Mordac85

I can't believe you found the exact question online, and with supporting data! Now, maybe you can anwser me this. Which boils faster a pot of cold water or a pot of hot water? (I'm not sure I really agree with the notion of thermal acceleration) I'll have to see if I can find some site that's done this with the data as well.

Personally, I look to the posts w/no replys to see if I can help out, or at least get the ball rolling. Remember the number of posts isn't the thing you should look at, but rather the quality of the response. As long as you can give out the correct info, or meaningfully contribute to the thread, you shouldn't worry about it.

I disagree, you do not have to spend a lot of money to get a decent component if you understand what the specs are saying. Just b/c it costs a lot doesn't mean you're necessarily getting a better quality product. PMPO is a hypothetical estimate of the peak output under perfect conditions and at 100% efficiency (i.e a marketing gimmick). It does not, in any way, relate to RMS. If the MFR doesn't state the power in RMS I'd stay away from that MFR and/or product. Anyone that thinks PMPO is a valid spec is full of crap and has no idea what they're talking about. If it's a salesman, go somewhere else or ask for the guru. THD and freq response are possibly the next most critical specs. Remember, audio is an analog signal. IMHO, the tube amp, or a mag amp, is the way to go for a much better quality signal. @tommyp Keep up the good work , it'll pay off!

I have a 2nd workstation on the bench and split my time btwn sitting and standing at the bench. Also, whenever given the choice of stairs or an escalator/elevator, choose the stairs. Keep aware of your back posture and you'll do better. I have seen and used one of those ergonomic HumanScale chairs. They look interesting, but it killed my back and was a royal pain to adjust.

For the best answer call MS and ask. I'm w/a larger company and we negotiate our discounts and usually get much more than 20%, but then again, our size probably factors into that. I'm sure if you kept it open and hypothetical MS would be willing to let you know what advantages there are to the different levels.

Data recovery services (as long as the company is well established) can be relied upon to recover most data as long as the drive is not too badly damaged physically. If you can see the drive in the BIOS you can try slaving the drive into another system and trying to pull your off from the other OS *or* boot from a BartPE CD and see if you can access the drive. If the other OS can't "see" the drive, chances are your only recourse is the data recovery serivce.

I'm assuming you want to install an application as part of the setup process. Try reading through the Unattended Guide. There are many ways to include an application install depending on the requirements you may have.

So, will it work? Dunno w/o specifics on the hardware. Best method is to slap the CD in and give it a try. Worst case is you'll have to re-author your CD to add any drivers you may need.

Personally, if you're not connecting to a network then I'd kill any unnecessary services that reference or look to the network. I doubt that it's the NIC or basic networking services causing your problem, but rather something that is trying to look to the network and, not finding one, has to time out. So if you log out and log back in there is no delay b/c the service has already failed. Maybe check for services set to Automatic that are not started or run msconfig to see if there's anything in your startup that may be causing the timeout? Last resort you could run bootvis to see what's causing the delay.

To access a GUI interface, like a control panel applet, you will need to use something like terminl server, VNC or Dameware. If it's something that can be done from the command line you could use something like psexec.

If he has a license, why would he need to pull one from your flexlm server? If he needs flexlm using the generic user account you created, given the proper rights on the license server, he should be able to pull the license from there w/o any problems except for some possible reconfig of the program so it knows to pull from your server. Since his system is not in your domain he will get the authentication dialog when he touches one of your network resources. He can enter the credentials you setup and continue on his merry way. However, the account will still let him into anything that a generic user can access, shares, printers, etc.

We're in a mixed environment and our security group changed the auth level and killed DOS logins. I'm not in the office today so I can't double check the error, but it sounds the same as what you're getting.

Also, you may want to look at running services. I have a few users that have a service that wants to actually touch each network device they have listed in their app. Since they aren't always online, they each have to time out the request. Prob crappy coding of the app/service, but it was definately causing problems. Also, I'd dump anything that wants to touch the internet (i.e toolbars, iTunes, etc) and may have processes running that you don't need (e.g. QuickTask, Java Updates, etc).

Why not just write a script to run all of your installs then call it from the autorun.inf? Just make sure you put in a step to ask if you want to proceed w/the installs so you don't try installing them every time you put the CD in a drive.

Thanks cluberti, I didn't know they disabled the admin account by default. Works like a charm!

From the Windows Update site select 'Use Administrator options' in the left pane. On the window that opens, the option under Update multiple operating systems has the catalog listing.

Nope, it doesn't work that way. If you want to pre-define profile settings I would recommend creating a local account and login with that account. Once you have everything set reboot (to release any clinging file locks) and log in w/an admin account. Copy that profile (from the User Profiles section on the Advanced tab in System Properties) to C:\Users\Default and use Everyone for 'Permitted to use' and now all new logins will get the modified profile.

Nope, the possible variations are too great to allow the display. It's not like the file attributes which only allow a few set possibilites. If you need to do this regularly I'd write a script for it.

Actually from what I've seen, UAC has no bearing on being able to run with elevated privledges. I disabled it cuz that's the only way that I know of to kill those annoying popups. (IE7 may have a better popup blocker, but now I'm being inundated from the OS!) I tried the Windows version of su by creating a link that uses something like "runas /noprofile /user:computername\Administrator cmd.exe" but I got an error message like so: So is there some inherent policy that restricts the actual utility they put in place for this? I don't always want to right-click or log off and log back in as the local admin. Why can't it just be a simple thing to configure?

I've added Communicator to our master image but when we load the image and the user logs in for the first time Communicator runs from a value in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Run. The value isn't there until the system runs through mini-setup so I'm assuming "something" is creating the key during mini-setup. I haven't opened the MSI w/something like IS Tuner yet, and would like to avoid that step due to the approval process I would have to go through. Any other ideas how can I kill this or what's causing it to behave this way?

Nope. We just use the old fashioned method by hand.

[Identification] MachineObjectOU="CN=Computers,DC=mydomain,DC=mycompany,DC=com" Did you have the string defined as a container or an OU? I don't understand why it wouldn't work if your LDAP string pointed to a valid object.

Good catch and I apologize for speaking off the cuff. I didn't dig deep enough to see the actual transfer rates. However, if those transfer rates are valid, why then are data DVD's slower than CD's? I normally have a much slower transfer rate from DVD's, but in theory, they should be 3x faster. I still think reality is stepping in there somewhere in between the specifications.

You may also want to check for StartMenuLogoff in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. It could cause problems with that policy being set.

Per MS Technet article, this is the delay between when Setup finishes copying the files and when system setup begins. I believe the reboot timeout is still 15 seconds.