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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Andy wrote:
I put my Macrium rescue media on a pendrive. More reliable and easier than CD/DVD. ANdy That depends on how many pen drives you own. If the function of the storage is never-changing, then optical media works just as well. In the case of the OP in this thread, a USB flash key is an easy substitute for Windows File Sharing. For when data transfer just has to work, and you don't want to spend time fighting with the computer to get a file from one place to another. My track record on first-time-success with File Sharing isn't that good - I've had Linux LiveCDs where they "forgot" to include the SAMBA client, and I had to figure that out for myself, as to why it would not work. And Windows to Windows throws the odd wobbly. Paul |
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Hello Paul, I was able to copy the ISO file to the Patriot but when I tried to save it to the HD on the 8500 it had every other drive except C: but also Image Burn. What would you recommend for CD's or DVD to be used? Also, is there a secure download of a MP4 file you can point me to? Thanks, Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
Hello Paul, I was able to copy the ISO file to the Patriot but when I tried to save it to the HD on the 8500 it had every other drive except C: but also Image Burn. What would you recommend for CD's or DVD to be used? Also, is there a secure download of a MP4 file you can point me to? Thanks, Robert You will recollect in a previous posting, we discussed Verbatim media (CD and DVD). Much of which could be Ritek branded discs. There were small "cake boxes" of discs. My least preferred brand would be Memorex. As for an MP4 file, that could have come from just about anywhere. Do you mean that you want to privately host one ? Or download one that someone else made ? Some sites carry samples, but the content would be quite boring. You download stuff like this, to see if your favorite media player barfs when it plays one. In fact, VLC crashed while playing one of these! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201549 Paul |
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On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 12:13:14 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Mark Twain wrote: Hello Paul, I was able to copy the ISO file to the Patriot but when I tried to save it to the HD on the 8500 it had every other drive except C: but also Image Burn. What would you recommend for CD's or DVD to be used? Also, is there a secure download of a MP4 file you can point me to? Thanks, Robert You will recollect in a previous posting, we discussed Verbatim media (CD and DVD). Much of which could be Ritek branded discs. There were small "cake boxes" of discs. My least preferred brand would be Memorex. As for an MP4 file, that could have come from just about anywhere. Do you mean that you want to privately host one ? Or download one that someone else made ? Some sites carry samples, but the content would be quite boring. You download stuff like this, to see if your favorite media player barfs when it plays one. In fact, VLC crashed while playing one of these! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201549 Paul Hello Paul, Hmmm it doesn't sound like a good option. I doubt a MP4 file would help in any case. I looked up at upgrading the Windows Media Player and plug ins but it ended up with having to buy a set of plug ins which I didn't do. They had more than one kind from more than one company so I really didn't know what to choose. I did see NVidia there. Thanks, Robert |
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On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 1:41:09 AM UTC-7, Mark Twain wrote:
On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 12:13:14 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Mark Twain wrote: Hello Paul, I was able to copy the ISO file to the Patriot but when I tried to save it to the HD on the 8500 it had every other drive except C: but also Image Burn. What would you recommend for CD's or DVD to be used? Also, is there a secure download of a MP4 file you can point me to? Thanks, Robert You will recollect in a previous posting, we discussed Verbatim media (CD and DVD). Much of which could be Ritek branded discs. There were small "cake boxes" of discs. My least preferred brand would be Memorex. As for an MP4 file, that could have come from just about anywhere. Do you mean that you want to privately host one ? Or download one that someone else made ? Some sites carry samples, but the content would be quite boring. You download stuff like this, to see if your favorite media player barfs when it plays one. In fact, VLC crashed while playing one of these! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201549 Paul Hello Paul, Hmmm it doesn't sound like a good option. I doubt a MP4 file would help in any case. I looked up at upgrading the Windows Media Player and plug ins but it ended up with having to buy a set of plug ins which I didn't do. They had more than one kind from more than one company so I really didn't know what to choose. I did see NVidia there. Thanks, Robert Also this popped up but I didn't do anything. Should I go ahead and upgrade? http://i61.tinypic.com/2db33fo.jpg Thanks, Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
Also this popped up but I didn't do anything. Should I go ahead and upgrade? http://i61.tinypic.com/2db33fo.jpg Thanks, Robert The Windows Update associated with that is KB3035583. These are the files that got dumped into your system. Some of what the code does, is it incorporates the Upgrade Assistant (code that checks your system hardware and software are compatible). Any programs not compatible, the Assistant will list them. But the design of this code isn't all that friendly, as the Upgrade Assistant should run first, and indicate whether installing Windows 10 is even an option. Like, on your 8200, if your 8200 was running Windows 7 right now (which it could), it wouldn't be eligible for Windows 10 because some CPU support stuff is missing. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583 File Information (sample) File name File size Config.xml 17,886 Gwxgc.exe 21,504 Gwx.exe 476,160 Gwxconfigmanager.exe 667,136 Gwxui.dll 526,848 Gwxux.exe 401,408 Gwxuxworker.exe 360,240 Gwx.exe 406,528 GWX is Genuine Windows eXperience. Something in those files, checks your machine for upgrade status. It also consults the Windows Experience Index, and if a WEI benchmark has never been run, the nag screen might not appear. ******* OK, so the deal is, for a period of one year starting on July 29, you can download for *free* a copy of Windows 10 RTM, to "upgrade" the computer to Windows 10 from Windows 7. The dialog you're seeing, allows you to "reserve" your download now, and a few days after July 29, the upgrade will roll in. You would see the machine do a 3.5GB download, and there should be a 3.5GB file sitting on the computer at some point. The computer is not supposed to install that, until you approve. ******* Your next question should be "why do I need this". The answer is, you don't. The PC continues to run Win7 with security updates until 2020. The security updates are the Extended Support. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle Client Latest update End of End of operating or Service mainstream extended systems Pack support support ------- ---- ------- ------- Windows 7 Service Pack 1 January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020 Windows 10 has a slightly different interface than Windows 7, so "the deck chairs have been moved around". Media Center (for recording TV programs with a tuner card) is gone. You will have access to XBOX Music and App Store, as a means to dispose of your disposable income. I have a copy of the preview of Windows 10 running on the test computer, and I don't have a strong reason to migrate to it. I have three machines that could take the upgrade, one machine doesn't have a strong enough CPU for it, and the remaining two machines, I just don't get enough new features to be interested. ******* To remove the nagging interface, you can try: 1) Remove KB3035583 that has just been installed. 2) In Windows Update, KB3035583 will then "come back". Highlight the item and select "Hide" so you don't install the nag a second time. For some people, that's enough to make it go away. I have a fresh Win7 SP1 test install on the test computer right now, all patched up to date, KB3035583 installed too, and I can't get the nag to appear, and I've even been doing the registry hack. Apparently, if the Win7 SP1 OS doesn't have a license key, it won't nag you :-) Paul |
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On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 3:34:42 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
Andy wrote: I put my Macrium rescue media on a pendrive. More reliable and easier than CD/DVD. ANdy That depends on how many pen drives you own. If the function of the storage is never-changing, then optical media works just as well. In the case of the OP in this thread, a USB flash key is an easy substitute for Windows File Sharing. For when data transfer just has to work, and you don't want to spend time fighting with the computer to get a file from one place to another. My track record on first-time-success with File Sharing isn't that good - I've had Linux LiveCDs where they "forgot" to include the SAMBA client, and I had to figure that out for myself, as to why it would not work. And Windows to Windows throws the odd wobbly. Paul I have a Dell Dimension 8200 (Seagate Barracuda 7200 HD 160GB) with XP, SP3, Spywareblaster, Avast, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit and Windows Firewall. I'm trying to create a bootable rescue disk with Macrium but I seem to be doing something wrong. In the first place I had to download a newer version of Macrium. Paul, I did not read all the posts, but what does file sharing have to do with making a rescue disk ? My experience with CDs and DVDs are that they fail much more often than pen drives. Just a small scratch can render them useless. That is probably due to no moving parts. Have a great weekend. :-) Andy |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Andy wrote:
On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 3:34:42 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote: Andy wrote: I put my Macrium rescue media on a pendrive. More reliable and easier than CD/DVD. ANdy That depends on how many pen drives you own. If the function of the storage is never-changing, then optical media works just as well. In the case of the OP in this thread, a USB flash key is an easy substitute for Windows File Sharing. For when data transfer just has to work, and you don't want to spend time fighting with the computer to get a file from one place to another. My track record on first-time-success with File Sharing isn't that good - I've had Linux LiveCDs where they "forgot" to include the SAMBA client, and I had to figure that out for myself, as to why it would not work. And Windows to Windows throws the odd wobbly. Paul I have a Dell Dimension 8200 (Seagate Barracuda 7200 HD 160GB) with XP, SP3, Spywareblaster, Avast, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit and Windows Firewall. I'm trying to create a bootable rescue disk with Macrium but I seem to be doing something wrong. In the first place I had to download a newer version of Macrium. Paul, I did not read all the posts, but what does file sharing have to do with making a rescue disk ? My experience with CDs and DVDs are that they fail much more often than pen drives. Just a small scratch can render them useless. That is probably due to no moving parts. Have a great weekend. :-) Andy There are two computers. One has a working optical drive. The other one has the copy of Macrium, which will be preparing rescue.iso. A means is needed to move the rescue.iso file from one machine to the other. Rather than use file sharing, a USB key is being used to move the file to the other machine. Then, the working optical burner can make the rescue media. It would probably take a thread with a 100 posts in it, to get file sharing working. One machine is a RAMBUS era P4 WinXP machine, the other an i7 machine running Windows 7. Sure, it's all easy to set up, if you've done it before. I had some amount of trouble the first time I set up file sharing, but it's getting easier as time goes by. I used to have trouble with CDs, but the media these days seems to be a bit better. Haven't had a case of bitrot in at least five years. Back in the day, I had some CDRW that the discs became "transparent". Which is a bad sign. Paul |
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Hello Paul,
I ordered the Verbatim CD-RW disks Not sure how to remove nag I didn't install anything. When I right click the nag it give me this: Get Windows 10 Reserve your free upgrade Go to Windows update Get to know Windows 10 I selected Go to Windows Update and this is what it gave me: http://i61.tinypic.com/2n1xnwo.jpg Also, in passing would you know if AdTrack is safe to download from? I tried looking them up but all I found was AdTrack King and negative comments. Thanks, Robert |
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Video type tests
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writes: [] Some sites carry samples, but the content would be quite boring. You download stuff like this, to see if your favorite media player barfs when it plays one. In fact, VLC crashed while playing one of these! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201549 Paul Interesting; my VLC (2.0.5 Twoflower) played all of them, albeit with an unconscionable delay (I'd have thought it had crashed if I hadn't known from previous experience that VLC does this; I was still starting to wonder though) on the 3GPP2 one. (I've stopped letting VLC update on this machine - the last two [one was Pratchett, or something like that] resulted in something that wouldn't play some files that 2.0.5 would.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf when people say they're perfectly happy without children, we don't have to presume they're lying! - Paul Dolan, RT 2015/1/3-9 |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Mark Twain wrote:
Hello Paul, I ordered the Verbatim CD-RW disks Not sure how to remove nag I didn't install anything. When I right click the nag it give me this: Get Windows 10 Reserve your free upgrade Go to Windows update Get to know Windows 10 I selected Go to Windows Update and this is what it gave me: http://i61.tinypic.com/2n1xnwo.jpg Also, in passing would you know if AdTrack is safe to download from? I tried looking them up but all I found was AdTrack King and negative comments. Thanks, Robert OK, first of all, I know you're on the Dimension 8500 (i7) machine, because people on WinXP will not get that nag. The nag is an "upgrade to Windows 10" nag screen. It attempts to convince you to change from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The menus on your machine would change if you did that, and I don't need you "getting lost" in there :-) Such an update would likely bust a bunch of stuff. It's an uphill struggle to do such an upgrade. ******* So, how to remove the nag ? It would be nice if the nag screen had a simple "stop bugging me" choice on it, but this is Microsoft we're talking about. They're not going to do something simple like that. The following doesn't guarantee the nag will go away, but it's the best recipe I have right now. 1) Open Windows Update to it's main screen. To do that, look for Windows Update in the Control Panel section. 2) Look in the "history of installed updates". There should be a history of the Windows Update files already installed. The list of options on the left, should have an item displaying history. We don't need to scan for new updates. The machine has already installed KB3035583, and looking in the history is to verity that '583 is actually in the machine right now. Just based on symptoms (nag screen), it's got to be there. 3) Now, we need to remove KB3035583. Look in the control panels again, and open the Programs and Features (equivalent to Add/Remove of old). In there, see if a Windows update with KB3035583 in the name is listed. Select uninstall. This installation should not have any Windows folder dependency in the sense of needing a reboot. If it asks you to reboot, fine, do it. But there isn't any code in there that modifies the kernel or anything. What the update does, is put a GWX folder on the computer, and wire up a Service to start at every boot. 4) To prevent KB3035583 from coming back again, now we need to "hide" KB3035583. Open the Windows Update control panel again, do a Check For Updates, in the list it returns, look for KB3035583. Right-click it and select "Hide". Note that, even when a file is hidden, if the actual Windows Update software itself receives an update, or if some day you're forced to clean the SoftwareDistribution folder or use a troubleshooter on Windows Update, that update could become "Unhidden" again. So that's the basic recipe. For the duration of this procedure, you may want to change your Windows Update setting. I suspect it's on "Full Automatic" right now. It probably contacts Microsoft automatically, downloads automatically, and installs. Well, I don't let Windows 7 do that. I have mine set to "never do Windows Update". In order for you to be able to Hide that update, if the thing is set on full Automatic, it might manage to reinstall the damn thing, before you can hide it. You may need to set Windows Update to manual operation, until you can complete the four steps above. If you think Microsoft is wonderful, then later, after step 4 is complete, you can return to Windows Update control panel and change the settings back to fully automatic. With KB3035583 hidden, it shouldn't be able to put the nag back. Of the three items in your list, once KB3035583 is removed, its carcass is hidden, some of the current items in your Windows Update window should no longer be listed. WIth the nag gone, no patches for the nag will be needed. They would normally only show up, if the logic detected that KB3035583 was installed. ******* Now, let's assume your campaign fails, and KB3035583 beats you. It comes back, and you cannot seem to defeat it. http://superuser.com/questions/92206...tion-area-tray "According to TechJourney.net, you can also make a small registry change [with Regedit] to prevent the application starting. This registry key will stop it from displaying: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\CurrentVersion\Gwx] "DisableGwx"=dword:00000001 " So there is an actual control knob to reduce the nagging. The task will still be starting, but when the Microsoft code checks that registry key, it'll know it's supposed to lay low and not bug you. So if KB3035583 is still installed, that's the registry entry to stop the nag. Paul |
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Hello Paul,
The KB3035583 is in the update history but it's not in the Programs and Features. I changed Updates to notify me and let decide when and if. Thanks, Robert |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Mark Twain wrote:
Hello Paul, The KB3035583 is in the update history but it's not in the Programs and Features. I changed Updates to notify me and let decide when and if. Thanks, Robert OK, I showed you this one. But this leaves a lot to the imagination. http://superuser.com/questions/92206...tion-area-tray ******* But this one has *pictures*, and it would take me forever and a day to make you a recipe this good. http://www.howtogeek.com/218856/how-...fication-tray/ And this is where you can remove '583, by using the button highlighted in red here. http://cdn3.howtogeek.com/wp-content...uBt7RqJZLH.png So that HowToGeek article is very good. Have fun, Paul |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Hello Paul,
I went into the Program and Features and uninstalled the KB3035583 update. Now just waiting for the CD's. Thanks, Robert |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Hello Paul,
I restarted the computer and the nag icon is gone. So all looks good. Robert |
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