jaclaz

Well, there are hundreds of pages on the net and in literature about this topic, it is not as easy as it may seem. It also depends whether we are talking about printed or on-screen text. Usually, sans-serif fonts are more readable on-screen, while serif fonts tend to be more readable in smaller size and printed. Here is a couple interesting reports: http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt6/html-email-fonts.htm http://www.webaim.org/techniques/fonts/ From which Verdana "wins" hands down in sans-serif and Georgia "wins" in serif category. jaclaz

RLL stands for something like Resource (or Runtime) dynamic Link Library, the file format is the same as .DLL, I have seen some of these files in other installs too, a reference is here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a...26(SQL.80).aspx jaclaz

Yes, and hopefully your solution will help some other users! Good work! if you could post your autoit script, it would even be better. jaclaz

fatman01, a problem I find sometimes happens in communicating on technical boards is when people asks for a solution providing themselves HOW the solution (which they cannot find by themselves) should be, thus discarding any other solution proposed without bothering to evaluate it. Should you have cared to check the link I posted, you would have seen what actually the program can do. Basically it does: 1) Take an image 2) Make a copy of it saving it to %Wystemdir%\Mywallpaper.bmp, superimposing to it the data specified in it's .INI file 3) Set this image as wallpaper between other things, it has a %CURRENT% variable, so that it can perform the above on the image CURRENTLY set as wallpaper. You can just instruct the users to run it when they change their wallpaper or set it to AUTORUN, and at next reboot the text will be superimposed on the user chosen image, rather obviously, being the text of a "static" nature re-superimposing the same text on the image doesn't cause any problem. The also FREEWARE BGinfo suggested by FAT64 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...ous/BgInfo.mspx uses a similar approach, with even more features. Maybe not the solution you wanted, but still better than nothing. There are of course other solutions, you can use another small "autorun" program to draw a "transparent" window with the text, using a program like this : SAMURIZE: http://www.samurize.com/ http://lifehacker.com/software/plain-text/...ktop-213280.php but as i see it, it seems like a "long shot" for some small, simple "static" text. There may be more similar simple programs, I guess that if you google a bit you should be able to find one. jaclaz

No prob, mate. Though of course the "real" credit has to go to Nuhi and RyanVM for their great work. jaclaz

Unless of course you have a recent "normal" motherboard, on which the piezoelectric speaker is soldered to it. jaclaz

Read here: http://forum.winimage.com/viewtopic.php?t=143 though related to another "two floppy" app, the proocedure should be the same or very similar. jaclaz

I may add to the good advice above, my "ten points" one: http://www.msfn.org/board/Vista_single_CD_t97813.html jaclaz

To be more accurate, that "editorial" does not bash nlite, it bashes "nlite users" and the whole concept of trying to make Windows work as it should amd how we want to, by removing unused or unwanted parts, or by creating custom systems, by booting from USB (said to be impossible by the good MS guys) and whatever not officially supported, so it indirectly bashes also users of (from memory, sorry if I miss anyone): Fred de Vorck's Win2K pages and Tommy's HFSLIP Winbuilder project MicrowinX 98 lite and XPlite (Commercial) practically everything ever written by Mdgx Blackviper'r Registry pages BartPE, XPE, REATOGO and UBCD4WIN Dietmar's and all the other people work on USB booting .... and, by extension, all the work of ReactOS, Tinykrnl, SAMBA... So, in a nutshell, all the fun we had in the last few years. This guy is not bashing nlite, it is trying to demolish us and one of our primary source of entertainment! jaclaz

Hmmm, do you think I could sue PC World Magazine? #2 and #3 are suspiciously similar to 2) and 1) here : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=10344&st=9 and two wears in advance! jaclaz

Inspired by one of cdob's hints, I made a small batch file to (maybe) solve the NTLDR/SETUPLDR.BIN renaming problem. Here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2362 jaclaz

I'm really sorry to have caused you such an inconvenience, I'll try my best not to repeat this error, which may have potentially surprised a large number of people, to which I extend my apologies. Hey, wait, why didn't you say so right after my first post? I am surprised you were so late, so I guess it's a 1-1 tie. Yep, and what if it does not and, by any chance, a conflict between drivers arise? There is the concrete possibility to have a hard disk that does not boot on EITHER system. The recommended way is to always have an IMAGE of the hard disk, should anything go the wrong way, you re-IMAGE the drive and start anew, otherwise NEVER attempt booting a HD with XP on it on another machine. jaclaz

Hmm, I may be wrong, but don't think it is possible. The "Windows Version on Desktop Information" it's a "Registry trick": http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/539/ that enables the printing on the desktop of part of the contents of ANOTHER Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion Changing values in the latter is NOT suggested, as it might create incompatibilities with programs that check current version and expect to find "good" data in there. Since your information is "static" why you don't simply edit the background image superimposing the text in a "paint" program? Or use a "wallpaper" program, this FREEWARE one should be just what you need: http://mystuff.clarke.co.nz/MyStuff/wallpaper.asp jaclaz

Well, nlite should take care of that, unless you have deleted or cannot locate the files downloaded, in which case you'll have to make a list of the files you have and re-download them. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884786/en-us Did you actually read the guide for nlite? It is right there (near the bottom of the page): http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part1.html However, there is no NEED for the repair install to work to have ALL updates current, the only strongly suggested ones are having same SP level, and then let Windows Update do it's work, read this should it not start working after the Repair: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555615/en-us Obviously, if we are talking of the "other" CD, the UNATTENDED one, the more updates are on the CD the best it is, a VERY convenient method is this one (RyanVM's update pack): http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/ http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack.html jaclaz

Slightly OT, but you can try the "Universal VESA/VBE video driver", here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Universal-...driver-f60.html (and given links) Just a few minutes ago a member reported success with it in winbuilder, but it should work alright in full windows as well, at least you can have a higher resolution until someone finds the problem with the install of "full" driver . jaclaz

I am not at all an expert on this, but my guess would be that a year 2005 post can hardly refer to WinPE 2.0, which has been released in late 2006/beginning of 2007. Unless the original poster had a VERY GOOD crystal ball, that post must reference to WinPE 1.x, XP based, NO .wim whatsoever.... jaclaz

Also please note that: I the appropriate context, "many" means not "all" nor "most", rather "a certain number" and there might be several added steps, specific to each application to be performed before making it work, often only partially. So, rather than triyng to find a one-size-fits-all solution (that does not exist as far as I know), you'll probably have a higher success rate searching on the board for the specific application, and only if you cannot find anything try the methods suggested, knowing that if they don0t work it is possible that some other "tricks" might be needed before giving up. jaclaz

There is NO difference in booting with a NTFS formatted drive. Problem might be that some motherboard's BIOS do not allow it. Of course if using a Flash drive, NTFS is NOT suggested due to wear problems. This, the 911CD and boot-land.net boards are FULL of threads detailing different procedures to boot from USB, if you can be more specific on what you want to do, I can give you some links and possibly help you in the procedure. The most straightforward way is to use grub4dos grldr as an entry in your BOOT.INI, but there are other methods too. jaclaz

Version 1.4 is out. jaclaz

No, I can confirm you are not the first one, that is what the Winbuilder project is being developed for, I am not sure about Firefox, but there are working scripts for both OPERA and the very minimal Offbyone. jaclaz

lol, i dont even use my laptop on top of my lap. and what if u call it a notebook? you dont take notes in it and its not a book.. A word of WARNING: DO NOT EVER try to swallow a "Tablet PC" :rofl: jaclaz

src2206, with all due respect, my guess is that your falling in the basic error of newbies, i.e. wanting to do everything at once and in one step. Unfortunately, most probably this way it won't work. You should try making things one at a time, though a slower process, it is the only one that allows for easier troubleshooting and, ultimately, for success. Specifically, an unattended CD is, well , UNATTENDED , there is NO WAY you can perform a Repair with an UNATTENDED CD, one fuction excludes the other, unless you make an UNATTENDED REPAIR CD, which you can ONLY use as Repair CD, pretty much useless to have .NET silently install with it.... I NEVER found anyone being able to create a fully working UNATTENDED CD in the first, say, less than 5 attempts, and only after a great number of tests in VM's. Another thing is a PARTIALLY unattended CD, i.e. one where only some of the more "boring" things, like Serial number, Computer Name and Network, etc. are pre-set, but even this is not as easy to do as it might seem. What you need is a "normal" NON-unattended slipstreamed CD, and (maybe later) another CD that can be UNATTENDED. About .NET unattended install, start here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Add_NET_framewor...tal_t60638.html jaclaz

Was there a doubt it wouldn't work? No prob, mate. jaclaz

Hmmm, I guess it should be the other way round. I mean, a "valid" SHELL= statement in config.sys, should have the full path to the shell, like in: or since COMMAND.COM is one of the three boot files, together with MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS, it should reside on the root of the boot disk, and, on the other hand, CONFIG.SYS should also be there, so: should work as well, as long as the CONFIG.SYS that has that line is on the same (root) directory of the booted drive, if COMMAND.COM is anywhere else, a FULL path or an updated %PATH% variable is needed. The "strange" fact is that the presence of AUTOEXEC.BAT with length >0 changes, from what you report as second example, the behaviour, in the case COMMAND.COM is on the root directory, just as if the mere presence of AUTOEXEC.BAT would make it "root" to it correctly. So, if I get what you report correctly, it seems like in one case the "root" is (as it should) C:, whilst in the second is somehow "undefined". Since we are talking about DOS7.1 here, could the above be somehow connected with changes (if any) in the contents of the MSDOS.SYS file? http://www.computerhope.com/msdossys.htm jaclaz

The problem might be the NUMBER and DIMENSION of ranges you need to compare to. If I am not mistaken, IF statement allows a max of 7 levels of nesting, so, for two ranges (up to seven) you can do something like (in cell I3): =IF(F3-10<0,0,IF(F3-20<0,1,"Out of Range")) for three ranges: =IF(F3-10<0,0,IF(F3-20<0,1,IF(F3-30<0,2,"Out of Range"))) and so on... Another way could be to parse the number: =IF(LEN(TEXT(F3,0))>1,left(TEXT(F3,0),1),0) The above will work for TEN ranges 0÷9 to 90÷99 A better approach could be to "dynamically" find the length to be parsed: =IF(LEN(TEXT(F3,0))>1,left(TEXT(F3,0),LEN(TEXT(F3,0))-1),0) The above will work for all ranges as long as they are in 10 "steps" Otherwise you will need to build a table like this say in colums M and N (in the example with 5000 "pairs"): 0 0 1 0 2 0 .... 10 1 11 1 .... 325 This can be anything 326 This can be anything ... 4217 A suffusion of yellow 4218 A suffusion of yellow then use: =VLOOKUP(F3,M1:N5000,2,False) The table can also be built on another sheet, of course. Please take note of the last parameter of the above formula, if it is 0 or False, it will search for an EXACT match, thus you will need to build a table with ALL possible values, but if it is 1 or True, it will get the nearest value it can find LESSER than the searched one, thus you can build a table with just the starting figure of each range. For the latter to work, the table MUST be ordered with increasing values. jaclaz