jaclaz

Sure but it is 1/5 of the original and it will take roughly 1/5 of the time to be cleared. Since on this machine I have more than 2 gb of RAM and currently the pagefile is not in use (I am "peeking at around 700 Mb of used memory), I can allright delete the pagefile (on whichever drive it is), this is actually what I have done while I am typing this post. The "vanishing" is "immediate". I cannot for a number of reasons reboot right now, so I have no idea what will happen then (if a pagefile will be created at all, if it will be created with the "windows managed settings, whatever). Please let us not transform this otherwise peaceful thread in the usual "Windows can run without a pagefile vs. No, you d@mn id*** it cannot", or of the "You better leave pagefile managed by windows vs. "NO, it should be 1.5 to 2.0 x your RAM size", "Godzilla vs. King Kong" (and YES, the dinosaur can kick that grown up chimpanzee's @ss all the way to the moon and back with BOTH hands tied behind it's back ). jaclaz

Are you sure you can't delete it? One should be able to at-least resize it to something like 70÷120 Mb: and then clear this latter. How long will it take? How long will re-creating/expanding it at next boot? Somehow I feel that another possibility could be to move it's physical location in the Registry : http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1040090780 or add a new pagefile on another volume. Quick test (just made). Starting from a 500-500 pagefile.sys on C: (%Systemdrive%), created through the normal GUI a new 100-100 pagefile.sys on D; and removed the one on C: You must reboot for these changes to take effect, bla, bla, bla.... Instead of rebooting, ran Unlocker on the C:\pagefile.sys and Unlocked it (at it went "poof" ). jaclaz

Why not using a browser? http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/07/speech-to-text-in-google-chrome.html Also sometimes info is nearer than what you may expect : jaclaz

I haven't tried COA2 yet. Do you mean use it to automate the substitution of "F:/" for "C:/"? The way I do it is easy -- clear their attributes, then open *.DAT, *.INI, *.LNK in Notepad++, hit replace, save all, and done. Takes a couple of minutes. Sure , you can also use gsar, or a hex editor, or *whatever*, COA2 is just a handy utility, designed specifically for this task. Carpenter's comparison (if needed ): jaclaz

As expected. You were already given the appropriate links to read : You need to do a number of changes to the Registry when offline, not just the drive letter in Mounted devices, when it is the System drive... There is a report counting around 4000 (four thousand) occurences that need to be changed in Registry and related files: http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t310287-change-boot-drive-letter-xppro.html The use of tools like Registrar: http://www.resplendence.com/reglite (i.e. anything that can do a "general" search and replace of the registry) is advised, alternatively, if you want to "risk" the hex approach sketched in the mentioned thread, gsar is a good tool: http://home.online.no/~tjaberg/ Your mileage may vary anyway . jaclaz

AFAICR the pagefile is created (if missing) at startup with a mechanism similar to using FSUTIL (on NTFS), thus it should be very quick. jaclaz

.... the good news being that it can be-re-added through an add-on : http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2009/11/02/excel-add-in-for-manipulating-points-on-charts-mpoc.aspx jaclaz P.S.: just realized that I left a "link" in the mouseaccelW2k spreadsheet, I am updating the posted file, please re-download.

AFAIK the Group Policy is still "clear" (and NOT "delete") see: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/take-control-of-the-windows-xp-pagefile/2216 Pagefileconfig.vbs seems like a more suitable choice. jaclaz

Yep , you got me . AFAIK that (making people write dates/numbers/basic math and their symbols) was used as a quick way to find non-native enemy spies, it seems like most people - even very well trained/bilingual ones - when it comes to this tend to revert to their native conventions (i.e. the ones they learned as kids/at school), but exception made for the US, I believe that the rest of the world, uses dates in the "normal" way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country so I could well be from (say) Brazil.... AND, at least according to this, the trend is towards an expansion of this use even in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States Now, for NO apparent reason, a nice file renamer: http://www.1-4a.com/rename/ with an interesting option/feature : http://www.1-4a.com/rename/stardate.htm jaclaz

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