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Sure, it is for Windows 3.0, some 7 versions before 10 . jaclaz

I know this is not what you asked, but do you really want ro modify that specific version of Tetris? I mean, if you want to play Tetris, maybe - just maybe - there is a working version of it, it is like the most copied/cloned/remade/reprogrammed/ported game EVER, only as an example: https://tetris.wiki/Fan_games jaclaz

Good, you are already gone through denial and anger ... you'll soon get over it jaclaz

Hmmm. Surprisingly they actually start the crap that they included. Maybe - after all - they are still (not everywhere, but in spots) good at writing software. jaclaz

Well, the news are that the good MS guys are sneakingly introducing telemetry to Windows 7 via a security update : https://www.ghacks.net/2019/07/11/did-microsoft-just-drop-the-telemetry-bomb-on-windows-7-users-without-telling-anyone/ while the good google guys were busy listening to conversations : https://techerati.com/news-hub/google-admits-listening-to-some-smart-speaker-recordings/ jaclaz

I ALREADY posted a link to it: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5174-change-computer-name-windows-10-a.html anyway: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/rename-computer?view=powershell-6 Example: Rename-Computer -NewName "Server044" -Restart jaclaz

Hmmm. Have you tried via wmic? https://www.windows-commandline.com/change-computer-name-command-line/ it still works (should) on Windows 10, where you have also the Powershell method available: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5174-change-computer-name-windows-10-a.html Otherwise, if you really-really want to do it from the PE, try the Offline Registry Editor http://reboot.pro/topic/11212-offline-registry-library/ http://reboot.pro/topic/11312-offline-registry/ http://reboot.pro/topic/18527-offlinereg/ jaclaz

Good. Only for the record the idea is "generic", a USB bridge uses (obviously) the USB protocol to communicate, and a number of factors (including the actual protocol, the drivers used, the actual OS features, the specific USB bridge chipset AND firmware and also *whatnot* ) may make a particular command either to NOT "pass through" or to "pass through" but in a slighly modified way (which may lead - you can never know - to either "nothing" or to a "destructive" result). As an example, a number of "mass production tools" for USB sticks require the use of a specific, dedicated driver (which doesn't work as a "normal" USB mass storage driver) to access some settings in the controller of the stick. As well some of the USB "direct" hard disks (i.e. with the USB bridge/interface directly on the hard disk PCB) cannot be in some cases analyzed/fully accessed/reset via that and you need to "pin out" the SATA connection (when possible): https://blog.acelaboratory.com/if-you-are-planning-to-work-usb-external-hard-drives.html https://blog.acelaboratory.com/pc-3000-hdd-how-to-solder-a-sata-adapter-to-the-usb-western-digital-drive.html https://blog.acelaboratory.com/soldering-of-sata-connector-to-samsung-spinpoint-usb-pcb.html So, again generally speaking, don't, just don't fiddle with this kind of stuff via USB if you have a more direct SATA access. jaclaz

@Trip Read here first thing: https://www.micron.com/about/blog/2017/march/how-to-securely-erase-micron-sata-ssds Depending on the model, PSID wipe could be available. Anway, you need the Micron Storage Executive Software, any *generic* tool either won't do anything or - in the case of hdparm - may (accidentally) damage the thingies. And don't, just don't attempt *anything* through a USB bridge, if the thingy (as it likely has) has a SATA connection you MUST connect it directly via SATA. jaclaz

Yep, but It still doesn't clarify enough (of course IMHO). User Aspire89 posted (somehow) that it (the browser) worked, but maybe not the extensions but the Chrome 54 and not the 74, or something like that: https://msfn.org/board/topic/149233-kernelex-for-win2000/?do=findComment&comment=1167056 the user is not writing directly in English so some info may have been lost in translation. You posted seemingly that the 54 extensions don't work and also the 74 ones don't, but the browser itself (let alone the etensions) is confirmed being working or not? jaclaz

I see. Racism/classism on OS used to access a web page. But I am not sure to understand your further report, does it work on Win2K (adding chrome_elf.dll) or it does it not? jaclaz

On the homepage: https://browser.qq.com/ last is seemingly still 9.7/Chome 53. Maybe that is a non-public release. jaclaz

Only for the record, once (when we were poor) calendars were stored and re-used Years repeat themselves, see: https://www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/ https://www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/moreinfo/ and: https://garyc.me/calendars/ So, you can set 2013 for 2019 (but 2020 wll be tricky ) jaclaz

And, still on the same topic (slightly Off Topic, I know), just in case, should anyone spot an XP in a surgery room, before starting bad mouthing the NHS (or similar) consider how there may be reasons why it is there: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/975883-windows-10-automatic-updates-during-hospital-operation/ jaclaz

You mean like it happens normally to 99.99999% of people with a PC having an exhausted battery when they change it with a new one? The issue pointertovoid raised is about two different PC's, where the battery was replaced with a new one BUT that lost date in a week or however when only a small amount of time passed since the replacement. It could be also some sort of planned obsolescence taken to the extreme or a bad batch of new batteries, but I don't think they both came from the same source and probably the two batteries are not even the same brand. jaclaz

Most probably (just a guess, mind you) Windows 10 was considered by the staff, but they couldn't justify to accounting buying 5 licenses to get hold of an enterprise version and they feared that Windows 10 would autoupdate in the middle of the show. jaclaz

Yep, the idea is that only some hives (not all of them) and definitely NOT root of the Registry (which BTW doesn't really exist) are editable. You cannot create a new hive in root because essentially root does not exist, it is only a sort of mounting point for the Registry backing files. The Registry (as seen by Windows) is a "volatile" structure "assembled" on-the-fly from a set of Registry backing files. The correspondence between Registry backing files and Registry (and the way it is accessed/displayed) , just in case: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/256986/windows-registry-information-for-advanced-users More details and a nice tool here: http://reboot.pro/topic/20848-dumpreg/ jaclaz

Oww, comeon. Here is a good question: Can a key (actually a hive) "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMWPAPosReady" be created in the root of Registry by importing a REG file? OP: Maybe the above can be rephrased as: I ran this reg file: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMWPAPosReady] "Installed"=dword:00000001 it did nothing to the registry, everything works fine, POSReady worked fine after I re-ran the corrected .reg file, i.e.: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\POSReady] "Installed"=dword:00000001 I can find no sign of it (the original, wrong, settings) in the Registry what actually happens when you run a non-valid .reg file? jaclaz

And - after a long time I didn't come across a "by design" change - here is one: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/06/29/microsoft-explains-the-lack-of-registry-backups-in-windows-10/ The actual MS page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4509719/the-system-registry-is-no-longer-backed-up-to-the-regback-folder-start Basically, a scheduled task intended to backup something goes through without errors AND it creates the files BUT it creats them 0 bytes in size. I thought there was - even if much farther than I would have liked it to be - a limit ... And they also have the courage to call what actually made the backup[1] "legacy backup behavior" jaclaz [1] i.e. essentially a command actually doing what was expected from it

Well, my brother in law's automatic irrigation system and my nephew's home alarm system (which has also some "smart home" features such as remote (via Android app) switching on and regulating heating/cooling) both lost their date/time last week. While the second is connected (through a SIM/Cellular network) to the internet, the first is not. So, I would attribute at least the first case to little green men tired of stealing socks, but I am perplexed by the second case. Since - according to Gibbs' Rule #39: summing up your recent experience with mine Rule #40 must apply: or - maybe - Rule #36: We have too few data points to plot a trend/theory, a possibility is that little green men are both tired of stealing socks AND have an internet access. jaclaz

Well, in NT 3.51 times a "large" end user disk was around 300-500 MB in NT 4.00 times a "large" end user disk was around 2 GB so it is curious that you *need* much more than 2 GB for NT 3.51 use, and you can anyway have multiple (logical) partitions/volumes. There is NO way to prevent the NTFS update (which just for the record already happened with Windows 2000) and while a given service pack level (SP4 if I recall correctly) allows NT 4.00 to use the new NTFS version[1], I don' t think that the ame can be done for NT 3.51, basically because there is not the equivalent of a SP4 for it. jaclaz [1] and a couple tricks to have also chkdisk work: https://msfn.org/board/topic/169500-chkdsk-refuses-to-check-ntfs-volume-under-windows-nt-40/

Sure, it is possible. I actually once did it, in a particular double/triple boot system I made the whole NT4 (a secundary, "emergency" install) inside a folder under root called NT911. AFAICT it wasn't that much of a problem, the trick was at the time (and if I recall correctly) to: 1) install "normally" /but in \NT911 as opposed to the default \WINNT 2) duplicate the "Programs" folder and its contents inside \NT911\ as \NT911\NTProgs 3) use (good ol') COA2 to change all references in the Registry 4) reboot and delete the "original" "Programs" folder I did the same for "Documents", moving everything to \NT911\NTDocs, but most probably, cannot really remember, I did the duplication to another name inside \NT911 from another booted OS instance. COA2 can still be found here: http://digilander.libero.it/rareware/coa2.zip I later did the same, greatly reducing the amount/number of files also with Windows 2000, so I may be confusing the two OS's, it's a lot of years since I made those. A couple references (for Windows 2000): http://reboot.pro/topic/5679-a-mini-build-of-win2k/ jaclaz

I only have 55 different Operating systems using grub4dos, but that is only an artificial limitation I imposed myself, because of the way I number them (in base 13). jaclaz

Maybe we could ask a mod to edit the title adding a "and still being so almost 4 (four) years later" jaclaz

By unpacked files you mean the .cab files that ar inside the DMF floppies, right? I don't think I ever attempted to install the "floppy only" version of 98 FE, in theory if you have all the .cab files in a folder on the hard disk it should work (just like 95 versions worked before and 98 SE later worked), but it is entirely possible that there is *something* preventing that. The good news maybe are that a guy with a lot of patience posted a video (more than two hours long) of a whole install of 98 FE for actual floppies, maybe you can in it find the exact point (i.e. which exact floppy or .cab file) when the issue happens: jaclaz