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DISM /Add-Package /Image:%Mount% /PackagePath:"C:\Users\zz??zz\Desktop\Cabinet"steven4554, for more details please see my post #6 above. You also need to mount the install.wim from the sources folder in your install media (DVD). There are several places to get good help on offline processing of Windows Images. Here in the W7 Unattended sub-forum and at WinCert forum (including videos). You will need to DL and install WAIK (Windows Automatic Installation Kit). What are "installer entries" and where do you see them - in Windows Update? I did not see any similar items perhaps because I use exclusively EN-US as was the IE10 installer. Enjoy, John.

steven4554, I injected the three missing updates and the IE10 cabinet injected OK. How did you find out about these three: KB2670838, KB2639308 and KB2533623? Searching Windows DL Center and Windows Update Catalog turned up nothing for KB2670838. I found it through a Google search and it is a pre-release. Perhaps KB2670838 is the only one I really need. Thanks and enjoy, John. EDIT: I did not have any of these three updates when I installed IE10 in W7 in a VM. EDIT: Hereis where I think you found the update information. It looks like I do not need KB2639308. MagicAndre1981, ugly is in the eye of the beholder. I am running IE10 on a VM machine without Aero, so it looks a little different for IE9 but just fine to me - certainly not ugly to me. It does seem to work fine and is clearly faster than IE9. Enjoy, John.

crowe80, what all is in the driver folder? How about giving us a link to the driver so we can take a look at it. Apparently the Setup.exe does some extra work. I guess you know that the 169 address is indicating that there was not found a DHCP server. Glad it is working -- how strange though. Enjoy, John. EDIT: Thanks for the reference to devmanview. I DLed both 32 and 64 bit versions.

crowe80, this is really a strange one. Is there any way to look at the status and properties (IPv4) of the adapter on WinPE? If so, please post a screen shot. Having no problems with Internet on WinPE I am not familiar with what is available. One more wild suggestion to try: Netsh int ip resetSorry am not able to help much. Good luck and enjoy, John.

Thanks steven4554. I have two of them and will DL the other three tomorrow and see it that helps. Strange that Windows Update is not calling for these updates. When I install on VM, WU says no updates (except Malware thing and Win Defender) and MBSA runs clean. BTW IE9 is in the image from a previous SysPref/Capture. Thanks and enjoy, John.

steven4554, thanks for the links. I installed IE10 (x64) on my VM and it looks OK but I tried to inject the cab file with no luck. I got the 800f081e error - "The package is not applicable...". I mounted the image and ran this command with Windows6.1-KB2650043-x64-en-us.cab file in the Cabinet folder: DISM /Add-Package /Image:%Mount% /PackagePath:"C:\Users\zz??zz\Desktop\Cabinet"BTW the file is the same as the IE-Win7.CAB file in the DLed IE10 x64 .exe file. Thanks and enjoy, John.

crowe80, have you issued the NETCFG -WINPE command? See here. Enjoy, John.

crowe80, you did not say if the .sys file is in the x:\windows\system32\drivers folder or what you found out about the Vendor/Device IDs. I also use DriverView to see the drivers on WnPE. Enjoy, John.

crowe80, can you see the driver (.sys) file in the x:\windows\system32\drivers folder? If not you may have not injected the correct drivers. I don't know if WinPE has access to the Device Manager, but if so look at the NIC HW there for the Vendor/Device IDs. Then look in the .inf file you are injecting and see if these are in there. If you cannot find a Device Manager in WinPE then boot up Windows on the same machine and look for the IDs. Is the NIC enabled in the BIOS? I have successfully injected my NIC drivers as well as installed them with DRVLOAD. Enjoy, John.

Tripredacus, thanks. I only have used imagex to look at information in an image. The link I provided does not do a commit, is this an omission? Thanks and enjoy, John.

Tripredacus, does mgroover need to expand the WinPECacheThreshold, see here, or am I totally off base?

ghines, you are welcome - glad it worked. I assume you have booted the Windows on the E: drive? Are you using the 3.0/3.1 version of WinPE? Enjoy, John.

GrofLuigi, in my searching in my quest, I found that site but since it was about XP, I paid little notice. Thanks and enjoy, John.

ghines, have you tried this? Does it work? Here is a MS TechNet link for the BCDboot switches. I did not know the definition of the /f switch. I think the TechNet definitions are clearer, but I am really confused now as I think they disagree with what is displaye for BCDboot /? Enjoy, John.

The solution was simpler than I imagined: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\WIM_Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\WIM_Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "ClearRecentProgForNewUserInStartMenu"=dword:00000001I injected this code into the install.wim using: reg.exe load HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\WIM_Default "%Mount%\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT"Ran the ISO on a VM and there is an empty Start Menu but if I run Paint (for example) it is placed in the menu. I have some exploring to do to fully understand what I have learned. I will remove the attached .reg file above since it contains many unneeded things. Where the HKEY_USERS keys came from I do not know. It may have been due to some other activity after shot one and before shot two of RegShot. I did several other RegShots and never saw the HKEY_USERS keys again. A red herring that really confused me (perhaps easy to do). The epiphany came from a search of MS TechNet for "Clear the recent programs list for new users" - here. Thank you Tripredacus and maxXPsoft for your help and time. Geej, I ran the same test as you and got the same results. I have a command file and VBS file that will pin/unpin items for the Start Menu and Taskbar. Found the solution searching the Internet. If you cannot find it quickly, then please start another thread and I will post my files there. Enjoy, John.

Tripredacus, I have been wondering where the files/data comes from for BCDboot to write. Is it all contained in the BCDboot.exe file or on a disk (either from firmware or pointed to)? Somewhere, sometime ago, I found a statement that the WinPE and the target system of the BCDboot needed to be the same architecture. Do not have a reference handy.ghines, you are welcome. I don't think you have answered the question from Tripredacus if you are dealing with an MBR of GPT disk. It may make a difference. I found this MS UEFI document earlier when searching for a different problem and DLed the document. I have not read the document but kept it for reference (I run a GPT disk). Enjoy, John.

ghines, here is an interesting article about doing a similar process as you. The article uses the BCDboot on the target system partition (D: in this case) to do the file copy and only specifies the first parameter for the command. I suspect this means that the files come from the X: partition (WinPE, ie from the firmware) which must be of the same architecture (32/64 bit) as the target system. Please let us know if this helps. Anyone please correct me if I am wrong! Enjoy, John

Thanks maxXPsoft and Tripredacus. I am going to do some more exploring and will edit this post if I learn anything worthy. I have used the DEFAULT file and will keep it in mind. Enjoy, John.

maxXPsoft, I am not sure what you are telling me. I think I know how to load the hives from the install.wim as I use a similar process that I got from RickSteele (see above). Thanks and enjoy, John.

Thanks Tripredacus, I found that file last night. The .wim file does not have one of these. The file I use for injecting Registry changes into HKEY_CURRENT_USER is "%Mount%\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT". That code came from RickSteele. This effort has left the realm of practicality but is turning out to be a great fun learning experience. I will continue for a while (mainly learning something about the Registry and Group Policy) but the goal probably just does not justify the effort. I really appreciate your help. Thanks also maxXPsoft. I may well end up as you and as I mentioned above. Thanks and enjoy, John. EDIT: Here are all the NTUSER.DAT files in the .wim file. There is one in the config folder: C:\Fast\Mount\Users\Administrator\NTUSER.DAT C:\Fast\Mount\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT C:\Fast\Mount\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\NTUSER.DAT C:\Fast\Mount\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\NTUSER.DAT C:\Fast\Mount\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\ntuser.datI will investigate these on my VM.

Tripredacus, thanks but I do not understand what or how to do item 1. I searched the Internet and found that the HKEY_USERS keys are in the winnt folder. I could not find this folder on my running system or in my .wim file. I do know how to boot into WinPE (including under VM). So what do I look for? I guess if I could find the file that contained the HKEY_USERS keys, I could load the hive and export the keys. In the past I have used the unattended file to merge .reg files but they did not run, seemingly for the same reason this will not run on a live machine. I also think FirstLogonCommands time is too late. It seems once these items are generated, they cannot be removed except one at a time via "Remove from this list'. Using maxXPsoft's .reg file just hides the entries but prevents any new ones to be added later. Changing the settings for the values allows the hidden items to return. One solution would be to use the maxXPsoft file and then 'Pin to start menu' all the items I want. It seems strange that we cannot come up with a solution. Thanks and enjoy, John. EDIT: Earlier today I injected one line of maxXPsoft's file into my .wim and installed it on VM. It had no effect on the the Start Menu. "Start_JumpListItems"=dword:00000000

Thanks maxXPsoft, interesting behavior and maybe useful but not really what I wanted. As Tripredacus just replied I was looking to eliminate the initial set of Jumplists from being put in place. On a VM I ran the .reg file (from maxXPsoft) and it wiped all my current set of Jumplists. I then created a new user and Switched User to it and it had all the initial Jumplists, so I ran the .reg file and it cleared it. I created and ran a .reg file that set the two values to 1. This created a Jumplist for 'Getting Started'. Running Paint replaced this one with one for Paint. Removing Paint brought back the 'Getting Started'' one. Truly weird behavior. Can either of you or anyone suggest a way to implement the Group Policy change during W7 installation? Thanks maxXPsoft and Tripredacus for your time. Enjoy, John.

On a VM running my same system, I created a new user and looked at the Start Menu (had the icons), then enabled "ClearRecentProgForNewUserInStartMenu", created another user and observed that there were no icons - success! I captured a Registry file using RegShot. I attach it so anyone interested can see it. I need to inject this into my install image, but am wondering about the size of it and if I really need all the keys. Anyone else should use with caution. Thanks Tripredacus. Enjoy, John. EDIT: After some time trying to figure out what part of the .reg file is required I am at a loss. It contains HKEY_USERS keys which I assume cannot be injected into the wim file. I have tried stripping them out ad importing the reg file on my VM after disabling the Group Policy. The file imports OK but does not enable the policy. I hope someone will offer some help. Thanks and enjoy, John. EDIT: I am removing the attached .reg file since it contains many unneeded keys. The solution is below.

Tripredacus, thanks, I'll give it a try. Enjoy, John.

When I first install W7, I have several shortcuts in the Start Menu (eg Paint, Snipping Tool, Calculator, Sticky Notes, etc, etc). If I right click and select 'Remove from this list', they go away - one at a time. I am trying to find a way to get rid of most of them in a script run during install. I found a VBS script to pin/unpin and call it from a batch file to pin items. I tried changing 'Pin to Start Menu' to 'Remove from this list' but this did not work. I found an article via searching that explained why. I also found the files in '%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations' and 'CustomDestinations' that were these jumplists. I removed them all and items in my Explorer icon on the Taskbar disappeared but not the ones in the Start Menu. I have run out of places to look and hope someone can suggest a method to get rid of these items during installation. Thanks and enjoy, John.