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bump.. (see post 6/10).. (would rather use M$ CMD.exe if possible)

uh, wheres the 'never, its fine' option.

anyone know of a software which will find and allow u to delete all empty folders on a drive..? (preferably free and un-bloated...)

for %a in ( name* ) do rd %asorry.. can u say that some other way i'm not getting it. does %a replace * ..or?

from my reading the problem with RD is that it doesn't accept wildcards..? (see problem edited above^^)

excellent, thanks guys.. how do u delete folders (ie not just their contents?) with command prompt also? edit: what i was trying to do was delete all the ??.lproj folders and their contents except for the en.lproj folders in iTunes. anyway i've created the following batch file to get rid of the ipodservice.exe and ituneshelper.exe processes, as well as all the useless foreign language stuff, as it was getting annoying doing it manually after every update etc. i've managed to hack it enough to get it to get rid of all the files atleast, but its far from an elegant, simple, solution, and the folders are still there. can anyone improve?. hopefully it'll be of use to some people too.. (tried to upload as .bat but didn't let me.. ) taskkill /IM iTunesHelper.exe /F c: cd c:\Program Files\iTunes\ del iTunesHelper.exe type nul>iTuneshelper.exe attrib +R iTuneshelper.exe taskkill /IM ipodservice.exe /F cd c:\Program Files\ipod\bin\ del * /q /f /s type nul>iPodService.exe attrib +R iPodService.exe cd C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesMiniPlayer.Resources\ taskkill /IM iTunes.exe /F move en.lproj ..\ move itunesminiplayer.dll ..\i del * /q /f /s move ..\en.lproj . move ..\i .\itunesminiplayer.dll cd C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.Resources\ move en.lproj ..\ move ituneshelper.dll ..\ del * /q /f /s move ..\en.lproj .\ move ..\ituneshelper.dll . cd C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.Resources\ move en.lproj ..\ move itunes.dll ..\ move itunesregistry.dll ..\ move itunes.qtr ..\ del * /q /f /s move ..\en.lproj . move ..\itunes.dll .\ move ..\itunesregistry.dll . move ..\itunes.qtr .**** command prompt can be a PITA! ..eh, u sensor the word dam'n now?

it just astonishes me the amount of code (ie disk space used) that is needed in modern OSes. windows 98 has been slimmed to significantly less than 20MB (down to ~7meg at the extremes), which still allows network, sound etc. basically 90% of the fundamental functionality of a basic system, just use 'portable' apps with it rather than installing them. yet no one , even with stuff like linux, is making systems that can run a GUI with less than 64/128MB of ram; 10x the entire OS. OSX and vista are several factors larger again. MenuetOS being a notable exception. i have ran '98se on CF card, with all the main apps i need (obviously i have a HDD install/ Other PC too with the heavyweight programs), and had loads of space left. i also ran it in a ramdisk, (ironically giving me more space).. but that PC broke and my new one doesn't support 98 unfortunately. gdogg; the size is the only real obstacle. you are probably going to need an image and copy it over (unlike 98), but EWF is not really necessary; if u don't keep a swap-file on the disk (ie disable it or put it on a ramdisk) and put all possible caches to ramdisk, or disable them, then the number of writes will be low-enough to do no damage to it. besides, most CF cards have 5 year, or even lifetime warranties anyway i haven't actually heard of any case of bad sectors occuring from too many writes anyway. i'd imagine it'd be better just to leave it out and save the space.. but i may use it.. your claims of /windows being 58MB did initially lead me to believe that it would therefore require 58MB of HDD space.. Biohead; i doubt it. atleast, it would be a lot harder. I have a CF>IDE adaptor, which plugs right into the IDE port and allows my CF to be seen as a regular IDE hard drive (They have the same pinout, just CF is smaller and has extra pins for power). If XP sees it as a removeable mass storage device, then its a lot harder; however i remember someone got XP to boot from USB, so probably the same would apply, and it could work. (unless your SD reader means windows sees your SD cards as hard drives.. in which case it would work fine... i'd doubt it thou) Clint; you have 2K3 *working* on a 128MB stick? thats excellent news if so. i may move to 2K3 when vista becomes the dominant OS (assuming everything will require 'Vista / 2K3' due to the same codebase, as is now with XP/2K). any chance of a link to the XS thread? i'm still in the single-core world and will be for a while, and less than 3GB if thats the memory thing ur refering to. thats not to say i wouldn't mind using 2K3E, although i haven't used it before and if XP is 30MB less is probably worth using for now, and as i said, even 2000 would be fine. i wouldn't rule out using disc compression to get a bit more space; the shorter seeks of the CF would probably make it less noticeable, and i have plenty of CPU power for the tasks it'd handle. but i'd imagine implementing this before imaging could be tricky, and i wonder weather with such a small volume, keeping the files needed for compression would use more space than the actual compression would save?.. also having a compressed image on the CF which was unzipped to a ramdisk may be possible, but too difficult to be worth bothering with i think. question> is it possible to boot XP from another OS (like how '98 booted from DOS).. i'm guessing a linux.. ? (if so, link? ) also its amazing how much u can get from just a couple of small apps; VLC and firefox/opera will open pretty much all video, audio and images between them.. or if u want to go hardcore; Offbyone and Quickview .. (actually i dont think the latter works after 9x..).

how do u create a new blank .txt file using XP's command prompt? (ie so i can use it in a batch file.)

acen 2006.. those are the ISO sizes i think, and will result in considerably larger installed size. i tried one of the experience ones and i think it was ~300mb installed; not so impressive. i think XP:deleted edition may just squeeze on (from what i can tell).. but now i'm not quite sure of the status of that project

so, i'd guess from the lack of responces that no one has got it ~128MB? can anyone start me with a figure for the lowest they have?..

i realise that i'll have to make an image first, but that shouldn't be a problem. and yeah.. CF cards aren't too expensive, but i dont really want to buy another, or waste this one. so we've delt with the VM / image stuff.. (atleast until i try it, if it goes wrong lol).. how about the size? anyone have an XP (-all unnecessary program files*) thats <128MB, or close? or know its possible? *i mean, including whatever u need for the shell, that sort of stuff, but not web browsers, image viewers etc.

i thought microwinX might be possible to run on a 128MB CF card.. but <50 MB claims seem to be totally irrelevant to real-world useage.. excluding the lastgood directory which AFAICT is required, and many times bigger than 50MB.. unless i'm doing something wrong? windows 2000 would be perfectly fine too.. but there dont seem to be many minimization projects based on them?.. basically i need LAN support, GUI (w/ adjustable res) and ability to run a few basic programs (portable versions better?) any chance? or if not, whats the min ur looking at..? edit:... actually i think i got rid of lastgood? .. but system32 is still 222MB ? .. its not meant to be that is it?.. i've ran the shrinking thing.. (PS: using VMware... also is there any way to get files from ur normal OS HDD onto the fake VMware one?)

(i know this is old but still..) no, thats wrong. u can undervolt in the bios with any CPU.. it just depends on the motherboard. i'm guessing urs doesn't support undervolting or its some kind of hidden option. use google. the lack of CnQ only affects the ability to undervolt and change multiplier on the fly *in windows*. there are a couple of types of mobile A64 IIRC, i think some are more likely to work than others (like DTR, that kind of thing).. for the 'truer' mobiles including some (if not all) a64-m's, and all turions, MB support is very patchy, that urs will work is unlikely, the DFI seems to be the best one for supporting them, but a couple of others. 1/2 even officially support turion.. anyway if u still care then i suggest u ask at a hardware site.. or silentpcreview.com

IF u had a CnQ processor, then u would install the driver in jago_lfn's post.. and then under 'power options' in control panel set it to 'minimal power management'. then it will be enabled. cpu-z will show the changes. sometimes u have to enable it in bios too.. but it is usually by default. BUT u have a 2800+ sempron, and cool and quiet is only enabled in the 3000+ and above. its not all lost thou.. u should be able to reduce your CPU voltage quite a bit- my e6 sempron64 (3000+) will run at 1.25v @2.3ghz.. so if your sticking to 1.6 then u should be able to undervolt more.. many people get 1.0-1.1v. reducing voltage reduces heat/power more than underclocking. and if u find u never need up to 1.6ghz then u could underclock the processor a bit too.

even MCE? if so, would it keep the MCE additions and be larger, or just strip out to be like 'normal' XP microwinX? ..surely it would need WMP for the MCE part.. so im assuming either it doesn't work, or would just lose MCE funcitons..?