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

Is that supposed to be a "Power Point " of view?[1] jaclaz [1] I know it is actually terrible, but it was stronger than me ...

You see , that is definitely a good one! jaclaz

I am not sure if that is a good or a terrible pun Just in case I will preventively retaliate jaclaz

If you feel like experiencing the real pain, check Windows 98 from floppies (all 39 of them) in real-time: jaclaz

Fun nonetheless for those remembering the install procedure from no less than 23-26 floppy disks[1]: https://hackaday.com/2019/03/09/speedrunning-windows-95/ jaclaz [1] for the OEM version

No. There is NO need (if you use Windows 7 or Vista) to specify that, it is the default, that's is most of the point. Both OS's sport a Registry entry that goes like: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\vds\Alignment] @="Alignment Settings in Bytes" "Between4_8GB"=dword:00100000 "Between8_32GB"=dword:00100000 "GreaterThan32GB"=dword:00100000 "LessThan4GB"=dword:00010000 Where 0x00100000 means 1048576 bytes, i.e. 1048576/512=2048 sectors Of course these values may have been modified, but it is uncommon. Check this also: @bluebolt If you install a Windows 7 on a "clean" disk ((from DVD, using the "normal" setup PE), then a system and a boot partition (which are defined by MS the other way round from the whole rest of the world) are created: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/system.html If you partition a disk in a already installed Windows 7 (no matter if through diskpart or Disk Management) this won't happen. @cc333 Yep. The behaviour ONLY happens in the PE and ONLY if running a "plain" setup/install. jaclaz