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Newsletter - June 29, 2008

Introduction

Another week for the boot land community has passed and summer vacations are just around the corner, during the warm season there have been some interesting developments, especially regarding VistaPE where more developers are doing a quality work to improve this project so don't forget to check out what is being done.

Also on another note - we are focusing on Grub4Dos and windows LAN boot using PXE since documentation on this area it is somewhat confusing most times - if you have any questions or interesting informations then you're already invited to drop a visit and write a few lines to help others who are looking for this sort of boot.


Community

Happy birthday Amalux!
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5053

CDBurnerXP has gone Non-comercial, Bad change - Good Product
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5027

New emoticons..
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5016

Learning C++, Easy to follow tutorial to those interested in learning C
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4998

"Toys for the Boys", "I WANT ONE"
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5001

Backup Solutions Advice/FeedBack Please
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5004


Tutorials



The odd 1 or 2 XP tweaks, ENJOY!
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5047

Customizing System Properties pictures, (XP Tips)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5036

Managing MBR's by jaclaz MBRBatch Release 0.01 ALPHA
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5000

Target file names, How to make them upper / lower case
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5011



Boot Methods and Software



grub4dos, .iso images and (hd32) mapping, What is working, and how to do it
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5041

A Nifty HardWare Gizmo, possible replacement for HDD enclosure?
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5017


wb developments



VOTE NOW: WAIK or Vista DVD - what do you use as VistaPE source?, WAIK vs. Vista DVD
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4972

Success Story, With some worries
PSC narrates his feedback with VistaPE
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5071

VistaPE 12 Beta2/3 - Bugreports and new features, Please post all bugs you find here
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5069

WinBuilder 075 - beta testing
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4654

Remote Desktop Connection Missing in LiveXP?, How do you add the RDC cliient?
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5051

http://winbuilder.net/svn - discussion and feedback, Talk about what can be improved
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5048

chkdsk in livexp
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5045

FBWF script
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5046

Getting explorer to show hidden files and extensions
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4999





App scripts updated or added


Ultra defragmenter, another disk defragmenter (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5061

StartupCPL, enable/disable startup entries (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5062

Vista4Experts, tweak utility (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5064

A43 file manager (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5022

Piriform Defraggler v1.02.078 beta, A defragger (benxhi)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5052

GetRight Pro v.6.3e, Download and upload manager (Galapo)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5038

KillBox, delete locked files/folders (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5025

remove restrictions, tweak utility (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5026

Ext3 Installable fox Livexp (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5023

O&O Defrag Professional v.10.0.1634, harddisk defragmentation software (Galapo)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5039

Flobo Hard Disk Repair (billonious)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5024

[App Script] Acronis TrueImage10, Need testers (enli)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5003

RunOnceEx v.IV_fx FinaL For VistaPE, Unlike startup for applications in VistaPE (Max_Real Qnx)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5002




Conclusion


All news accounted for the moment, hope you have some nice vacations or at the very least enjoy the late summer afternoons to get some sun baths.

Have fun!

Boot Land's birthday!

It's the second year of existence for boot land and all the fun and magic is still like day one.

We've been through a lot but our path continues to move forward at fast pace since we continue to be encouraged by the steps and goals that were solved together working as a community.

Thank you for keeping the boot land spirit alive.

...And don't miss out the birthday party!

:)
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3 weeks home alone..

June is the month for second semester exams at the university so I'm taking a few weeks off my daytime work to properly prepare for these exams.

Some of them are really complicated and involve a level of study that I know for sure that is beyond my scope of success since it requires a few months of preparation or at the very least having a teacher or some explanations to tutor and learn from.

Will therefore put my efforts to get a better grade on the remaining exams and leave these time consuming exams for another time. Within a couple of years I'm planning on taking a full year or two away from work so that I can attend in full time a university in mainland but this goal requires saving a very substantial amount of money to support my family in the meanwhile (not so difficult because I do save a bunch of money each month).


Nevertheless, these semester exams require a lot of concentration to study so my wife went to mainland for these remaining weeks to spend some quality time with her own family. I've been recently with my relatives some weeks ago but she didn't visited her parents since last February so it was also due time for a small vacation time over there.

She will return at the end of this month along with her father and younger brother so that we can all take vacations and do some tourism around the other Azorean islands.

This involves a lot of boat travels but these vacations are very promissing. Last year I went alone with my wife to meet the Pico, Terceira, Faial and S. Jorge - it was a really great summer, let's hope we can repeat it again this year.



In the meanwhile I'm left alone in the house and I already miss my wife so much. I've learned that one can only appreciate the wife's effort when we start doing domestic tasks on our own.


Will also take the extra free time and get my hands to improve the winbuilder code along with Peter, the next beta is so promissing that it's working under ubuntu and windows 2000. But I should be careful or no time will be left for studies in the first place..

:)

-- Nuno Brito
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Newsletter - 31st of May

Grub4dos won't boot Vista Home Premium SP1


muffin wanted use grub4dos on his USB pendisks in order to multiboot various OS (Ubuntu, BartPE, XP, Vista) on different PC's, look on the solution provided by Jaclaz that teaches how use tag files inside grub4dos


Install XP PRO the easy way, Remove the "Fear Factor" & D.I.Y.
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4783

ispy posted a very good resource for those who want to train the steps that are required to install or repair a Windows XP installation inside a trainer simulator software.


Wim mounter
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4452

Damian666 has released a new version already prepared to run inside Windows PE 2.x images


kexec-loader, Boot kernels using kexec
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4636

solemnwarning has updated his project and is preparing a major version to be released soon.


Automatic Changing of BOOT.INI by bat file, (Windows XP Tips)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4791

A very interesting way posted by shirin to allows you to customize the boot screen


advice needed/c: recovery imaging with truecrypt system encryption
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4716

smokeman had a tough challenge and after some work and testing it was possible to restore encrypted partitions on the fly.


AeroStudio is now translated to french language
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4736

TonTon Glenn has provided translation for french users who want to use this great boot manager.


Give us a screenshot!, Linux & Other Non-Windows Operating Systems http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4789

Why don't you post a screenshot from your computer?
Using windows press the PrtScr key and paste the result to paint.


App scripts updated or posted this week


Ad-Aware SE, malware remover (JonF)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4793


In conclusion


Hope you found this newsletter interesting, we are always interested on hearing new ideas about boot disks or methods so don't forget to drop as visit and write about your ideas.

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