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I've heard that CFLs have had greater lifespan if left on 24/7 and that their "early failure" is due to turning them on and off. I heard about it on the radio, and I haven't researched it myself. I can say that the one I have installed in my back hallway has been on 24/7 (barring power outages) for the past 5 years or so. But the other ones that are in the switchable lamps have been replaced more than once during that time.

There is the potential of electrical damage with any of these plugs, primarily the power. It DOES happen but is usually a rare occurence. The only real problem you'd likely run into is those one or some times of not inserting or removing a plug at the proper angle.

Well that link wasn't cited, as Tow users should have marked. I don't think I've used eSATA before, except for accidently plugging a USB mouse into it.... And I'm skeptic of that 50 connections thing with a standard SATA port. I've surpassed that on many boards, cables and hard disks. The only casualties have been some HDDs where the plastic around the connector breaks, meaning the locking clamp has nothing to grab on to. When hardware designers do these tests, they probably aren't using people. So I'd guess that it was on average 50 connections before the robot tester would break the connectors. Anyways, I think these values relate to physical tolerances of the plastic or metal.

Well a stock PE might not be able to do it. Have you tried using a Make_PE3 or one of ChrisR's projects?

If your Explorer.exe is crashing (see errors in Event Viewer) you can create a memory dump for it: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/130005-creating-memory-dumps/ For the USB plugin, I have not seen a format option to immediately appear... only the "scan to fix" which I just got used to closing. And this "hook" menu, I'm not sure what that is. If you can provide a screenshot, it may help.

I'm thinking that a more advanced linking/junctions would be needed. I haven't tried it but Windows already has links to objects with large paths. If your application requires a specific working directory, you may have to consider that too. Otherwise, see if you can relocate or reinstall the program in a custom location. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/

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It took PCs some years to get over having proprietary parts and now just about everything is interchangeable. Phones, Notebooks and Tablets should eventually end up in the same boat, but will likely (like their PC counterparts) cause some large names to fall from the top.

LEDs taking over for regular bulbs is a great thing coming, but it doesn't replace all of them. For example, some pinball games do not look good with LEDs and the old style bulbs are getting (from what I heard) harder to get.

Happy Birthday Cluberti!

Well, to be fair, no. I saw my post AND its attachment, and linked to it in the other thread. Then all of a sudden it disappeared ... and reappeared later at a different address. If you don't believe me look links in the other thread May be the upload went wrong (not my fault ) and LATER the board software cleaned up duplicated posts Your duplicate post (the one with the attachment) still exists. That was how I was able to find the link to post to where your attachment resides. It could still be possible that this thread could be merged into that other post, but it was unknown to me (at least) that when the duplicate topic issue happens, what would happen if an attachment were specified. Anyways, the reason why that particular duplicate topic was deleted (unknowing of its contents) was that *this* topic had replies and the other did not.

You mention that you have tested on both Windows 7 and Windows 8... does it also crash on the Windows 8 client? How did you install this version of MSTSC on the Windows 7 PC? Was it from this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592687

Well it "was" Does this work? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_id=38469

Well, the crash dump (and the op) indicates the OS is Windows 7 SP1, but the binary for mstsc.exe identified is from Windows 8.0. You might be able to get better help if you are able to make the actual .dmp file available for analyzation.

Office 7.0 is Office 95 and 8.0 is 97.

From: http://imgur.com/gallery/PGNLPCb

I don't use dual boot myself, but I am thinking about how Windows 8.1 could even be aware of another OS. The only normal thing that could make sense is if your multi-boot is controlled by the BCD, and Windows stores BT data in the Boot files. THIS IS A GUESS, I have no idea how that works and I never have used BT input devices before. I can't even test HID-pair with BT and Win 8.1 because I do not have any BT input devices. Are you using BCD to handle your multiboot or one of those other solutions?

My experience with XPx64 is limited, but I wonder if there is a wow6432Node section of the registry like in 7x64 OS? If there is, maybe that registry key would work there. I do not know about POSReady 2009, but POSReady7 is available in 64bit.

Your ISO? As in you were the one who created this warez? Boot.wim is not redistributable.

Gateway had tried to sell a PC with a 50" monitor. I recall seeing it on demo at a computer show (where did those go?) with a BSOD on it. The entire product line, the Gateway Destination, came with various sized monitors, 27", 36" etc. They didn't take off because they were substantially more expensive than the typical desktop PC of the time. It was marketed as a home theater solution! http://news.cnet.com/Gateway-debuts-1,999-PC-TV/2100-1001_3-214896.html I can't find any information on the 50" model I saw at that show. They may have never gone to market with it. I'm also not certain if it was a CRT or a RPTV. I don't think it was a flat panel. Here are some other mentions of large-size displays from 1999: http://www.eschoolnews.com/1999/10/01/projectors-presentation-equipment/ So they were definately around, but you probably weren't wanting to spend thousands of dollars on them!

Yes this is how it functions, however almost every time a user requests an account deletion they mean for the posts to be removed too. This is what Xper refers to. It is a curious topic only because deleting an account is like a menial task for the administrator. The logical response would be to just not log into the site anymore and delete your cookies. So the user request is "please change all my posts to say guest_username instead of username." The user still would not come to the site and login anyways, isn't it the same thing except the admin has to press a couple of buttons? Anyways, I think that some people think that deleting an account will delete the posts. It has certainly come up before!

Actually, there is a problem with the CK Editor (The plug-in that comprises the reply box). In the IFRAME source it has a DOCTYPE, html, head and body objects. That is a major error in programming an include! It may be possible that the existance of these lines are causing you a problem. I have found errors in Google's javascript as well as CKEditor's CSS files. I have a similar problem on other websites that use an include/iframe object that contains a DOCTYPE declaration. That portion of the site does not render. BUT I do NOT have this problem on MSFN. So it isn't a 100% surefire bet that a malformed webpage is going to fail to render properly. So any one of these errors could cause an issue with some browser/plug-in combination. EDIT: URLS (Domains) that CK Editor uses: ajax.googleapis.com apis.google.com

I wonder if you have some sort of privacy filter enabled or installed that is causing the reporting issue. It may also be why portions of the site do not work. What about that Norton toolbar?