jaclaz

Sorry, but you are missing a point here, FREE SOFTWARE means "free as in freedom", not necessarily "free of charge". Support for FREE SOFTWARE is normally offered as a "pay for service", as well as the actual software can be charged for the services of compiling and integrating it, companies like RedHat and Mandriva actually "live" with that: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/client/ http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007/discovery http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?products_id=336 The fact that the same or a very similar product is provided free of charge and WITHOUT support does not mean that companies cannot get paid for their work. jaclaz

There are two separate problems: 1) whether the BIOS "sees" or not the drive when booting 2) whether XP can boot from USB According to Microsoft, Windows XP CANNOT be booted from a USB device. Dietmar Stolting found some workarounds for this, see here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181 There is nothing to do if problem 1) is not solved by a BIOS update. If you don't have the time/don't want to go through the thread to solve problem 2), the only "easy" solution is this one: http://www.usboot.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=Welcome If it doesn't work for you, will need to go through the thread anyway. jaclaz

jaws75, you are perfectly free to expose your ideas and opinions on the matter, EXACTLY like Hasta la Vista and everyone else is. Flaming other members is both unnecessary and unpolite. You might want to re-read rules: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18408 expecially points 7a and 7b: and comply with them. jaclaz

It sounds more like a badly burned CD... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=87156 jaclaz

Really? I wouldn't have thought that....see post #2 above, you only need reading the first line... jaclaz

Well, you see how opinions may diverge.... I sincerely hope that after having arrested the robbers, the Police will arrest the spokesman for the bank. I personally find that publicly stating that: should be ranked as a FELONY. A bank that not only has such a poor security system that allows the stealing of 25 (twentifive) PC's from their premises, but also thinks that their customer's data is safe within a non highly encrypted PC's hard disk should have all customers close their accounts. jaclaz

@jeremy @LLXX Hey guys, I know you mean well , but the sheer fact the HawkAgent actually NEEDS to ask the question on a board means that the sooner he switches off the PC and calls for help from someone more knowledgeable the less probabilities of losing all data he has. Just for the record, and before people starts putting hard drives in the fridge just for the fun of it, the "hard drive freezing trick" is: 1) a "last resort" method, try it ONLY after other more conventional means have failed 2) often, while in some cases it works, it can make the drive DEFINITELY not working anymore (NO more chances) 3) do not even THINK of putting the drive in the fridge "as is", it must be wrapped (possibly) in an antistatic bag inside a SEALED ziplock bag, better if together with one of those little dessiccant bags that come with electronic items packaging , otherwise moisture will most probably really finish killing the drive And, just for a laugh, this depicts the way NOT to do it: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1028112728 jaclaz

In some cases it is possible. But as said, this has nothing to do with nlite. You first need to recreate a fairly accurate copy of the original CD from files, and only LATER, if it works normally (full install and "attended") you can try nliting it, and making it "unattended". See here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16381 for a start. jaclaz

Yes it means that it is FAILING. I don't want to scare you but you are exposed to a SERIOUS risk of losing all your data. Shut that computer off NOW! Get another harddisk or another mean to backup your data. If you have no experience in this you might want to bring the PC to a repair shop. jaclaz

If you have a memory that bad, then maybe you should have someone else replace your RAM... :lol: Here is a thread with more links: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=88384 jaclaz

Well, if I get it right you have some problems with .cmd files. A batch file should run if double clicked BOTH if it has .bat or .cmd extension. Once you have fixed the above, you might want to try with this batch (that has no external commands): @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ECHO Hallo, I am a batch file, and I am running! ECHO. ECHO I was invoked as %0, but my real name is %~nx0.... ECHO. ECHO ...and, to be picky, my FULL name is %~f0 ECHO- ECHO I live in directory %~dp0 and I'll terminate myself ECHO as soon as you press any key. PAUSE If the above works, and it should, modify your testshut.cmd (or testshut.bat) as follows: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ECHO Hallo, I am a batch file, and I am running! ECHO. ECHO I was invoked as %0, but my real name is %~nx0.... ECHO. ECHO ...and, to be picky, my FULL name is %~f0 ECHO- ECHO I live in directory %~dp0, and I'm going to run %~dp0psshutdown -r ECHO as soon as you press any key. PAUSE %~dp0psshutdown -r If it did not work, try using more "common" paths, like the ones given in the example by MS: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...s.mspx?mfr=true if it works, it is a problem in the PATH given as "\\server\share$\task\" jaclaz

Well, though I personally don't like Vista, I cannot see why you are whining about a Beta that gave problems, Beta's are just Beta's, then you have Release Candidates and later still Final Release.... If you had started with Linux some time earlier you would have probably experienced the same, Linux is really stable since about three/four years, before it was a real problem to install it unless you had the "right" hardware. And about Microsoft commercial Policy, though again I agree with you, I cannot see why you joined the board and started a new thread just to disagree with it, there are already several threads about the matter.... jaclaz

Let see if I can explain myself better: 1) The Microsoft Operating System XP Home CANNOT join a domain it actually lacks this feature. 2) The link I gave you is a site that has a lot of info about Windows Networking, there you can see how you can join a domain with Windows XP Professional that has this feature, windows XP Home hasn't it. Accessing a domain IS possible, see on the WOWN site: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_...s/wxphdoms.html 3) Nlite is a program that removes features, it does NOT add them Let's make an example in mathematics if you subtract something from a number, the result is less than the original number: a-b=c while b>=0 this will always be true: c=<a Now you can think at nlite as a subtraction operation, you can with it subtract some features not add them. The result of nliting an OS will always be exactly the same OS if you choose not to remove any feature, or an OS with LESS features than the original. jaclaz

Besides being nlited or not, Windows XP Home cannot join a domain, if this is the question... http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_...s/wxpjoind.html http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_...ls/wxpdifs.html jaclaz

Hmm, I don't think that there is any problem with two GB of memory. Though I have no way to be sure about this, it sounds more like a problem with a driver or with a Registry that needs cleaning/defragging. Try creating a log with the switch in boot.ini. Also, you can try using this tool: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...ies/regmon.mspx to log boot accesses to the Registry A good idea is however to use some Registry cleaning tool like Regseeker: http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm and a backup/compacting tool like ERUNT: http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ jaclaz

Well, maybe if you could post details of your system, we could give you some correct link. If you do not know EXACT make/model of your motherboard or notebook, do the following: Reboot the computer, while the initial screen comes up, hit the [PAUSE] key and jolt down the numbers and letters you can see in top and bottom left corners. It may be necessary to enter the BIOS setup and disable a setting like "Show graphical screen at boot" or something like it. Your screen should look something like this: http://www.linuxhardware.org/images/articl...0-BIOS-Post.jpg The info needed (in the example above) is: the "K7VX4-2AA7" top left and the 04/17/2003-KT400-8235-6A6LYS29C-00 bottom left Add whatever further information seems useful, like "Phoenix-Award BIOS" and "Powered by SOYO" jaclaz

Just for the record, there is a big difference in the way Winternals/Sysinternals NTFSDOS or NTFS for Win98 work and in the way Datapol/Avira NTFS4DOS work. The latter is a filesystem driver written from scratch, independent from any other NT/2K/XP file. The first ones use original files from NT/2K/XP, so beside the cost of the Winternals license, you also need a license for one of the NT based Microsoft Operating Systems. This is the same legal problem faced by initial Linux NTFS drivers by Jan Kratochvil, CAPTIVE: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ jaclaz

Hey, hey, wait a minute, there are programs that allow EASILY multibooting two (or more) WIN9x's on the same partition: http://thpc.info/dual/dualboots.html http://thpc.info/dual/addawins.html http://thpc.info/dual/dualwins.html jaclaz

Try this: Schtasks /Create /SC Daily /RU System /MO 7 /TN TestReboot /TR "\\server\share$\task\testshut.cmd" /st 00:40:00 /SD 15/12/2006 and create in \\server\share$\task\ A file named testshut.cmd with this contents: @echo off psshutdown -r That should work, the problem is that you cannot pass parameters with the /TR switch, you can only give it a file to execute. jaclaz

No, that actully would minimize the possibility of a conflict (which can sometimes happen with two PCI cards). Normally motherboards have just one AGP slot, so two AGP cards is not possible.... jaclaz

Yes, AGP card: http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/insta...eo-card-agp.htm PCI card: http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/install-pci-card.htm Installing the software under XP should pose no problem at all (plug'n play) jaclaz

Well, actually that line in a batch: echo shutdown -r at 01:00 /every:01 does not make much sense, the first line will ECHO to the screen the string "shutdown -r", and the second line is missing the actual COMMAND that needs to be executed, besides the missing "\\computername" See here the correct syntax for the AT command: http://www.ss64.com/nt/at.html As reported there, AT is an old command, the "new" one is SCHTASKS: http://www.ss64.com/nt/schtasks.html And shutdown.exe has more options, doing a shutdown of remote computers without checking them can lead to either a "not performed" shutdown (i.e. the user stopped the countdown) or a "bad" shutdown, where services or applications are not closed properly, that could lead to data leak: http://www.ss64.com/nt/shutdown.html Personally I would use PSShutdown: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...PsShutdown.mspx that has more options, including one to shutdown every computer in the Domain (\\*). With all due respect, judging from your questions, here and on this other thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=88691&hl= you might want to study a little bit more about batch language and more generally commands in NT/2K/XP before attempting using them. The two already referenced sites: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html http://www.ss64.com/ are very good starting points. jaclaz

Besides the warez/non warez problem, isn't CDimage supposed to be: Please don't take it as an "opposition", I am just curious. I may be completely wrong, but I read the "For Microsoft internal use only." as something that prevents anyone but internal Microsoft people to use the tool. And on the other hand, one that is a Microsoft internal wouldn't need to ask for it in the forum..... jaclaz

For future (read past ) memory: http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/3076 http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/0...029tcwinxp.html More recent articles: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34915 http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35084 It seems like it is not possible to add features without adding complexity: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_05c.asp but we luckily have Moore's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law that helps a lot! B) So that hardware will soon catch up with the gap. jaclaz

I am not sure I got right your question, but maybe you are referring to the known problem of the "wrong" HAL, sometimes setup installs a "multiprocessor HAL" (which is correct for a dual CPU motherboard with two CPU's) instead of the "uniprocessor HAL" (which is correct for a dual CPU motherboard with just one CPU installed). Here you can find some info on the different types of HAL's: http://www.vernalex.com/guides/sysprep/hal.shtml http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237556/en-us Unfortunately, "fiddling" with HAL's can easily make your system unbootable, so that the recommended way to change (if needed) HAL's, is to reinstall: http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=2044 though it IS possible to do so WITHOUT reinstalling: http://www.buildorbuy.org/hal.html Here is a method for XP: http://www.local.nu/HelpDesk/index.php?tit...ng_motherboards However you can try with the /onecpu switch in boot.ini: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...on/bootini.mspx it should resolve the booting delay. jaclaz