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  1. Yes always install User Profile Hive Cleanup service 1.6 on XP: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6676 or 2.0 beta from http://blogs.technet.com/b/uphclean/archive/2008/10/31/new-uphclean-beta-build.aspx . It is highly likely your user profile isn't getting cleanly unloaded.
  2. @OP, I used NetXFer (NetTransport) btw and max. download connections=1 setting.
  3. Looks like you have TechNet Plus. Are the Enterprise keys being given out MAK or KMS and if MAK, how many activations do they have? Also, does the TechNet keys work with the leaked ISOs - are the ISOs same? Edit: It looks like the TechNet/MSDN ISOs are different - there is a just a single ISO and Enterprise key given is MAK. How many activations it has will be known from VAMT.
  4. 64-bit Release Preview ISO SHA-1 hash is: D76AD96773615E8C504F63564AF749469CFCCD57 as that site says. RTM x64's E63C1D3733532ABC7AB28F3D61526E361E80271A
  5. Andrea, Classic Shell works in the final version of Windows 8. I do its testing so relax.Here's a video someone else made of it: as proof.And yes, Start8 is crap. I would be saying that even if I was not involved in the Classic Shell project. What Stardock might be doing is using the RemoteApp functionality of RDP, (which Windows Virtual PC/XP Mode also uses) and they use it to simply show the Start screen in a non-fullscreen window. No point really, except that you can launch Metro style apps, which you can't do with Classic Shell's Start Menu. But who really wants to launch those horrible Metro Modern UI style apps? And should you really need them, you could always launch them using Shift+Win key which will take you to the Start screen.
  6. @-X-, I use a similar batch file!!!! Just the switches I write in old style: /Q /N /Z
  7. ???? That image/dialog is from Stardock's Start8.
  8. Classic Event Viewer works on Windows 8 too and is extremely fast. Although I have ruled out using the Windows 8 GUI abomination full-time ever. Just evaluating it. Windows 8 startup unless you hold down Shift when doing a shutdown is just resume-from-hibernate and then log in, whereas Windows 7 "startup" is always shutdown+boot again unless you hibernate. I mostly always hibernate so resume from hibernation is only slightly faster on Windows 8 than 7. IMHO it is not fair to compare Windows 8 startup with Windows 7 startup. Compare the resume for hibernation times or 8's "startup" with 7's resume from hibernate.
  9. Well said CharlotteTheHarlot. The fanboys are abundant at Fanboy Central aka Neowin.net.
  10. --JorgeA Good that more and more people are realizing that MS is cheating them with Windows 8 by dumping features and replacing them with half-baked "improved" ones. What a coincidence I made a similar car analogy on TechNet. Thank god that MS doesn't make cars, or they would remove, dumb down or "simplify" core components because of telemetry or whatever and decisions lacking common sense and by the time the driver discovers his car is missing components, he would meet with an accident.
  11. Okay tried on 64-bit. Works nicely. If any one has 7 Taskbar Tweaker running, exit it or not so nice things will happen. The EXE still didn't change the "shell" entry in the 64-bit registry but I changed it manually and have the Start Menu back. Thanks!!! Great job. The keyboard loop doesn't work yet? (Hotkey shortcuts in the Start Menu?). You can get language input indicator by turning on old language bar from Control Panel and use Left Alt+Shift keys to switch like Windows 7. Will test for more features working and not working. Here's the proof: Though I fear if MS went so far as to delete that thread, they may go a step further and ship an "update" to Windows 8 RTM to ensure only a signed Windows 8 binary will run or something like that. Unrelated to this project but replacing Taskmgr.exe and Taskmgr.exe.mui from 8 with 7's also brings good old Task Manager for those who can't stand the new one with Metro clutter.
  12. WOW they actually deleted the TechNet topic. Those dumb morons who are out to take out features from our beloved OS!!
  13. The other evil people who should get fired are those higher than him who approve of his evil decisions like Ballmer and those in charge of the User Experience who designed this joke like Julie Larson Green.In fact she's one single person responsible for ruining Office with the Ribbon and no choice/backward compatibility of toolbars/menus where it could have been there as an optional Ribbon tab, and now Windows with Metro.
  14. ^^ Okie dokie no problem. Yes Windows 7 and onwards, only 64-bit Explorer can load as shell. I just thought that because 64-bit is mentioned in the OP, you had tested it with 64-bit. Will wait for the 64-bit version then.
  15. Hey Tihiy, can't get this to work. On x64 Windows 8, I copied 32-bit Explorer.exe from Windows 7's SysWOW64 and Explorer.exe.mui from SysWOW64\en-US\ and placed it in another folder and extracted this patch there. Then it ran the patch and even said patched successfully, then I pressed 7 to set the 7 Explorer as default, it said success all done and then even deleted the icon cache and terminated Explorer. Logged off and now Explorer.exe does run from C:\Explorer7 but it opens the file manager window..that is, it runs as the file manager, it doesn't run as the shell, the Taskbar etc don't appear. Also the value of the shell key at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon still says simply "Explorer.exe" which means it is still loading it from the %windir% path. I changed it to C:\Explorer7\Explorer.exe, and still Explorer.exe is only opening it with as a file manager, not as a shell. I get the Ribbon even if Explorer.exe of Windows 7 is running. What went wrong? Sorry if this comes under "stupid questions".
  16. @Ascii2, agree 100% about this one. You are spot on. Apparently, MS ran into lots of driver address space incompatibilities for SP2 when they tried to address full 4 GB RAM using PAE on 32-bit. But they should have worked to fix them, instead of forcing people to 64-bit indirectly to use all of their RAM. If Server 2003 and XP pre-SP2 XP SP1 worked, I see no technical reason good enough to justify this decision. Fortunately, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition exists and beats the pants of 32-bit XP in terms of performance. Even if it's based on Server 2003 code base (NT 5.2), it is XP-fied (includes everything XP did for the most part) and is compatible with XP everything. It is great if your hardware has XP x64 drivers (from eXPerience, I have come to the conclusion that it is worth dumping hardware that doesn't have XP x64 drivers for one that does). @frf954, XP has a wallpaper changer as well FYI if you don't like the millions of third party wallpaper changers: It's an MS powertoy that integrates nicely into the display properties!
  17. Has Microsoft turned into a scam? Removing features, not just adding them? You pay to lose some, gain some.

  18. @dencorso, that fixes it for icon-based views (Large icons, Medium icons, Tiles etc) and it looks like you can freely arrange in Details view as well. Only view that remains is List View (which is the view I prefer). Auto sorting remains on List View. Paste multiple files and they get scattered, create a folder and it jumps to the Ns, rename any file and it jumps to obey the sort order.
  19. Great (and difficult) job. I wonder if you can port more shell and Explorer functionality removed as mentioned here: http://xpwasmyidea.blogspot.com/2011/09/features-removed-in-windows-8.html
  20. ^^ Yeah that came to my mind when I read about this gadget related news but Windows 2000 was late in the lifecycle then, Windows 7 is still current, so I suspect they will at least fix it for Windows 7, if not Vista.Although MS has never been so evil as today's MS. Today's MS is peak of evil, so they may not create a patch at all.
  21. I find it unbelievable that they may never fix it. I think in the patch Tuesdaysof coming months, there should be a proper security patch. MS is under contract to provide patches for security vulnerabilities and risks for supported OSes. This "advisory" with a workaround is just temporary I believe.
  22. There's the legal option if are in the US. You can sue Microsoft claiming they are selling an OS as an upgrade which removes features and with the help of their OEM and hardware partners like Intel, eventually it or its derivatives will be forced on you as older versions run out of compatible hardware drivers. So you would be paying for the OS and lose essential features, and you can't stay forever on the older OS which won't work any more when your old PC hardware breaks down and you are unable to put the older OS on the new hardware even if you are perfectly happy with it. If I was in the US, I would have sued Microsoft for Vista or Windows 7 itself removing a boatload of features instead of keeping them as options and forcefully obsoleting older versions from the retail and OEM channel and from the entire ecosystem by working with partners and not developing drivers for it. It all depends on US law. I don't know anything about laws in the US, you could consult a lawyer and ask him if there is a provision in the law to protect consumers / end users from companies who reduce the usefulness of products by stripping features and then with the help of the planned obsolescence business model of its partners, the corporation forces the new products with reduced utility, reduced features on you - these features were actively deleted despite strong feedback (case in point: Start Menu). A single person certainly wouldn't dare to sue a big corporation like Microsoft for the fear of losing against them but then it all depends on how strongly you feel about it and how much you care about "doing the right thing". I mean someone has to take the first step to fight against this corporation who's expecting money and giving less in return in the "upgrade". I wouldn't certainly instigate anyone to sue them if they are going to end up losing a lot of money (again it's a matter of knowing the US law well before you proceed). And even if one does sue them, he or she and his lawyer has to be well-versed first with what features were exactly removed to convince the court that is a significant reduction in functionality. If you are serious about filing a lawsuit, make sure you do all the homework first and use your own discretion to decide and understand all the consequences of this lawsuit (ask your lawyer this). You can keep in mind that you are fighting for the right thing, the only expectation from Microsoft in case of users like you and me is that they don't destroy all the existing system they have built with advanced features that you have a business or personal need for. To build something new, they actively delete these right in the next release, that's not the right approach because end users invest a lot in their platform. Another thing to note is that with Windows 8 in particular, Microsoft is well aware of the fact that there can be lawsuits (haven't you heart Ballmer say "Windows 8 is the company's riskiest bet"?). So it anticipates lawsuits and is therefore going to put a clause in the End User License Agreement of Windows 8's RTM build that if you accept the license agreement, you can't file a class action lawsuit against them. Read this article for more details: http://www.forbes.co...inst-microsoft/ One can still bring the dispute in small claims court but not a class action lawsuit. You could argue in court that if the case was that we could continue using older versions of Windows permanently and happily, then there would been no need to sue. However there are two major reasons we cannot keep running older versions of Windows permanently. 1. Lack of security updates after a certain date: While it is normal for companies to not support their products forever, and no one is saying that Microsoft hasn't supporting older versions of Windows long enough, there is no reasonable replacement for many features older versions of Windows in newer OS. Microsoft has monopolized the operating system market since the early 90s and Linux is an underdeveloped OS with a bad user experience. Apple is far worse than Microsoft, they have even shorter lifecycles and they remove features you start using from their products even more rapidly. Once security updates stop, your computer is likely to be infected by malware and you certainly don't want malware affecting your valuable data. I personally would even use and learn Linux than getting infected by malware. Because the situation is so concerning and is rather unique in this case of technology, you could appeal to the court that Microsoft should not remove features because customers are forced to migrate after a set date to its newer iteration. In any other industry, such a situation doesn't arise. Even if your car gets 50 years old, you can keep running it, the fuel your car runs on won't combust or get incompatible with your car. And you will still be allowed to drive the old car on the road. 2. Lack of driver availability on newer hardware: The argument would be the same as above - because no system provides the functionality of older versions of Windows and you invested in it, even if you have a retail license of older versions of Windows, you can't continue using it permanently because on newer hardware, Microsoft's partners won't deliver drivers for the older OS. Virtualization is not an option for graphics intensive applications like games and 3D rendering apps. So in effect, Microsoft is expecting users to pay them $$$ in return for an OS that removes the system features you need and you use. This is plain cheating. The result of such a lawsuit may be that even if one loses the case, this shakes up matters at Microsoft and they get serious and they change their policies and start giving special attention to such regressions in functionality. They would certainly care about someone else suing them for the same accusation again and would try to avoid removing features.
  23. There is no way to disable forced automatic sorting. Can the people who are annoyed and affected by this please vote here on Connect: http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsServerFeedback/feedback/details/741495/biggest-explorer-annoyance-automatic-sorting-windows-7-server-2008-r2-and-vista so it gets fixed by the Windows shell team?
  24. no, no, no. I don't need a new teletubbies Windows like XP :no: You are confusing the theme with the actual UI. I didn't say we'll bring back Luna. Just good looking productive customizable design. Like Classic Shell offers.
  25. I feel like we are mere spectators and are helpless...we can't do anything...case in point...MS removes Previous Versions/Shadow Copies and deprecates Backup and replaces both with an inferior less functional File History feature. One step ahead, three steps back. They can no longer improve Windows without damaging some existing feature. They are incapable of doing that. I hope all of the User Experience people are fired after it fails spectacularly and people who did the UI of products like Windows 2000 and XP are brought in for doing the shell and UI stuff.They could hire Ivo and me for example. We will make sure nothing gets removed and everything remains customizable and user is really in control.
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