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April 5

Toshiba drive

MQ01ABF032 - this is a 320GB drive. However the label also says "8455 MB" (along with heads, cyls sectors etc..) . What does this number refer to? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:03, 5 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]

It looks like its the drive's cache size: descriptions of the drive online say it has a "8 MB cache". -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 15:07, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Although that might suggest the label reads 8.455 MB? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 15:08, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There's always the issue of decimal MB (1,000,000) vs base-2 (1,048,576). Plus some of the cache might be dedicated to something else, or they may have an allowance for portions being bad. StuRat (talk) 16:55, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if you do a Google Images search for "MQ01ABF032" and "label" you can view the label. Apparently there are multiple versions of it, some of which say "8455 MB" just below the bar code and some don't. I haven't been able to find any sites that explain what it means, though. --76.71.6.254 (talk) 23:13, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Some more research shows that this is (something I discounted earlier) a hybrid drive, with 8455 MB NAND flash and an additional 8mb DRAM cache. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:08, 6 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Shell32.dll

Is there any way I could extract the “Shell32.dll” in a folder, modify/amend than compress it back? If so, what opensource software could be used? 103.67.158.173 (talk) 18:00, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has an article on Resource (Windows). For various reasons I recommend you do NOT do this. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 19:30, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A DLL is an executable file, meaning that it will be thousands of lines of machine instructions. It is possible to modify these if you know what you are doing, but if you don't know 80x86 assembly language like the back of your hand, you're not going to be able to do it (and even if you do, it's going to take *months* just to find the part of the file you want to modify: you'll need a disassembler, but that won't tell you what part is code, what part is data, and what part is the DLL header). I work with assembly language on a regular basis, and frankly, I'd rather code an entirely new file from scratch (as hard as that is) than try and do this. OldTimeNESter (talk) 15:03, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Control Panel Applets Sidebar

I require the following file’s Location:

ID: #632 Type: ArgbBMP Dimensions: 200x542 Fixed size: Yes

Could you paste the address to me in your feedback.

Note: The file seems to be inside the “Shell32.dll”.

116.58.200.91 (talk) 18:43, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are you the same person who posted the question immediately above this? This sounds like a case of the XY problem. What are you trying to accomplish? But, I am fairly sure you are not a native English speaker, and unfortunately the language barrier makes it difficult for us to help you. Have you tried asking someplace in your native language? Many other language editions of Wikipedia have a Reference Desk; see the "Languages" sidebar on Wikipedia:Reference desk. --47.138.161.183 (talk) 07:28, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]