Tripredacus

You are right. I did it just for fun. Besides the MySQL (and PHPAdmin) running on my old test server, all webpages were XML, XSLT, CSS and SVG. That's right, no real pictures. I got it to work, but back then (like 2003 or 2004) it only worked in IE6. Actually, Blizzard's official Starcraft II website uses a .XML for its default file type. I forget what the back-end of their files are, but it took me a long time to figure it out.

That's alright. You are doing a good job if we can make out what you are saying.

This emote, using "ph34r" bbcode, I believe used to be :ninja

There is a lot of things wrong with how this done. First I can say, welcome to the forum! It will take a real lot of work and learning before you can make a recovery partition as robust as what HP and Dell have! It is possible to even create a recovery partition with the WAIK and not use WinRE. I know, I've done it! Firstly, you should read the documentation that comes with the OPK Tools. Second, it doesn't appear that you are even using WinRE here, since the steps you are outlining are completely different. If you are having difficulty in obtaining the correct information to help you use WinRE, you should contact your TAM or other Channel Rep. You can get this information from logging into the OEM Channel. If you are not employed by a Certified System Builder, you need to use the WAIK. Now that all the legal stuff is out of the way, here are a few things you didn't do right: 1. In order to launch an HTA from the PE, you need to use MSHTA to launch it. I used WINPESHL.INI to launch my HTA. This is done if you want to limit the end user from being able to access the command prompt. 2. What you are doing is very similar to something I have done in the past. For the diskpart script, you are missing a lot. Check out this thread of mine. Note the disclaimer at the top, about how some info wasn't posted. Especially the final (working) HTA. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130645

Post your startnet.cmd code to start. And also what Win PE version you are using (or what WAIK/OPK Tools it was created from) and also what architecture it is. Also, your batch files all use relative paths, but you should hardcode those. You can also have only 1 batch file to do all this and no txt files at all. But you can learn about variables and such later. You can totally get rid of the drive specific CMD files with this example: ECHO. ******************************* :start echo. echo 1. 10 Gb Partition echo. echo. set /p x=Pick: IF '%x%' == '%x%' GOTO Item_%x% :Item_1 start /MIN /Dx:\Windows\System32\diskpart.exe /s x:\windows\system32\disk10.txt GOTO Start You see above I specify that disk10.txt is in System32. Your batch file should be there also. Use abolute paths in your batch file and startnet.cmd to see if it can then launch it.

What I meant was all topic regarding editing Windows setup should be done in that section instead of this one.

On that point... I bet my floppy drive still works. Haven't tried it... recently... ever... I bet my computer would boot faster if I just disabled it in the BIOS.

Another reason to keep IE6 around is that it is still the only browser to support true XML websites. I had one up at one time... Maybe I'll upload it real quick. I know it didn't work in Firefox or in IE7... XSLT support changed at some point for some reason. PS: I uploaded my old XML tech demo, but it seems my web server doesn't support it properly.

Yeah, unless I misunderstood the last post from the OP, he said copying over the network to write to a share on the C: drive is fine, but copying the same data to write to a share on the mirrored RAID volume is slow.At this point I'd be looking at write performance to that RAID set by bouncing a file back and forth between the 2 local volumes. If that's the case, it would be helpful to know whether it was a hardware, hardware emulated or software RAID.

If you are ever in a situation when you are not certain of your activation status, you can do the following from the Run line: oobe/msoobe /a If you have WGA installed, you would know right away, but if not, sometimes the "keys" do not always show up. This program will tell you if you are activated or will prompt you to if not. Retail copies may be different, but this should work if you have a Dell, HP or other type of PC where XP was installed when you bought it.

That was confusing to me. This looks better XPCD_SOURCE |-[+] cmpnents |-[+] DOCS |-[+] DOTNETFX |-[+] I386 |-[+] SUPPORT |-[+] VALUEADD B)

I'm pretty simple I guess. I don't go through so much work like the OP. As I've posted elsewhere, I'm using the same install of XP from when it came out. I did a repair install earlier this year only because I changed motherboards and got an 0x7b afterwards. 1. Hardware firewall, blocks everything unless I say otherwise 2. Use webmail only, and only ones with built in AV 3. Windows firewall is on, but at default unless blocking certain ports already forwarded through the HWFW 4. Use Firefox with NoScript 5. Do not use P2P programs its really that simple. Oh and I do not use Anti-virus.

In other news today, I re-McGuyver'ed the antenna at work. It has more coils and more magnets than ever and works 10 times better! But ah, work was why I didn't get to post today! So busy! Now I'm at home hahaha KMFDM - Search & Destroy

I encountered a similar problem with NHL series games from EA. The problem is you are using an LCD and the game's menu system is not part of the 3D engine. Setting the game's resolution rarely concerns the menu system. The menu system may be defaulting to a lower resolution, such as 800x600 or any other resolution that your monitor does not support. You can check for config files or INIs to see if you can manually set the display resolution that the game uses prior to opening it. In the NHL series of games, I wrote a mod that allowed the game's menu to support higher resolutions for the menu system. That's the only point I can lead you on about this. http://www.nhldepot.net/ndforums/add-showr...on-menu-fe.html

A similar thing happened to me in March of this year. Something happened where my motherboard died and I could only use my 98 PC until I was able to get it fixed. I wouldn't say 4.5 years old drives exactly means they are bad. My XP computer has 2 10 year old drives in it and run fine. They are C Class Maxtors too!

I am annoyed by this as well. I wouldn't mind so much if it was just a little message somewhere, but I hate when some websites will just not attempt to parse the code to HTML if you have a browser it doesn't like. At home on my XP I use IE6 and I think I still have IE5.5 on my 98 PC.

I had this problem also, and the fix is documented here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=122871 I know its in the 2003 forum... can't do much about that.

Using anything other than advanced trickery may only allow you to boot into Windows, and will leave the Recovery Partition inaccessible. (sic)

And if you are worried about updating the BIOS, some companies (like Intel) have a revision document to say what was fixed in the newer versions.

Reconstructing the MBR was very difficult for us all in the previous cases. However, HP does have tools on their site that will attempt to fix the MBR for you, or in your case, the BCD. Take a look here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=848181 Is your computer still under warranty?

IE7 also likes to (by default) open new tabs and keep you looking at the current tab. Maybe if you change the tab setting, the window setting will change too?

I've used OS/2 Warp. Its ok, but was a long time ago. I refrained from taking the OS quiz because its from 2003, which means it isn't "complete". Not to say its possible to have a complete file extensions one but still.

'Fess up, you're an AI bot, aren't you. Man...I usually give up as soon as the fps drops below 20. I almost gave up playing Oblivion the first time around because my system wouldn't run it above 20-22 fps. Had to spend hours tweaking it until I got it to run smoothly. I used to be able to run Oblivion using a mod called Oblivion, back when my PC was below spec for that. Once Shivering Isles came out, that stopped working so I had to upgrade my video card. I like to push the envelope I guess. Is that so much different than our Win 9x/me/2000 users here? Anyways, I found out my video card isn't supported, and while I am at it, might as well upgrade a bunch of stuff. I'll be at the limit then, so anything further would require a new MB. The new stuff I intend to get will cost about $120 and includes the following: ATI Radeon X1650 AGP 8x 512MB P4 2.8c CPU 2GB DDR PC3200

The Earth is indeed mostly harmless, except when it decides to rip up streets! I can thank Canada for sending us those awesome thunderstorms!

They forgot "people can hide things in you" o_O