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...and what about the Developers? jaclaz

Try with "Properties" jaclaz

They should be far less than 1 Kb, which poses another question, such small files don't normally go into the (NTFS) filesystem (they should be written directly into the $MFT). Having thousands of small files is not IMHO as much an issue with actual size occupied (besides making browsing the filesystem with Explorer or other file manager a nightmare) but rather with size (and number of entries) in the $MFT . jaclaz

Sorry I was not clear, ddlist.cmd is just a "wrap around" the dd for windows by John Newbigin: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd what you should attempt running would be: dd.exe --list as it lists several among the ways a device is (normally) named under Windows NT and could give us a hint about what is "missing": jaclaz

The WHY are you posting your different issue here? Seriously, see if anyhting here: helps , but when you have an issue, unless you find a thread with EXACTLY the same issue, it is better if you start your own thread, rather than posting on an existing one dealing with "other kind of problem". jaclaz

Agreed. Done! Would this imply that dencorso is to be considered among the respected mod's (in the sense of NOT among the UNrespected ones)? Seriously, a "semi-random" idea, possibly void of any utility, would the offline registry library work? http://reboot.pro/11212/ http://reboot.pro/11312/ (kernelEx/whatever)? jaclaz

The guy that most probably started it all, Nadim Kobeissi: http://log.nadim.cc/?p=78 Is talking of "download from internet and open the install", so it is likely (but of course needs to be checked/confirmed) that there is a connection with the "Zone.Identifier" alternate data stream, like it was till now, examples: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/RemovingSecurityFromDownloadedPowerShellScriptsWithAlternativeDataStreams.aspx http://thewayeye.net/2012/march/2/bulk-removing-zoneidentifier-alternate-data-streams-downloaded-windows-files http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/alternate_data_streams.html or some similar mechanism. jaclaz P.S.: EDIT: Confirmed: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/windows-8-privacy-complaint-misses-the-forest-for-the-trees/ and Chrome seemingly does the same. P.P.S: An old post but seemingly Opera doesn't use this approach (and the Author Christiam Adams seemingly submitted it to Opera as a bug ) http://cristianadam.blogspot.it/2009/09/hidden-stream.html Mozilla/Firefox should be "user selectable": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499448 I presume that also SRware Iron is immune from this, but it is not mentioned: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php I take it back also Iron sets the Alternate Data Strem <- someone should post this as a bug! Also, since Alternate Data Streams are NTFS only, if you store the downloaded programs on a FAT12 /16/32/64 (ex_FAT) there should be no triggering of SmartScreen .

Well, so the issue is probably *something* connected to the MountManager or with the File System Recognizer... the "Free 0 B" in diskpart doesn't look "right". Without knowing which are the changes in the Registry it is hard to help you pin down the culprit. Can you try - out of curiosity - to run in the build TESTDISK? If - as I expect - it will be able to see all partitions it is definitely something at a "higher" level then basic disk related matters/services. Another few things to check, what does Mountvol output looks like? What does dd --list (see here): http://reboot.pro/8219/ show? And dosdev? http://reboot.pro/6492/#entry52470 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adioltean/archive/2005/10/04/477164.aspx jaclaz

Though this is not somethng that should be put to "votes", IMHO jds request is more than legitimate. In my relatively small (and definitely happened SOME time ago ) experience with NUSB, I did have more than one trouble. And BTW, no offence intended to the very good work byt the Nusb developer and contributors , but possibly because of the nature itself of the thingy (drivers, and drivers for a built-in not fully supported bus, or whatever) I do remember very opposite cases, machines where the thingy installed and worked at first try with no issue whatever and machines where it took a few hours to remove the mess that the NUSB install (I will repeat in perfect "good faith" and "by accident") created. Additionally though I don't normally use 9x machines, the times I need/use one is just to make some "very narrow" system, thus for this use all I need is basic USB Mass Storage support, which normally I get using the "simple" driver here: So, I would venture to say that in a perfect world there would be three possibilities: "full" Nusb leave USB alone basic USB Mass Storage only leaving the final user the choice to do what he/she prefers. jaclaz

I am not sure to understand. You mean that (set apart the drive letters that may be not assigned for other reasons) you cannot see any hard disk in disk management (or in diskpart)? jaclaz

No , but I am also not "toast capable": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh779727.aspx It wouldn't surprise me if there were Special toasts and Short-duration toasts (obviously UNdocumented) and since the Special ones might create a problem with common people and Short-duration ones with people suffering from ejaculatio precox, the new politically correct term will be Non-standard toast and Quick toast. But more probably it's negative logic (engineers do love that): Is this a Special Toast? false. = Is this a Standard Toast? true. Since they weren't really sure, they checked again : Was this a Special Toast? false. = Was this a Standard Toast? true. Also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465391.aspx a few don't's : it does seem like Toasts should be rarely used..... Of course in the old times there would have been only: where n is the duration in seconds of the thingy (n=7 if omitted ) and no check whatever afterwards, let alone writing in it in the event log.... jaclaz

@CharlotteTheHarlot Really, you are becoming outdated. MS dropped the use of Metro as the name of the interface. The proposed way is (since a few posts) to call it Metro "Nameless Crap Interface", which you can well abbreviate as NCI (the original abbreviation that had a final S in it, shorthand for you know what , has been retired because Jethro Gibbs and all the guys/gals there are nice peeps . jaclaz

(hopefully) some answers. The 7200.11 needs NO shorting. The 7200.11 ES/2 NEEDS the shorting. The 7200.x LP also seemingly needs the shorting. I don't think that 5 V level TTL is needed since 3.3V is normally compatible with 5V (while 5 V is not compatible with 3.3V), I know it sounds "strange", but see this, read, several times if needed, the whole read-me-first: and particularly this link: http://www.interfacebus.com/voltage_threshold.html Read (and re-read if needed) the suggested guide by Carter in Canada (also aimed to 7200.11, BUT "general ideas" are the same): http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html Read also this: and this: After having become familar with the above, you will see how this thread will start to make more sense. jaclaz

What possibly Ponch meant is that no matter how much bloat the good MS guys manage to add unneededly to an OS, thanks to Moore's Law: http://www.mooreslaw.org/ and similar trends in hardware development, if you have some "latest" hardware, it is so d@mn powerful that it can run a Windows 7 with no apparent slowing down. Slimming down an OS can be fun , and it may be needed if you have (like it always happens when using oldish hardware with newly released OS) some performance issues, but with latest hardware Windows 7 runs OK even without any "liting". Still, a slimmed down OS would be "snappier", the point being - unless you do it for the sheer fun of it - if it is worth the time involved... when compared with a "normal" 7 with the most "offending" services/whatever simply disabled. jaclaz

Actually I didn't call them toys, I said how they are nice (and useful if used within their usage paradigm) gadgets, in the sense of gadget (which is NOT a toy): http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gadget http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gadget Visual examples : This is a toy: This is a gadget: This is a tool: JFYI, do review this list of (highlighting is mine) http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/applications-os/240005992/the-50-best-apps-for-getting-business-done-part-1.htm http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/applications-os/240006019/the-50-best-apps-for-getting-business-done-part-2.htm and let me know how many out of the 50 are actualy useful for work.... Just for the record, if you want to get my Leatherman Charge tool (example, NOT advertising): you will have to kill me and pry it out of my dead hands, but still it is not a full replacement for a toolbox: and a toolbox full of foldable screwdrivers, files, saws and pliers to have the same "feeling" is plainly stupid. jaclaz

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We are not at all disagreeing , what you described is (mainly) a "passive" user of the computer, you use it to access/read already created material (your .pdf's) and make to them very little changes (highlighting/short comments). For this use, an iPad (or similar tablet) is a very convenient tool . Which means that all editors working at newspapers and the like have an ideal platform to do their work on the move, but let me doubt that actual journalists find it productive to actually write the articles, that the editors will later check on their tablets, on a tablet. (as well, most students do have a powerful tool to read, learn, search and find answers to their question, but this is not "work"). The whole point is that the tablet is NOT a replacement for a real PC, but since a large number of users have no actual use for a real PC, they use a tablet instead of it, and the marketing guru's erroneusly (IMHO) get from the numbers some "wrong" conclusions. You can stamp your feet all the time (and as hard as) you want, but the fact is that everyone (every single worker that needs a PC for his work) has one PC at work and a similar one at home, and unless they broke they won't be replaced anytime soon. I.e. it is a saturated market, that changed in the last few years from a "primary" market to a "replacement" one. The tablet market is different, it is new and a tablet is something that is additional to a PC, NOT a replacement for it, Apple (iPad) and Samsung (Galaxy and similar) were very good in making more than decent products and lead this sector of the market. No surprise that MS (with it's Surface) wants to enter this separate (and "rich") market. (whether it will have success or not in this, it will soon be seen, depending on how the new thingy will work) BUT the taken approach of dumbing down the PC in order to make it more similar to the tablet, so that people will have (in the MS peeps' perverted mind) a "same" environment on the tablet and on the PC and, since people will be forced to use a (Windows 8) PC at work, then they will choose the MS tablet over the competitors models because the interface will be similar is (still IMHO) a stupid approach. jaclaz

Sorry, I missed your reply. Anyway if the "image" is 136 Gb it is very UNLIKE an image. You seemingly did not follow the proposed approach: I seem to remember to have read *somewhere* that there is a rather common issue (though I don't seem to remember affecting 7200.11 specifically) where after an unbricking the actually accessible data is about 1/3 of the total, maybe this is the case. Now the whole point is: If yes, most probably you can recover partially the data present in that part of the disk. What I would do: create a sparse file (on a NTFS partition) sized 63+976768002=976,768,128 sectors x 512 = 500,105,281,536 bytes in size "dd to it" the 136 Gb *whatever* you have analyze it with TESTDISK How to do that in practice (in a command prompt window, after having collected the tools and put them in a directory like C:\hdtools\, and navigating to that directory): mksparse <path>\my500GB.img 500105281536 dsfi <path>\my500GB.img 0 0 <path>\thewhatever136GB.img testdisk <path>\my500GB.img mksparse: see here: http://reboot.pro/3191/page__st__25#entry70583 or: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/mksparse.zip dsfi (part of the dsfok toolkit), here (you can use instead any other "dd-like" tool yu may be more familiar with): http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/ testdisk, here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download Follow this EXACTLY (you want to create a log, Intel, analyse, N to "search for Vista created partitions", ): http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step see if pressing "P" you see (at least some of) the files . Report what happens. jaclaz

Though with some "deviated" reasoning.... The "body of evidence" IMNSHO opinion is not proving that you can work on an iPad, it simply proving that noone works anymore. Personally I find the iPad a very nice little gadget and it is a pleasure when in the morning you use it to read the newspaper (which is not to be considered "work"). Later it is very convenient to check your e-mail box (which is not - yet - to be considered "work"). Once you have quickly checked your e-mails, it is very convenient to reply to your mom that sent you some greetings with a three or four words message.(again not - yet - to be considered "work") Same goes for throwing al the garbage publicity in the dustbin.(again not - yet - to be considered "work") Then there is an urgent message with attached (say) a few .pdf's that you have to read and comment (and the thingy is very useful for reading that), but since what you have to do is to write a ten pages analytical comment on the contents of the .pdf's, you are pretty much stuck (but let's say that you can attach a keyboard to the thingy and manage to write the needed document, this is work, and though made in a very INconvenient way, it is doable) Then there is (say) a .dwg that needs a few corrections and things start getting more difficult (I have actually used Autocad on an iPad, I am not making it up) you start by zooming in and out like mad to get an idea of what the heck is the issue in the drawing, then after having got a headache for the need of focusing in and out n times you finally find what would have been evident at first sight on a 22" screen. Now comes the difficult part, what would have took you (say) 15 minutes with a mouse or with a graphic tablet results in making you take 45 minutes. (total needed time on the iPad: 60 minutes, total needed time to do the same on your "common" PC workstation: 20 minutes). Then there comes the need for making from scratch a (complex) spreadsheet, you can see on the stupid little screen 8 colums and 25 rows (I am faking these numbers from memory, but they shouldn't be that far off) or, if you turn it 90 degrees you can see 13 colums and 15 rows (on my old style 22" I can see 26 columns x 50 rows at 100% zoom) and you start (still if you have the optional keyboard) to input data and formulas (and you thak god that you were there in the old times and remember almost every keyboard shortcut), but wait a minute, you don't have the F-keys ! Are you really willing to use the thingy without F2 and F4 and wihout a mouse? And to input a long series onf numbers without a numeric keypad? After three or four hours (the double it would have took you on a "common" PC) you finally have your spreadsheet done, but you cannot actually see if it prints correctly as the preview of the A3 is so small that you need to zoom in and out until your headache is much worse, in the meantime it's around noon and you decide that you better get back to bed to see if the headache stops. jaclaz

It's strange , go to the "upper" page: http://www.brothersoft.com/regdat-15017.html click on download Regdat 1.3, you will land: http://www.brothersoft.com/regdat-download-15017.html clicking on first link leads eventually to the dead homepage. clicking on 2nd or 3rd NOW gets to the downloader, a few minutes ago they went directly to the .zip download It seems like I somehow "triggered" the stupid downloader for this otherwise forgotten app. Anyway, direct links : http://usfiles.brothersoft.com/utilities/registry_tools/Regdat_15017.zip http://files.brothersoft.com/utilities/registry_tools/Regdat_15017.zip jaclaz

It may be perfectly normal , as an example your ISP might want to "know" if the modem is coneected and working, there could be people (not necessarily malicious) pinging/arping/whatever, you may be part of an (ISP assigned) subnet range and get broadcasted packets, and of course there are thousands (or tens or hundreds of thousands) compromised machines/botnets that are randomly pinging/probing the internet for open ports and the like . jaclaz

Here: http://www.brothersoft.com/regdat-download-15017-s2.html or http://www.brothersoft.com/regdat-download-15017-s3.html For the record (and not necessarily useful/suggested for the specific *whatever* Regdat was originally suggested) but freeware: http://paullee.ru/regstry.html jaclaz

Well, MSFN is not a blog. And this is not an article. You have joined a technical board (MSFN) and you are reading a thread where someone else that had a problem reported it and some other members helped in finding (hopefully) a solution to it. You are NOT having "the same error" (or maybe you are, but without an exact description of your environment is hard to say). What you should do is: DON'T PANIC (assume the above to be in large, friendly letters ) take some time to regain a stable mental state (leave that poor, innocent wall alone! ) post again describing your situation, what you did EXACTLY, what happens EXACTLY, etc., see http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html and someone will possibly be able to help you fix the issue. jaclaz

Being minimalist, I personally find the blackbox shell (and other interfaces) approach, the most convenient: righ click anywhere on the desktop and a cascading menu appears. jaclaz

Well, but do not insist too much on the pity or someone could start exactly that ... For NO apparent reason, a lolcat : and a F.A.Q.: (just to cheer you up a bit ) jaclaz