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This setting forces the Classic Start Menu. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Force Classic Start Menu [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSimpleStartMenu"=dword:00000001 And this one UNDO's the above setting. Put it in RunOnce for example. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Undo Force Classic Start Menu [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSimpleStartMenu"=dword:00000000

Open the group policy editor, and browse to User Configuration\Administrative Template\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\ and set the option Change Language Settings to disabled. Alternative method is to unregister the responsible DLL files: Start > Run regsvr32.exe /u msimtf.dll Start > Run regsvr32.exe /u msctf.dll

There you go, copy/paste in a txt file and name it 'disable-pagefile.reg' for example. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager] "PagingFiles"=dword:0x10000

To all update pack creators and DYI modders. FYI, Microsoft has re-released KB946627 (the buggy IE6 hotfix). See this link for details.

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise. The home and small business editions are rubbish.

What Arie said. Best way to learn it is by using the command line. As for your other question, most companies I've seen using Linux, use Red Hat or SuSE. For commericial Unixes this greatly varies, but the major ones are Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX and SCO. Oh, and a very good starting point is http://www.linux.org/.

Seems to be a DLL that needs re-registering. So probably what Gosh and Mara already said. KB125749, KB240437.

I wish MS was a bit more flexible regarding setting up disks, but unfortunally that's not possible. At least, not without using 3rd party tools. At work I use Altiris and Radia, and let them handle the partitioning part.

Security Groups and GPO's are your friend. And this little tool: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en That said. I would rather define Login Scripts at the OU level.

No, both your current partitions will be killed, then setup makes a new partition from the entire disk.

Vista's hibernation is rather buggy. See this article for example for more information. It's supposed to be fully fixed in SP1. Also check the Acer support site for possible BIOS updates. That's normal behaviour (unless this happens when your laptop is completely idle for a while). The power management and CPU cooling settings can usually be adjusted in Control Panel > Power Config and in the BIOS.

Is your capslock key broken? Anyway... UBCD contains some tools to repair Windows, it can't completely (re-)install it. You'll need a Windows XP cdrom to re-install it.

Hello mara- This tool is a great timesaver. I have some suggestions that you might want to consider to make it even better. AIO CD/DVD support (I'm referring to post no. 5 the "beef stew" method by baliktad only!): * Creating an AIO CD/DVD source. * Slipstreaming/patching an already AIO'd CD/DVD source. * Native cdimage.exe support to build an optimised ISO image from the AIO source. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work.

Indeed. The Vista score is pointless and useless. Not true. My ATi X1950 hits the max score (5.9).

As far as I know, nLite doesn't support these features. Here's a guide to DIY though.

Not really. Not all vendors use the same software to create their setups. And thus, not all applications use the same switches, and some don't even support switches at all. There is some 'documentation' though, take a look at this and this thread.

Yes, they're all listed under: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates] *.*

None, I like my stuff clean, minimal and fast.

Take a look at this topic: http://www.msfn.org/board/To-Install-Core-...ants-t9420.html

RVMIntegrator is a neat one too.

WU uses [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates] + file version checking.

Guild Wars.

What he said.

Or.. get the Remote Desktops MMC instead.

I fully agree with Siginet. While images are the fastest way to deploy lots of similar systems, it's also the least flexable method. In the end it takes up far less time to maintain 1 central unattended installation (that works on any system), than keeping track of 100's of hardware specific images. On a side note, Altiris big enterprise brother, HP OpenView Radia, uses a remarkable similar method to RVM Integrator and DriverPacks (or nLite and DriverPacks, or HF-Slip and Driverpacks).