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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

From: http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/GetArticle.aspx?docid=978eca6b436a4edc92576ba183b91f5c_KB_EN_v1.xml&pid=8&converted=0 It seems like "safe" is "disabled". Like many (most ) Cisco originated documentation is - to say the least - self referencing, I doubt Captain Obvious himself could have written a better article than: http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/GetArticle.aspx?docid=34da84c41ef2451e96dbc36f49b2f455_17372.xml&pid=80&converted=0 (please note how the title is "Definition of Filter Multicast and reasons to enable or disable it") It is a very confusing matter: http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/Filter-Multicast/td-p/334178 but several sources (including the "default" settings) seem to imply that it should normally be disabled for increased security: http://portforward.com/english/routers/firewalling/Cisco/Linksys-E1200/defaultguide.htm jaclaz

With all due respect for your two sources, I cannot agree, the whole thing doesn't stand . It seems to me like they started with a nonsensical task, mixing together different sized disks and expecting that the capacity was not that of the smaller one? Then proceed to fill up the thingy? Comeon..... What happens on a "normal" hardware RAID setup? The capacity of the array is that of the smaller disk! Most probably since UNLIKE common hardware RAID, the Windows 8 thingy is scalable/upgradable by adding more disks, the capacity manager uses the biggest of the hard disk to set the limit of the array and most probably when the array will have been nearing the capacity of the smallest one a popup or balloon or *whatever* would come up saying something like: Of course a properly working OS would have made this clear from the beginning, actually IMHO a good OS would have also slapped the user in the face - hard - for even thinking of doing that. I see that stuff a lot like Dynamic disks (that came out with 2K), they are a seemingly nice feature, but noone uses them, let alone use them "properly" (mainly because the related documentation is either missing, wrong, sucks big or all of the three together) exception made for a few courageous adventurers that usually end their adventure loosing some data because the configuration wasn't correct or they did some other experiment with inadequate software and what not . As a matter of fact IMHO these kind of features (like dynamic disks, "storage pools" and now "storage spaces" or whatever) should be reserved to the (very few) people that know where their towel is, i.e. the mistake is not as much in the technology in itself, but rather in providing it masquerading it as an "easy-one-or-two-click-away" one. BTW not an entirely new stance of mine, this is exactly what I think about most Partition Manager tools (Partition Magic >3 and Acronis products in primis), putting seemingly easy (almost unlimited) power in the hands of "n00bs" is one of the possible recipes for disaster, I wish I had a dime for each Gb of data lost through the (incorrect) use of these tools.... OT, but not much , it is very likely that the good MS guys took some existing code: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161247 and decided to add something like it to a more "user level" OS. It doesn't make much sense , on one hand they clearly consider all their users as demented as to *need* SmartScreen and *need not* a desktop/start button, on the other hand they consider them like highly skilled IT specialists ( capable of setting up a "mixed mode" increased resiliency, mirror/parity storage pool and manage it ) jaclaz

I will try again, are your settings EXACTLY like the ones on this page? http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/GetArticle.aspx?docid=978eca6b436a4edc92576ba183b91f5c_KB_EN_v1.xml&pid=8&converted=0 Does you router has other pages/settings? How are they set? Post a few screenshots of what you see (obviously removing personal information/private LAN Ip's etc). Good. BTW a possibility would be to go to a friend's house and try accessing your IP from the "outside", backtrack is the first tool/distro that comes to mind: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ This way you could have maybe an idea of what's going on. jaclaz

At first sight what is not at all clear from the articles about "disabling" SmartScreen is WHAT is actually disabled. I.e. if the actual WHOLE SmartScreen is disabled (in the sense that it does NOTHING) or if the SmartScreen notifications/warnings ONLY are disabled, i.e. it continues sending data to MS BUT, even if the result is "non-kosher", it does not prompt the user (notifications disabled). In other words, once SmartScreen is disabled, is any info sent to MS or not? Personally, if I had issues with the thingy (of course IF, at gun-point, I would be forced to use Windows 8 ) I would try and find the actual files/executable/services/registry entries connected to it and §@ç#ing delete them from the hard disk . jaclaz

Good . http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128727&st=10 jaclaz

I am not sure to understand, those seems a lot like OUTbound connections and not INbound ones.... @PeterEl I mean how exactly is NAT (or any other similar setting) set to? From what I can see (not from the E1500 manual here: http://homesupport.cisco.com/en-eu/support/routers/E1500 which is pretty much "useless") but from the more "generic" one: http://www.manualowl.com/m/Cisco/E1500/Manual/236876?page=40 There is no specific setting/page for NAT, and if you want to "expose" a device to the internet you need to put it in the DMZ. The *whatever* that blocks (or should block) unwanted packets is seemingly SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection), but as well I cannot find any detailed settings guide, see also: http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/GetArticle.aspx?docid=349c2ccc3fb44e1b8878369cc84a56bb_KB_EN_v1.xml&pid=80&converted=0 See if this applies to your router (these are the kind of settings that might affect the possibility to "go through"): http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/GetArticle.aspx?docid=978eca6b436a4edc92576ba183b91f5c_KB_EN_v1.xml&pid=8&converted=0 jaclaz

It depends by a number of factors. Which router do you have? How exactly it is setup? Is NAT enabled? And how it is set? jaclaz

Nope... Redirects to a page without a listing for them. Already checked that (the reason I pointed to MPC). Maybe WebArchive?edit - Searching on the filename give a link to the IOMEGA HTTP download hxxp://download.iomega.com/english/ (insert filename here) Good find. BTW, have you ever seen a FTP server whose address begins with http:// ? here is the "good" page with valid links: http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10561.html As a matter of fact the date on the previously mentioned page: http://www.iomega.com/europe/support/english/documents/10097e.html should have given me a hint that it wasn't actually a "properly managed page"..... jaclaz

Yes The manual (if needed) is here: http://download.iomega.com/english/manuals/english/333401.pdf Drivers/tools should be: http://www.iomega.com/europe/support/english/documents/10097e.html thoigh this: sounds "queer" when compared with this quick reference: http://www.mpcdrivers.com/apps/instguides63ae.html jaclaz

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Seemingly all, what is different may be the result of the check (i.e. a warning or "nothing"). This is logical, *everything* is checked and what passes the check is considered "kosher", whilst everything that *somehow* doesn't pass the check triggers the warning. See the article, the attempted to be installed program was TOR (which I don't think comes in a Metro "nameless crap interface" version, and it seemingly hosted on it's homepage: https://torproject.org/ and not on any "store"). jaclaz

Hey guys, do you realize the graphical aspect of this trend? It is probable that Windows 8 will have NO service pack (i.e. you will be stuck with the stuypid thingy "as is")! jaclaz

Well, for the record jaclaz did not express his opinion on the matter basically since he wasn't asked for one . He was asked if he could help in solving a small problem within a small batch file that PROBLEMCHYLD had already made and that was not "flexible" enough. Hence jaclaz believing that - generically speaking - the project PROBLEMCHYLD is carrying on is a highly useful one tried to help in solving the specific issue by suggesting the few "tweaks" needed in the batch. But unless it had been evident that the little thing had "malicious" intent , jaclaz would have provided the same support, to everyone else or to any other project. Heck, we are a Community, the idea is to exchange ideas/opinions and help each other! As said here: So I think that we all need anyway to listen to "people" and to what they have to say, about the fact that the majority of "people" are thankless little bastards, and only post to complain, that's probably true and it's a fact of life, you must learn to live with it, as this is counter-balanced by the (few) thank-yous that you get by the "good" guys/gals and by the personal satisfcation of having made something useful. jaclaz

Dmde is a modern tool with quite a number of useful options (including that of accessing $MFT entries): http://softdm.com/ jaclaz

I am not sure to get it . First result in "my" google for "WINRE commands" (without double quotes): http://www.tomsguide.com/us/winpe-winre-bootable,review-1191-7.html Third one: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/winpe-and-winre-commands-might-help-when-you-are-using-access-utility-or-recovery-disk jaclaz

Hmmm. http://ss64.com/nt/start.html I would try with a simpler: and then try with: jaclaz