Martin Zugec

2MSnumber1: Have you ever tried to write even a small program with plugins support? 2Zxian: In fact whole .NET platform is using xml instead of registry... And it is few years old stuff

Of course regular pentium is faster then celeron...

2Daan: Heh, about 45 minutes 2mls15000: Nope, you are talking about Host OS... But when you install XP to VPC, it will use dlink/intel virtual driver You can have a look to device manager

1.) Yes, almost every new NIC support boot from network... You must just enable it. 2.) Nope... There are deployment tools for this. You can create your own, you can use GP or more professional ones - SMS, Unicenter, Tivoli or Altiris...

You can automate it of course...

Well, not just lower, but change the logic behind licenses... For example I HATE CAL licenses...

As you maybe noticed I am not fan of tearing windows apart, however this is interesting: Post from Mark Russinovich blog: http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/07/r...o-services.html

Yep... I am always disgusted when I see evilization of MS on internet And I am sure most of the evilizers are in fact using MS OS

DOS of course With few additional features like gdisk detection (was HDD formatted? If yes start installation, if not, format), automatic NIC detection + system.ini and protocol.ini generation etc...

Nope, I am only interested in Virtual PC. I am using VPC 2004 SP1 if that matters...

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/...make_a_w_1.html I was talking about this idea with friend of mine one week ago

Just to be sure: post please which files exactly (plus versions) did you use? Thx for your help

Mine solution is based on filesystem as I said... It doesnt matter if you manually create file, do it through batch or through GUI... I will post some details in few hours, got some work to do

You must have getmac.exe, which is shipped with OS... If you dont have it in Home, just copy it there...

Thx for reply, I dont use any plugin at all, except PENetCfg I included only driver for VPC, built on XPSP2... Could you please upload drivers for VPC? I tried one from DLink and one from Intel, but I encountered the same problems...

2Nois: What do you mean? Sorry, didnt understand My "sms" will be based on filesystem (like *nix programs) with batch services combination (see my blog if you dont know what I mean, I really love this method ) 2jachin: It is not GUI based yet. However if you are interested, you could join the ship Should I describe my solution more to depth?

Nope, there are no speed penalties However you must keep in mind, that original program is passed as parameter to new program. You can see it when you try to attach notepad.exe as debugger - it will open, however with some text inside (the passed program opened). Usual workaround I like to use is to create passing script, that will remove parameters and runs designated program.

for /f "usebackq delims=," %%i IN (`getmac /fo csv /nh`) do ( For /f "usebackq delims=, tokens=1-3" %%a IN (`type mac.txt`) DO If %%i EQU %%a ( Set strComputername=%%b Set strProduct=%%c ) )

Could you please provide drivers you are using?

I tried only on Virtual PC yet... I am using Bartpe Netowrk Support Plugin (PeNetCfg)...

I am preparing all-in-one deployment project for one presentation. I should have everything inside... From PXE through profile migration to something like free "SMS". It is almost finished, I just need to make two things: a.) run that stupid BartPE (see my problem in PE thread) b.) finish lite-"SMS". Currently I have implemented method that will install SW using RunOnceEx, for future I am planning using psexec or similar method.

Hope so tomorrow, today I have tons of work It looked like I will have some time, but I was wrong

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Anything in event log? Any problems with DNS? Try to disable dynamic DNS registration, just to see effect...

Who knows You cant count on official numbers Beta 1 will be at August 3rd