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Actually EXACTLY the SAME ones: http://gizmodo.com/5937649/windows-8-tells-microsoft-about-everything-you-install-not-very-securely Originally posted link by Tripredacus: http://log.nadim.cc/?p=78 Now this is some news: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/27/3271125/microsoft-comment-smartscreen-windows-8-privacy-concerns the statements from the "MS spokeperson": Here commented by yours truly: Good. But this doesn't say that a database of just IP's or of just programs is created. BTW this could well be used to gather "statistical" data, that - without being in the least a "privacy" related concern - still provokes a few questions. WHY cannot these data be used (internally, i.e. without giving them to third parties) to check - in a similar way to the "telemetry" results to "orient" a new program to resemble one that has "success"? I think it is clear by now that a noticeable part of the stupidity of Windows 8 derives from results of telemetry (which is a kind of large scale poll to which only the least technical savvy people take part ) i.e. the perfect way to "dumb down" something if the results are not attentively checked and the inherent foolishness of "popularity" vs. "quality" approach is not mitigated *somehow*. So, hypothetically and just for the sake of the example, if the SmartScreen data indicate that (say) a lot of people downloads and installs "foo.exe", it is hard to think that soon a "MSfoo.exe" app cannot come out, at a slightly lower price. Please define "periodically" (one second, one minute, one hour, one day, one week, one month, one year)? Can you DETAIL the steps? Good. Correct, CURRENTLY it doesn't use SSLv2, as the protocol was switched to SSLv3 AFTER it was initially published by Nadim Kobeissi that SSLv2 was used. And still at the moment we know that SSLv2 has some security issues AND we don't know if SSLv3 has any. What will happen tomorrow? Thank you guys for leaving us some choices. So, if - after all - you are also good guys, why not reverse the logic? Ship the stupid thingy with SmartScreen disabled and let the user choose if he wants to use it, this is BASIC optin vs. optout policy, and whenever - even slightly - the "privacy" sphere is connected, the optin approach is always used. While you are at it we wouldn't mind to have the possibility of opting out from the Metro "nameless crap" interface.... jaclaz

Very good. I am sorry about your misadventure with the Acronis/Seagate thingy , as said I don't particularly "like" Acronis software but AFAIK it normally works and I don't think that the good Seagate guys did anything to it (besides changing name/re-branding) in order to render it inoperable . Thus the issues you are experiencing are somewhat preoccupying. It is clear that that software, in order to be able to work from the booted windows, uses either Shadow Volume services or a similar "Acronis made" approach. It is possible that you have some other software interfering with it's operations. You could try using a freebie like DriveImageXML (which as well normally uses Shadow Volume services) combined with *any* tool capable of backing up the MBR (or in case of a multisector MBR or to be anyway on the "safe side" the whole set of hidden sectors): http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm You will need to make a BartPE (or similar) boot CD (or bootable USB stick) to be able to do a "bare metal" restore. This way, you can determine whether the issue relies on Shadow Volume subsystem or it is limited to the Blackarmour thingy. These could be related valuable sources of info: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22563 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23680 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22984 What I personally see as a good thing of the app is that it saves files that are (with some "tricks") "human readable", thus it is possible to recover manually the data in them/correct them, example: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23408 This said, I still prefer, since it is inherently safer (as it doesn't rely to Voume Shadow or similar mechanisms) to boot *something else* and use this "temporary" OS to backup/image. Personally (and since the dawn of time) I tend to have two installs of the OS on two separate partitions, one "minimal" (nlite, etc.) and one the "real" one, used everyday. You backup (actualy directly image since it is small) the "minimal" from the "real" (you need to do this only once). Then you peridically boot to the "minimal" and from it backup or image the "real" (and the "data" volumes). In the (fortunately rare, but unfortunately possible) case of a total hard disk crash, you restore the "minimal" (from a PE) and from it restore all the others. BTW with this approach the "built-in" in 2K and XP NTBackup is not that bad, but which OS are you actually running? The same approach can be made obviously without the second instance of the OS from a PE or Linux CD/Usb thingy. Once the OS volume you want to backup/restore is "offline" you can use almost *any* software, as you have "removed" most of the possible issues connected with concurrent access to files, and thus lessened possibilities that something goes wrong (but Murphy's Laws will stiill apply). On the NT "side" I recommend: Clonedisk: http://reboot.pro/8480/ Odin: http://sourceforge.net/projects/odin-win/ On the Linux side: http://ping.windowsdream.com/ping.html If using DOS , the mentioned in the other thread Partition Saving http://www.partition-saving.com/ is possibly the best choice as it twofold threefold fourfold DOS/Linux/Windows/PE .... so you can practiacally use it from *any* environment. As said, a product that is interesting and that could be a simpler solution as long as you are going to use as "backup" a disk (actually the standdard approach to backup involves two of them, rotating) that is similar in size (or bigger) is XXCLONE, that can be run from within Windows and that allows (once the "first" clone is made) for very fast "incremental backups": http://www.xxclone.com/itheory.htm jaclaz

See post #790 up to #800 in this same thread... jaclaz

Try running it BEFORE (that should be the idea of the WinWait command), no need to loop... i.e. call it with the same batch with which you start the install. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/WinWait.htm If you omit the timeout and - for any reason - the windows does not appear or is not "sensed" the script will "wait forever", so giving it a "reasonable" timeout may be a smart thing to do. jaclaz

Use this: http://www.coretechnologies.com/products/AlwaysUp/AutoIt/SendEnterKeyToWindow.au3 as a base (seemingly you only need to add to it a "send TAB" command), i.e. replace: $result = ControlSend($windowName, "", "", "{ENTER}") with $result = ControlSend($windowName, "", "", "{TAB}") $result = ControlSend($windowName, "", "", "{ENTER}") try with logging enabled... jaclaz

You could also try directly Qemu (or - easier Qemu Manager): http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm the emulated hardware tends to be pretty much "standard", though cannot say if it will be too slow for the game . jaclaz

I wonder why the heck are you obsessed with "closing" this thread. There is NOT one reason on the world to close a thread such as this one, as someone could add new findings, report his/her experience ask for further help (and members that took part to this thread may have chosen to be notified about new posts), etc. I know (mainly because the issue was "solved" following my suggestions/hints ) that your main problem is solved, but actually there are NO such things as your problem or my (or anyone else's) solution. There is was a problem and a working solution for it. What you could do would be to edit the title of this thread from the current "NTVDM doesn't work on Windows 7 x86" to something more "logical" like: and, ideally add to it a [solved], like: jaclaz

We are not (much ) amused. I mean, reality is already so fun that there is no need to make a fake to have anyway a good laugh . http://www.i-programmer.info/news/177-windows-8/4666-windows-8-devs-enticed-by-offers-such-as-meet-steve-ballmer.html Now, I do respect Mr. Ballmer, and his capabilities and drive, no matter if he took, takes and will take right or wrong decisions, but I strongly doubt anyone in his right mind could see meeting him as a luring prize in a raffle . (unless you are a fanboy, of course) jaclaz P.S.: On OT news, the war is just beginning : http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/24/apple_cleared_of_infringing_motorola_patents_avoids_us_import_ban.html http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/08/24/itc-finds-apple-didnt-violate-three-motorola-patents-sends-one-dispute-back-to/

Some suitable examples can be found here: http://www.coretechnologies.com/products/AlwaysUp/AutoIt/ The approach with AutoIt or with nircmd is essentially the same. You must find a way to "identify" the window, then "wait" until it comes up, then let the program "click" on the right button. jaclaz

Sure , it has a few ways, cannot say which one will be suited to the specific message/window.... jaclaz

And you weren't paying (much) attention : Actually it was the second item that contributed to the formulation of Jaclaz's Laptop Law: yet to be proved wrong.... It was IMNSHO one of the greatest little PC's ever made, don't be fooled by the picture, the real one ran DOS 6.20 or 6.22 and Windows 3.1 (actually Windows for Pen computing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto Mine was a 33 Mhz 486 Dx, with 8 Mb of Ram (default was 4 Mb) and if I recall correctly a 120 Mb hard disk and believe me it was fast and smooth. I had Microsoft Word 6 and, much more than that, EXCEL 4.0 (and later 5), and later Borland Quattro (which I had to use for some file format interchange reasons) and - drums rolling - MS Project 1.0! And then MS Access 1.0 which was thrown away in no time and replaced by Borland Paradox for Windows..... It had a floppy, two PCMCIA, serial, parallel and two PS/2 sockets, one for the (detachable) keyboard and one for the (optional) external mouse. I bought it specifically to carry it with me abroad, and I had an external 14.4 K modem/fax and Winfax, I remember that sending or receiving a 1.44 Mb floppy image took around 15 minutes, but I was "connected" and could send and receive faxes! The pen was WAY more functonal than any trackball/trackpad I ever used, and there was really no need of a "real mouse", and also the keyboard though "small" was not at all "bad", being detachable you could (besides using the PC as "pure Pen Tablet") also have a decent distance between the keyboard and the screen, like in: http://criggie.org.nz/laptop/concerto/mvc-268f.jpg At the time Compaq was one among the leaders, if not "the" leader, in providing excellent products, both laptop (mainstream was the Contura) and desktop. The Concerto was a breakthrough in design and usability, and it was most probably abandoned because it was expensive, but also because it was tooo much ahead of it's time. Guys sorry for the OT but the Concerto fully deserved an elegy, may it R.I.P. . jaclaz

What about the good old way of AutoIt or nircmd clicking the "OK"? jaclaz

Before that, it would be nice if you could detail the EXACT steps you took, the EXACT version of Scitech Display Doctor, etc. this way should someone have your same problem he/she will be able to find a suitable complete answer. jaclaz

OT but actually serious matters: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/technology/apple-samsung-case-shows-smartphone-as-lawsuit-magnet.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/technology/jury-reaches-decision-in-apple-samsung-patent-trial.html?_r=1&hp http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-samsung-face-sales-bans-in-south-korea/2012/08/24/9cb1ac8c-edde-11e1-b0eb-dac6b50187ad_story.html Without entering at all in the discussion about who is right or who is wrong, I like the statement by Samsung : http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/24/tech/mobile/apple-samsung-verdict/?hpt=hp_t3 I am curious to see what will happen when the Surface hits the market: I would call it a brand new usage paradigm, had I not been a (BTW very satisfied) user of .... Edit: corrected the date it was year 1993, I presume that 95% percent of the "intended users target" wasn't even born at the time jaclaz

I guess that the origin, as often is, is Latin: Inter Alia: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inter+alia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(I) so it is very likely that the concept exists at least in all western languages. While I am at it, another Wikipedia (statement alike) opinion jaclaz

So you have less faith in them than I have? I don't really understand the concept, since they already sold a huge numebr of licenses, someone should buy more from them? It would be illogical, exactly because they already sold a big number of licenses, I would rather personally give my money to some new, smaller company that actually needs it, as long as the product is (IMHO) worth the money. I mean I do understand popularity as a consequence of merit, but I fail to see how popularity would constitute merit.... BTW, I told you how I cheap I am, but these guys to celebrate 1 billion download (if I recall correctly the Winzip division makes around 20 Million US$/year) put as prize for the draw: http://www.winzip.com/win/en/prizedraw-rules.htm (besides a number of useless licenses for a previous version of an useless app) a single large screen TV? I know that. Unfortunately it seems like ..... jaclaz

I just want to say that there is nothing such as black or white, it's just shades of grey. And sometimes your eyes can't even see if one grey tone is lighter than another. There are methods to try to play it safer and test (with also shades of greys accuracy) that one color is lighter than another. At the end you have a likely, a founded opinion, but never a statement. You see, again we basically agree: http://reboot.pro/15878/ Naaah, I have a lot of faith, but I tend to keep it separate from statemnts (and also from facts). On some unrelated news, apparently the good guys at Corel are not telling the truth (or maybe they have a lot of faith): http://www.winzip.com/win/en/empopp.htm or possibly Winrar is not a ZIp utility Surely, the expected target in mid-september of 1 billion (as in 1,000,000,000) downloads: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/winzipr-to-hit-one-billion-downloads-1693830.htm http://www.winzip.com/win/en/giveaway-landing.htm is impressive, though since probably even downloads don't exist, I doubt they can reach anyway the popularity of Winrar, as certified by google hits. Wait does google (and it's results) exist? Actually I have no particular position, and rest assured that when I talk or write ) to myself I tend to undestand myself. Because everything said by everybody can't be certain, thus statements hardly exists. As I do with wikipedia, assume its implicit subjectivity and get going. It seems to work. Interesting. Though I still fail how can WIkipedia actually exist (since it is made mainly of statements). Maybe there are existing statements (the ones in Wikipedia) and non-existing ones (all the rest). I'll have to think a bit about the implications of this approach. And I cannot even put my new footwear on : jaclaz

All available references seem like suggesting that Scitech Display Doctor worked with the game allright. Try it, here: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/sdd/* BTW, it is possible that you need to try the older version 53. Don't forget this: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20080515000000*/http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/sdd/regcodes.txt jaclaz

That's good, again we basically agree. Cnet downloads: http://download.cnet.com/windows/file-compression/ Winzip seems like being more popular than Winrar, what gives? Look, I could not understand the sense of your sentences, which I now understand were meant as simple negation: You see, I wasn't sure about something, I asked about it and you clarified the meaning. We won't become friends through this process, let alone change our respective opinions, but at least we are communicating . Hmmm. If that line doesn't exist, how can I open my mind by reading it and understanding how statements don't exist? It looks like a nice Catch 22. I would have liked to make a few more statements, like: and besides: but now it seems pointless... jaclaz

I have the feelng that what is needed is a suitable VESA driver. Here are some: http://web.archive.org/web/20080509121123/http://www.elys.com/software/vesa/ If I were you I would try the Scitech Display Doctor and/or the UNIVBE. Some references here: http://reboot.pro/3572/ http://reboot.pro/2325/ I suspect that a lot of tries need to be made within the .cfg .... BTW it seems like virtualbox also supports VESA drivers, in case you may want to try the portable version: http://www.vbox.me/ jaclaz

"gzip" About 154,000,000 results BUt what do you expect from pigeons? http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/technology/pigeonrank.html Some more meaningless metrics: www.winrar.com http://www.alexa.com/search?q=www.winrar.com&r=site_screener&p=bigtop Alexa Traffic Rank: 237,224 Traffic Rank in US: 182,306 Sites Linking In: 428 www.winzip.com http://www.alexa.com/search?q=www.winzip.com&r=site_screener&p=bigtop Alexa Traffic Rank: 4,317 Traffic Rank in US: 2,481 Sites Linking In: 22,726 www.7-zip.org http://www.alexa.com/search?q=www.7-zip.org&r=site_screener&p=bigtop Alexa Traffic Rank: 12,040 Traffic Rank in US: 10,078 Sites Linking In: 21,138 www.gzip.org http://www.alexa.com/search?q=www.gzip.org%2F+&r=site_screener&p=bigtop Alexa Traffic Rank: 109,516 Traffic Rank in US: 90,913 Sites Linking In: 2,033 I am not sure to get the double negation Opinions are free . Statements should be IMHO however backed up by some substantial data. jaclaz

How exactly google is a proof of popularity of Winrar (or of any other program)? I mean how exactly did you probed Winrar popularity through google? (with which search terms, with which options, etc.) Be aware that count results might represent a meaningless metric: http://web.archive.org/web/20110628184253/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/google-result-counts-are-a-meaningless-metric.html jaclaz

But you should have some sound data in order to state it.... that's a nuance in language communication. I read "the most popular actually" as a statement, and not as an assumption. Similarly, if I write 7-zip, usually it is because I mean 7-zip. If I wanted to write "a file manager" or " a file archiver" or "a popular file archiver", I would have most probably wrote that . I try my best to be as accurate as I can and try to avoid misunderstandings but evidently my attempts are not good enough to prevent free interpretation/assumptions. To me: still means plainly: which seems to me like the accepted and acceptable meaning of the expression "among other(s)": http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/among%20other(s) "tools" seem to me like a non-specific enough name that means generically "tools" and not particularly "file archivers" or "tools inherently similar in nature and usage paradigm to 7-zip". You have to take into account also that English is not my mother tongue and more generally I was writing a post on a technical board and not writing a novel. jaclaz

Yes, this means that we basically agree. No , I never suggested "a file archiver", and not even 7-zip , I simply stated how 7-zip was capable to do the specific task (easily) and that it was not the only program in the world capable of doing that, without specifying any "category" to which either 7-zip or the other tools capable of performing the task belong or should belong to. You assumed that 7-zip is "a file archiver" (which is not, or not only, being also a file manager and actually sporting this in it's windows title): and then further assumed that the "file archiver" WinRar, being "most popular" could do the same task. As said, you made a wrong guess, it happens to everyone, not a problem as I see it , and as soon as you actually asked for clarifications cdob promptly provided them. BTW, I didn't know that Winrar was the "most popular" file archiver, have you got some data about this? jaclaz

Naah, every children WAS able to do those squares in Paint, from now on a child will need to use Fresh Paint : jaclaz