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Philosophical considerations set apart, here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Clocks-Time-Management/Cmdtime.shtml (already invented wheel) Or check the use of W32TM.EXE.... Also, it depends on the accuracy you need/want, since you want "day" resolution you can use also httpget.: http://www.willus.com/archive/ or curl or wget and download a page such as: http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/ and parse it jaclaz

JFYI, Windows Narrator should be available in XP also: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/reader_overview.mspx?mfr=true Something like this: http://www.snaphow.com/make-windows-welcome-you-with-audio-voice-messages-with-narrator/ should then be possible (like it has been "pumped up" as a 7 feature :whistling:): http://www.clickonf5.org/9210/windows-7-welcome-voice-message-during-logon/ BTW, instead of comparing each value, you can use < and > to select within a range of "hours". jaclaz

See here: http://www.simplecarver.com/exchange/articles/article-9.html You will need to attempt to manually carve the SD card. In this particular case Recuva may have not done a proper recovery because the file was fragmented, being biggish. jaclaz

All in all the above seem to total up to THREE facts. (though the latter is more like a truism or a tautology ) Yes, when someone writes a file, it stays written . jaclaz

May I dare to ask WHY? I mean do you have more than 2^32 internal network addresses? Or do you need/want SLAAC (whatever it is useful for)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Stateless_address_autoconfiguration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Stateless_address_autoconfiguration jaclaz

What do you mean "I formatted"? You should PARTITION and format the the USB disk, and possibly use RMPREPUSB to do it (as it has some additional tricks that may help with some motherboards). Read on the site mentioned in the post just above yours. jaclaz

I beg to differ. This is NOT "fixing" it is "replacing" one of the MAIN macro assemblies. it nicely equates to "it is NOT fixable, buy a new PC".... It could be an as trifling issue as a bad solder around the power jack or the "power fuse": http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2007/07/16/satellite-m35x-fixing-power-connector/ or an unknown failed component (that in most cases, even if you can pinpoint which one is the culprit you won't find easily a replacement for) . jaclaz

It seems like being particularly complex to setup the boot priorities on that motherboard. Can you report EXACTLY what you have set in SEVERAL pages of the BIOS: STANDARD CMOS page (reference Fig. 2/page 7 of manual) what happens when you select in it IDE CHANNEL 0 Master what happens when you select in it IDE CHANNEL 0 Slave Boot Seq & Floppy Setup (reference page 10 of manual) what happens when you select in it Removable Device Priority what happens when you select in it Hard disk Boot Priority what happens when you select in it CDROM Boot Priority The sub-pages of Hard disk Boot Priority and CDROM Boot Priority are "strange", since you have only one IDE channel you don't have in theory a Primary master /Primary slave AND a Secondary Master/Secondary slave, unless the IDE is intended to be the "Master" (or the Slave) channel and the SATA is intended to be the Slave (or the Master) channel Also how are set the options in IDE function Setup? (page 18 of manual) jaclaz

Let's stay in trouble shooting the issue at hand. Are you sure you set the jumpers appropriately on BOTH devices? Did you check the mentioned colour code? Leave the HD connected, but disable the HD in BIOS. What happens? The error you are having seems like the CD/DVD is "jumped over" in boot sequence and the attempt to boot is done anyway from the HD. Some BIOSes allow to press a "Hot key" during boot allowing to change on the fly boot order. Does your motherboard have this feature? Can you confirm this is the manual for your MB? http://www.biostar.com.tw/upload/Manual/N61PB-M2S_090918_B.zip jaclaz

Opera is waaaay faster than cooking potatoes. This is a FACT. Proven by this nice video : http://mashable.com/2010/05/28/opera-speed-test/ And now, for NO apparent reason and SUDDENLY: jaclaz

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In my experience Cable Select is the most troublesome setting one can use (the idea is good , but the implementation has been so "full of fantasy" that rarely you can find three pieces - HD/CD/MB - that have the "same opinion" on how to understand the "standard"). There are TWO types of PATA cables, 40 wires and 80 wires. (you can have both as "round" or "ribbon") The "old" 40 wires are NOT coded. The "new" 80 wires ones ARE coded. DO NOT use 40 Wires cables unless it is a very old hard disk (which the 7200.7 should be NOT). See here: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable80-c.html The advice is to use these settings are: HD Master CD/DVD slave HD connected to the BLACK end connector DVD connected to the GRAY connector (middle one) Motheboard connected to the BLUE end connector jaclaz

Lots of them. Let's simplify. Forget about Windows 7 and about the SATA HD. Let's remain in the XP and PATA realm, OK? Questions: Is the DVD PATA or SATA? HOW exactly are the PATA HD and DVD connected to the board? Which Board is it? HOW EXACTLY did you set boot options in BIOS? Can the PATA HD be wiped/re-initialized (losing all and every data curently on it? WHICH kind of PATA cable are you using? WHICH EXACT hard disk drive is it (make/model/size)? HOW are jumpers (if any) set on both the HD and on the DVD? jaclaz

I'll be grumpier. A number of people miss the right approach when asking a question. The wrong approaches are always the same ones and are typically covered by these three FGA's: http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html Besides the first one that is IMHO just for fun , #2 and #3 are important, when people: provide an exact description of the "background" of the problem and of the environment around show willingness to follow advice (as opposed to wanting to have the exact advice they think it is needed - which often is simply making it more complex than needed) it is much easier to help them. To the above you add the "sloth effect" , sometimes a new peep comes on the board and seems like expecting that someone on the Forum can by sheer magic, and in a handful of posts, provide and transfer without any effort all the knowledge it has taken years to build up (and hundreds of pages read, and countless experiments and what not), and they additionally get upset when the helping member tells them to read the (F...) manual or some web pages. Personally I see it not as a good thing when an answer to a problem (unless it is a simple, common one) does not - besides contributing to solve the reported problem/issue - also invite the asking member to get curious, to learn more and to understand fully the issue and find himself which solution is more suitable. The good ol' issue about teaching someone to fish...., more here: jaclaz

For the record, and to be picky , cmd.exe is NOT a "dos prompt". It is the Windows command interpreter or windows Command console. jaclaz

You don't need/want CDshell. But of course it is FREE. (for non-commercial use) You can get it from here: http://web.archive.org/web/20100915190831/http://www.cdshell.org/ (site is no more thanks to the Wayback Machine you can still have it) You want to get grub4dos from here (and NOWHERE else), get always latest: http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/list OR get the last "current" (missing a number of features you DO NOT need anyway): DO NOT use any other earlier version of grub4dos than the above listed. jaclaz

Yep , just kidding. jaclaz

And WHAT if Vipre is actually right? jaclaz

Cannot say if it's "the same" thing, but there is a program called "Tycho Notes 2000" that runs on later OS. http://www.astrosurf.com/rouxph/bricabrac/astro8/astro8.pdf http://pages.infinit.net/cfortin/tycho.htm You can use another VM to workaround the need to instal/uninstall the two Virtual PC versions, a list is here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21068 Personally, and expecially for running one or two Win9x programs I would go for Qemu (optionally with Qemu Manager). jaclaz

Try this other approach: http://reboot.pro/9076/ Please note how steve6375 's site has been moved to: http://www.rmprepusb.com/ and some links may not yet have been corrected/valid. These should be the tutorials you need: http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winiso http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/multiisoimdiskautounattend http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/firawiniso jaclaz

You are welcome. Sure you are "new" (if you weren't yould have already known ) Well no, I did not insist on doing that. Actually writing your own program to replace bootfix.bin is (obviously) the most difficult approach (hence the emoticon ). The easiest is replacing bootfix.bin with grldr (renamed to bootfix.bin) and add a menu.lst in root of the CD, see: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19025 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19124 To make it "cleaner" you could edit grldr to look for menu.lst in \I386\ instead of root of the CD, see also here: Mind you, the fact that you are "new" is only part of the story, you are "new" AND want/wish to do "advanced" things, it is perfectly normal that you will need to take some time getting familiar with the techniques/tools and experimenting with them. jaclaz

Naah, I don't think so. jaclaz

Naah, you are judging them unfairly. Manufacturers use different colours as ther is NO "standard", they create a product and they are perfectly free to choose their own colour codes (or no code at all) . All the foolishness lies in the concept of colour coding being a standard as opposed to pinout (which OBVIOUSLY must be a standard). @123man Since you managed to get it done for free, you may give your "budget" of 5 bucks to a local charity...... jaclaz

"XP" has NOT such an option. The XP install CD has it. This is obtained by the particular way the CD "no-emulation" bootsector is made. It invokes TWO executable in sequence: bootfix.bin <- the thing that gives you the option setupldr.bin <- the actual Windows Setup Loader see this: http://flyakite.msfn.org/xpprosp1.htm You can: write your own program that replaces bootfix.bin use any of the available bootmanagers like isolinux or grub4dos as in here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19025 use INSTEAD of the MS CD bootsector isolinux, grub4dos, BCDW, CDShell, etc., etc. creating the CD invoking it INSTEAD of bootfix.bin/setupldr.bin jaclaz

There has been a "recall" on defective batteries form Lenovo, but it is AFAIK expired and I haven't actully checked your model: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Z-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Flashing-orange-battery-light-while-charge-indicates-100/td-p/26833 Go thorough a "standard" teroubleshooting path: http://www.daileyint.com/hmdpc/battery.htm and report. Here is a possible description of flashing led meanings, see if they are of use: http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/2007/05/battery-indicator-light-behavior/ jaclaz