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Wow, the old dial-up modems! Yes, I remember. I first had to start "kermit" in order to have a telnet emulator for my PC. Then ask kermit to connect to my "com2" port. Assign the speed (1200 baud was a nice speed at these times). And then, when connected to "com2", which is the entrance port of the mode, I typed "APDP XXXXXXX" APDP meant "please use vocal frequencies and dial up the phone number XXXXXXX". Then I heard the answer of the remote modem, who refused or accepted the connection, or tried a lower speed before rejecting or accepting my connection. And then I had the login prompt from my Unix host, provided nobody removed my "getty" line from /etc/inittab. Yes, these were good times. Of course, I did not do this too much, because I had to pay the telephone communication during the whole duration of my connection, which sometimes made a lot of money out of my pocket. Now, people are familiar with DSL internet where you don't pay for the time you stay connected, it's far better for home users and for home budget!

I went until step 13: continue. And then the next windows was the sentence "Thank you for your interest in Windows 7! The evaluation version you are attempting to download is for IT Professionals only", and then a window explaining how I can buy Windows7 for home purposes.

Hi, Jonline. You first posted this question as a reply to a post concerning another subject. That's why moved it here. Could you please tell us how your problem exactly behaves ? Before posting you have to login, I guess you know that. And, unfortunately, some parts of the forum are forbidden. So, can you first go to the TEST subforum, here : http://forums.xisto.com/topic/104-forum/ Try to post something there, it should work. Also, which operating system are you currently using, and which browser does not allow you to "add reply" to a topic? Maybe the answer is simply coming too slowly?

By the way, if you are not an IT professionnal, when you try to download, after signing up, you get the answer : Seems that only known companies can use this download access.

Thanks for the link.So, the goal is clear.Before asking his customers to switch to Windows 7, a hardware architect has to test it's functionalities in real-life situation.So, Microsoft allows me to install Windows 7 on a computer, and work with it in order to see if I will have some hardware device problems, or if my internal environment, which works fine with Windows XP, will continue working fine with Windows 7.This is rather helpful.Of course, the 10-days period is rather small, but could help me guessing the problems I will have and start preparing myself, and preparing my customers to the moment where only seven will be available on the next computers!

This does not matter, I guess this can easily turn to be simply two small posts in an interesting topic. Coming back to the starter topic, you have your own opinion, and you expressed it rather clearly. However, I think that from a historical point of view as well as from a technical point of view, you are rather wrong. Internet came from a lot of scientifical computers, connected together by Ethernet links, as fast as we could imagine them some tens of years ago. Not at all telephone cables in the very beginning. On the very beginning, telephone lines were used by people in order to reach their office computers through very slow modems (75/1200 bits/second, not millions bit/second). And now, Internet is made of a lot of huge computers (several tens of million dollars each) interconnected through several tens of optical fibers in order to sustain the huge throughput of the interchanged data. And people like you and me, the home users, have slow or fast Ethernet links provided through what is available in our homes, sometimes it's telephone lines, sometimes it's TV cable lines, sometimes it's satellite parabolas. Some easter europe small towns have a local optical fiber between all the houses, having a very fast local lan access. Then, your local access goes to an Internet Service Provider computer, which is a huge thing, which centralizes all the home computer access network and allows them to share his huge Ethernet access to big backbones. Same way, the data on the websites are stored on huge computers, like the ones at Xisto which are hosted on the huge Xisto machines. So, the Internet is also a lot of data disk space still on the same huge computers. Very few data are on the home computer hard disk. If you want to share something (your last holiday pictures for instance) you intentionally open your own computer to a remote computer and allow the remote computer to pick the files, put them on the remote server hard disk, and then offers these files to the Internet community. Now we are back to your topic. I hope that you don't feel my answer as a topic pollution.

Technically, the poll is perfectly using the forum's poll facilities.However I would say that this is not a good poll, from the reader's point of view, as well as from a philosophical point of view.A poll should be written in order to know the opinion of a panel of people, concerning certain subject.And the poll should be written carefully in order to introduce no pollution coming from the poll writer.For instance why XFactor "UK" ? This makes people think that people watching XFactor out of UK are stupid. And the poll has no real opening toward people who even don't know what XFactor is.And, also, the question "is that poll good" could look like nonsense. Is it good to reply this poll instead going to bed and having a good rest?

By the way, the idea is correct.And some Unix systems use it.You can create a restricted shell unix user, who simply cannot write things in the system disks.Another example, AIX, a proprietary Unix systems, has all the binary files in /usr, a filesystem in which you should not write anything. So you can easily make /usr a read-only filesystem, so the integrity of the Operatint System is always respected.Unfortunately, Microsoft Windows does not think the job that way.

installing a software changes a lot of files inside the base OS. At least the startup configuration files, the list of the programs to be launched at system startup, a lot of items inside the registry, and so on.

We were talking about system backup in order to avoid problems from loosing the operating system.Yes, while your data are in f:\, your program is installed somewhere like c:\program files. The important point is not the program location, but the other settings you don't see concerning this program, for instance the changes to the registry, or the startup of subservers and associated Ethernet ports! So, it's interesting to have a backup of all this, able to be rapidly restored while the user date are not disturbed in the f:\ partition.

So, as far as I understand, doing this you made your created a bootsector on your flashdisk.And you copied your whole Windows7 DVD.And what do you obtain, then?Do you have a working Windows7 directly off the flashdisk?Or do use this for installing off the flashdisk?

OK, probably you already guessed it, the name of the WAMP bundle stands for Apache, MySQL and PHP for Windows.If you installed nothing special on your PC, you can leave the port things as default. If you have (intentionally or not) installed server programs which use IP ports like 80: you will have to find which ports are in use and choose different ports for WAMP.

Still off-topic, Maybe you can see a nice poll example here : http://forums.xisto.com/topic/97507-topic/?findpost=1064407040 The question is "how is it?" and you express yourself by means of choosing between "Very good" or "good" or "bad" or "very bad" So, you create a poll when you want people to vote for an idea or against an idea (a poll with two ansers "yes" and "no") or if you want to know which thing people prefer, letting them choose between several options (What do you drink ? Beer, wine, champagne, fruit juice, water, something else?)

This means that you need to organize your PC differently. Seems that you have your operating system and your data/movies on the same place! This is absolutely not safe!Next time you should organize your PC differently. You should have at least two partitions, one devoted to the operating system (for windows, this is usually the "C" partition) and another partition devoted to your data, games, movies, photos, texts, spreadsheets, etc.. So, in case of problem in your data disk, you still have an operating system for trying to repair the data. And if you loose your operating system, the data are still there, you simply need to re-install or restore your operating system, you loose no data. In that case, system disks is very small because it has only microsoft windows and your applications (OpenOffice, Firefox for instance), so your ghost backup is rather small and you can have two copies of this backup (the initial one and the most recent one).

Portableapps has ClamWin antivirus. You should use it each time you come back home after having plugged your jumpdrive in a computer.

We are talking about the operating system backup. It's only the c: disk, without any date. It should be someting like no more than 30 gigs.And you store it on an external disk.You store the intial backup, and then a rolling backup : the month 1, then the month 2. After the "month 3" you destroy "month2", and after month4 you destroy "mont2". You don't need to pay an online service, a USB disk close to your computer is enough.

you make a backup after a fresh Windows install.The second backup when all your application, spreadsheets, picture management and surfing softwares are installed correctly.And then a monthly backup.In case of problem, you go back to the previous month. If the problem is still there, you go back two or three monthes before the s supposed crash.

It would be like that. And that's why I suggest using a LiveCD, because you will see that this way of working will start making you crazy, preventing you to write to the system disk each time a software wants to install something.

You don't really nead ghost to decrease your PC's performance. If you want, you can make your initial backup, and then remove the software from your PC, so you will not see it starting at boot time.And if you don't want the backup to use too much space on your hard disk, you still can put it on an external disk.Of course, do not forget the free alternative to Ghost, which is name CloneZilla. You boot it off a CD, so nothing to be installed on your hard disk. The backup can be made on an external file server, maybe you already have on on your home network.

You get it exactly as usual. You plug your phone on a friend's PC in order to show him a picture. His computer will see your phone as a USB disk. If the computer is infected, the virus will put his auturun.inf on this USB disk. And that's it, you start propagating the infestation.

Precisely in order to test what you are talking about : it's a Just use it and you will see what this means having an operating system which does not accept files to be writteN.

Right, I thought I was replying to that one : http://forums.xisto.com/topic/97831-topic/?findpost= ://http://forums.xisto.com/index.php?samp;p=149385

That's exactly what you have when you boot off a liveCD.Except the "fast boot" thing, booting off a Linux or Windows LiveCD makes you boot a clean, virus-proof Operating system.And if you try using this, first of all everything is perfect : no virus can install things, if you read an infected mail it has no effect... So, you will see that evrything works correctly, but... you will start to continuously want to add things, add plugins, add software .... Which will be refused.And you will rush back to a standard read/write operating system disk!

I'm quite sure, yes. Just did it last week, worked perfectly.

We could imagine that, of course.However, this precise thing is not a forum problem. We still have to find why some PC's have a strange behavior. But, freshly installed PC's with Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox have no cursor problem, neither in standard mode nor in rich text editor mode.