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That's good , as right now I *need* not anyone with those capabilities. All I am looking for is someone (like you) that actually simply tests the curves I just posted and reports if they "feel" anywhere near the original Win2K behaviour. You might understand how personally: not being a gamer (and having NO idea how a Win2K "felt" in a gaming) not havng a Win2K system handy (actually I am lieng , I have one, but have no display that I can use with it) not having a Windows 7 system handy Just for the record, the last game I ever played was this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game) (now available to everyone): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml but I used to have the original Infocom one, that looked like this: http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/hgg.html I have no way to test them, and even if I could, I would have not the right "feeling", the theory (as per MS documents) is - to say the least - "shaky" , the way I understand it might be - even severely - flawed , any kind of mistake could have made it's way on the spreadsheets and I additionally suspect that at least part of the "feeling" is subjective, there is a concrete possibility that a random number generator would produce "better" curves tham I can do right now .... Still just for the record, I tend to normally use this a RNG snippet : http://xkcd.com/221/ jaclaz

Hey, I was waiting for your reply! I am working on a new spreadsheet, taking into account some other parameters (actually I already have a spreadsheet with what I think are a "good approximation of the Win2K curve) but I am making quite a few "discoveries" (not in the sense of anything "new", only about something in the "XP ballistics article" and in the way the thingy has been implemented that simply make NO sense - to me at least). The data are (the general idea being that the 1:1 curve is a 100% slope - your .vbs produces on my machine a 102.4% slope for XP/VIsta and a 100% for Windows 7: (they look VERY unlike the ones you posted till now ) If you are "around", I would like (in a couple of days) send you the draft of the new worksheet for your review (and check), in the meantime find attached the current (possibly incorrect/to be scaled) tentative to simulate the Win2K "behaviour". If any of the actual peeps that need those curves would actually test and report, it would be a good thing.... If I may, both your .vbs and the data you posted is "beautified" by a [TAB] that prevents directly copy/paste in an Excel spreadsheet, it seems to me that even without it, the data is not "that much ugly" and it could be removed. Besides, it would be nice if you could have the .vbs add a "comment" string, like I do in the spreadsheet, so that you "keep" the file name even when you copy and paste just the data in it. I don't understand the way you build your new "Win2K - like" curves , I added the plot of your posted "Windows7_MouseFix_TextSize(DPI)=100%_Scale=1-to-1(2-to-1@9)_@6-of-11" to the attached spreadsheet, it seems to me like a zig-zag, can you spend a couple lines to explain the reasoning behind it? I didn't know about the "news" in Excel 2007, I guess the good MS guys managed to ruin even it! I was thinking along the same line of thought as you do about the possibility of using a different X/Y graphic, but keeping everywhere the same "approach" as the "XP ballistic article seems to me more "natural", I will see after the checks, if there are even more alternatives. In the meantime I invented a new "standard" all graphs in the new spreadsheet will have: "Full" X axis min 0 max 45 primary unit 5 / Y axis min 0 max 650 primary unit 50 "Detail" X axis min 0 max 9 primary unit 1 / Y axis min 0 max 130 primary unit 10 this way they will have the same H/W ratio, the second being a 5x magnification of the first. @all To repeat myself, I have NO idea if the provided data does in any way approximate the Windows 2K behaviour, please test them and report. jaclaz mouseaccelW2k.zip

Well, IMHO there are several alternative possibilities to my being in Italy. I could use an Italian proxy allright, and besides, I could well be: a liar (misrepresenting my nationality/citizenship - which is not BTW "usual place of residence"- this is what I understand for "country" ) a tourist in Italy casually posting from a cybercafe in Florence But even once established that I am in Italy, would it be possible that I have files created with a "-" sign? I could well be any of: An international consultant, often traveling both sides of the Atlantic and thus most probably having on my notebook any number of files with dates with the + or - sign. A digital forensics examiner, often having to deal with disk images made overseas. A completely crazy loon, that loves to have his PC set to US Central time during the week (because my first love was a girl from Nebraska ) and Mountain time on weekends (to get up earlier ) jaclaz

Guess WHY I mentioned COA2? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,21065,00.asp jaclaz

As a very respectable member said not so long ago : Seriously: What is the issue with "SKIP=1"? What if the "^,Name" is kept (though redundant) and one uses "FIND "\"? jaclaz

Thanks my sock! NOT only you are not going to post EXACTLY WHAT you did so that it could be useful to other people, but you also edited each and every of your posts in such a way that most of the thread posts would lose significance . Thank goodness I have the habit of quoting at least relevant parts . jaclaz

Yep, of course . I am a bit perplexed by the FIND "+" I had gathered that the offset could be both + and - (plus and minus) http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee198928.aspx jaclaz

@NATO don't take this as an offence (as it is NOT meant to be one ) but you haven't cured *anything*. You simply re-installed. Medical comparison : I cured the gangrene by amputating the affected limb. jaclaz

Do not want to put you down, but that is "tricky" business . Just in case, some info here may be of use: (and NO, bootit_NG is a nice proggy , but won't help you with this ) jaclaz

Well, you can workaround that. You can install grub4dos to the MBR and either correct the "sectors before" in the Logical Volume PBR/bootsector or - more easily, still with grub4dos installed to the MBR, use a DOS floppy image (as it will behave EXACTLY as your "real" floppy you are currently using). Another possibility is to make a new map for the partition as Primary. The "safer" and tested one is the floppy image, but there are quite a few reports about partition mapping working allright for 9x/Me. The thing you will have to deal with is possibly drive letter assignment, but that should be solvable with Letter Assigner, and/or once you have tested the setting, running COA2 on this "second" Win9x install. The good news are that you can test everything without needing to do permanent changes, by using a grub4dos floppy. If you need directions, just ask. Personally, in order to avoid those kind of problems, I traditionally make a small primary partition on all disks, even those targeted to "data only" of one cylinder (around 8 Mb on a standard 255/63 device), in your case most probably you will need to re-size and shift the Extended partition, but nowadays is not actually *needed* if uisng one of the mentioned approach. jaclaz

You need to get used to MS naming conventions . My guess is that they use a "random filename generator" and when it is broken (quite often, as it is coded in Silverlight, using the MS SQL database as backbone and Outlook Express to send back an e-mail with the generated name ), they simply re-use an already available name. Compare with post #12 here: http://reboot.pro/966/ http://reboot.pro/966/#entry7811 jaclaz

Good , though the questions "WHICH instructions?" (since you were suggested TWO different ones) comes to mind. Naaah, it happens quite often that a few sectors are anyway "bad" (or were part of the G-list you have possibly cleared). Now you need to recover your data. Please - should you need help for this - start a new thread and do not post on this one. To have an idea of possible paths, do check these threads: jaclaz

Just in case, old school method, rather effective : jaclaz

I had a look at the issues, and found quite a bit of info There are a couple nice articles here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/mouse-dpi-and-usb-polling-rate.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/where-are-the-high-resolution-displays.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/mouse-ballistics.html latter one misses some "key" images, taken from a MS article that was - obviously - lost somewhere in the cloud (but that is linked to by MarkTheC) the official MS term is "archived" http://donewmouseaccel.blogspot.it/2010/03/markc-windows-7-mouse-acceleration-fix.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463319.aspx The original MS article is however available through the Wayback Machine, even if some images are present in one version of the page and not in another, by "adding up these two": http://web.archive.org/web/20041104014442/http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/pointer-bal.mspx?pf=true http://web.archive.org/web/20071023210409/http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/pointer-bal.mspx?pf=true The whole concept of "mickeys" is fascinating The codinghorror article links to a (lost ) mouse rate measurement tool that I anyway found and that is attached (just in case). And another interesting source: http://www.cybergamer.org/forums/thread/260663/Mouse-Optimization-Guide:-Acceleration-Fix-and-Polling-Rate/ So, it seems that the matter is even more complex than what MarkTheC posted (a tip of the iceberg? ) and it also seems that most of the 125 Hz vs 500 Hz poll rate is - to say the least - UNnonoticeable by any "normal" human being . It will take me some time to digest the infos (and hopefully understand them), in order to provide a "bettered" spreadsheet. jaclaz dx_mouse_timer_dialog.zip

I am not sure to be follwing you. (actually I am quite sure that I am not following you ). WHO told you that Hyperterminal needs to remain connected when you power off? (it is a logical impossibility, the device is powered down, so you NEED to re-connect) FORGET anything you have read till now. Simply follow the suggested guide (and NOT any other one) "to the T": http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html BTW ten seconds sound like a bit too little, the cited suggested guide says 60 seconds, but it also say that you can try WITHOUT disconnecting power (BUT in this case you NEED to change level to /T) jaclaz

Working perfectly Here is the very slighlty modified version that deals with single file: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION IF %1' EQU ' GOTO :EOF IF NOT EXIST %1 GOTO :EOF SET "P_=%~1" FOR /F "SKIP=1 USEBACKQ TOKENS=1*" %%# IN ( `WMIC DATAFILE WHERE "NAME='%P_:\=\\%'" GET CREATIONDATE^, NAME` ) DO CALL :_O "%%#" "%%$" PAUSE & GOTO :EOF :_O SET "D_=%~1" ECHO=%D_:~6,2%/%D_:~4,2%/%D_:~,4% %~2 jaclaz

Assuming that submix8c was referencing this: the 5% figure was just a conventional value for illustrative purposes (the real one probably be more near to 6 or 7% ) And for NO apparent reason a repost about a new game (JFYI): jaclaz

SCOOP! The sentence: as it was originally written : jaclaz

No idea, try re.reading this thread starting from: and see if you can find a suitable setting. The referenced MS article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978664.aspx seems to me clear enough, though I'll have to to re-read it and MarkTheC posts several time to be able to add a tentative to the spreadsheet. jaclaz

I'll do and report, as soon as I am back to the machine I normally work with, thanks . But though - as always - very nice , it is a (much better) workaround. I mean your script still uses "directory" info and not "filename", set aside the OP request, if instead of looking for the created date of the contents of a directory I want to look for the created date of a single file, I need to use the "WHERE Name=" approach. What I am missing (and I want to understand fully) is the right way to escape/quoting everything in the FOR loop. I'll study your approach, if I get it right is: use USEBACKQ enclose the whole set of arguments of WHERE in double quotes enclose the values of each single comparison inside the WHERE in in single quotes escape the commas (besides - as always - the pipe symbol) and see if it works with the filename containing brackets jaclaz

From: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso (highlighted the relevant parts) jaclaz

Can you detail which specific data are you trying to extract? jaclaz

But imagine that the "main scope" of the OS is to make more money, wouldn't it then make sense to have it open on the Music Store? jaclaz

Hmmm, really cannot say, but set aside the specific issue, from a "mathematical standpoint" 5 x/y points should be enough to approximate *any* curve of this type (or at least approximate them accurately enough). Maybe you tested "wrong" curves (or you had not the "right tool" to create some). If I can find something to criticize about the mentioned tutorial is that - while it explains very well the theory , it completely lacks a "practical way" to test curves , and provides a "conversion/curve building" method that is needlessly complex. I try (with the attached spreadsheet) to fill this gap (you will need Excel). No instructions, but once chosen your DPI in cell R20, besides changing values in cells P22:Q26 you can grab points in the graphic (the Magenta coloured line) and drag 'em around. Then copy cells B18:B33 to a new. reg file and test the settings. jaclaz mouseaccel.zip

I am not following you . The given article explains exactly HOW to do something. You have to experiment. Then you post the actual table that you generated (and does not feel "right" to you). Then someone may (hopefully) find what is the problem with your data. You will need to post also the various settings you have (like refresh rate, dpi, etc.) OF COURSE you cannot use a 2K or XP driver on 7! jaclaz