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Ummm...so how does one boot from an ISO? I used to test my WAIK ISO's with Virtual PC 2007 but I can't seem to figure out how to do it with the new Virtual PC. Any help is appreciated!!!

Ah, so I don't need to run the Virtual PC to access the legacy apps? Now that's a plus! I thought they could only be run in the Virtual environment.

Didn't the previous version of Virtual PC have hardware assisted virtualization? What does you mean by "run apps inside the VM but have them behave as if they are directly running on the host"?

I hadn't heard much about "XP Mode" so dummy me, I was hoping it was going to be similar to Apple's Parrallel program. But I see it's no different than what I've been doing for the past year or so ever since I installed Vista on my laptop....plain ol' Virtual PC... blah!

Have you tried looking in event viewer? It may give you a more detailed reason as to why it failed?

Yeah, I've had this problem with certain SoundMax drivers before. Have you tried different versions of the driver?

So you want all the users to share those folders? So the "My Documents" for all users would be the same? C:\Users\My Documents instead of C:\User\%USERNAME%\My Documents?

OK, I'm trying to make changes to the Laptop/Portable power scheme on all our laptops. I made the changes I needed done to a laptop, did a reboot and exported the following keys: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg] [HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\PowerCfg] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg] Now I've imported them into another laptop and the changes are not showing up, not even after a reboot. What am I missing?

So you're placing the hidden partition after the Windows partition?

Is this a clean install?

Which partion is set as active? I have a post on here where I accomplished this using the new Vista bootsector to boot between WinPE/WinRE and Windows XP. I actually set the WinPE partition to be hidden so Windows XP was still set as C:\ and it was safe from the end users. I created the Windows XP image on a PC with only one partition and was able to successfully deploy it to machines with WinPE on first and WinXP on second. I assume that as long as you're using the same drive letter and edit the boot.ini file accordingly, it should work. Here's the script I use: @ECHO OFF SET CD=D: SET RECVY=W: SET WINXP=C: SET REGUID=572BCD55-FFA7-11D9-AAE0-0007E994107D REGEDIT -S VDS.REG DISKPART -S PREPART.TXT BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 %RECVY% BOOTSECT.EXE /NT52 %WINXP% IMAGEX /APPLY BOOT.WIM 1 %RECVY% IMAGEX /APPLY WINXPSP3.WIM 1 %WINXP% START /WAIT WSCRIPT WIMHALDETECT.VBS ATTRIB -R -H -S %WINXP%\NTLDR ATTRIB -R -H -S %WINXP%\NTDETECT.COM ATTRIB -R -H -S %WINXP%\BOOT.INI COPY %WINXP%\NTLDR %RECVY%\ COPY %WINXP%\NTDETECT.COM %RECVY%\ COPY %WINXP%\BOOT.INI %RECVY%\ ATTRIB +R +H +S %RECVY%\NTLDR ATTRIB +R +H +S %RECVY%\NTDETECT.COM ATTRIB +R +H +S %RECVY%\BOOT.INI DEL %WINXP%\NTLDR DEL %WINXP%\NTDETECT.COM DEL %WINXP%\BOOT.INI MD %RECVY%\BOOT\ XCOPY %CD%\BOOT\*.* /E /F %RECVY%\BOOT\ COPY %CD%\BOOTMGR %RECVY% DEL %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD BCDEDIT -CREATESTORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -create {BOOTMGR} /d "Boot Manager" BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {BOOTMGR} DEVICE BOOT BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -CREATE {NTLDR} /D "Windows XP" BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {NTLDR} DEVICE PARTITION=%WINXP% BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {NTLDR} PATH \ntldr BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {NTLDR} LOCALE EN-US BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -create {%REGUID%} /D "Backup and Restore" -APPLICATION OSLOADER BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} OSDEVICE BOOT BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} DEVICE BOOT BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} PATH \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} SYSTEMROOT \Windows BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} WINPE YES BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} DETECTHAL YES BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} NX OPTIN BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} CUSTOM:46000010 YES BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {%REGUID%} LOCALE EN-US BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -DEFAULT {NTLDR} BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {DEFAULT} RECOVERYSEQUENCE {%REGUID%} BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -SET {DEFAULT} RECOVERYENABLED YES BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -DISPLAYORDER {NTLDR} {%REGUID%} BCDEDIT -STORE %RECVY%\BOOT\BCD -TIMEOUT 2 WPEUTIL REBOOT

Trip, I've added the correct users and even added the domain controllers themselves to the group, no dice. Stones, I created a new GPO called "DC_GPO_Lockdown".

Kingsc, I've been in your shoes before!! The [DeleteonCopy] only works if you actually copy the folder to another location. My resolution was to create a user account and set it up as I like, copy the profile to the "Default User" profile. Browse to all the desktop.ini files and delete the Owner=**** section. I'd rather have it show "My Documents" then they all say "TestUsers's Documents"

We decided to lock down our domain controllers through the use of a GPO in the Domain Controllers OU but no matter what we've tried, the DC's will not take those settings. If we make the same exact changes to the local group policy, it works flawlessly. The domain GPO is enabled and enforced. Anyone have any ideas?

I've been trying to add Windows 2000 to the list of OS's I can load via WinPE and it's becoming quite a pain!! The command I am using is: W:\SOURCES\W2K_PRO\I386\WINNT32.EXE /SYSPART:C /S:W:\SOURCES\W2K_PRO\I386 /UNATTEND:W:\SOURCES\W2K_PRO\I386\UNATTEND.TXT It begins to load and then I get: "The setup was unable to build the list of files to be copied. The data is invalid" I also get this error if I just run winnt32.exe and I fill in the information myself.

I'm using the Windows VPN software and I'm having an issue where the VPN connection will not disconnect. In order for me to get rid of the connection, I have to reboot the PC. Has anyone experienced this? O.S. is fully patched.

I remember getting this error when the drivers were for a different OS version. Also what other files do you have in that directory?

Probably had/have a virus that edited your hosts file to redirect certain sites so you can't patch/repair your PC. What happens when you go to update.microsoft.com with IE?

Any particular reason why the PC's are not part of the domain? You can try applying a GPO to the domain user accounts, but I don't think that would apply it to the PC if it's not on the domain.

SiD, I've just built myself a Royalty OEM XP disc w/ SP3 for all the OEM PC's we have (Dell, IBM, and Compaq/HP) The Compaq OEM discs aren't built like the others so it took me quite a while to figure it out, but here is how I created it. Basically what I did was grab the following files from an existing Compaq PC with the OEM install. I think all the files are in %WINDIR%\System32 - All OEMBIOS files PIDGEN.DLL DPCDLL.DLL SETUPP.INI - You can grab the setupp.ini file from any other OEM disc And you can find the OEM key from an existing install using jellybean keyfinder. Just copy a basic WinXP install disc to your desktop, copy the uncompress files onto the disc (make sure you delete the compressed files) and you should be good to go!

How do we disable that? Does everyone know what I'm talking about? Even though the folder is named "My Documents" it's seen as "User's Documents". What is this called and how can it be disabled?

OK, so I'm trying to move some information from people's "My Documents" but sadly those may sit on different locations so I'm trying to read the registry and creating a variable based on that, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here's what I'm using: FOR /F "tokens=2* delims= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Personal') DO SET PERSONAL=%%B ECHO PERSONAL="%PERSONAL%" CD %PERSONAL% The echo command shows me the proper location, but when I attempt to change directory with that variable I get the following error message: The system cannot find the path specified. What am I doing wrong?!??!

It's possible that the drive existed when you navigated to it through the command prompt. Try changing to another drive letter so you're not at a c:\ prompt and try again.

From the error I see, it seems you're already at a C:\ prompt. It seems that the problem is that the C letter is already assigned to a drive.

Hi, I have an unattended install that runs after XP is installed and IE7 is one of the things installed. The problem I'm facing is that after restarting the PC, the menu bar is enabled. Is there a registry key that will disable it?