I fully realize all you have said, Dave, but what if you could monitor the boot process through a second computer monitoring the booting computer's port of some kind? Are any of the ports on a computer active at the very beginning of the boot process?
Louis Gosselin -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:45 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: MY Dream App? Well, the Booting idea, would be great but totally impossible. At least as an app. Simply due to the fact, that without the OS (Windows) loaded, how would any app run. You would need a quite more complicated piece of software, that would access both the graphics and the sound card of your computer. I wish such a software had been around, but it definitely falls outside the scope of an app. When comes to the BIOS thing, you might dream. Basically, this could have been performed. Problem is, that the coding languages used to write apps, usually would not be granted access to this vital part of your computer. Windows itself - if you want - will not permit an app to get to the BIOS. Well, that was the basics of it. But my HP computer, for one, comes with a software that can be loaded, that will give you some access to the BIOS. Problem is, that speech does not work in that software. Apping such software to work with speech, would have been great. And this, is why I said you could be dreaming. It might be possible, but would depend on someone building an app for each manufacturer's software. And, there would be many computers out there, that has no such software either. Not even sure, if the software grants you full access to the BIOS, or only a few features. In the old DOS days, I wrote a small program myself, that did access the more important parts of the BIOS, and that worked for a period. Then came Windows, and it tends to rule the computer a bit more due to its own mind. :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:45 PM Subject: MY Dream App? > Probably impossible, but How about an app that gives you speech access to > the > operating system while it boots? > > Or > > How about an app that lets you peek at, and edit the BIOS content? > > See, impossible, huh? > > Louis Gosselin > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
