one AND if you have enough space "behind" the CD/DVD drive in the case, otherwise you will need this kind: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812197005 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186095 that takes very little space. Anyway you have an IDE device that you want to connect to a SATA port, if you read attentively you will find (though the ide 2 sata or sata 2 ide is used indifferently) which one are the "right" ones for you. jaclaz

Have you actually READ WHO actually told that to the user? JFYI: http://geek-squad.p***edconsumer.com/ http://geek-squad.p***edconsumer.com/geeksquad-scam-20120815339421.html (you'l have to replace the three asterisks "***" with "iss", the board bad words corrector kicked in) You have very, very, VERY small chances of finding anyone belonging to the Geek Squad that actually knows any better than re-partition/re-format/re-install as the ONLY solution to ANY hardware or software problem (of course there are good an competent peeps among the ranks, but they are an exception). Some time ago, some of the Geek Squad test questionnaire was leaked: http://gizmodo.com/5334205/geek-squad-test/ http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/do_you_have_what_it_takes_be_geek_squad_yes_you_do http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/oregon_news_team_finds_geek_squad_incompetent Judge by yourself. jaclaz

Broken google? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907247/en-us jaclaz

Also a few "smart" users will do the same . Play the game @JorgeA The point is only about the sheer number of (unclassified) apps, for my personal tastes a 30+ alternatives list loses much of it's usefulness as "simple" list without *something* that helps the user in "choosing" which app gives "more" or simply "what the user needs/wants". You are the "father" of this thread and it's mantainer/editor, the only thing I can recommend you is : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/quotes?qt=qt0362962 or, better: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain122044.html jaclaz

Maybe useful, maybe not: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html jaclaz

It's not as easy as you seem to think, nowadays anything in IT is a web of cross-licensed patents or attempts to stay away for those by etither claiming they do not apply or that they are not valid. Here is a good example of the mess : http://www.dailytech.com/Of+Lawsuits+and+Licensing+The+Full+Microsoft+v+Android+Story/article23088.htm BUT, if MS is the obstacle, the approach TomTom took to walk around it is their own decision (they could well have used - say - ext2/ext3 and provide an installable filesystem driver or a compatible file explorer and later let the user - should he/she want to - re-format the filesystem as FAT - or whatever else - keeping the "plain" Mass Storage device connection). jaclaz

Sure , that's exactly the idea. Indeed. : What I was trying to point out is that a list with a finite number of choices is useful, as the "casual user" will have a chance (and this is freedom ) to test each of them and then decide which one is better for him/her. When the number of available choices becomes so big that noone in his right mind will be able to test each and every of them, it is not anymore useful and to become useful again, a smaller subset of "editor's picks" starts to be needed. The comment was aimed at two different targets , one being the "editor" JorgeA that might want to exit "neutrality" or "mere listing" to highlight the "best" programs or however provide a "classification" of them, the other one to any programmer that passes by and thinks - by chance - "Cool, I might write another app that does the same as one of these", the message in this case is simply "Make sure you do something new or really cool, otherwise you will have wasted your time on a non-problem as the problem has already been solved, and solved in a myriad of ways". Of course this is only my personal opinion. jaclaz

Well, though it won't probably help for the capping, if I were you I would already have "converted" the "ribbon" cable to a "round one" (and shielded it by using some aluminium foil or the like): http://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/sleeving_cable_guide/ http://www.overclock.net/t/5846/round-ide-cable-guide jaclaz

Which - without entering in the quality/which is better/which is worse/etc. - of the apps listed is - unless I am mistaken - app #31, i.e. you can use next December to try each of them one per day . @JorgeA With all due respect to all the developers involved in the making of these apps , I may suggest that the lack of start menu in Windows 8 is not the ONLY problem affecting 8 or previous MS Operating Systems, so maybe it's time to accept that a whole test month worth of apps has already been made and good willing programmers may find something better to do than writing yet another similar app. Maybe one could use November 30th as a deadline, anything published (and tested successfully) before that "deadline" will be added to the list, anything coming later than that would be an unneeded duplication of something already developed by someone else.... (I don't think that there are hundreds different ways to get back the Start Menu , and even if there are so many, it starts to seem a lot like "exercises in style", nice , but maybe superfluous ) jaclaz

Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Standard Litany needed: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html and BTW, wrong sub-forum, should go here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/66-programming-c-delphi-vbvbs-cmdbatch-etc/ jaclaz

NO, evidently that device does not support the "Mass Storage Device" approach. It is possible that the device is "post MS/TomTom" civil lawsuit/agreement and/or that the update you just downloaded "upgraded" your device to the new "working model" of NDIS/Network device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom http://discussions.tomtom.com/t5/GO-800-1000-2000-Via-Start-20/Home-vs-MyTomTom/td-p/111373 http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3807801/Bruce-Perens-Analyzing-Microsofts-TomTom-Lawsuit.htm jaclaz

Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Two simple steps, listed here: http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=186723 jaclaz

I think I understood your point, my point was that the fact that Vista and 7 "have the same NT6x base" does NOT in any way imply that a given tool/method/anything will not fail on one and work on the other, or fail at both or succeed at both. If you prefer you are assuming that the "have the same NT6x base" implies something (it does not) when it comes to the way a tool - designed for UNmodded sources - behaves with modded ones, and the reason is simple, although they do "have the same NT6x base" they are DIFFERENT, so, as I see it, your apparent surprise at the fact that one works and the other one doesn't has no real reason to be, as a matter of fact I would expect or rate as "probable" that two DIFFERENT Operating Systems, although they "have the same NT6x base" would behave DIFFERENTly. @PsyDonia Yes , as you might have gathered if you had actualy read a bit on the thread : jaclaz

It's not *exactly* like it's stated on the resource you cited. The USB Mass Storage subsystem is something that XP has normally as well. What Vista may have could be an added VID/PID (or whatever) linking the device to the USB Mass Storage driver. Usually (cannot say specifically for your TomTom) the device can be put in a state in which it "behaves" (and presents itself to the OS) just as if it was a USB flash pendrive or a USB hard disk, i.e. it is found as Disk in Disk Management and - normally - the filesystem on it is mounted to a drive letter in Explorer. On the other hand if the device is not set in that particular "mode", XP (nor Vista) can make head or tail of what is it and asks for a driver. BUT a number of more recent devices are simply not anymore capable of being connected as mass storage devices, they use other connection methods and/or a proprietary drivers. You should post the EXACT model of your device so that it will be possible to make sure, see here as an example: http://discussions.tomtom.com/t5/ONE-START-40-50-Series-EASE-HOME/Problems-with-computer-not-recognising-my-new-TOMTOM-Start-25/td-p/108247 jaclaz

Let me see. A+B=C A+D=E B != D -> C !=E Have you checked the link you were given about the need of some updates for Vista, at least for the "normal" install? It's a looong shot, but worth a check. But still, if modded sources are not supported, that does not mean that any and all modded soureces will fail (nor that any and all modded sources will work), it simply means that modded sources are NOT supported (and you are right now asking help/support for modded sources, after having been told how they are not supported ) jaclaz

Possibly: will actually give a value to the cd variable. Or, alternatively: Please note how the expansion of a full path such as %~dpn will result in a "full path" (and full paths always end with a backslash) jaclaz

Can you post in "normal" font and font size like all other people do? See Rule #11: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules jaclaz

Good . Just for the record, there is also a small nirsoft GUI app, Serviwin: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.html tha will show (and can output as list) all services (and their "DisplayName"s, that may change on localized versions) . jaclaz

There is seemingly nothing wrong (there is a typo with dsi instead of dsfi, but this is most probably just in the post). You shouldn't however work on root. Make a directory, say C:\recwork Copy to it fsz, dsfo, dsfi and the files extendn.dd. Open a command prompt and run in it again those commands , then run: DIR C:\recwork\*.dd>C:\recwork\dir.txt DIR C:\recwork\*.pds>>C:\recwork\dir.txt post the dir.txt contents, maybe there is an issue with size of files? jaclaz

Did you manage to find someone actually capable of tuning it? I guess you aren't going to share the address of that shop, are you? My crystal ball is very sensible to changes in weather, and noone seems like being able to tune it properly.... But still it was clear enough to allow me to write : so that I could distiguish this specific disagreement with the more general "all round" one (that I suspect is the one your crystall ball - after all not perfectly tuned - showed you ) jaclaz

Idea. See if nirsoft nircmd command "service" would do: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd2.html#using jaclaz