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There are compressors with loss used for multimedia files. In its prime mp3 for audio was miraculous it could compress 700MB (a CD) to 50MB or less but with a loss of quality (that most people could not hear). Now it is more common but if you uncompress the video from a movie, you're more likely going to get files like RESx * RESy * 24(usual color depth) * duration (in second) * ips (images per second) bytes. A 90minutes video from a bluray would take uncompressed about 1920*1080*24*30*90*60*60 = about 439TB (a little too much for most people). That prove that an appropriate compressor can make wonder one some files but nothing great on others. Some intelligent file format allow more than that: vector image file format usually are a lot smaller than any other lossy or lossless format and a lot better but your computer need to compute each point to show what it look like every time you want to look a it. Imagine you want to watch Star Wars with its digitized scenes but that your player/computer would have to render each picture before displaying it. You would need an enormous calculus power to see it at the right frame rate. Edit reason: added the following: I played a lot with winpe and bartpe at one time and created many isos that i would store to keep an history. One year ago, i had free time and decided to clean the 17GB of PE isos. I first tried to compress all those with 7zip and got a 5GB .7zip which was too big to suit my needs. I extracted properly all files and created a folder for each and i created a batch to recreate each iso afterwards. Then i created an iso using the option store duplicate files once and i got a 1.5GB file that i could compress with 7zip and get a 717MB file. Of course the process won't apply for all files but it show how using the right method to compress/store data efficiently is important. Perhaps sometime developpers will find / use tweak/trick like this to create very small .exe, .dll.

Some of those services can be stopped then restarted without causing problems and this way you could check if the issue is still there after stopping each one and thus removing one possible culprit. Here is the list of the services i'd try in the order of the most probable to the less : BITS wuauserv schedule lanman server browser Hope this help. If you don't find it this way, you could try this way to make each service use a different process.

Try using process explorer to check which services (usually many services use the same svchost process) are accessing your exchange server.

I have the same problem with XP and also a realtek chipset. I had this kind of problem often when using integrated chipset for audio and the jack output. Most of the time the spdif optical output works flawlessly in comparison. Also when i had this kind of problem for the first time, i tried something easy: start the computer and go in the bios and check if the problematic sound was here and in my case it was (so it wasn't a driver problem).

It is mot likely due to one of the drivers you added. Usually when creating an unattended installation, one should only add one driver at time. As about your ranting, if you need fast answers, you might try opening a paid ticket to Microsoft hotline!

I had one time an usb drive with ntfs corruption and it would crash any computer when connected. To fix it I had to use linux. So it possible that the ipod is causing this behavior.

Just before the crash, there was something fat/fat32 formated (most likely an usb drive) so it might be the root cause. Doing some chkdsk /F or /R on those drives might fix it.

Just like many users, i am still using XP because the new UI in vista or seven is very different and make me search for everything (unlike XP that i didn't need to search that much to do everything). But there are "features" in seven that are more than a hassle for me: winsxs growth, the search tool and windows explorer. If i were to migrate i would have to get rid of those before. The real great features in seven, are (obviously) the fact it is more recent and then better suported (TRIM support won't be released for XP by Microsoft) and the possibility of the widgets and many other tunable things (that allow the desktop to be more personalized). But perhaps, in some new OS, Microsoft or another one (Apple ? Google? ) will create a better desktop with a more intuitive explorer etc...

Also the search tool in XP is a lot more intuitive than the one in 7 : to search the content of file, you need to modify the search options needing a few more clicks as explained there.

In this case, the fastest way might be to get the drive out of the laptop and connect it to an usb/e-sata enclosure or directly to a sata connector in a desktop and recover the data from here.

I think the problem might come from the missing "cmd.exe /c " before "xcopy..." but i would replace xcopy with robocopy which will be more reliable for this task (and it also doesn't need cmd.exe to run).

I finally found a very interesting page listing (for example) post sp2 hotfix by request for windows 2003 and the same kind of thing for many other OS. I didn't had enough time yet to check if it is really all hotfixes.

The first file is in the HBR from KB961451.

Try autoruns from Microsoft. It does this in a better way.

You can't change it yourself but perhaps a Mod will do it for you. As for your issue, a few steps you could try: - use Hitachi drive fitness to check if your drive isn't working properly. - try to install xp or vista after cleaning the drive from its partitions but that shouldn't be needed if i understood your explanation.

Yes but as the OP already tried installing with the x86 boot.wim and get an error then there may be a slight difference between the x86 (used to write the install.wim x64 or x86 to the disk) and the x64 raid driver used only when booting to the newly installed raid array. As i suppose it is a semi-software raid based most likely on an intel chipset, that wouldn't be too much of a surprise. If this kind of problem happened with a real raid controller (like a 3ware/Lsi one), it would be a complete different story.

Your approach seems logical but not fully (as 32bit exe can run under 64bit OS but not the reverse): I would have taken the 64bit disc and do the renaming to boot64.wim and add boot32.wim and use bcdedit as you did. But perhaps this won't work either if the problem is coming from the raid driver.

I am not keen of paid solution for backup desktop computer but i think symantec backup exec with dlo option will do a better job if you're going with paid solution. But you could access remotely to the admin shares of the desktop computer and backup them using for example robocopy on a share. And you didn't say anything about the size of data to backup and where you're going to store it (tape / disk ?) and for how long (keeping only one backup isn't really secure). Some best practices is to backup everyday and keep data for 2 weeks then keep only one backup per week (usually the week end one) for 4 or 5 weeks then keep one of them for 1 year (so 12 or 13 monthly backup) and so on. Also backups have to be stored in a remote secure location in case of a fire happens. But thats' only the best practices, there are other alternatives.

Using gawk from the unix tools: gawk -v sb="" "/Menu information:/,/===========/ { if ( $0 ~ /===========/ ) print sb; next } 1" input.txt >output.txt This should almost do what you need because in your output an extra line of "========" is missing if i understood properly : you wanted to remove the lines between one begining with "Menu information:" and one containing only "=====".

Perhaps it related to the OS being a x64 or a x86. As for a workaround, you could try something like this in autoit: fileinstall("full_path_to_your_batch_script_before_compilation",@scriptdir & "\filename_of_your_batch",1) runwait(@ComSpec & " /c " & @scriptdir & "\filename_of_your_batch", @SCRIPTDIR,@SW_HIDE) filedelete(@scriptdir & "\filename_of_your_batch")

Just a question out of curiosity: why using scsi drives ? As it is virtual drives you could use ide drives.

If you're a firefox user, the 3.6.x is the one that use the less memory per tab and it can be also tweaked to release memory more often (some addon do this). The lastest beta is also quite good. Lastly, if don't use any apps that need pagefile, you could disable it but of course applications requiring more ram than the physical might crash or refuse to launch. Under windows 2000, i usually disabled pagefile but i wasn't running a recent browser.

There are tools like linux the hdparm or hdtach (for windows). Also i think the raw performance speed given by seagate are right for a raw drive (i.e. not formated /partitioned). Hdtach can test an unformated drive. Jaclaz will probably add many other tools that may be a lot better.

My two cents about the error message about superfetch: Someone had the same error and solved it so this might help you (or not).

Perhaps hardware video acceleration is disabled.