jaclaz

Read my posts here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33030 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25365 To learn how boot.ini works and how you can edit it. jaclaz

VERY nice! Thanks for the link! jaclaz

Any benchmarks results backing this? Maybe I am not good at tweaking Firefox, but to me Opera is still "the fastest browser on earth". And at least there are two of us: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html jaclaz

Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=32151 jaclaz

Yep, I asked for SATA or SCSI (forgot about RAID) meaning if you were sure you did not need an "F6" driver... jaclaz

Maybe this helps you: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12811 jaclaz

hmmm, is your (internal) HD either SCSI or SATA? jaclaz

Once you have opened the "Command Prompt" window, (and yes, it is not actually DOS), you just press ALT+ENTER to make it full-screen (ALT+ENTER again to switch back to window). As said, some DOS applications WILL work, others WILL NOT. A good working emulator you can try is DOSBOX: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 though aimed to games, it will run an incredible number of other DOS programs. Don't forget a GUI frontend to it: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.p...DOSBoxFrontends jaclaz

Well, maybe is a bit too "radical". I am not at all an expert with GRUB (the bootloader that comes with most Linux distros), but it seems like there is the possibility of "boot from another device". Of course loading the OS has to go through syslinux/memdisk. Here is a method to how to make a floppy to boot from an USB device, I presume that "installing" the floppy on the HD should be possible: http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/ http://home.tele2.ch/spblinux/bootdisk/bootdisk.txt As said I am not an expert on this, but it "should" be possible. jaclaz

Here is what you need: http://www.netbootdisk.com/ jaclaz

You could try adding some "conditional" format, see here: http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/CustomFormats.htm i.e. a format for numbers less than 10000 and another one for numbers bigger than 999999, but it seems like you have just two conditions to be put together. Or you could (provided that it can be done on the particular sheet you are working) input numbers with general formatting in a column, hide it and make a text column with a link to them, formula would be something like: =Text(A1;"##,##,##") and result something like this: 1234 12.34 12345 1.23.45 123456 12.34.56 1234567 1.23.45.67 12345678 12.34.56.78 jaclaz

Maybe I'm in a strange mood today, but if canoncopy asks how he can download a full IE update, WHY everyone else is trying to convince him to get a CD? On a side note, some good uses for AOL's CDs: http://www.koolpages.com/hokuspokus/make/aolcds.html Experiments with 'em: http://homepages.newnet.co.uk/martynarnold/aol.htm http://homepages.newnet.co.uk/martynarnold/armour.htm Or contribute to this great campaign: http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/ jaclaz

Yep, but since you are using debug.exe from within DOS, you could try using bootpart from DOS as well! Also, that command will make a bootsector for DOS 6.22, if you use Windows 95 DOS files you should issue: BOOTPART WIN95 C:\BOOTSECT.bin "My_Dos" and with windows 98 ones: BOOTPART WIN98 C:\BOOTSECT.bin "My_Dos" (I cannot say if this might be the problem) You might want to review the old trick of the boot floppy (clearly explained here): http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm it is a quite handy way to start your system if you have problems in your bootsector. Of course you might need to edit boot.ini entries to suit requirements of most systems, I use something like: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Drive0 Partition 1" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Drive0 Partition 1" ..... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(n)\WINNT="Drive0 Partition n" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Drive1 Partition 1" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Drive1 Partition 2" ..... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(n)\WINNT="Drive0 Partition n" Unfortunately I did read your post quite attentively, as a matter of fact what I posted was: What I meant is that you should have put something to WARN people that the first part of your post, "I) Create the real DOS for your XP :", will only work if the c: drive is ALREADY formatted as FAT. As said this is the recommendation of Gilles Vollant, (author of Winimage and Bootpart), and it is an advice I follow since I installed my first NT4.00 copy, but MOST of people will have C: formatted as NTFS, expecially with XP. jaclaz

Happy problem is solved jaclaz

On your desktop machine, you need to download not in the "normal" way, but along the lines of these instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;257249&sd=tech PLEASE, DOUBLE check the parameters, and verify that the quotes are matching, it is the single most reported problem, as the quotes must be EXACTLY as stated. also you will need the /d:1 switch to download for all OS. jaclaz

Theis is another working one: http://members.fortunecity.com/qualitysoft...isk/RAMDisk.htm jaclaz

No, that program, just like Synergy (FREEWARE): http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ just allows for using a single keyboard/mouse to control several NETWORKED computers, each with its separate screen. "Merging" the computing power is an alltogether different thing. Have a look a this cluster of mini-itx board: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ Here is a site all about clustering: http://www.clusterworld.com/ jaclaz

Interesting, while a bit complex to follow. A few questions: 1) why do you use the DEBUG script to create the C:\bootsect.dos when you can use bootpart.exe to the same effect? 2) What does exactly this sysXPfat.com prog do? It seems to me that the C: drive must be formatted as FAT16, as it is normal when using bootpart, but I found no mention of this in the first part of your post. jaclaz

Towards the end of this article: http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm there is a Registry hack that "could" correct the problem. also, have a look at this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...=pagefile&st=10 jaclaz

Try this: http://www.matuschek.net/software/jobo/ Cannot say it will fulfill your requirements, though. (you might need a "localizing links" app later) jaclaz

Sorry to say so, but this is NOT sharing your work, this is sharing two BITMAPS of your work..... jaclaz

Read here, should be just what you need: http://forum.winimage.com/viewtopic.php?t=143 jaclaz

You mean that you don't have an option in the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM or that a bootable CD-ROM does not work?If, as I expect, there are two IDE connectors, you could always use an old HD with DOS/WIN98 files to boot it, make the resident HD bootable, then boot from the resident HD and installing from DOS with the files on the CD. I suppose that getting the proper drivers would be difficult, same as since they do not respond to your mails? jaclaz

You're welcome. jaclaz

Have a look here: http://62nds.com/ http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/ http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/whyuse.php allows for updates (of course NOT as timely as original Windows Update site) even with Opera or Firefox. Also you can keep an eye on the further development of DAISY (which is NOT fully working at the moment: http://vtntug.w2k.vt.edu/daisy.htm jaclaz