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On 2/20/2021 at 11:50 AM, Micro-Scopic Soft-ware said:
i have i5-2400 cpu intel hd 2000 2gb of ram currently running 7 professional 64 bit , is 2k possibpe?
It depends. Is it a desktop or a laptop? You typically have a much easier time getting older operating systems to work on desktops but can be spotty on laptops. Once you can answer that and tell us any other hardware it has can help determine whether or not Windows 2000 would install and actually usable.
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22 minutes ago, VistaEX said:
Can I Have This Topic Pinned Please
This is one of the worst threads I could think of to have pinned. Pinned threads are reserved for important information that generally affects everyone using the OS. If there was a crucial fix that applied to everyone or just about everyone, then it warrants a pin. But pinning a thread will not give it more attention. I don't even know what the original post said but even then, this is more of a per user basis issue and not a widespread problem. I mean, you don't even have much explanation about what's so slow about it or when it occurs so how does that help anyone?
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12 hours ago, blackwingcat said:
On my environment, dual display works fine, so I can't fix this problem for a long time.
If there are anyone who test my patch on themselves envrionment , I can fix it :3
I would love to test it, but unfortunately I haven't had a dual monitor setup for over a year now since I replaced my smaller monitors with a 32in one.
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On 1/14/2021 at 10:07 AM, keyboardbroke said:
I am thinking of buying WindowsBlinds
Why not download it as a trial and give it a go to make sure that it suits your needs before you spend the money to buy it?
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xper may have removed/disabled it for the time being since it is having issues.
And with that, I'm locking this. Since it's a plugin issue and not something we can control, no amount of complaining will fix the problem. If something changes, we will announce it and if need be, can allow discussion to continue at that time. Until then...
Topic LOCKED
If there are other forum issues you are experiencing aside from this, please reply to the appropriate thread or create a new thread if a recent previous one doesn't exist.
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It looks to be a plugin, and not actually part of Invision Community by default. But from a screenshot I'm seeing in the Invision Marketplace and the download page, it was updated on the 1st of December. So more than likely, there's little to nothing we can do to fix it.
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1 hour ago, Raheem Jamali said:
Can't we backport the old theme to work with new software?
The only person who could do that is xper and he's got a lot on his plate as it is, so I don't know if he'd be willing to do it or not. But that's where the fine line comes in as well. We need to be very careful when it comes the licensing agreement. Especially considering instead of Invision Power Board it is now referred to as Invision Power Community, I don't know if there's a difference or not. I know it sounds trivial but some of these companies can get fussy if you use resourses from other licensed software and considering xper paid for this upgrade, it wasn't free so it might come with different terms. Not saying that's the case but you always have to read the fine print to see what you are and aren't allowed to do.
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2 minutes ago, asdf2345 said:
Says the person using XP Pro x64
Lulz, I haven't used XP in a good many years. Don't believe everything you see.
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Just now, asdf2345 said:
Anyone can just grab a random email and make an account, and message everyone. It's not that hard, especially if the process is able to be automated. This has nothing to do with forum software.
You're right, they can. And that's exactly what this originated from. But the question is, what made our forum a specific target for the attack? Either way, the software still needs to stay up to date otherwise older versions do become unsupported and then you risk of back doors being found and exploited.
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We had to upgrade out forum software as it was out of date and with the recent spam attack we had, we needed to ensure that we're up to date to make sure things like that aren't a common occurrence in the future.
I'm honestly not sure if there's much that can be done about the rounded UI. I'm happy that Invision didn't decide to go with rounded profile pictures. It seems that has been the current trend and I hate it. But please try and be as patient as possible as xper continues to work on the site. He's currently got his hands full so it might take a little time.
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I have made an announcement about this yesterday.
If you or anyone else receives messages like this again, use the report feature so that staff members like myself can take the appropriate action to deal with them. Thanks!
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The staff is aware that there are currently spambots sending out private messages to random members here on the forum.
We are actively dealing with the situation but if you happen to get one of those spam messages, please do not simply ignore or delete it but use the report system so that we can permaban every account responsible for these messages.
Thank you for your patience!
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Thank you, Win10-Hater! Merry Christmas to anyone who celebrates it and best wishes to those who don't! Let's all hope for better times ahead! I'm finally starting to get over my depression so I'm hoping for better times in the upcoming year.
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Welcome to MSFN! It's great to have you here!
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Welcome to MSFN! Glad to have you here!
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I'd go with Boingo as well. For whatever reason...there's an issue with the Intel Wireless Manager and the only way I ever got it to work again is reinstalling it...and not restarting it, since the driver itself wasn't changed. But anytime you shut it down or restarted, you'd have to do it again. It got very irritating. Boingo works great and I'd recommend using it.
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I personally always preferred the classic theme UI. It's fast, snappy, and to me looks cool. The fact that Windows 10 removed it all together just makes me a bit disgusted. I don't really like the entirely flat look in the UI. But so many things have followed that trend as far as logos go, Google even being one of them.
A bit of why I don't care for Windows 10's UI also stems from the fact that we use it at work and for the older people who don't get on the computer much but needs to in order to request time off or look at the pay stubs...I always have to tell them how to navigate. One question I have is...what was wrong with the Windows 98 styled start menu? Or really, the 9x/NT4/2000 styled one? With Windows 10, I discovered that you can log off by right clicking the start menu flag and choosing shut down or sign off. Most of the others that help people when I can't tell them to click on the start menu and then click on the little person looking icon and then signing off. Why does something simple like that have to be tucked away? I liked when you'd click on Start (can you truly even call it a "start" menu anymore?) I guess it does say "Start" when you hover over the flag. But you'd click on it and you had actual text of what each option did. Shut down...log off...help....search...etc. I can't completely knock Windows alone because most software developers are moving towards picture only icons. Remember the older IE versions? Back, Forward, Stop, all of those were listed under the respective icon buttons. Now you don't get any of that. Now you have to tell someone to click on the little house icon if you want them to visit their homepage. It's so frustrating because not everyone understands these types of terms.
I also don't care for the "other user" option on Windows 10. I can't speak for Windows 8 but especially on Windows 2000/XP, I preferred always being able to type in your username and password instead of bringing up the last user like Windows 10 seems to do. That throws people for a loop too, more than you know. I liked the CTRL+ALT+DEL to log in which it is obviously capable of doing if enabled...but then you just had a popup window asking for your credentials. Easy peasy! Then again, these are people who complain about having to change their password every year as they finally got this one down pat.
Now...for a company like Meijer which I work for...for those who don't know, it's basically a supermarket like Walmart but is privately owned and only in 6 states right now. But they're in a bit of a pickle and have things set up so archaically because many of their training modules use Flash which is obviously going away. Many things we use also rely on Internet Explorer. So for most things, we have to use IE but then for training, we have to switch to Google Chrome. Some want to use Chrome for everything but that's not possible as some things are broken in Chrome and don't function properly in it. We did use Windows 7 before it was retired and that was set up a bit differently as they had Flash for IE installed but then they had removed it about a year before we moved to new computers with Windows 10 on them. I did prefer Windows 7 only because it was a bit more configurable and they had a generic user account rather than utilizing our own accounts like we do on Windows 10. We're still using Windows Server 2008 R2 for Citrix and I'm sure other things so I'm assuming that they're receiving custom support for it. But I am a bit concerned with how some of these things are going to measure up, especially when Flash goes away. I really don't think there was a lot of planning ahead for these things. I know I'm sort of straying away from the actual OS discussion but so much of this ties into the poor planning of deployment and maintaining which I'm certain also isn't being done. When we got these new computers, they weren't too bad. They use Ryzen 5 processors and have 8GBs of RAM installed...but they're slowing down so much already that people are complaining quite a bit. What also gets me is they're still using Windows 10 version 1803 which has this problem we've dubbed as the black screen of death, where the screen goes black randomly for no seemingly good reason and even though the computer hasn't crashed, you can't see a thing and the only thing you can do is hold the power button down and restart the computer. Horrible when you're in the middle of working on something!
But to really cut to the chase, I'd be all for a new version of Windows that was designed for real simplicity. For those like me who preferred Windows 98 and didn't care how "modern" it looks. Straight-forward and functional are good enough for me. While Windows 7 was probably the best OS Microsoft cranked out for a while and is probably the best of the NT 6.0 line...even it wasn't 100% straight-forward as previous versions. Windows 95 was probably a hallmark staple in the Windows series because of how much more straight-forward it was to use. No guessing what buttons did, it just told you in the UI. The OS/UI didn't assume that every person on the planet who uses that software knew what the picture icons meant. While I've figured most of them out, I'm a guru who works with this stuff day in and day out so I get it. But for those who don't use computers very much or have a hard time with them, MS needs to either have an option or a separate version of Windows that could be inter-compatible with updates but go back to some of the original Windows 95 roots that also maintains security and integrity of Windows NT. And of course, not completely forcing updates and restarts whenever the OS feels like it.
And honestly, as I mentioned up above...why does the OS have to be so large in filesize now? Many have been able to whittle down the OS to much smaller sizes which means lower overhead and most likely speeding up the OS itself. Even powerful PCs can start stumbling the more the OS is patched and the size continues to increase.
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Windows 1.0 to Windows XP were the best versions of Windows.
Windows Vista onwards....not so good.
I just have a real problem with the way Windows NT 6+ operates. It's much slower and requires a lot of power to operate smoothly. But even then, I feel it hiccups a lot more than something like Windows XP did. I absolutely hate how it handles updates. To be honest, I generally preferred the Windows Update website. From what I can see, Windows 10 doesn't even really give you the opportunity to see what updates are available or what they do like Windows Vista and 7 did. Windows 10 isn't horrible as long as it is heavily tweaked and much of the spy stuff turned off. But once updates start patching themselves to the OS, it doesn't take long for hard drive space to go away. I know hard drives are getting cheaper and larger but I still don't see why it needs to take so much space. The only really good solution is every year or so, slipstream all the latest updates into Windows and reinstall from that media so you don't have to worry about extra overhead in patches. I feel patches are just that, patches. The only really good way to ensure your system is trouble free is have them applied right from the very beginning.
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This is really not a help topic, so I'm moving it to the funny farm as it seems more fitting here.
Moved from NT forum to Funny Farm
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1 hour ago, EmiliL said:
good question
It's almost June, why is this relevant now?
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15 hours ago, jaclaz said:
You mean the .inf, not the .sys
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Yes, thank you for correcting me.
On 3/4/2020 at 12:11 AM, win32 said:OK, I've figured out the solution for your weird AHCI controller: replace your inf files with the ones from the official XP SATA AHCI controller driver package (https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/g1im15ww.exe) and remove all instances of "ntx86".
That file doesn't actually reference DEV_3B2E anywhere!
Ugh, again my mind isn't cooperating so I reread this several times and I saw you said replacing the inf files with the ones found in the link you provided. In that thread, I saw there was a file uploaded that looked to be BlackWingCat's and then there was mention of a beta driver, which had a thread of its own. So which driver should I download and then use the INFs from Lenovo's package to slipstream into my installation? Though my ThinkPad isn't an i version, it really shouldn't be any different than bluesteel's.
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This is what I kind of figured but I wanted to be sure, plus I like having things documented in a very easy to understand format for other people. That and because my mental health is very bad right now so I'm missing obvious details, such as you mentioning removing the NTx86 references in the other thread and I couldn't understand why it wasn't working.
Maybe you can answer this as well, but what makes the newest HFSLIP package better than some of the older ones, like the 2012 version that included Service Pack 5.1? It seems the older one had more updates and the newer one has fewer. Were some of the updates just redundant, caused problems, or a mix of other things? I was taking a look at one of the websites last night but I didn't get too far on it, I think it was located a few posts down from the link you posted concerning nLite and slipstreaming with HFSLIP.
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Thanks for the reply, this was actually the thread I was looking for!
I somehow missed the tidbit about removing NTx86 so I'd get the "iaStor.sys is corrupted, press any key to continue". So let me be sure I'm doing the right stuff here.Opening up iaStor.sys, I see this.
[Manufacturer]
%INTEL%=INTEL_HDC,ntx86So, should I change it to this?
[Manufacturer]
%INTEL%=INTEL_HDCThen I see
[INTEL_HDC]
[INTEL_HDC.ntx86]
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104Should I remove the first INTEL_HDC and then remove the ntx86 such as this?
[INTEL_HDC]
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C6&CC_0104
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822&CC_0104
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104.DeviceDesc% = iaStor_Install, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_282A&CC_0104And also, should I do the same with the iaACHI file, remove all ntx86 references as well?
Once all that is done, should I then nLite the driver and use HFSLIP or is there another method to integrate these files into the source without using nLite?
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On 1/5/2016 at 7:01 PM, ComradeLaika said:
I'm having an absolute nightmare trying to slipsteam SATA drivers into XP. My original OS CD has XP Pro with Service Pack 3, and I've used nLite on a Toshiba Win 7 machine to create a slipstream CD-R with SATA drivers a ThinkPad X201.
The X201 has the Intel Series 5 3400 ACHI / SATA controller (6-port) and I'm using the drivers from the Lenovo website (http://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/downloads/ds014898) which seem to be correct. I run the .exe on the Win7 machine, and unpack the drivers, then start nLite. I select the whole folder for the drivers, then it brings up a list of those created by the exe, including the Series 5 6-port SATA. I only select that individual driver, and burn the slipstream image straight to CD.
The CD boots fine and the installer starts OK, and starts hunting through drivers needed to start the process (Keyboard, USB etc.) but then crashes when it comes to the SATA driver, saying "iaStor.sys is corrupted, press any key to continue" (iaStor.sys being one of the driver files). When you do this, the installer says "Installation has failed, press any key to reboot".
I've tried downloading a free driver exe and unpacking again, and creating an entire new slipstream disc, but get exactly the same error.
Is there anything I am missing here? I'm getting really frustrated. I tried to do this last year but ran into the same fault, and wound up trying a lightweight XP-like Linux instead, but it just doesn't have the same support for the programs I rely on.
I'm going to unearth this because I'm trying to do this very same thing with a my ThinkPad X201, but with Windows 2000 and having similar results.
So the bad thing about this computer is that it doesn't come with a CD drive so installing via USB is just about my only option. I used tomasz86's latest HFSLIP pack along with a driver from blackwingcat, the one that brings up an error mentioned above. If I used anything other than blackwingcat's, it would say "iaStor.sys is corrupted".
Well, after digging I found blackwingcat's and thought I had some promise but alas, it "works" but then I'm just greeted by the same bluescreen I would with a vanilla HFSLIP package, inaccessible boot device. I know it's not just a bad image because it works in a VM, unless it's because it doesn't load the driver for it. The one part that concerns me is that I've seen a few things.
1. Blackwingcat says Extended Kernel is needed to install but I haven't seen the minimum version that it needs and with the newer HFSLIP, I'm not even sure of Extended Kernel is even slipstreamed into it anymore.
2. Some of Tomasz86's UURollups used to be in exe slipstreamable format, and I swear even a few weekly ones from 2013 were as well, which I would think should be sufficient for this to work. Unfortunately, the ones remaining online are in 7z format, making slipstreaming impossible to my knowledge. And we know, at least to my knowledge, that blackwingcat's version were never slipstreamable. So that's an issue too.
3. I've also seen reports that I should slipstream the SATA driver using nLite first....and then slipstream packages via HFSLIP.
I don't know if it just can't see my USB drive and that's what causes the invalid boot device during setup or not. I also hooked up a USB DVD drive but for whatever reason, it will not boot off my Windows 2000 media, the very same image that is bootable from a USB stick will not boot from a USB DVD drive, but it's not the drive because Windows 98 will boot from the DVD drive.
I believe I have all the needed drivers for it that would make it work and do what I need it to do after installation except for WiFi, which I can just use a USB stick if need be.
Edit: Heh, my bad, I know there was a Windows 2000 version of this thread floating around somewhere describing this same problem. Strangely enough, Windows XP Pro x64 worked 100% without a hitch on my laptop, even without a SATA driver. But I ended up splitting this into my own thread so it is relevant.
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