jaclaz

AFAIK, in the good ol' times all spreadshhets/office suites were Commercial. I think the first "Freeware" one (Limited - you could later buy an addition for something like 50 bucks) was 602 Pro PC Suite 2000. Though it was developed and targeted for win9x, it may work under Win31 with Win32S, cannot say. With a bit of "fantasy" and patience it can still be retrieved from some public sitea, Google for "pcs2k.exe". A good place to "peek" around is cdtextfiles.com, google for: site:cd.textfiles.com spreadsheet thought I think you will only find shareware, there may be something that has no "timeout", or that maybe the Author has released some time later as Public Domain, some of the "good guys" of the Win 3.x era did that.... Cannot say if Sphigmic is (or can be "convinced" into) working on 3.x: http://www.ds.unifi.it/~stefanin/AGR_2001/SH/sssheet.htm THis is a "pure" java one: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/sharptools/ jaclaz

Sure it is possible. There is a VERY experimental project, see this and links therein: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=126592&hl= Current project: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3717 Is using minlogon, but if I find some more willing members I would like to create a version with "full" winlogon. If you are in a hurry, there is no reason to be "diffident" towards PE, while WINPE is one thing, there are PE builds (either based on Bart's PEbuilder or Winbuilder) that can fit almost ANY need. Winbuilder: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php has a couple of "pre-made" projects that may suit your needs: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4696 jaclaz

Only too happy of having been able to contribute to a success ! To be picky , you should actually try Virtualbox: http://www.virtualbox.org/ WAAY faster than VirtualPC, you'll trash it as soon as you try Vbox. jaclaz

Putting a "1" as first partition number type means "hidden": 06 FAT16-> 16 Hidden FAT16 07 NTFS -> 17 Hidden NTFS 0b FAT32 CHS -> 1b Hidden FAT32 etc .: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html You don't need Partition Magic, grub4dos can boot the drive (ANY drive, CD, Stick, HD, floppy) and hide the partitions on-the-fly: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5187 jaclaz

0x000007B means you are missing appropriate MASS STORAGE DRIVERS (which VM are you using?) Did you use a "real" hard disk (which BUS it uses?) or an hard disk image (which format was it?). The idea was to ADD (if not present) a migrate.inf file, generated by mkmigrateinf.cmd: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 to pre-assign the letter, or , if present to MODIFY it to the same effect. jaclaz

Just to clear up things: All Service packs are cumulative (i.e. SP2 is the same as SP2+SP1 and SP3 is the same as SP3+SP2+SP1 or SP3+SP2 or SP3+SP1) Never nlite an already nlited source. If you need a "clean" Slipstreamed source, use directly the SPn: http://www.howtohaven.com/system/slipstrea...ce-pack-3.shtml or a "simple" slipstreamer instead of nlite. Then run RyanVM integration: http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack-sp3.html (with NO "advanced" settings changed) Then use the result as source for nlite. jaclaz

I cannot see any "mitsukai" in members. PM me your account name, mail and I will check your status and send you back via PM a "temporary" password. jaclaz

Hey, people, this (or very similar questions) are asked at least twice a day on the board. The answer is ALWAYS the same, re-build from an original, NOT modified, NOT nlited source. nlite is designed to do that, no more, no less. re-nliting an already nlited source can (and in most cases WILL) create a NOT working, unstable setup. Particularly, using a WAREZ source, like the "black" thingie, besides being illegal, is something against board Rules, and won't be talked about. jaclaz

You don't need one. Just login with the name and password you provided. I just tried registering with a mock name and it works. jaclaz

It is working now, as said boot-land is/was transferring to another server and changing a few policies, so a "glitch in the matrix" is very possible: http://boot-land.net/register/ just tested it, it works now. About your other questions, I suggest you NOT to change default Windows folder structure, and definitely NOT the \System32\ one, as a number of apps will look there anyway. Maybe in a second moment , when you will have got some familiarity with all the "tricks of the trade" You should use Procmon: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896645.aspx or a similar app from within the system to "trace" a boot. jaclaz

Just for the record, the Softmaker Office 2006 Free Edition can be found here: http://www.softmakeroffice.com/ jaclaz

Actually there is no "speed difference" in data transfer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA BUT NCQ - only available in AHCI mode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing can make the difference in "real" speed. In other words, using a drive WITHOUT NCQ, there won't be differences, if using newish drives WITH NCQ, there will be a speed increase (and lower CPU overhead). The size of the Queue (bigger for SCSI drives) accounts also for some of the reasons why some of them are being faster than SATA. jaclaz

I didn't get you wanted to use Notepad, yes , you should use START /W "" "%SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe" "%systemdrive%\Drivers\MeerInfo.txt" jaclaz

Sure, life is tough.... ...whats the problem with registering on boot-land? The file is anyway bigger than the max size alllowed on MSFN. jaclaz

Sure, both original Dietmar's Registry Hives and my (integrated) ones are in XPcli_build.zip, attached to the referenced post: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=3717&st=47 if you just follow the posted instructions and take a bit of time reading the whole thread starting from the referenced post, where some more hints are givenyou should have no problem in buiding, either manually - but WHY? - or using the batch, a working XPCLI. I have tested it with both SP0 and SP1 and cdob reported it as working with SP2: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=3717&st=68 I cannot see any reason why it shouldn't with SP3 also, though AFAIK is untested. jaclaz

Should be: And then, this: Should be: (read here): http://www.ss64.com/nt/start.html http://www.ss64.com/nt/more.html but you can simplify it by simply using: jaclaz

mitsukai, don't want to put you down or anything, but since you are going the "minlogon" way, why don't you start from the already tested and working project? At least try building it, either with my "caveman" batches: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=3717&st=47 or with the Winbuilder project by allanf: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=3717&st=67 Dietmar has put a lot of effort in building the "base" hives, it seems to me just wasted time to repeat his steps to get to exactly the same result, or however, I guess you will save a lot of time by modifying the as said already working and tested "base" instead of starting from scratch. jaclaz

That's perfectly "normal". You used "/makelocalsource" switch. The switch should: 1) copy locally files to $WIN_NT$.~BT and $WIN_NT$.~LS 2) copy NTDETECT.COM and NTLDR (actually a copy of SETUPLDR.BIN renamed as NTLDR) to ROOT of Active Partition Then "nothing happens", sure nothing will happen until you re-boot, this time from the hard disk. Do check if a migrate.inf file has been created in $WIN_NT$.~BT, though. jaclaz

This may come useful, then : http://www.matcode.com/codes.htm jaclaz

In other words, being: you propose to "adjust" a "reported-as-not-working-template" Let's see if we can solve the problem. @ner HINT: try running simply @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION REM ******************************** REM ENTER BELOW DESIRED DRIVE LETTER SET CDROMLETTER=K REM ******************************** IF EXIST ChangeCD.txt DEL ChangeCD.txt FOR /F "tokens=2,3,4" %%A IN ('ECHO List Volume ^| diskpart.exe ^| FIND "Volume" ^| FIND /v "Volume n."') DO ( Set Busy=!Busy! %%B SET Type=%%C SET Type=!Type:~-3! IF !Type!.==ROM. SET CDROMVOL=!CDROMVOL! %%A&SET CDROMCOUPLE=!CDROMCOUPLE! %%A%%B ) SET CDROMS=%CDROMVOL:~0,2% IF "%CDROMS%"=="%CDROMVOL%" ( SET NEWCDLETTER=%CDROMLETTER% SET VOLUME=%CDROMCOUPLE:~1,1% SET LETTER=%CDROMCOUPLE:~2,1% GOTO :Change_letter ) :Choose_letter FOR %%A IN (%CDROMCOUPLE%) DO ( SET COUPLE=%%A SET VOLUME=!COUPLE:~0,1! SET LETTER=!COUPLE:~1,1! IF "!LETTER!"=="%CDROMLETTER%" GOTO :Skipped ECHO Volume !VOLUME! is a CD/DVD ROM mounted as letter !LETTER!: ECHO Please enter a new drive letter for Volume !VOLUME! [Press ENTER to leave current] ECHO Already BUSY drive letters are %BUSY% SET NEWCDLETTER=!LETTER! SET /P NEWCDLETTER= IF NOT "!NEWCDLETTER!"=="!LETTER!" CALL :Change_letter ) GOTO :EOF :Change_letter FOR %%A IN (%BUSY%) DO ( REM IF "%NEWCDLETTER%"=="%CDROMLETTER%" GOTO :Skipped IF "%NEWCDLETTER%"=="%%A" CLS&ECHO Letter %NEWCDLETTER%: is BUSY. &GOTO :Choose_letter ) ( ECHO SELECT VOLUME !VOLUME! ECHO ASSIGN LETTER=!NEWCDLETTER!: )>>ChangeCD.txt :Skipped ECHO. ECHO Volume: %VOLUME% ECHO Current: %LETTER%: ECHO New: %NEWCDLETTER%: GOTO :EOF NO guarantees of it working properly, nor of it working at all, mind you. @darksimon The whole problem is that diskpart has not a way (or at least we didn't find one) to determine whether a drive is a USB one (or maybe the Vista version has? ) But you can "adapt" the above "template" for using the data in the "label" column to identify correctly a (USB) Volume with a given LABEL. Cannot say what happens if you change the actual drive letter from a batch which is running from that same drive. jaclaz

I guess you cannot format a partition unless you select it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928543/en-us http://www.ss64.com/nt/diskpart.html Maybe you miss lines: Or maybe you still have the first partition "in focus" when you try to create the second, and you need another "select disk 0".... Rule of the thumb whenever a script does not work is to try the commands in it one by one manually, so that you can see which one throws the error.... jaclaz

@Offler My remark was NOT intended to start yet another FAT vs. NTFS flame war, I will REPEAT, maybe bolding helps: Everyone should form his own opinion on the matter and choose whatever filesystem he feels confident with or simply "likes" better. If you want to discuss BIG FAT32 volumes, read this first: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partFAT32-c.html Fragmentation is obviously more probable when the "minimum unit" (the cluster in FAT filesystems) grows in size. NTFS indexes single sectors, no matter size of volume, thus it is more efficient with bigger volumes, but has other drawbacks. jaclaz

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon or if you prefer SOFTWARE Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Value "Shell" The app is still highly experimental, and the interface is a little different from usual ones. Just right click on the parent key and choose "Add". You cannot (yet ) add a new value, you can only edit existing values. jaclaz

First thing you need to understand is whether the problem is within the external drive or in the PC. Try connecting the hard disk to another PC and see if it behaves the same. If it does, the problem is likely to be in the hard disk or in the hard disk case controller, or possibly even in cables. If it does not, it is probable that the problem is a software one, with some driver (or - expecially with USB devices - some Filter driver) and can probably be fixed via uninstalling and reinstalling drivers. Check also with the Events viewer if there is any logged error. jaclaz

it's working for me (maybe ot was the Server transition that caused it to be not working): http://nunobrito.eu/download.php?view.10 http://nunobrito.eu/request.php?10 Just as a teaser , here is a screenshot with BBlean: jaclaz