Category: Geeks r Us
Hey.
I've been posting the below message around a few places in the hope to either find a solution or someone / someones who want to work with me to make one, so if your interested then reply.
I've been getting a few machines lately with infections. Pretty bad 100000 icon type infections. The problem here is that most of the removal tools that I use won't run due to things stopping them. One option would be to just format the machines and start fresh, but thats not an option in every situation and if I could get something like malware bytes to run then cleaning the box out may actually be quicker than formatting.
Sighted people are able to go into safemode and remove a handfull of nasties, boot into the os normally and continue the removal process but thats not an option for totals due to the lack of sound. What I've currently been doing is removing the drive and slaving it in another box and running tools on the drive that way but thats far from ideal and not always effective.
Because of all of these issues, lately I've been thinking about windows based live cd environments and how usefull it would be if they were accessible.
If anyone has done, has thoughts on or wants to work with me on any of the below then I would be very interested:
Does nvda coupled with brltty and a display work under safemode? if so, how well does it cope with things like malware bytes and super antyspyware?
How about creating a live cd based on bart pe with a xpe pluggin to allow audio support and slipstreaming nvda along with the sound driver packs from driverpacks.net? would nvda like the gui since its not strictly like windows?
As of v2 of win pe which is microsofts answer to bart pe sound is supported. Whilst pe is commandline, how about hacking a premade gui onto it and again, including nvda and sound drivers?
Ubcd4win doesn't have sound support, but its a very complete boot cd full of handy tools based on bart pe. Perhaps it would be nice to get nvda with brltty working on this?
As a last resort, whilst its not strictly allowed under the eula, windows xp embedded has built in audio support and the same gui found in xp, so I'm guessing that this might be a good one to play with.
What would be nice is if some of us who had knolige about these sorts of things got together and worked on one of the above solutions; I think its something that technicly minded blind computer users as a hole would really benefit from since its nonexistant at the moment.
Chears, Ben.
I'd be willing to help you with that stuff.
this sounds cool! yes, I would for sure be willing to work on you with this. I think using xpe would work, but when it comes to sound you have the issue of supporting multiple sound cards. Sure, most computers probably today have a high definition audio card, but both AMD and intel use differing technologies - and a live cd of this kind would be run in multiple environments-making it challenging to include a couple hundred sound drivers...
What a project!
I plan to use the sound drivers from driverpacks.net so that I don't have to go around finding hundreds of audio and network drivers.
One plus of xp embedded is that I've spoken to someone who has scene windoweyes working on it, how ever there are big legal problems in using it in the way that I want to.