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Just passing by... XPIProvider.jsm is inside omni.ja, which is a .zip archive with renamed extension. GL

I currently have no other devices in the network (the laptop doesn't have installed NIC drivers). GL

OK, it seems there's not much I can do. Thank you all for replying. GL

OK, started to understand a little. I pinged each address individually from the first screenshot in the post above (I don't edit because in my experience with the new board software, it will mess up the codebox) and I see that the third hop after my router (exit of my country) reduces TTL to 60. That can be seen also in the second result (codebox) - now that I've seen it, its' easy to understand. It's settled then (apart from any angry letters I may write). [edit] d@mn, ping 192.168.0.1 (router) gives TTL of 64 - that's the part I still don't understand, because the next hop is correct - 254. GL

@jaclaz: Output from the first command (redirecting with > file.txt gives only one line, so again a screenshot): Output from the second .bat (redirected): 1 192.168.0.1Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=642 89.205.44.1Reply from 89.205.44.1: bytes=32 time=158ms TTL=2543 89.205.126.1Reply from 89.205.126.1: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=2535 91.212.235.10Reply from 91.212.235.10: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=606 209.85.240.162Reply from 209.85.240.162: bytes=32 time=268ms TTL=557 72.14.234.118 209.85.254.11810 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=4711 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=223ms TTL=4712 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=185ms TTL=4713 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=314ms TTL=4714 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=4715 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=223ms TTL=4716 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=216ms TTL=4717 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=252ms TTL=4718 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=202ms TTL=4719 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=4720 8.8.8.8Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=188ms TTL=47I understand less and less each time GL

ping 127.0.0.1 gives 255. OK, that's about settled, then. Except... In my example above, I have 7 hops to Google. Why TTL isn't 248? Or, does my ISP change the TTL? GL

Oh, TTL is different for "normal" packets and for ping? How can I check my "normal" TTL? @allen2: I still don't understand, see image: TTL is always 58 (now). GL

I think the image says it all... Note: I have DefaultTTL=dword:ff in currentcontrolset\services\tcpip\parameters GL

Have you tried this? GL

"it doesn't boot." report - I forgot the exact words, they were on a black screen, not terribly scary, but not big friendly letters either. Due to lack of free time, I will suspend my efforts for now and come back to it later. Thank you Jaclaz

New partition will be my last resort... I was asking more if there are any new, or old, or unknown to me (ungoogled by me) methods to "repair" a BCD on non-4Kb partitions. Maybe third-party tools have progressed (I've heard of EasyBCD, and i think there are others), or something might be possible to be hex-edited, but I need to know what... And the reason makes perfect sense (at least in my head, obviously ) when one remembers that SSDs have finite number of writtes. GL I understand that, I was not-so-sure about that particular SSD having 8 Kb pages (and operating on them as "full pages"). In any case - and with all due respect - it seems to me like the idea makes little sense. Let's take two extremes for the sake of reasoning. only 1 (one) file below 4 Kb is in the filesystem several thousands files below 4 Kb are in the filessystemIf #1 the impact of *whatever* is null. If #2 while the impact of the *whatever* may be relevant or noticeable, in order to reduce it you will further reduce the available capacity of the SSD considerably. My suggestion was however to try making a new (smallish partition) (Yes, a "boot" partition) not entirely unlike the one Windows 7 makes on a non-partitioned disk, with just the BOOTMGR and the \boot\BCD and see if you can boot from that one the "main" partition with the 8 Kb sized clusters . Since it is just a test you can use a part of the space you have free (it is not like having 100 Mb less than the current 23.85 Gb will change *anything*). jaclaz

That is some magic free space a Magician from Samsung created for me. Or, in other (big) words, over-provisioning is supposed to reduce write amplification and ensure write consistency. I don't care much about that second part (write consistency), but since the manufacturer recommends overprovisioning and I can afford to lose some space (I have enough), I go with it. If I were to make another (boot?) partition, I'd make it at the beginning of the disk, but I don't want to (for now) since everything is so neat and self-contained. I would like to have 8 Kb clusters because of "write amplification" or, in this case "erase amplification?". Samsung 840 Pro (and every SSD) erases bytes in pages, which in this case is 8 Kb. So in theory, for a file of under 4 Kb in size, it would unnecessarily erase another block of 4 Kb or leave this block "dirty". Or the garbage collection routine would transfer the contents to another block and then erase these two 4 Kb blocks. GL

...That is, the partition where the BCD resides. I have a specific setup which I don't want to disturb: This is as seen from Windows 7, which is on the second partition (C:). Dual boot is with XP, which is on the first partition, seen here as F: . When XP is booted, letters are reversed (XP, first partition, is C: and Win7, the second, is F:). It works perfectly for me because every OS is "isolated" in its own partition, sees itself as drive letter C: and the BCD is on the Win7's partition. I use custom boot selector/loader (OSL2000) which is the only thing (tiny) inserted into the first sector (or boot sector, or whatever it's called) of the disk. Now, this is an SSD and I want to make the cluster size equal to the NAND page size, which is 8k for this Samsung 840 Pro. The purpose is longevity of the SSD. In many places I have read that this is impossible for Windows 7 (BCD). Is that still so? I don't want to create another partition. I have already enlarged clusters (non-destructively) of the other two partitions from 4k to 8k with Paragon Hard Disk Manager (bootable CD), but when I do it to the Win7 partition, it doesn't boot. Even Paragon says so in the help file. Luckily it was reversable, but of course I still have backups. So, can I do anything? This is the most written to partition here. *Edit: and by the way, all partitions are aligned, and I think the alignment won't be disturbed if I don't resize them. Partitions start at offset: 1048576 16013852672 49568284672 GL

Intellimenus has three different explanations by Microsoft alone... GL

It's Microsoft Video For Windows 32-bit Dynamic Link Library, pretty essential stuff, it's alarming that it's missing. First thing is to do as MrJinje wrote. (32 is historical name, it might be 64-bit)

Are boot.bin and vhelper.dll not needed any more? Can they be deleted? GL

I have Win8 only in virtual machine and pressing Alt-Tab shows only the host's Alt-Tab window (or it overlaps the VM's window). Did you try the registry? I'm now sure that's what restored the XP behavior. XP behavior: REGEDIT4 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellServiceObjects\{A1607060-5D4C-467a-B711-2B59A6F25957}][-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellServiceObjects\{A1607060-5D4C-467a-B711-2B59A6F25957}]Revert to Win7 behavior: REGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellServiceObjects\{A1607060-5D4C-467a-B711-2B59A6F25957}]"AutoStart"="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellServiceObjects\{A1607060-5D4C-467a-B711-2B59A6F25957}]"AutoStart"=""I call it Win7 behavior because that's what I'm sure about, but this key is present in Win8 too. *Edit: The editor destroys the tags, but I'm sure you can manage. GL

Welcome back!

On Windows 7 here, alt+tab behaves exactly like XP (no extra icons and no thumbnails), but I can't remember what I did. Even AltTabSettings is 0. I think I have unregistered a dll. *Edit: Yep, that's probably it - AltTab.dll *Edit2: Well, not completely, it exists only in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{A1607060-5D4C-467a-B711-2B59A6F25957}\InProcServer32 . *Edit3: I know what it is. I removed it from ShellServiceObjects with latest Autoruns.exe GL

"AltTabSettings" registry value? Alt+Tab Tuner? GL

I'm more interested in who changed the word Tiny from this topic's title and why. GL

So far, this works very well. Please, if you can, make it an option (to not create any files) for us who don't want bloat. GL

I disabled it quite some time ago and forgot about it. I haven't noticed any problems with it, but I vaguely remember I read somewhere it was not recommended. Is it only for memory protection purposes, or (as I think I remember) it helps with PAE or AWE or whatever address translation is called on x64 (if it exists at all)... Sorry for not being clear, but I am very convinced I read it is strongly recommended to not turn it off, and here is my OS, working around 6 months without any problems. Any comments? Output of bcdedit: Windows Boot Manager--------------------identifier {bootmgr}device partition=C:description Windows Boot Managerlocale en-USinherit {globalsettings}default {current}resumeobject {ed361037-5239-11e1-b35a-8c185ebdf863}displayorder {current}toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}timeout 30Windows Boot Loader-------------------identifier {current}device partition=C:path \Windows\system32\winload.exedescription Windows 7locale en-USinherit {bootloadersettings}recoverysequence {ed361039-5239-11e1-b35a-8c185ebdf863}recoveryenabled Yesosdevice partition=C:systemroot \Windowsresumeobject {ed361037-5239-11e1-b35a-8c185ebdf863}nx AlwaysOffsos Yesuseplatformclock Yes

You gave me an idea. I created a file named %appdata%\roaming\ClassicShell and so far it works as I intended (no folder created). GL

I have a fast SSD for 1. and never had problems with f&f even without Classic Shell (Win7 here), and I always turn off 2. and 3. Also, cache was not necessary with previous releases of Classic Shell. GL