jaclaz

Luckily (thank goodness) the newer Windows is not really representative of today either. I mean, just imagine if the real world was as awful/crappy as Windows 10 (and its updates ) . In the morning your alarm clock doesn't ring because of an issue with permissions or policies, you cannot find your clothes (as a glitch in your CLAAS - Clothes & Laundry As A Service - managed to collect your dirty ones but failed to deliver your cleaned ones), your internet connected coffee machine has issues verifying the DRM of your (orignal BTW) coffee capsule, as you manage to get, very late and coffeless in your car in your bathrobe and slippers, the huge screen console of your car greets you with the message "Downloading update, car will reboot and be available for starting in 1:05:48 ..." jaclaz

But it fails Occam's Razor test (besides having less information available than SwiftSearch or *any other* $MFT parsing based program). There is already a good, fast, surely updated in real-time or near real-time, solid database of all files on a volume, with all the information about a file, which is the $MFT. Creating a new database with the names only is not IMHO that much an advantage, see also old discussion here: jaclaz

No, not the duct tape in itself. It is the specific pattern you used (a large X© ) that is protected by copyright. If you make a W or Y shaped patch, it would be fine jaclaz

Not "non-Microsoft", rather "non-Microsoft Windows 7/8/10", I can get the .iso from XP without any browser spoofing. jaclaz

I would rather try with a "plain" CD with SP4 only: https://msfn.org/board/topic/177837-the-usb-does-not-work-in-windows-2000-intel-3rd-gen/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/156521-unofficial-sp-52-for-microsoft-windows-2000-wip/?page=28&tab=comments#comment-1033054 before anything else (it may work or it may not, but before changing the motherboard ...). It would also be interesting to know (if possible) which kind of damage the PS/2 ports on that motherboard have, Very often it happens (happened) that a small fuse on the keyboard bus blows up (it depends on the motherboard, some are traditional fuses some are auto-rearming ones) or that a cold solder on the connector got loose. Replacing the fuse or re-soldering the connector are the kind of "electronics repairs" that can be performed even without much experience. jaclaz

The BIOS time is "kept" by an internal battery, capable (for months, years) to run an internal to the motherboard clock. If your BIOS time is reset when the power goes out (and it does the same at every reboot and/or switch off/switch on cycle) it means that this battery is exhausted and needs to be replaced (or the motherboard is defective, but it is rare). For desktops it is very easy to replace the battery (usually it is a CR2032): https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm for laptops not-so-easy (some are soldered and anyway in some cases you need disassembling the laptop, which is usually problematic). jaclaz

Allow me to doubt your uploading skills, however . Out of tens, hundreds or maybe thousands of free file hosting sites that work just fine, you chose one that needs to be accessed with an adblocker on? If one has ublock 1.18 than he/she download ublock 1.18, nice Catch 22. Anyway, with the simpler QTweb and javascript off the file is downloadable just fine, and I just re-uploaded it to a non-sucking free host file: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=26973106326766156236 jaclaz

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsofts-problem-isnt-shipping-windows-updates-its-developing-them/ just sayin ... jaclaz

You do understand the pleonastic nature of "now", dont you? I have them on the list since 2001[1], JFYI. jaclaz [1] killing of Windows 2000 in favour of XP, if you ask, but they were tentatively put there around 1999 with the infamous Windows 2000 trial CD that silently killed the NTFS of not updated NT 4.00 and anyway killed its CHKDISK even on updated ones.

Maybe it is useful to someone else, this thread dates back to 2006, and about XP and Outlook 2003. jaclaz

Previous discussion starting around here on reboot.pro (so that hopefully already provided info is available) : http://reboot.pro/topic/10126-nt-6x-fast-installer-install-win7-directly-to-usb-external-drive/?p=207883 According to the test: http://reboot.pro/topic/10126-nt-6x-fast-installer-install-win7-directly-to-usb-external-drive/?p=207932 the disk is 512 bytes logical sector. jaclaz

Cannot you download an install ISO from MS? Like: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO I have no idea how the validation process (if needed) will behave, normally activation will be automatic on a reinstall, but cannot say specifically in the case of an upgrade from 8. jaclaz

Time for a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-had-one-job https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/505265-you-had-one-job jaclaz

The good news: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/fixed-windows-10-october-2018-update-released-to-insiders-for-testing/ And the bad ones: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/hp-pcs-getting-wdf-violation-bsod-after-installing-windows-10-updates/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-audio-not-working-after-installing-latest-windows-updates/ jaclaz

... the actual problem being that it is a single track tunnel... jaclaz

MInd you we have no actual proof of a link between the firing and the 5 article, John C. Dvorak did share the letter he got on twitter (the tweet is now not anymore available [1]) , whatever the real motives/reasons, if I ever saw a badly written e-mail to fire someone [2] - particularly someone that collaborated for some thirty + years (controversial as he might be) - that was the one. Surely the reasons provided in the e-mail seem (again set aside the utter lack of civility) pretty much *vague*, "put all outside columns on hiatus", reviewing "production operations and budget" for Q4 2018 on the second half of September, come on. The disappearing of the 5G column (actually not much the disappearing in itself, but the redirecting to another column by another Author) is hard to be called "coincidence". BTW Gibbs Rule #39 excludes that: http://ncis.wikia.com/wiki/Leroy_Jethro_Gibbs/Gibbs's_Rules but the column has been re-instated, right now it is live: https://www.pcmag.com/article/345387/what-is-5gpcmag.com/commentary/363244/the-problem-with-5g jaclaz [1] but still avaiable here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180922134632/https://twitter.com/THErealDVORAK/status/1043180806020116480 [2] provided that is admissible by basic courtesy and professionalism to part ways through such an e-mail

Not at all, quite the contrary, at least for the lazy[1]. Once (lazy[1]) IT guys would have suggested, no matter what the problem was, that a re-install was needed and proposed it as either the only solution or the best one. Of course most of the time they were lying, With the advent of Windows 10 they still suggest that the only or best solution to any problem is a reinstall, but now they don't suffer from the (little[2]) stress caused by telling lies. jaclaz [1] the amount of them is of course variable from one place/organization to the other but in my experience they prevail in number [2] I have been lied to by a large number of people, but IT guys (and Lawyers ) have traditionally been the most swift at it

Sure , I can draw links pretty fast, you know : http://reboot.pro/topic/21659-smart-hd/?p=205209 jaclaz

Just in case: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html You will need some time as there are a lot of topics on that page, but it is really informative and useful (before and besides the actual tool/program). jaclaz

Well, for the moment it seems like the first observed effect of 5G is the firing (after more than 30 years BTW) of John C. Dvorak from PC magazine, JFYI: https://medium.com/@dvorak/5g-got-me-fired-ce407e584c4a the actual article has been removed from the India version of PC Magazine too (please note the 403 and not the 404): https://in.pcmag.com/opinion/124983/the-problem-with-5g here it is via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180823130336/https://in.pcmag.com/opinion/124983/the-problem-with-5g jaclaz

If I get this right, you attempted to boot a Windows OS originally installed on a given hardware on a completely different, new, hardware. It simply cannot work, the HAL may be different but besides that most drivers will surely be different. Which EXACT version of Windows is that? Have you disabled "auto reboot"? Assuming it is a Windows NT of some kind that should be the first thing to do, this way you will have a (hopefully meaningful) STOP ERROR on a BSOD, What is the actual STOP ERROR? Usually the procedure is called "migration" and the easiest would be to "prepare" the OS/install on the old hardware it worked on (if it is still available), example: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html jaclaz

Not really-really, to be picky. They changed that for *whatever reasons they saw fit* while telling everyone that it was to improve security. jaclaz

A new definition for "Just in time" (pausing an update) ... Just sayin': https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/6/17944966/microsoft-windows-10-october-2018-update-documents-deleted-issues-windows-update-paused jaclaz

It wasn't "suddenly". The router (for *whatever* reason) needed a reset. AFTER doing that (successfully BTW) Trip decided to have a look at the router settings (something that possibly he hadn't done in weeks or months) and the automagic smart updating of his "modern" browsers bit him. Clearly the (oldish) router web frontend used a "normal" protocol BUT his browsers were considering that as "old" and "unsafe" (even if the connection is "local") and prevented him to access the router page. jaclaz

Well, you don't need a *modern* browser to access an old router (or any site where a *modern* browser shows the stupid "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" error). 99.99% QTWEB would do just fine. SInce it is "inherently portable", it shouldn't be an issue to just use it when needed: http://www.qtweb.net/ jaclaz