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I thought windows versions younger than vista ( included ) would align automatically new partition without the need of doing anything. So winpe 3 being derived from Win 7 /2008 R2, there should be an alignment problem.

Remove the drivers pack, if your XP will be a VM in esxi 4.1. You only need to install vmware tools to have all drivers installed.

Perhaps those will work as they are supposed to support the LS, but i don't see your hardware id in it.

Could you post the hardware ID of the card ?

Does this one works (looking at creative website it should) ? Found another one older.

Then use waybackmachine.

All lines ? Then if your %KEY% contain space you might need to double quote it.

%COMPUTERNAME:~0,4% should be the first 4 characters of %COMPUTERNAME%.

Ok i made another search and found out that MS search engine doesn't report all results even if the number is low (and if you have the right search terms). I guess, i'll try the backup plan as this search engine doesn't work at all and MS doesn't seem provide any HBR list : backup the entire MS KB by getting all KB number. I set up a nix script to get all existing article and to pause 1 second between each http request. It will most likely take more than one month if i my ip isn't blacklisted before.

@GrofLuigi: Your 2K3 list is interesting as it contains at least about 100 HF that doesn't seems to be security fixes and were not in mine. Microsoft might limit the search to a max number as i only got 1000 Kb when i did the search (and i though it was coincidence).

I updated the list removing all itanium specific KB and some KB for other components like IE, media player, SFU and SQLserver. Also removed replaced KB when stated by MS. There are still a lot removable KBs if i only filter with file version.

I just opened the exe with 7zip and looked for text in the files. Also as CoffeeFiend said, it would be much easier to launch each msi separately than using this crappy install (that do the same anyway).

Then the only options are to repair it yourself, if you absolutely want to recover the stored data, or send it to seagate for a replacement if it is still under warranty. For the first option, i won't be of any help but Jaclaz might help if he is around.

It is a ssdp request and i have no idea why opera is using it.

Did you tried the bootable version of seatools ?

There are some kb2xxxxx in my list and i only want the HBR (getting the post sp2 hotfixes already available from windows update aren't needed IMO). Of course if Microsoft search tool didn't report some hotfix i could have missed some. Anyway, you can still post you kb list numbers as i could remove from your list all non HBR.

Here is the switches option: c:\>AA-Install command Syntax: AA-Install.EXE [option] [option]: -? or -h : display command help -i : silent install mode -v : visual setting -nhdp : obmit HDP install -nat : obmit AT install -nars : obmit ARS install -ndrv : obmit driver install -ncom : obmit Accelerometer COM install -ndrv : obmit driver install -ncom : obmit Accelerometer COM install -nvc : obmit VC++ SP redistributable . -i for silent is pretty stupid.

You could also try imagemagick (that can almost do anything you can think of) from command line (useful for scheduled tasks).

The method is pretty bad actually: listing all kb containing the word hotfix for the os windows 2003 in the MS kb search tool then removing from the list all that are already in the a service pack. So of course it would work for another os but it already take a lot of time. I'll see when i finished sorting the windows 2003 list for the other os (xp will be next most likely).

None of the process you listed should be launched with your dave account.

The only way to be sure, is to uninstall properly Advanced System Optimizer and see if the reg entry is also removed.

Try using autoruns (to see what is automatically started) in the dave profile. Also plain task manager might help to see what's wrong in your profile when shutting down: launch it, order the processes by user and, after closing all applications (those you're usually launching) and before shutting down your computer, check the processes launched by your account in task manager. Try killing one (from the most suspicious) and the launch the shutdown. If the shutdown is fast then you get the culprit, if not reboot and do the same thing with another process. As a side note, what antivirus do you use as i've seen this behavior with some antivirus (like MacAffee and its "scan floppy before shutdown" option that will hang forever searching for a floppy disk on recent computer).

as it seems to come from the cpu perhaps underclocking the cpu will work and allow all cores to run.

Freeze mostly happen when there is too much heat on some sensitive components like ram or some chipsets (and sometimes cpu but it doesn't seem to be the case). Did you get in the bios to check the hardware monitor to see the temps ?