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The "Access Denied" error comes on your pc itself ? or from other PC ?

You can install drivers by WPI, mines are re-packed myself and no problems with VIA Hyperion, Realtek AC97, ForceWare, Catalyst and Intel atm.

Silentassasin: If you havn't OemPreinstall=Yes, $OEM$ folder isn't copied/treated.

Have you (and Do you use) a nForce board with integrated ethernet ?

Oups misreaded your post X-Centric. Daemonforce is right to pickup the bootfiles.

You can pickup latest VIA sata drivers from VIA Hyperion package from www.viaarena.com. Unzip the file and copy the content of the folder called "drvdisk" to your floppy and try again. ps: btw you don't need a hdd driver ...

1) chkdsk from recovery console 2) Checkdisk from Tools of Properties of the concerned drive 3) The old Scandisk tool under MS-DOS but your drive must be FAT32.

Windows Server 2003 SP1 is the latest version. R2 is just a second CD to add new features for management. You can make a new folder with the content and at the end of server 2003 run a script to launch the install of R2 copponents.

You can't really delete ALL your personnal data. I think you have already deleted My Documents, My Pictures, My music , My Video. You can use CCleaner to delete hisotry of IE , Cache and many traces of standard programs ... You can create a new user (session) and after login with this, and delete the old account, and delete the old account in Documents & Settings too. But it's not cleaned fully, you don't know where some personal data is stored. There are always traces ... The best is to format/reinstall (or restore/master) the system.

I havn't read all your post (see bottom ...) but do you overclock your system ? gpu ? cpu ? ram ? and please don't post a long post ! Just make a post with your real problem and small description, don't explain in detail all your procedure.

>NUL Redirect normal output to nothing, but if there is an error output (btw, each program choose how output is displayed ...) it's display on cmd window. To keep a clean cmd windows without ANY messages we can use >NUL 2>&1 Redirect normal output to nothing and error output to nothing too. In fact &1 speficy the redirection to the first specified output location (NUL or file). The 2> it's just for the error output (you can use only command 2>NUL to keep normal output on cmd but error to nothing. Wow ! Big excuses for my english language

Because you use NTFS filesystem on your usb disc like IcemanND said. DOS environment can't read NTFS natively ...

It was I mean in my post

Perhaps you can't use application with its switchs in "Shell" regkey. Try with a cmd. Btw, I havn't really tested alternative shell ...

It's same as installing from an usb drive. Windows XP setup will reset usb function during the setup so installation can't continue ... but I havn't search if a new method is available.

To ensure your modification, modify it in two ControlSet ... You can't use CurrentcontrolSet from other system ... CurrentControlset is only for the "actual" system.

You must logon with admin account, and go to folder propertie, ntfs rights, advanced and set the owner and tick "apply to all subfolders", that's the method with the GUI (if I remember correctly) You can use a script too, if you have to re-do the operation. Read that post

You can't hide/crypt admin password in a simple .cmd file, except with use credential but you must have to enter once the password in clear. Compiled VBS can be used I think, wait a moment for masters of vbs ^^

I havn't the solution, but try SuperCopier or alternative file manager to copy data ...

Is it nLited source ?

It's the same despite the obvious Media Center in MCE

IMHO, keeping a small registry doesn't make a real increase speed. There are utils to defrag. the registry but I havn't tested yet, I think there isn't a noticeable improvement too ...

Check in registry these keys HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Policies HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Policies

I havn't many experience in dc, but I think it's impossible, how can you login on the domain while it's offline ?! authentification procedure can't be bypassed ... you must login in local mode ... edit: in future use [tags] to create topics ...

The regs are not about the service, they define the theme not loaded before, so when you reboot or restart theme, the theme is fully reloaded. If you don't set value LoadBefore to 0, the title text isn't reloaded.