jaclaz

Well, first thing you need a dictionary : "dry, cool clean" does not mean "inside a fridge" ONLY the "clean" - hopefully - applies, otherwise a fridge is "freezing cold" AND "very humid" and wrapping something in plastic and putting it into a fridge, unless it is a ziplock kind of bag or perfectly sealed/airtight AND at the time of sealing whatever you put in it was completely dry AND additionally the percentage of humidity in the air when the bag was sealed was very near to 0%, wrapping something in plastic and putting in a fridge is what in highly technical terms we call "moisture condensation machine" . Apart from this, laptop batteries are one of those "non-end-user-serviceable" parts that are (mostly) actually "non-end-user-serviceable" and may contain every possible "trap" (and one more). Look - as an example - on how it was well possible to have an Acer One battery (perfectly good) NOT charging, the culprit being ..... jaclaz

Not really. It is [ code] and [ /code] (not [ /endcode]), and in practice you select what you want to insert in CODE tags, then click on the little icon senselessy representing "<>" which you find in "post" or "edit" mode. jaclaz

...and - as always - there can be n shades of gray instead of Black/White On/Off : http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&docid=DSN_F78F568BBB1BC1A0E030030ABD625AEA&isLegacy=true&DoNotRedirect=y Every BIOS has it's more or less clear "wording", this is a good overview on WOL (Wake on Lan): http://www.i-mentalist.com/support/faq/wol/ where you can find more possible "keywords". jaclaz

GREAT! and OT , but not much , of course: though the concept of "Birminhgham screwdriver" dates much back: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=birmingham%20screwdriver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument and has - I believe - other traditional national versions. jaclaz

Maybe NOT a conspiracy, but let me doubt about how "independent" these tests are and how much they are actually reflecting "real life". jaclaz

Well, no. Maybe the batch is launched "hidden" (and then you have to change the way it is started) but a pause is a pause, if that batch is launched and if it's command windows is visible, it will stop at the PAUSE commands. jaclaz

Check this line: It assigns a drive letter value to the variable CDROM IF it can find the file \sources\install.wim. It seems like this file is NOT found (and thus the drive letter is not assigned) WHO wrote that batch? It is seemingly missing some error control and is all in all more complex than needed. Change this: ::@echo off for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%i:\sources\install.wim set CDROM=%%i: echo Found CD-Rom as drive %CDROM% to this: ::@echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%i:\sources\install.wim set CDROM=%%i: echo Found CD-Rom as drive %CDROM% PAUSE IF NOT DEFINED CDROM SET /P CDROM=Enter drive letter SET CDROM=%CDROM%: SET CDROM=%CDROM:::=:% SET CDROM PAUSE What happens? jaclaz

You might be interested in a TEE command : http://www.robvanderwoude.com/unixports.php jaclaz

That is "by design". Any ATX powered PC (anything built in the last - say - 15 years) would normally behave like that, some BIOSes may allow to NOT power the network card, but normally it is powered when the PC is "off". Basically an ATX power supply is like having TWO power supplies inside, the "main one" is switched on when you switch the PC ON, the second (very small power one) will always be on as long as it is connected to mains (some but not all have a mechanical switch on the back that allows switching it "really" off). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_differences_between_AT_and_ATX_power_supply The network card is normally powered even when the PC is off, to allow the wake on lan, as well most BIOS allow to switch the PC on from a press of a key on the keyboard or a mouse click, so these are also powered. jaclaz

BUT the expressway is teeming with eighteen-wheelers! As a side note, at least here , trains on the expressway are quite rare, on both sides of the green glass door.... Meanwhile, in Canada .... jaclaz

UNneeded, but JFYI: @echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS CLS ::PUSHD network Path to be filled in later ECHO Geef alfabetische letter en druk op enter! CHOICE /C:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz /N >NUL SET /A CharNum= %errorlevel% + 96 CMD /C EXIT /B %CharNum% SET "Char=%=ExitCodeAscii%" ECHO copy offerte.doc %Char% ^& copy factuur.vbs %Char% ^& cd %Char% ^& Set directory=%Char% More details: http://reboot.pro/topic/2986-yacbfc-dec2hexcmd-and-hex2deccmd/?p=136708 jaclaz

I would like to see the actual Forrester Research report. They are the same guys that produced this one: But not everyone there is seemingly on the Windows 8 tablet bandwagon: http://blogs.forrester.com/david_johnson/13-01-29-the_coming_pc_management_crisis_a_hypothesis jaclaz

I am starting to understand the requirement (about right click). If I get it right what you need is a shell extension (and not a contextual menu entry). If this is correct, I doubt you can have it. Do the following: get http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html check which shell extensions you have on your system post info about one that is present on your right click menu (where/when you would like to see this script entry) Before the above, try actually reading the initially given: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-any-application-to-the-desktop-right-click-menu-in-vista/ AND test it jaclaz

Good . The reg file posted here: will do that alright (to add to a folder context menu) AGAIN, to WHICH context menu do you want to add the .hta? Context means "contextual to something" (or "linked" to something), usually an object that is selected, (like as said examples, folder, file, desktop, etc.) to WHICH of these objects do you want to "link" the right click menu entry? jaclaz

And - AGAIN - can you post a link to THAT thread (so that possibly we can see if THAT sollution may be adapted to your issue? Generic "context shell" advice: http://wstudios.home.xs4all.nl/Associate/index.html BTW "conttext" of WHAT ? (like folder, file, desktop, etc. ) I.e. are you looking to add it to right click when WHAT is selected/in focus? Example for Desktop: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-any-application-to-the-desktop-right-click-menu-in-vista/ JFYI : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application jaclaz

No ipso facto. I would look more for probabilities, and coincidences, like you know : read as: jaclaz

buyerninety, There has been obviously a misunderstanding. What the OP stated is: Evidently he is talking of files "belonging" to the Windows 98 system (and they won't be "in use" by the booted XP). A defragmenter has no reason to treat a .pst file differently from ANY other file, .pst files are not in any way "system" or "special" files. There is no reason to believe that the currently booted XP or any of the running processes access these files, if not by "sheer magic", consequently your remark #1 seems largely unjustified. jaclaz

Which are either non-free as well or warez . As well as a number of other tools, both Commercial and Free/Open Source. A list is given here: jaclaz

@vinifera The dictionary you are using must have a different meaning for "easy". Easier would be defrag the system in the original system/OS, something that the OP - for any reason - is not wanting to do. Your "solution" won't work BTW, the issue here is not fragmentation of files, it is fragmentation of the filesystem BEFORE the files are copied to it. If you write a large contiguous file to a "fragmented enough" filesystem, the result is a fragmented file. jaclaz

Good, then everything is explained . jaclaz

Nomen, please re-read (possibly slowly) my previous post. Any defragger using the Windows 2K/XP defrag API will NOT be capable of consolidating directories, which seemingly is the issue you are having AND I gave you a link to a possible way to work around this limitation. (still provided that the residual current fragmentation prevents Wincontig to operate successfully). @buyerninety The FAT32 partition we are talking about is the "system" partition used by the WIn9x system on a disk used in ANOTHER PC Nomen's has, which is temporarily connected as "slave" to an XP system. If he has his Outlook 2000 .pst files (from the running XP) saved on that disk more than anything else he is a magician . jaclaz

I am not sure to understand what you were trying to say about FAT and Data area). See if a book comparison helps (or completely fails to) clearing the matter (or some other analogy): http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=5150/ http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=6536153/#6536153 In FAT a deleted file is simply marked as deleted (and not actually deleted), that's why tools like the good ol' DOS undelete would work. A defragmenting tool, by definition, considers a deleted file (and the sectors where it is physically residing) just if they were "free" or "unallocated". The actual defragging algorithm (and or "strategy") of course may greatly vary from one program and the other, and some may have a "directory consolidation" feature, with some possible caveats, namely for FAT32 filesystem An example of program that has "specific" directory consolidation features is mydefrag: http://www.mydefrag.com/index.html One of it's advantages is it's scripting engine, that allows for "fine-tuning" it's behaviour. BUT, the built-in 2K/XP (and possibly later) defrag API used by these tool misses "consolidating" provisions for directories on FAT32 (and mydefrag uses this API). See: http://www.mydefrag.com/Manual-KnownProblems.html still, poor man's ways do exist: http://www.mydefrag.com/forum/index.php?topic=2303.0 jaclaz

Loosely mail merge is traditionally used to manage "circular letters", i.e. printing a "same" letter in several copies with addresses taken from a database. But in it's essence is a way to insert into a document "variable fields" that are "populated" or assigned values by a lookup in a database (or spreadsheet). This may be suitable to your scopes (or it may be not). jaclaz

Provide a pointer to it, maybe it can be adapted. Rest assured, it is (no offence whatever intended ). Besides some "style" for which everyone has it's preferences (as an example you need not an :END label in NT batch, since the re is the implied :EOF label), this snippet: is WRONG for TWO reasons: it doesn't take into account small and CAPITAL letters and will "continue" execution if *anything* but y, n or c is input This approach is safer/better: The yyyy.mm.dd values are not "initialized/set" anywhere, is this really the wanted result, litterally yyyy.mm.dd? jaclaz

OT , but not much an interesting screen capture of Solitaire Games here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/windows-8-is-not-good-for-gamers/ And a nice logo : jaclaz