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Probably this one: AND links in it. jaclaz

Dencorso, you should tune your grammar : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us jaclaz

With all due respect you didn't specify anything, you vaguely cited ACL's, temp folders, alternate credentials, sensitive areas of the system, services that do not actually require NT Authority\Local System or other unusual priveleges and GPO's. I do like the approach , but it would be interesting if you could provide some examples, lists of the services, etc. jaclaz

On behalf of IACDUIAL, the International Association of Children Designing User Interfaces After Lunch , I want to signify how your statement is higly offensive of the professionality of the Members that have designed in the past and will design in the future MUCH BETTER interfaces than Metro. jaclaz

You must be joking . The intended procedure is: buy a Microsoft digital camera (the thingy will be presented soon, it runs Windows 8 ARM ) take a snapshot of the screen upload the picture to the cloud (MS cloud) through a paid for subscription (the MS camera doesn't save anything locally you must upload it to the cloud) buy an OCR app at the MS online store (including the needed framework it is only around 3 Gb in size) run it (in a Virtual Machine) and have it process the online image (that you have re-downloaded in the meantime, and that goes in a special folder that you cannot access, only the TrustedOCRService can) the ouput will be an .xml file that will be, once stored on the cloud, re-downloaded and automagically converted to plain text using the MSXML2TXT TrustedConverter (another few bucks on the MS cloud store) at this point you hit Ctrl+V, a small window popup will appear asking if you really want to paste plain text in an Excel cell (since the content is different from the cells immediately before and after) and you have to fill a form to guarantee that you won't sue MS if the result is not what you expect, digitally sign it and send it to the cloud, which depending on the speed of your connection and the status of the servers may shortly authorize the paste operation, log it both on your PC and on your MS account, and finally issue the OK to the TrustedKeyboardFilter to let the command go through jaclaz

Don't tell me that you are still using BLUE? I went GREEN a long time ago.... This should work since Windows 3.x and up to XP/2003: http://www.kevinscrate.com/blog/2007/12/22/change-the-bsod-or-blue-screen-of-death-to-a-different-color/ http://www.petri.co.il/change_bsod_color.htm Please do appreciate the high level technology used , nowadays the good MS guys would need at least ActveX, .NET, 1 zillion entries in the Registry, setting file written in a XML file , two interdependent running services, a performance monitor, an event log connection and a few digital signatures here and there (and to change the setting you would need to impersonate Super-Hyper-Mega-TrustedInstaller ). JFYI, the good Mark Russinovich - after an intiial hiccup - came out with a nice thingy (with help from Alex Ionescu ): http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2010/12/14/3374820.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/01/11/3379158.aspx So you can have your PPSOD even now . jaclaz

Well, no . (meaning that you would have had exactly the same issue if you attempted to install from CD, the test on the virtual machine went OK because the virtual machine on which you tested needs NOT a Mass Storage driver - i.e. the needed one is already in your source). If you prefer, if you have not an adequate mass-storage driver, no-matter from which device you attempt the install, you will have issues. There is a FAQ sticky: which is was originated for the "other" app, but Q3 is "common" between all "install from USB" thingies, and relatively to the (SATA) Mass Storage device drivers. On most machines you can get around a missing SATA driver by changing the settings in the BIOS to "IDE emulation mode" or similar, but you will have later to install the driver and often it is not very easy. On laptops (where BTW it is more likely that you will install from USB because you miss the CD/DVD drive), such option in the BIOS is very often not present, so you need the integrated driver (or use one of the available "F6 floppy" workarounds). This is the part that is not clear (to me at least) . The idea is to have the Source integrated with the needed drivers and then create the stick through WinsetupfromUSB from this integrated source, if you did this, then it should have worked. Yes, but remember to start from a non-nlited source. No, the issue is not when you format (I mean unless you format it 100,000 to 1,000,000 times ) it is more an issue when using NTFS (or any journaled or semi-journaled filesystems). From the first /actually very vague) data about lifetime of USB sticks (actually of the memory in them) a lot of betterings have been introduced, besides changes in the actual flash memory, modern sticks use "wear leveling" algorithms, so right now, though I personally recommend - unless there is a "real" *need* for NTFS - to use FAT16 or FAT32, the reports of sticks wearing out have lessened or completely disappear, with a recent USB stick I would rate probabilities of a failure as follows: 55% lost//stolen/forgot on another site 25% factory defect/bad solder/poor components 12% my dog ate it 5% zapped due to static electricity/desktop not properly grounded/with 120 or 240 V AC connected accidntally to the chassis 2.5% worn by using a journaled or semi-journaled filesystem (please read as NTFS) 0.45% other reasons 0.05% worn by repeatedly formatting it Please take note that when you format under XP, very little writes are performed, while when formatting under Vista or 7 without the /q switch the whole drive will be wiped (00 written): jaclaz

Allow me a carpenter's comparison . jaclaz

UNfortunately you are correct : the Warranty (where applicable) only refers to a replacement of the defective disk drive (though there have been exceptions made for "largely failing" disks/series).. I don't hink there is anything that can be done DIY to "repair" that disk, but is it only (very) slow? I mean, does it have read errors or - though over a long period of time - data read from it is OK? If the latter it should be just a matter of "keeping it cool" and have patience while imaging to a new disk. jaclaz

Yep that would be a perfect example of a "Kansas city shuffle": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Shuffle http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425210/quotes?qt=qt0441407 Just think about it: If you think about it everyone is criticizing the Metro interface and only it, or, if you prefer, all attention is on this particular botched interface and very few people are looking for (or actually finding) anything else "wrong" (which does not mean that there must be something wrong, nor that everything is perfect exception made for Metro ) jaclaz

I would like better a "conspiracy theory" What if everything till now is a bluff? Let's imagine that the good MS guys could not find a suitable way to to remove some bloat form the "core" and have an "external" classic menu app. What would have been a clever move? Make independent peeps so angry at it that someone would brainstorm until he/she finds a solution. Then buy either the program or hire the programmer (in this case the good Ivo Beltchev ) and have something working with relatively little effort. After all - more or less - is it not what they did with Mark Russinovich? I mean, had they made logical and documented implementations in the NT OS's, and produced directly the useful tools that Winternals/Sysinternals made over the years, how many chances were there that someone like Mark could have matured into a better expert on MS thingies than MS itself? jaclaz

Yep, sorry , typo , I meant 0C, you cannot have 06 or 0E, unless you make smaller partitions. jaclaz

If I get it right, you have only 128 Mb of RAM? If this is the case, I am afraid that both the WinPE 2.x and 3.x are usually too big for that (still provided that you have the corresponding Vista or 7 Sources) and even a PE 1.x has to be very limited. If I were you I would try the NaughtyPE project first: http://reboot.pro/3866/ or the most minimal LiveXP you can find among Amalux's "frozen builds": http://reboot.pro/4111/ jaclaz

Yes , it could well be a BartPE build, that was the point. jaclaz

Sometimes I wonder WHY one would do that. Are you meaning these: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/79/ or the "generic" blue of setup booting? Do you mean in properties, above the OEM info. like: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/77/ I am not sure to get what do you mean by "5kb bmp". The standard XP boot image is described here: http://reboot.pro/360/ http://reboot.pro/339/page__p__2600 it is: (see also the link in answer to your question #1) Just for the record, a good three quarters of the OP can be got from my quotes of it, it started with: and the link originally posted was this one: http://www.facebook.com/OSHope jaclaz

Can I dare to ask on what basis from the information posted you managed to "venture" into stating that it is made through using Winbuilder and namely the LiveXP project? jaclaz

Actually I am not wanting you to stop the *whatever* you are up to. Not at all. I am trying to have you start writing senseful sentences (possibly in the English language). This way possibly someone will be able to understand what you are talking about. jaclaz

You CANNOT. You see, if you knew how to do that you would also know how to build your PE and you wouldn't "resort" to anything. It is interesting how the meaning of a word can be interpreted differently. I read "from a torrent to be specific" exactly as "from somewhere to be generalistic". Yep, this happens to lot's of people. When this happens they tend to resort to asking for help in learning how to avoid screwing up (badly or slightly) their PE builds, INSTEAD. Nothing bad about torrents, about UNredistributable contents, redistributed through torrents (WAREZ), plenty. My educated guess is that some of the Admins/Mods have a different take from you on the subject of legality of such PE's, but more than that, independently from it being legal or not, I believe that is NOT allowed on this board, see Rules #1.a and #1.b: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules jaclaz

EXACTLY. How queer that fans admire the origin of their fanatism. From the given link: The use of a teen aged student as a replacement for an umbrella or a roof or shed is IMHO VERY peculiar . I would guess that teenagers' unions will make a lot of fuss about this... I don't think that it is allowed to use "pretty designed" in the same sentence with "alike Windows 7". I presume that WHEN the WHATEVER will actually exist, let's say at the end of the month, it will be STILL known as "OS HOPE", or there are plans to rename it? The bad news are that from the very little that can be understood of the thingy, it is likely that it will represent WAREZ and will cost you a ban. jaclaz

Definitely, and worse than that normally they are not even consequent with their naming, meaning that the SAME (often misnamed) thing is often called with different names. The "XPRESS" or "Fast Compression" of WIM's is documented (with some wrong algorithms) as "Win2k3" which is of course very logical in their perverted minds, since the .wim format has NOT been used in conjunction with Windows Server 2003: http://reboot.pro/5308/#entry41499 What I consider a "little pearl" is in this article: http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/where-we-stand-and-are-going-with-windows-8/ jaclaz

And that is (the fact that you asked about it) the reason why you were ansered: "NO, there aren't, but there is a project that does represent a good "base", OR you need anyway to choose ONE "shrink tools (list given) - vlite is not intended for Windows 7 use - and start again from there." My personal advice is (if the VHD approach does not suit you) to get this one: and experiment with it. Then start searching for presets available, for the specific tool, example: http://www.rt7lite.com/rt-se7en-lite-forum/4-features-removal-support/441-removal-preset-files.html From experience, and from the rather foggy view I have in my crystal ball , this search will resolve in a wild goose chase as the probabilities that you find a pre-set that EXACTLY suits what you *need* or fancy is veery,very close to 0%, your next post will be something like: or: and you will likely be adviced to choose a tool and experiment with it (back to square #1). jaclaz

Just in case : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banhammer A card for the role-players : No, no pre-made presets, AFAIK, but which particular "shrink" tool(s) are you referring to? Like: Maybe what you are after is this?: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23553&hl= VHD_W7_Compact.exe represents a fairly good kind of pre-set, but it is not "the smallest" one. jaclaz

Of course, because no one is going to buy it! ... but of course till now we had two different kinds of "virus writers", those expert in/focused on "PC only" and those expert in/focused on "cellular/tablets" only. Having a same platform may provide unexpted sinergies between the two groups . jaclaz

.. which should be read - in absolute terms instead of comparative ones - as almost, but not quite, right jaclaz

Well, the good news are that in Italian the "Program Files" are "Programmi", so at least *somehere* they did one thing right. Actually - and just for the record - the "right" approach since many years, just after the invention of partitionable hard disks , would have been to make by default a "System" partition and a "Data" partition/volume, and possibly a single directory in either volume with all the settings for the programs. Doing backups/restores and upgrading would have become - instead of a nightmare - a simple, everyday task (as it should be). It seems like Porsche actually made a survey asking to their customers whether they preferred the small German repair kit and the tiny compressor coming with it or the solution originally designed by MS, of which I have a couple rare images of early tests : and consensus - strangely enough - was almost entirely for the German design. jaclaz