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    [Competition] Best Computer Spec

    in Hardware Field

    Posted

    Geez, if I knew it was going to come down to hard drives I would have listed them all! ;)

    750 GB Seagate (primary boot drive)

    1 TB Samsung (document storage)

    500 GB Seagate (Acronis hidden backup drive)

    2x750 GB Seagate in RAID-1 NAS (shared network storage for photos, music, movies, etc)

    plus a 160 GB Samsung and 80 GB Seagate for OS testing (in the P182, but not connected currently).

    So total is...um...over 3 TB (depending on how you count, 3.75 TB).

    I'll have to get a screen shot of the disk manager now won't I... ;)

    [Competition] Best Computer Spec

    in Hardware Field

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Smartepants

    How are we to know somebody aint cheating?

    LOL, Rick! I thought that stuff was expensive where you are ;)

    At least I posted a pic! :icon_cool:

    If I win, send the software to Rick!

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    Strange, the BIOS reports the CPU as 3 GHz (333x9), Memtest reports as 3 GHz, but CPU-z reports as 1.9GHz (333x6) :crying_anim02:

    Backed it down to 2.4 GHz for the photo-op.

    [Competition] Best Computer Spec

    in Hardware Field

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Smartepants

    I never heard of Mamutu, but I'm up for anything free! :)

    Here's mine. I'll upload pics.

    Case: Antec P182

    Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EX38-DS4

    CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz (overclocked to 3.0 GHz)

    CPU cooler: Scythe SCINF-1000 120mm CPU Cooler (ducted to rear exhaust fan for silence)

    RAM: 8 GB GeIL 4GB(2 x 2GB) plus OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

    Video: EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB

    Audio: Asus Xonar DX

    PSU: SeaSonic M12II SS-500GM ATX12V 2.2 /EPS12V 2.91 500W Power Supply

    DVD: SAMSUNG 20X DVD

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    [Closed] XPtsp General discusions

    in XP Theme Source Patcher

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Smartepants

    OK, I may have a bug.

    I just used the batch on XP Pro SP3 (clean) and the initial boot screen after the file copy stage, but prior to beginning T-39 shows the sliding green 'bar' with "Media Center Edition" even though it's Pro and the only folder in the ISO is "i386".

    The below check in the batch should fail, but MCE components get patched anyway. 

    if not exist "CMPNENTS\MEDIACTR\I386\MEDIACTR.CAB" goto sp_cab

    I thought that string was in bootscr.res, but I couldn't see it. Is it ntoskrnl?

    Similar to this screen (text is "Media Center Edition")

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    *Edit, All the other branding in the OS is Pro. It's only that boot screen that is branded MCE.

    [Closed] XPtsp General discusions

    in XP Theme Source Patcher

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Smartepants

    I must have missed this...

    Has the Vista copy/move/delete animations been taken out?

    Sorry, my comments above were in relation to the 'Blue' resources amnesia posted earlier.

    They do not apply to the current 'green/yellow' XPtsp (which works perfectly).

    Sorry for the confusion.

    Thanks amnesia, I'll put those in too.

    [Closed] XPtsp General discusions

    in XP Theme Source Patcher

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Smartepants

    2 ALL

    if U like to play with blue bitmaps and avis, here they are sorted by location...

    _ResourcesBlueYellow.rar 20.8 MB

    http://gettyfile.com/227816/

    Great job, but I found a few items missing.

    There's a missing resource for sysdm.cpl (bmp 8, took from xpsp2res.dll).

    There's a missing resource for themeui.dll (bmp 8886, took from shell32)

    All the bmps in timedate.cpl have Russian text.

    Also, I miss the animated vista'ish file copy/delete etc.

    (SOLVED) Need Help Creating A Batch File

    in Scripting and Programming

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Smartepants

    Well, you haven't really explained what you want to do. I assume you want to mount an ISO (with multiple ISO files), then copy an ISO to C:\, then mount it, then copy the contents of that ISO to C:\WinXP\XPCD

    Am I right?

    First, you haven't declared your mount-point.

    See: http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-mount-iso-image.htm

    miso.exe NULL -mnt j: "c:\backup\1.uif"

    mount "c:\backup\1.uif" to virtual drive j:

    Please notes: miso.exe ignores the "NULL" parameters.

    Change drive 'X:' to whatever UNUSED drive letter you want (Never use A, B, or C).

    @echo off

    IF not EXIST "C:\WinXP\XPCDTOOLS\miso.exe" GOTO error
    IF not EXIST "C:\WinXP\WinXP9-in-1.iso" GOTO error
    echo Mounting ISO to drive X
    C:\WinXP\XPCDTOOLS\miso.exe NULL -mnt X: "C:\WinXP\WinXP9-in-1.iso" 
    echo Copying source ISO
    COPY "X:\VRMPVOL_EN.ISO" "C:\WinXP\ISO\*" /Y /V 
    C:\WinXP\XPCDTOOLS\miso.exe NULL -umnt 1
    echo Mounting ISO
    IF not EXIST "C:\WinXP\ISO\VRMPVOL_EN.ISO" GOTO error
    C:\WinXP\XPCDTOOLS\miso.exe NULL -mnt X: "C:\WinXP\ISO\VRMPVOL_EN.ISO" 

    for %%a in (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\WIN51 set ISO=%%a
    echo Copying files
    XCOPY %ISO%:\* "C:\WinXP\XPCD\*" /Y /H /E
    C:\WinXP\XPCDTOOLS\miso.exe NULL -umnt 1
    :END
    END

    :ERROR
    echo Cannot find files
    pause
    goto end

    To see what the code is doing, remove the "@echo off"

    *Edit, We cross-posted. Glad to see you got it working. My code adds more failsafes and cleans up after itself (unmounts drives).

    WPI 7.2.0

    in Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI)

    Posted

    The error you are talking about is working. Post a screen shot of what you are talking about.

    I hope this explains all.

    There's no categories listed to sort, even though there are about 6 or 7 categories.

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    Here's a snippet of my config.js as well.

    prog[pn]=['Video LAN Client Player'];
    uid[pn]=['VIDEOLANCLIENTPLAYER'];
    desc[pn]=['A full-featured, slim media player.  Will play nearly all video & audio files.'];
    dflt[pn]=['yes'];
    forc[pn]=['no'];
    bit64[pn]=['no'];
    cat[pn]=['MultiMedia'];
    cmds[pn]=['"%wpipath%\\Install\\vlc-0.9.4-win32.exe" /S','{FILEMOVE} "%AllUsersProfile%\\Start Menu\\Programs\\VideoLAN"  "%AllUsersProfile%\\Start Menu\\Programs\\CD-DVD\\"'];
    picf[pn]=['movie.png'];
    picw[pn]=['128'];
    pich[pn]=['128'];
    textl[pn]=['Top'];
    pn++;

    prog[pn]=['7-Zip 4.57'];
    uid[pn]=['7Zip457'];
    desc[pn]=['7-Zip is a open source file archiver with high compression ratio.'];
    dflt[pn]=['yes'];
    forc[pn]=['no'];
    bit64[pn]=['no'];
    cat[pn]=['Utilities'];
    configs[pn]=['yes'];
    cmds[pn]=['"%wpipath%\\Install\\7zip\\7z457.exe" /S','{FILEMOVE} "%AllUsersProfile%\\Start Menu\\Programs\\7-Zip"  "%AllUsersProfile%\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Utilities\\"'];
    picf[pn]=['7z.png'];
    picw[pn]=['128'];
    pich[pn]=['128'];
    textl[pn]=['Top'];
    pn++;

    WPI 7.2.0

    in Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI)

    Posted

    I may have found a bug in 7.2.0 :(

    I no longer have the ability to "sort by categories". The window is there, the Top/Up/Down/Bottom buttons are there, but there's no categories to sort.

    I thought it might be the theme (white text on white background), but it happens with all themes.

    Checking the "sort within categories" checkbox has no effect.

    I had imported my config.js from 7.1.1 and I let WPIW convert it over. Everything else works fine.

    [Closed] XPtsp General discusions

    in XP Theme Source Patcher

    Posted · Edited by Mr_Smartepants

    I don't know if this is a bug or not, but some of the resources in (beta 19 addon) have the language code set as '0' instead of '1033'.

    msgina.dll.res Bitmaps 111, 113, 125, 126, 138, 139 are all set at '0'.

    shell32.dll.res Bitmaps 130, 137, 146, 148 are all set at '0'.

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