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Tripredacus

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  1. It primarily shows device installations. So you can see the HwID and what driver Windows tries to use, if any, or an error.
  2. MS tried to make a unified OS, along the lines of their competitors in the mobile market by adding the Metro apps. The ability for Windows, Windows Phone (and later) Xbox to all be able to run the same programs. It was never really a unified OS it just had the appearance of it. You could argue that they just tacked on that functionality, since they didn't make any attempt to make a new desktop OS at all. I highly doubt that Windows Phone had any 9x remnants in it. It was probably too late by the point Windows Phone failed for them to reverse course. Eventually they will have to actually make a new OS for x86 or else they'll lose their way entirely. Maybe they do not have the people left who know how to make an OS from scratch, which may explain why we're still just seeing modified Windows NT OS in both desktop and server environments. Even their Linux support is just tacked on.
  3. Forum rules have been updated to remove the following: - screenshot/image size limitations - account deletions due to inactivity Both of these were due to issues in the past that are generally not present any longer. Screenshot size due to olden days of dial-up users. Account deletions due to previous software versions table size and other database related limitations.
  4. Having 1 thread per site is ideal for this section.
  5. There is more to computer use than the retail market. In the US there are people who buy the old computers and send them overseas to Africa and other regions, for use by communities and organisations that still need computers.
  6. This is complete nonsense.
  7. Everything seems back to normal but you still can't log in. So that means that some things can't be downloaded. Of course there may be another part of the site I don't know about that is offline. I mainly use it for the website archive and the file search and both of those were working fine. However, I will note that some of their file hosting servers may not be fully running. Of the two things I downloaded a 600 MB file took 7 minutes but a 800 MB file took 2 hours. Or maybe it has always been like that.
  8. I don't agree with that stereotype. There are certainly gearhead equivalents to computing users, but you don't need to have the latest and greatest to play games, even the modern ones.
  9. I had been getting the periodic warning message about how Team was going to stop working.... on Windows 10. It doesn't show me the message in the screenshot, so hopefully it will continue to work.
  10. I've changed on that aspect. the server can see the internet. Originally when I was planning this setup I figured that the server would have an older OS like Windows NT or some other OS that shouldn't be exposed to the internet. Now I have changed those requirements, rather it won't be just a file server. I built (or repurposed) a Windows 10 PC for that spot and there is no issue with it being online. The file server role will not be handled with file sharing, rather I installed XAMPP on it and will use FileZilla to let the older systems get files via FTP. This is more ideal since I have a 4th spot (or more) potentially open for adding other computers such as a Mac or other things that may not play well with Windows file shares. So in my diagram, the Server connects to PC4 and 5 (and 6) via a router., And the Server connects to the DECA network on a separate ethernet port. It will be that physical bridge between the two networks, rather than the old plan to put some actual network hardware in between.
  11. I had already gone through and tested the hardware listed above with exception of the ProCurve. The Cisco devices had the most promise, however they had issues where certain settings are not stored on the CF cards and the battery on the board was dead. The battery being soldered to the board meant that it would require more work than I was willing to invest to get them working. For an example, one of the things that is handled by the battery is ports being up, including the management port. So every time power was reset, I would have to use terminal over serial to up the ports again. Rather, the next step seems to be to use the "Server" as the go-between. I have already built a computer that has 2 LAN ports and 1 will connect into the DECA network and the other to a switch that the computers will connect to. I still have to work out this switch, as it may have to be a router since I have non-computer devices present now that I need DHCP for. I am not using a Server OS. In general, the computers on the private end shouldn't have access to the internet, but a couple of them may be allowed to get to specific addresses. Bard says that I can make a Bridge on the server and use Windows Firewall to block all inbound on the private nic with exceptions, but I generally do not trust Windows Firewall. I suppose I could use the router for that instead, but a bridge still may be needed in any case.
  12. The data archive is still offline, only wayback machine is back.
  13. Combo devices should work in Device Manager by just showing two separate devices. The WLAN which is the DEV_43B1 under Network, but a BT should show up as a separate device. If there is not BT section, it may appear under Other Devices (IMO MS made a mistake to make this icon white) or it may appear under System without a flag. A BT device usually has a HwID like VID_xxxx&PID_xxxx.
  14. This is an enterprise feature, based solely on this: A major issue in the modern enterprise is that a lot of the software is on the internet, and users are not tied down to a specific or regulated computing system anymore. You may have that for people in an office, but many people are using a large assortment of notebooks and mobile devices to access resources. So a use case scenario is if you have a web application that needs to be private, but the users are not in a regulated environment or even in the same location. In the past, you'd have to restrict access to an online resource either with user agents or IP addresses and that doesn't work for this scenario. And it has the potential to go beyond just requiring authentication, if you can block the entire site from those you don't want to see it.
  15. The site is down until they can redo security and no data was lost. It was posted on x but I can't find the official posting. It doesn't help that one of archive's main admins blocks so many people on there.
  16. What is the HwID of the device?
  17. See if this works: https://superuser.com/questions/1364764/clone-windows-user-settings Otherwise you're going into the territory of LCP or GP, where you are to customize the Default profile and any new user account that gets created will use the Default as the base.
  18. It is in a cab or compressed file on the OS disc, but I think this file is also updated in MSU/CAB from Windows Updates. If yours got updated that way, going back to an older version (like from the disc or some random website) might lead to other problems. Technically, if you have another XP computer, you can copy the msports from there. Remember that on a 64bit computer that the 32bit files are in syswow64 folder and the 64bit files are in System32.
  19. Poll closed 1. There are already (legitimate) sanctions on Russia and other countries that already prevent these types of exports or services being provided. This began during the Obama administration. 2. This is an internal thing relating specifically to the Treasury Department and does not apply to any part of the government outside of that or to regular citizens. Executive Orders only apply to the Executive Branch of the government. No one is permitted to amend an EO except for the President, certainly not the Director of Foreign Assets Control, so it is quite possible that this is an illegal order in the first place. 3. The topic is not technology related, the only thing posted were parts about government policy. The poll is completely political and unrelated to the topic. In the future, users should report political topics instead of trying to be moderators.
  20. So far I get the following: 1. Windows shows a wrong architecture message for msports 2. SFC says msports doesn't match crc with the file in winsxs 3. SFC says the msports in the datastore is corrupted You have x64 in your forum profile, is that also the type you are using here? If the OS is 64bit and uses a 64bit process, it may show a message like #1 if it tries to use a 32bit binary or vice versa. The file it tries to use may be actually fine. I'd validate the file by opening it in some sort of program that can read headers or a decompiler. Typically opening a binary in a program designed to read binaries will fail immediately if the file is actually corrupt. Make sure the environment variables for the OS are not modified. Basically, this could all be true IF Windows is trying to use the wrong msports, if there are actually 2 versions, one in System32 and one in Syswow64.
  21. No appropriate option for Yes/Indifferent. I only use it on one computer, it is v115 and uses HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript and uBlock Origin. Technically my Win98FE computer has Firefox installed, some early version like 0.9 iirc but this computer doesn't ever use it for going online, only internal network stuff.
  22. You will find that people in every country will say the same things about the security agencies in their own country.
  23. Whatever FSB does is not different than what other agencies in other countries do or attempt to do. They are all running shadow games.
  24. Invision Power Services, the company who makes the forum. And re your second post, what you see with the duplicates is what I was referring to in my post.
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