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

Yes, you can use either 1) two cards with single video output or 2) a single video card with twin video output. If you have an old card laying around, method one is cheaper, otherwise method 2) is better as it is simpler to setup. For method one, it is better if the two cards use different BUSes (if your actual Video card is AGP, other one has to be PCI and viceversa, ISA is a VERY OLD standard, that I doubt you still have on your PC). Just for the record, if you want to replicate the output to another video (i.e. SAME contents on both screens) all you need is a VGA splitter, something like this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...sp?EdpNo=525173 jaclaz

....and all the good, nice and useful enhancement listed above come to you for just a few hundred bucks, and only about 5 or 6 Gigabytes of disk occupation.... jaclaz

@Lost Soul There are kits for this, here are some examples: http://hooleon.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Scree...;Category_Code= http://hooleon.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Scree...;Category_Code= With all due respect, I find that the price of it is outrageous , if anyone wants one, there is this nice DIY instructions: http://www.saneasylum.com/articles/590 If anyone is willing to modify his keyboard, I can recommend this tool: http://members.aol.com/capsoff/ http://www.specialized.net/ecommerce/shop/...duct_id=235X100 which of course can be made as DIY in about 3 minutes with two bent paper clips or a little piece of copper wire..... And yes, I still have 4 (four) salvaged "real" IBM keyboards, the good ol' ones that are HEAVY, have mechanical feeling and removable key "overcaps", the first one recently died after about 15 years if honourable service, so I guess I'm ok for the next 45 years at least. jaclaz

Really? I would have thought that something like: For /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A in (pc.txt) DO Ping %%A >> answer.txt would work.... @Bad boy Warrior Please read here a good tutorial about using the above command: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.html and extracting needed data... jaclaz

porear thanks for the links I'll study them. Well, no, from the same readme.txt: If you have time/will to experiment with different "low-level" data copying program, here is a pretty much complete list: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16534 The findpart putsect command should be more "accurate" as it works one sector at the time, also Roger Layton stated that he would implement in his MBRwiz a similar function, but even now, with 2.0 beta: http://mbr.bigr.net/ http://www.geocities.com/mbrwizard/MBRWiz2.0.zip http://www.geocities.com/mbrwizard/reference.html one can use the /Sector - /Copy= and /Save= - /Restore= to achieve the same result. jaclaz

I'll have a look at fixing the batch to "catch" the right directories. Yes, DSFO, not having an option for starting from an offset, is not the right tool.... I was thinking about using dd for windows: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm which does have a "skip=" option Or a combination of: 1) findpart putsect 2) piececopy: http://www.inner-smile.com/dl_piece.htm (don't be fooled by the screenshot, it can work even from command line....) 3) a batch to run the programs The thing that still leaves me wondering, I'll have to do some tests about it, is where the files beyond the first (512bytes/sector/32bytes/sector=16 entries - 2 (. and ..) =14) are listed..... jaclaz

Yep, and possbly under which operating system you are trying to run them.... jaclaz

Just for the record: 1) xmsdsk is by Franck Uberto 2) actually I had in my mind the normal ramdisk.sys, as I doubt that more than 32 Mb is needed to run a batch 3) there is also another RAMDISK that has gone Opensource: http://sourceforge.net/projects/srdisk 4) there are more .bat compilers, here are some of them: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/pc/sim...tl/bat2ex15.zip ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltask/batl173.zip http://www.filegate.net/bfds/dosutl02.zip http://www.filegate.net/bfds/rbatch1.zip You might want to try them before implementing a more complex solution. jaclaz

WHICH batch file? jaclaz

Well, if you are talking about .DLLs, you might want to use some program that can find dependencies, usually windows uses this order when searching for a DLL: Some are listed here: http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/tt_app.htm More: http://camtech2000.net/Pages/DllOrphans.html http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/dllarch.htm http://bernatbozzo.tripod.com/ Once you have a list of unneeded files, there is no problem in making a batch that deletes them, but I sincerely doubt that you can generate the list WITHOUT third party apps. jaclaz

Yep, there might be some problem in the directories parsing, can you post the output of findpart chsdir 2 0 1 1 >chsout01.txt I just tried with "simple" directories with short names and no spaces in name, most probably the latter is the problem.... jaclaz