Tripredacus

It appears that there is some updating of the forum software happening, which may explain why things aren't working as expected. As usual with IPB Forums, an update tends to break a lot of things.

Castlevania Symphony of the Night on Playstation.

Checking in the field info reveals that Scotland does not use a 2 character code, instead it is SCOTLAND. And like NATO (in the example I chose because the NATO flag is near the top of the PNG) option, it does not have a corresponding selection to the .css where it matches the 2 character codes to PNG coordinates. The first flag is ~ Y 707px, yet the CSS calls for the first flag (ipsFlag.ad) to be -352px. Any any flags "above" that are not referenced in the .CSS. I am thinking there must be something else at work here because the CSS does not match up to the PNG anyways, unless there is a reason why the px values aren't matching up. I even changed my flag to Antarctica (which is in the CSS) but it still shows US flag for me.

Anything is possible! But if it is indeed a situation where the OS is seeing what CPU you have and rejecting it, then you (or someone else) would need to figure out how to stop that from happening. People have done some amazing things in computing, but so far I am not aware of anyone modifying the OS to do that.

Look at all those drive letters!

Here is the CPU list for 20H2. Unless they are using some different type of naming, it would seem your CPU isn't listed. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/windows-10-20h2-supported-intel-processors

IE isn't being removed, if you mean in Windows 11. The information released so far specifically says that IE will be disabled.

It looks like the forum has the locale option for Scotland but not the corresponding Flag option in the flags.css OR perhaps it does but there is no image associated with it or the image is missing. The flag list uses a 2 letter abbreviation for the countries, but I do not know what Scotland's would be. The CSS uses positioning on a single file that has all the flags, and that file is here: https://msfn.org/board/uploads/set_resources_0/84c1e40ea0e759e3f1505eb1788ddf3c_flags32.png You can look to see if the flag is present there. Otherwise also tell me what you think the 2 character code it would use (like fr = france) and I can look into it further. PS: I see you have it set to Scotland in your profile, but the flag might appear as UK since your IP resolves to a UK domain name.

The stream keeps stopping and buffering. I lolled when they showed how good Skyrim can look. Skyrim, a 10 year old game. Not even using any mods. Who plays Skyrim on PC without mods? At least just Sky UI. They seem really out of touch with the PC Gaming community and they should be embarrassed.

Sata cables are weird. I've solved disk errors by not only replacing Sata cables but also just reversing them. For these "non-errors" I would consider them to be warnings. Make a backup and never take the disk for granted. The last time I had a non-critical warning was for a disk with the Reallocated Sector Count flag in 2015, The disk was "fine" for 4 more years until something on the PCB melted.

This particular 0F47 seems to be a Pentium D 805: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27511/intel-pentium-d-processor-805-2m-cache-2-66-ghz-533-mhz-fsb.html Does seem valid for the architecture. Would really like to know what error is shown in the crash. In order to see this, you'll need to boot the system and use F8 menu to choose Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure, to see if it is doing a bugcheck. It won't reboot when it crashes and you can see teh error. What build/version of Windows 10 is it?

Now do it with a host that doesn't support virtualisation.

I just hope this Windows 11 has a different update model so I don't have to recreate images every 6 months when an update comes out.

That model originally came with a Pentium 4, so we can presume it is legacy only. But since it seems to have come with a P4 and not a Pentium D, you are going to have to post the processor number so that you can look it up on Ark. My first inclination is that you have a 32bit CPU and not a 64bit CPU, which would be why you cannot install boot a 64bit OS. Alternatively, some BIOSes/firmware have the ability to restrict boot application bitness.

The unattend if not perfect, there have been times that certain characters in the XML cause a problem with the parser. Take a look at the generated unattend.xml in c:\windows\panther to see if your commands survived parsing. First is to add into your ps command something like Write-EventLog. Because while you can see in the setupact.log in the UnattendGC folder whether or not the command is executed, you cannot see anything further. To see if the command is run at all, just have it write to event log. If that works then you know there is something wrong with your line item. Second is to have a .cmd file in your Commandline and then inside of the .cmd you put in your powershell commands. Or alternatively, you can call powershell and have your commands in a .ps1 file. A thing to remember as well is that the FirstLogonCommands in the xml has two conditions: - it runs under the context of the user account that is the first to log into Windows after OOBE. If this account does not have sufficient priveledges, it may fail because messages will be suppressed or will appear in Session 0. (You can see indications that this happens in Windows on the regular because you can sometimes find an event with text like "tried to show the user a message but failed" or something like that (I can't remember exactly) where a dialog box is generated in a session other than the one the User runs in. - it runs via the 32bit cmd.exe. This is usually only an issue when trying to write to specific parts of the registry, but could potentially cause issues beyond that I am not aware of.

I have found that these filtering devices often will block the HTTP version but not the HTTPS version. You should always be using the HTTPS url to access this site. I tend to use a plugin such as HTTPS Anywhere on my browsers which will attempt to force HTTPS usage everywhere it can.

Presumably, if you can gain access to a system using a bypass, and the account has sufficient priveledges, you can create a new account with a known password in order to log in normally.

It is a little-endian RIFF (RIFX) file from Macromedia Director. https://nosamu.medium.com/a-tour-of-the-adobe-director-file-format-e375d1e063c0

I am not aware of any corporations buying residential properties in my area, but that is one type of thing not mentioned in the local news nor something I pay much attention to. I do listen to the real estate shows on the radio at time and maybe they will say something on the next one since that tweet/story had gotten curated into twitter newsfeed. I do know that this area also has the same issue of people being outbid on house prices and the sale prices going way up. I can only speak for my own neighborhood in that regard, where the 2 houses I know have sold, one was purchased by a person. The other I do not know yet becauase the owner didn't move yet. On those radio shows they have been talking about the local market for awhile and what they have found is a lot of the purchases were made by people who had migrated from New York City, which seems to be a considerable amount. The only thing this housing situation over the past year has done is raise the value of my own house to a relatively insane level... I'd say the comparable value has at least doubled... good thing the monthly payment hasn't changed. But for 30 years ago around here, that trend was not present. There were other things happening instead. The area was depressed because we had lot most of our major industry and values were very low. Corporations were buying property in large amounts but not for high prices. They were buying up the old industrial properties which a lot ended up on the waterfront as the reason why we had a boom town in the early-mid 1900s was due to waterway shipping. We had a large rail hub and giant rail station, and giant city hall... overly large considering the size of the then current population. So the corporations were buying up large portions of cheap land 30 years ago and since then most of it has been developed. The parts that haven't are those that were primarily used for steel industry where the cleanup is expensive or at times not even done.

Here is a similar thread you may find an alternative solution. https://msfn.org/board/topic/136540-xp-recovery/

A while ago, Microsoft had changed or stopped using their link forwarder (go links) on their site... without actually updating or removing the thousands of such links on their site. So you can find many pages on microsoft.com with links that do not go anywhere. And then there are instances where their own search results page will have links that do not work, for example: https://support.microsoft.com/search/results?query=2664716&isEnrichedQuery=false Both of the results on that page go to a 404 page.

On various computers I will see the occasional Schannel error in Event Viewer. Such as: The following fatal alert was received: 40. The following fatal alert was received: 70. Here is the key to those errors: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/schannel-error-codes-for-tls-and-ssl-alerts So I know what the error means, but there is no indication what program or service attempted the connection or what the destination is. The setting relating to these events is default to 0x1 but there is no "verbose" setting, only to choose what types of events to log. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/iis/enable-schannel-event-logging The issue I have is not that I do not know how to troubleshoot an SSL issue, rather that I have no idea where to start. Windows just logs that an SSL error occurred but doesn't say anything more than that. Whatever is making this error, it is not something that I am actively using and/or seeing a failure in a program I am using. Other than running a packet capture on my LAN card constantly hoping to catch something through the day, is there some other way I can figure out what is generating the errors? The timeframes of the events do not present a recognisable pattern.

All companies have events now, gets those hashtags spreading. Hopefully they announce that they've fixed all the 404 links on their website.

Is it possible that a service already exists on the system with the same name as the one that this new INF is trying to create?

This message means that a file or path is specified in the INF that does not exist on the system. Either the driver package is incomplete, a pre-requisite is missing or Windows does not have access to a particular path. It should be as simple as looking for the files specified in teh INF and making sure they are actually present in the driver folder. Also, you can get this type of issue (or other errors) by attempting to update USB devices from files that are on a USB device itself. Because some drivers will reset the USB controller (at least on the software level) so if the driver files are on a USB drive, they may temporarily be unavailable during the install process. To get around this, copy the drivers to HDD before trying to install them. This can also happen when trying to install some drivers from a network share, if the drivers use relative paths, it will look for files in a working dir instead of on the network share.