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Well that's how writing when exhausted ends... now I've realized that we're speaking bout integrated Intel chipset... see it now...

Well, some will work: http://games.gamepressure.com/game.asp?ID=1439 Of course can't even speak about newer titles, but you can play games released up to ~2005, f.e. Call of Duty 2 http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/call-of-duty-2/10372/?p=r or GTA: San Andreas http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/10289. Only if you are feeling good with slightly older classics, sometimes played in low details... Long-time retro lover speaks from inside of me, but you can have years of really good time just with older games and no need to even look at the flashy 'n glossy hype of E3 2016 or something like that, and newest blockbuster titles. Not even mentioning indie games, that can have really low requirements in new titles, and provide tons of fun like this one http://retrocityrampage.com/msdos_retail.php. Not even mentioning fan-made mods and freeware games... etc... and all of that with a subtle charm of playing them on PC 'from the days' Edit: even some slightly newer than 2005 (and really awesome) games can run: http://gamesystemrequirements.com/game/mount-and-blade About XP installation CD, I'm wondering how much bloatware it can contain? Isn't it better to download XP SP3 ISO, drivers for hardware and run on really clean PC? I know it might take time (I did it once for 2005 Dell laptop), but may be worth it.

Well, might be THE machine to play older games playing up on modern PCs. Especially that I remember some DOS games required DOSBOX to work under XP 32 bit when run on 64 bit CPU, but they played just fine on the same system on my old 32 bit Athlon with no emulation Enough for watching SD video, playing music, extensive internet surfing or last hope in 'everythingelseisbroken' situations. Might work as typing machine. Some passionates turn such old PCs into home multimedia servers. Never seen such a thing, never used that, never needed. Just read once that some people tried that :>

Seems like you're right, I have no cmdlets involved after PS3. Used this to check that out for clarity.

By default - yes, but one can install Powershell 5 on Win 7 machine, it's supported. If there are major differences between PS 5 on Win 7 and Win 8.1/10, enlighten me. Willing to share? You mean the huge Badass fullscreen Metro style pdf Reader? Replaced it with Sumatra pdf within the 1st day at my work win 8.1 PC

As for me, simply echoing progress shown as a fraction of files to install is simpler and still does its job

Does 'way too much' count as an answer?

All shell extensions are visible under Shell tab in SysInternals program Autoruns. Program is easy to use and powerful, might be dangerous if used improperly - but don't worry, might save backup before modifying registry :> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Hm. I might be blind, but I miss some button to read full status update (panel on the right of forum main site). Going thru user profile -> status update doesn't seem to be convenient way...

I feel like grabbing an update and rollback to 7, just to have an option to jump to 10 whenever I need in the future. Before that I'll stay with 7 and maybe test 10 on VMWare.

That's an idea :> Then I recommend checking our topics about keeping XP updated until April 2019 :>

If it doesn't have to be a batch (and it seems it doesn't), you might try using Powershell. If I have understood you correctly, you need to have time how much the installation takes? Measure-Command {Start-Process "C:yourpath" -wait} Seems much easier to me. Path to your file instead of C:\yourpath of course. Maybe output is not as fancy and you need to keep PS opened, but works. . This one was done fast just because I like sleeping, but if you like my way I might polish that tomorrow Hope I helped

For what you need this? I'm asking because we don't know whether or why it must be written as a batch/cmd, maybe a script in other language or command line executable will be a better choice.

Was it update from 8 to 10, not a clean install? Maybe some old crap remained in system and got badly converted? Clean OS (Win 10) install is not sophisticated solution, but might work. And I guess other helpers would love to know your PC specification, both software (like drivers, internet security and everything that run on startup) and hardware.

The webpage language is Suomi (Finnish).

Is it some sort of 'Clean & speed-up Windows' product? If yes, then probably no. :>

I wonder when we will encounter some really problematic malware (like widely spread ransomware) that will be incompatible with older OSes like NT 5 based and THEN WHAT security-oriented forced updates lovers

Yeah yeah, POSREady patches went with no issues. Besides, I have occurred an issue with installing Office 2007 updates, needed to run WU twice to get them correctly. Anyone had such a problem?

When the PC starts up, before Windows loading screen pops up. You should have displayed Dell logo or lots of nasty, obsolete, pixelated text at the initial stage of running PC and this is when the Delete key comes in handy. This should open BIOS setting for you.

The real question grows... ...taking into account all the compliant about IPS software, both from MSFN Members and Staff, why do we keep using their board software(and why we did in the past)? Admin's habbits? Some sentimental/legacy issues? Some board's functions we underestimate, but are being found essential? Too much alternatives to choose from? Too much work with moving to different ones, like f. e. MyBB (my fav, just to note...)? Well, just asking Reading the comments how forcing this to work was painful for the admins and that the recent situation might re-apper in the worst moment, and how much negative feedback site's changes got from users (keep in mind that we are quite a concentration of narrowminded dinosaurs, affected by oldschool solutions and stuck to old systems) I'm just wondering what happens behind the scenes and how the sites HQ thinks about it. If the information it's not confidential, of course. And yes, I do assume that such a thought might have caught your attention for at least the tiniest bit of time. Just fancy about how the background of IPS selections looks like. And no, I don't have any admin experience. Still fancy to know.

Take a look at AppGuard or NVT Exe Radar. Also, Defense+ in Comodo package by default blocks any unknown software, might work together with their AV and Firewall. Unfortunately, their EULA might scare away privacy-concerned user.

And again, I tried to do my best with Powershell. tested on PS 2.0/WinXP, both in PS console and Powershell ISE. Script outputs drive letter, free space, total space and label for each active removable drive (pendrives, portable HDDs, memory cards... and floppy discs :P) $drives = [System.IO.DriveInfo]::getdrives() | ?{$_.Drivetype -eq "Removable" -and $_.IsReady -eq $true} foreach ($d in $drives) {Write-host ("$($d.RootDirectory.name.TrimEnd("\"))" + " " + [math]::round(($d.AvailableFreeSpace)/1GB,2) + " " + [math]::round(($d.TotalSize)/1GB,2) + " " + "$($d.VolumeLabel)")} That was my output with 4 connected pendrives: G: 1.78 1.87 H: 14.87 29.28 I: 3.73 3.73 J: 7.16 7.31 KINGSTON Hope that was expected.

Written ad-hoc in Powershell 2.0 (should work on any newer version, which means every Windows system from XP up to today) I'm not a Powershell professional, so it might not be written with respect to all best practices, but it surely works. Remember to set your current working directory with cd or set-location before using. $1 = Get-Content text1.txt $2 = Get-Content text2.txt foreach($line in $(0..($text1.length - 1))){ $1[$line] + " " + $2[$line] >> text3.txt} EDIT: Getting curious what the real goal is...

You might disable hibernation in system settings (power management options, I suppose) or use shutdown via command prompt or windows+R shortcut.

No Antivirus scanner can detect 100% of threads. Might try Kaspersky TDSS Cleaner to look for rootkits well hidden in system.