jaclaz

@sonyu The links you posted (not the mediafire ones, all the other ones) are not valid, they have been shortened, probably from a copy and paste from some other post. jaclaz

As a matter of fact, you would probably get 7 points (3 as for a real XP or 2003 +1 bonus one for it being 2000 and not XP + 3 bonus points for the courage involved in posting a non-XP) if you post a 2000 sighting. Or you may be banned. You have to risk to (maybe) get the 4 extra points. Remember your own machines (or a friends') do not count. jaclaz

@mike13 What we may (and will if you wish to go on) debate is how much to wipe (and how exactly to do the wiping). If you have a "recovery partition" you may want to image that disk "as is" and then restore - after the whole disk wipe - from the image the recovery partition only before re-installing the OS. Otherwise you can reasonably simply (booted from a PE, i.e. the Windows DVD or a bootable USB made of it) format ONLY the drive/volume (WITHOUT the /q switch) [1]. In the case of the recovery partition (cannot say, it depends on make/model), you can usually then use it to perform a "factory restore" (which will result in a "brand new" 8.1 OS installed) and later re-update to Windows 10. The common procedure (that you may or may not "like") is: 1) create a valid, forensic sound or dd-like image of the whole disk 2) do the wiping of the disk or the (I repear, "full" ) formatting of the volume where the OS is installed 3) re-install windows 10 (offline, creating a "generic" local account) or get back to factory state and then re-update 4) ? 5) Profit If for any reason the #3 doesn't work, you can still restore the image made in #1 and try again. jaclaz [1] this is a form of wiping, but instead of the whole disk you are only going to write 00's to the volume/partition, this is usually needed because there are in a NTFS volume a number of (invisible to you) artifacts/metadata/embedded files/whatever that you don't want anyone to be able to ever recover.

Maybe the expected price for a demonstrably working computer with its operating system installed and perfectly working is different from that of the same computer with a blank, empty drive? Or - even if the money is the same - it may restrict the amount of people interested in the object. I mean, if you or me were to buy that it would probably make little difference[1], but for the average buyer? The "proper" approach is to: 1) wipe the disk clean 2) re-install the OS In the case of the stupid Windows 10 most probably the best choice is to install with a local account (not an online Microsoft one) with a generic name (like "user") , so that the buyer can later create a new account as he/she wishes. jaclaz [1] as - no matter why - we would likely anyway wipe the disk clean and reinstall

Is a 3 months old thread actually "old" ? Anyway, VS2019 is already out (launched by people that don't have even thought to put a date on a site page for the event) : https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs2019-launch/ Anyway, it happened on 2nd April 2019, coincidentally only a few days after the good MS guys made an internal policy stating that no jokes/pranks had to be made on 1st of April ... https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283674/microsoft-april-fools-day-ban-pranks-internal-memo jaclaz

Assuming that tech-radar is an independent site, here is a list of 5 possible options (first result in Google): https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-youtube-downloader What has this "Allavsoft" more or better than the alternatives? jaclaz

Not really. 1.75% market share is about "connected" devices that are *somehow* used to browse the internet and that can be identified/counted by the *whatever* mechanism is used by the people creating those market share reports, it simply doesn't take into account anything that is either "airgapped" or only connected to an internal network. What we are seeing here lately are "specialized systems", ATM, POS, Signage, etc. that it is very unlikely that can reach the iternet and be counted in the stats. jaclaz

You may want to tone it down a bit. Dietmar may be not in the top list of "communicators", but he is usually very reliable in his reports. Remember (maybe you don't even know this) that if we can boot XP from USB is mainly due to his research in 2005-2006, JFYI: https://web.archive.org/web/20161206070712/http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181 jaclaz

I'll try contacting Misty, maybe he simply forgot to renew the domain. Anyway, in the meantime you can use and peruse the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180901090036/http://www.mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/BCDEdit/index.html @burd JFYI: MBR=BIOS and: GPT=UEFI are not perfect equivalences. jaclaz

Sure it counts, but you get only 2 points instead of 3 ;). And before you ask, nowadays also PosReady 2009 counts, but 1 point only. jaclaz

@LoneCrusader JFYI: https://web.archive.org/web/20080309205706/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164501 https://web.archive.org/web/20070303180637/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/151646 https://web.archive.org/web/20070303180606/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141969 jaclaz

No. (You can actually "write the code as shown" but the result upon execution won't be three files). You can use a FOR /L loop, as shown. Or, if you literally want three files called text.txt, text1.txt and text2.txt, all of them with the same content, the output of the command DIR: dir>text.txt&dir>text1.txt&dir>text2.txt almost the same result: FOR /L %? IN (0,1,2) DO DIR>text%?.txt actually the same result: DIR>text.txt&FOR /L %? IN (1,1,2) DO COPY text.txt text%?.txt jaclaz

I will try again: WHAT do you want to do? You don't pay a fee per word posted, DESCRIBE in DETAIL what you need/want, otherwise you will only have people attempting to help you lose their time in guesses. A one liner that creates an arbitrary number of files (10 in this example, each containing the text "File" followed by the same progressive number that is also added to the filename) : FOR /L %? IN (1,1,10) DO ECHO File%?>text%?.txt jaclaz

What do you mean? "Random" files? https://www.digitalcitizen.life/3-ways-create-random-dummy-files-windows-given-size or http://www.bertel.de/software/rdfc/index-en.html jaclaz

OT, but not much, (still related to MS "policies"), something of relevance (see WHO is actually ranting about some MS practices ): https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-angers-ex-windows-boss-halting-office-365-sync-on-his-new-iphone-is-crazy/ jaclaz

Yep, probably that changed sometimes in the past, see: https://msfn.org/board/topic/170850-old-aero-glass-for-win81/?do=findComment&comment=1067046 https://msfn.org/board/topic/170850-old-aero-glass-for-win81/?do=findComment&comment=1067063 jaclaz

It sounds a lot like a (small) fee for a license. Try donating 4 Euros, if you get 4 more licenses, then you will have an additional data point and could maybe derive a trend. On the other hand if BigMuscle (randomly) uses this random generator : https://xkcd.com/221/ the trend might be not accurate. I would try to see the (non-) issue from a slightly different angle: 1) BigMuscle (IMHO senselessly) asks for a (small) donation and is irked every time someone mentions the fact that a "forced" donation is actually a fee 2) for some strange reasons he likes to be vague about the minimal amount of a donation[1] and on how many licenses he will "give away" coincidentally, once received such a "donation" 3) you just got the proved proof that he is willing to "give away" three licenses for a donation as low as 3 Euro 4) he clearly doesn't (and won't) get rich from donations of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 Euro 5) why do you want to deprive him of the happyness/fun/whatever he gets by calling things by other names and being vague about the matter? jaclaz [1] BTW I seem to remember he mentioned once that someone sent him a 0.01 Euro donation

You sure it wasn't in the 169.254.0.0/16 range? http://packetlife.net/blog/2008/sep/24/169-254-0-0-addresses-explained/ that would be "normal" if there are dynamic addresses and not working DHCP. jaclaz

I am failing to see any connection , but feel free to continue senselessly listing similar anecdotes. As I see it there are two possibilities: 1) your same asmedia card worked on your Sandy bridge with any other OS with appropriate drivers for it or: 2) your same asmedia card NEVER worked on your Sandy bridge with any other OS with appropriate drivers for it IF #1 the issue lies in the XP OS, or in its drivers for the card or in your half-@§§ed/half-ripped patch. IF #2 the issue lies in the BIOS that makes your Sandy Bridge motherboard not compatible with your same asmedia card. jaclaz

Absolutely NOT. It was poorly written drivers. jaclaz

I don't think that puns (and "nerdy" ones at that) can be explained, (actually they can but the effect is spoiled forever). Or do you mean why I posted that (IMHO funny) image? Here : https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/17-jokes-only-smart-people-will-appreciate-clever-funny-hilarious-a7982416.html you can find some actually explained ones, including this (IMHO terrible): Heard about that new band called 1023 MB? They haven't had any gigs yet. and this (IMHO very, very good): A photon is going through airport security. The TSA agent asks if he has any luggage. The photon says, "No, I'm traveling light." jaclaz

You will need to define *any*. Any *like* 2-10, 2-100, 2-1000, 2-100000, etc. jaclaz

Time to get a null (dummy) driver? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/installing-a-null-driver jaclaz

The (good?) news are that updates (the ones that are automatically installed) and that (automatically? ) don't work will be automatically uninstalled, and automatically prevented from being reinstalled for 30 days : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492307/windows-10-why-were-recently-installed-updates-removed jaclaz

I am partial to the concept of "external-to-the-browser" database-like apps. Something *like* (examples) Arado (now discontinued I believe): http://arado.sourceforge.net/ or Storurl: https://www.haztek-software.com/applications/www/storurl/ might do. jaclaz