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mmmm Im a bit overwhelmed with so much information. Somewhat I managed to pack in the updated driver packs. (At last I'll be using UBCD4Win which is much more than I what asking so thanks a lot). Now I want to update a few of the "Plugins", not many, namely memtest and seatools, but I don't know how to proceed in this case. Normally you just hit Plugins, and then Config for autoupdate, but not for these. My first reaction was to manually substitute the files: manual.html memtest.exe memtest.inf memtest_nu2menu.xml But no memtest download seems to hold any direct .exe or nothing. EDIT: Ok, actually the correct path was "plugin\Multiboot-003\Memtest86+" I actually replaced memtestp.img with (Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)'s) memtest.img, and renamed. But cannot find the seatools folder no where. I am doing all this by intuition, not sure if it's correct or will work.

ohhh! wonderful! I will have a deep read later on. Thanks a bunch

Hello I wanted to ask out of curiosity if there was any way for creating a menu selector for DOS based programs. Like say, I burn Seatools, and Memtest on a CD, and when boot from CD, I can choose which one to choose. Is there a way for this? Thank you!

The thing is that the release dates are very different from build dates (sometimes months), I don't know if that the order then is altered. Anyways unless someone indicates otherwise, I'll be using the order I got from downloading them with the "Preserve Timestamp" addon... But I wanted to have it noted, just in case it would matter.

I've been wondering whether it matters that the build timestamp is not the same as the release timestamp, for example the next hotfix: WindowsXP-KB978338-x86-ESN.exe Release Date 12/04/2010 Timestamp 12.02.2010 And inside the update_SP2GDR.inf file (the other 3 .inf as well): BUILDTIMESTAMP = 1 EXPIRETIMESTAMP = 20100413.094910

@submix8c : sorry I don't understand #2. Indeed my XP x64 is OEM, it came installed with the system. I used method #1 so I did it wrong? @Ascii2: Maybe QCHAIN.exe runs in x86 compatibility mode, haven't tested but is a possibility.

Yes, I used "Preserve Download Modification Timestamp" addon. While in the big picture the order was clearly ascendent it wasn't in a strictly manner: KB931261 08/02/2007 18:28:20 KB925902 02/03/2007 13:12:08 KB932168 21/03/2007 16:51:12 KB929123 04/05/2007 08:06:26 I added the qchain.exe line just before the pause. But placed it in another folder to don't interfere with the "call all .exe in current folder" loop. What I don't understand from reading the bulletin you offered me is that an example for installing the hotfixes is given using the update.exe program and a command line script. Maybe that is another option (better?) for installing hotfixes? EDIT: Anyway it looks qchain to be a bit rendundant: link

Ok, I already installed them, everything perfect, The only thing that got stuck was WMP11, that I needed in order to install its hotfixes later, at that point I just ctrl+s, installed manually and resumed. Now I need to redownload XP x86 hotfixes as well, what a pain haha at least it's faster than extracting update.inf for each of them and re-timestamping. Thank you!

ah yes, nice one, I had an addon for that. I'll try tonight.

I have been mistaken then... I remember to read something about hotfix order for nLite, maybe that's another story...(?)

Thanks a lot! yes, it's XP x64 (in this case) but the question applies to any OS I think. The laptop I use is x86, that's what I follow your list for mainly for slipstreaming. But on my studio workstation I have x64, and it's a bit of a burden to make a slipstreaming CD, so for the moment I'm only going to install the hotfixes. I read this link and seemed very complicated, is it safe to run your script then? will the files install by order (maybe I need to add KBZ2510531 to force order?) As for the update pack, it's ok, I will download them manually instead.

Hello, I have a workstation that isn't plugged to internet, so I download my hotfixes on the laptop and then I plan to move and install there. I would like to know if there is any kind of hotfix installer because I'm aware of some issues if the installations are not done correctly in some way, in order, or after reboots, etc. Actually I found RyanVM XP64 pack and everything is already unpacked, perhaps is there a way to integrate that on a LIVE OS? Any help Id be grateful.

I was said I couldn't run GPU features in my XP OS in PS CS6, but I actually could if I enabled some well known registries. Even one of the client support personal "adviced" me to update the OS to seven o_O Anyway CS6 had too many problems (speed wise, and tools behaviour related too) that I decided to stay in my old CS3 version. It is fast and it works.

It's over a furniture away from the floor, with space for air to flow. I don't think that is the reason, but I'll try to clean it anyways.

This is a nightmare, and when it seems to be connected webpages don't load. It's only http because emule or torrent work flawlessly.

Yes of course, I tried by plugging in the cable and it worked right away, the funny point is that then I went back to wireless and it worked! of course, just until it stops working again... (look edit) I get you, you mean using the ISP router/modem as a modem only device, and connect it to a new good quality router where I'd get wireless from right? I don't have money but is always good to know so I can add it to the "want" list. I was yesterday googling around and reading about cisco linksys, tp-link reviews etc. Even on those I read bad critics about wireless quality. My only concern you recommend me a router because I MUST use the ISP modem? or just because there are not good modem/router combos out there? EDIT: wrong,right now I was getting many pages not loading, so I tried connecting wired (disabling wifi at the same time) and while previous failing pages now loaded right, some other started to fail loading, some more searching on and previous pages again started to fail loading. I guess this must be a modem thing, at least this exact error which is not the same we were discussing (connection drops). Just to tell, I wasn't being able to enter msfn wired, cleaned cache without success, then went wifi and now i could edit the post. EDIT2: And then it finally dropped, this s*** is an utter crap, this should be considered ilicit, illegal, a negligence. Never worked nice even from the first day 2 years back. They changed me the router and the problem still persisted, but I kept in silence because I was going to install a different firmware (which is not allowed) in order to fix these issues and be able to get into the router and change settings by my own, and not let myself be an ISP marionette. Now I realize that the problem is not them cutting off the access (could be?) but the router/modem. I don't think that changing firmware now to OpenWRT is going to change much, I should try the Zyxel, if it's ok, that's the last resort.

no, it's a one box device. So I guess everything is in it. Does this means I cannot use for example another router/modem combo? (of course I won't throw away the current one, just keep till I give back to ISP) edit: btw something curious occuring to me now. It has sometimes happened to me before, it's not a drop but I'm unable to get into some websites (totally random). To ensure is not my fault I usually go to "Down For Everyone Or Just Me" website, but this one also fails to load. This is so strange, networks are an obscure theme for me, like going back to prehistoric RTB modems era, and here nobody sheds any lights either : ( It's not until I delete cookies that I can try to reload page with a succesful possibility.

nice one! DNS were simply the same as the gateway. Signal didn't break during the day with the Comodo DNS but from now on I'm using the default ones and see what comes out without using DHCP. Most probably if it drops again I can get to the conclusion that the router is crap, as I have touched every touchable setting on the router lol I have a Zyxel around I think, do you think I won't have problems using another router the ISP didn't provide to me?

I turned uPnP off and it dropped, then today I disabled DHCP but I became unabled to connect to internet. I had to specify IP, gateway, DNS, etc It works now in expect of a new drop but the problem is I don't know what DNS to use. For the moment I'm using a DNS I used to use from Comodo Firewall, but if I turn DHCP off what should I normally use? Another strange thing is that the wifi logger seems to be disabled now.

No, as you could read in my 2 previous posts the rekeying is a normal security system that happens on all wifi connections, I have set mine to 10 minutes, they always start at 3, so minute 13, 23, 33. As you see the rekeying has nothing to do with the connection drops. Yes I had it enabled, after reading I think I don't need, I will test with this turned off. I thought the router was good enough at the beginning, maybe it is a router as a whole, but not wifi specifically. I'm gonna try uPnP off, and probably turne DHCP off too, check that for a few days and report back. I thought more people would come here to help me since this is a specialized forum, I don't know any other for networks...

So funny, I'm still in G only mode but this thing crashed again without reason. I was just working a bit previewing videos with VirtualDub and then DROP. Only Emule open without any current downloading, and Palemoon (only one tab open and idle), nothing else. There were less than 10 wifi signals around, channel has't changed either, still channel 1. Look Intel Diagnostics log: The funny thing is this time in my XP system event log I got a 8033 information event just after the drop. "Event Id: 8033 Source: Browser -- The browser has forced an election on network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{DA3D5ECC-4A91-4F67-917B-F5273074D0E5} because a master browser was stopped. (Event-type: Informational)" lol this is a bad joke!! anyone with a degree on networks can lend a hand?

OK! It crashed again! It begged for it, almost 2 days without problems on G only mode. It was a good chance to gather info and event logs: My rekeying authentification is upon 10 minutes, always at minute 3, so at minutes 03, 13, 23, 33, and so on. But the crash was at minute 37 so that wasn't the cause. The channel didn't change it was channel 1 before, and still is channel 1. And there around 13 signals detected which isn't too horrible to cause serious interference. The first WriteFile logs related to the wifi crash in autoruns: ... 18:37:16,2775066 S24EvMon.exe 1656 WriteFile C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Datos de programa\Intel\Wireless\Settings\AlertHistory.bin SUCCESS Offset: 3.991, Length: 1.321 18:37:16,2777736 S24EvMon.exe 1656 WriteFile C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Datos de programa\Intel\Wireless\Settings\AlertHistory.bin SUCCESS Offset: 5.312, Length: 4 18:37:16,2780373 S24EvMon.exe 1656 WriteFile C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Datos de programa\Intel\Wireless\Settings\AlertHistory.bin SUCCESS Offset: 5.316, Length: 1.321 18:37:16,2783528 S24EvMon.exe 1656 WriteFile C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Datos de programa\Intel\Wireless\Settings\AlertHistory.bin SUCCESS Offset: 6.637, Length: 4 18:37:16,2786123 S24EvMon.exe 1656 WriteFile C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Datos de programa\Intel\Wireless\Settings\AlertHistory.bin SUCCESS Offset: 6.641, Length: 1.321 18:37:16,6176448 svchost.exe 1536 WriteFile C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\IWRAP.EXE-0278EE49.pf SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 22.318 18:37:16,9497115 services.exe 1056 WriteFile C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SysEvent.Evt SUCCESS Offset: 264.504, Length: 248 18:37:16,9503563 services.exe 1056 WriteFile C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SysEvent.Evt SUCCESS Offset: 264.752, Length: 40 18:37:17,0371732 EvtEng.exe 744 WriteFile C:\Archivos de programa\Intel\WiFi\bin\4ade9854-8f7a-411c-9607-04e0721ec6e3 SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 4 18:37:17,0376297 EvtEng.exe 744 WriteFile C:\Archivos de programa\Intel\WiFi\bin\4ade9854-8f7a-411c-9607-04e0721ec6e3 SUCCESS Offset: 4, Length: 4 18:37:17,0378926 EvtEng.exe 744 WriteFile C:\Archivos de programa\Intel\WiFi\bin\4ade9854-8f7a-411c-9607-04e0721ec6e3 SUCCESS Offset: 8, Length: 1.385 18:37:17,0382063 EvtEng.exe 744 WriteFile C:\Archivos de programa\Intel\WiFi\bin\4ade9854-8f7a-411c-9607-04e0721ec6e3 SUCCESS Offset: 1.393, Length: 4 ... The WiFi Event Log: Windows System Event Log is: DHCP Error ID 1003 but the first sign of something going wrong is the Tcpip message at 18:37:16 Ok, I admit this time I was with youtube, emule, and bittorrent at the same time. It's probably not fair to blame wifi in this condition but this is a warning, I will keep an eye open when this happens again on low traffic/connections conditions.

Yes I read that 20mhz is just there for N when other G signals fly around in the same channel, so it doesn't overtake other people G frequencies. I think it's the same setting. In the router 5Ghz isn't selecteable, and on my wifi it was set to dual. Just to play it safe I set it as in my router to 2.4Ghz. This doesn't change when I decide to test back with N because the router doesn't seem to support 5Ghz. The difference you mention is to worse on the Vodafone ones? My first errors with that 11n message if I remember correct were when using with TKIP which as I noted had some bugs with N mode on my card, actually just if I disabled N mode at all. Now I'm at debug mode (using AES) until this thing crashes again, today or tomorrow, if that doesn't happen then I can be pretty sure it's an N mode bug. I'll keep an eye to channel conflicts as well so I'm not fooled by a channel change.

For my router I think dd-wrt is not supported, open-wrt instead. Doing such things actually bothers a bit, since I don't know much it has a risky component for me for getting offline if I don't dedicate deep reading and understanding. If N would run at same speed when mixed mode, I wouldn't see a reason to use N at all, specially when as you state it's prone to fall or inconsistencies. The logic behaviour would be to drop to G speed. But I will run some tests (eg disabling N altogether) and stuff and see what comes out. Im a bit concerned about this. I have set it to auto, but as inSSIDer shows it seems to be using 40mhz, do you recommend me to set to 20mhz? EDIT: I changed the wifi back to AES, and surprisingly I got again the: "security mismatch with 11n, 11n is not in operation" message. I now have disabled N mode on the card, although it still shows the N logo on the Intel utility. Speed changed to 54mbps. Still get the message, since it's only a warning I must assume that it's only telling me that N is turned off and shouldn't care, for now this is OK while I debug on G only mode. BTW I found the dual band checkbox in my card advanced options, it's set to dual, I think I should set it to 2.4Ghz in case the router is single band. I looked for it and didn't see any commentary so I think I can assume it's single banded moreover when the dropdown arrow is disabled on the interface. I found a thread practically stating that my router wifi is POS (piece of s***?). Well that makes sense. http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/108214 I don't understand exactly what it says, I actually have enabled DHCP in the range -.1 -.5 This was for my laptop, wii, 360 until lan card broke, and guests. Maybe if I disable DHCP and do what the dude says can fix some problems. I will also check if the drops are due to channel changes. If all this fails then I can have a look at OpenWRT. Obviously the better solution would be to buy a new good quality multiband router, but that's not an option now.

Thanks a bunch for the help, I normally dig deep on matters I don't know so I can do it myself and then write down notes (so I don't forget), but networks are something too difficult and lacks the charm to feel too interested about. I have a wii but I don't use it very often, it's turned off (red light). Other than that my laptop only. This morning it fell again and checked the log, I noticed an event I missed before: "security mismatch with 11n, 11n is not in operation" I made a search on it and found some info on my card, I could try to turn it off. That would make the wifi to use only G, and check if it stays steady. I could then look for the reason with the N mode if that fixes it. I don't remember seeing a site-survey option in the router, instead Ive using an app called inSSIDer, before I was using custom channels so I could circumvent the interferences, but the wifi list here has grown stupidly. For example right now there are 10 signals, and I have seen over 15 at the same time, so I decided to set to auto. Now you tell me that changing the channel makes the signal drop, so... I have no options? Is 10 or 15 signals so rare that a wifi can't handle? If it were a drop caused by interference shouldn't the event log indicate exactly that (or something related)? I know I could go wired but, it just p***es me off to lose against those 10~15 wifi lol, well and it's uncomfortable too. Below you can see screengrab on the moment it fell, as you see the "speed" dropped from 130mb to 65mb and then went offline, despite using a free channel as it's shown. edit: btw it seems that the new event log for N mode was caused when I switched to TKIP as per this note http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/4965agn/sb/CS-025643.htm That leaves me with WPA-AES (which originally had troubles) or WPA2, which I don't want to switch to in case so much security is counterproductive. Im reading now about dd-wrt or openwrt, if the problem persists I might try them to get the best out of my router. Another thing that had me wondering now, N mode pushes the connection to 300mbps? Since I have been always at 130mbps that means I was always on G? ...