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KMS activated systems = no free update from the store. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/why-can-t-find-update-store

I also have 3 other OSes to choose from, but I just happened to be using XP at the time. I was just curious about what would be reported

Crashes if it can't find the MSDM table. Doesn't seem to check on what type of system it is running on.

Now that you mention it, yes 8.1 lets you do this via settings. I assumed this was a reg tweak that applied to 8 also.

Please keep XP in there - at least until it goes out of support in April. I still use WinNTSetup to build a new XP every patch-tuesday. For those of us that have multi-boot systems, it would be nice if the XP code were left in there. On another note, I recently did a new Win8 install and thought I would try the Boot to Desktop Option. I was a bit disappointed because after booting, the desktop only showed up briefly before the metro start screen took over again. Is there any way to make it stay with the desktop?

From my trials, activating default file associations on an online system has to be done via the Control Panel or with a customized OEMDefaultsAssociation.xml that is applied during the first boot after installing win8. Doing this via the registry is problematic as mentioned by the OP.

Has anyone successfully managed to import and activate program/file associations using dism? I ran a small test with the following xml on an online system, but when I select a .bmp file, Win8 still wants to start the metro app instead of the desktop app. dism /Online /Import-DefaultAppAssociations:Z:\$W8i\$W8-Deploy\test.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><DefaultAssociations> <Association Identifier=".bmp" ProgId="Paint.Picture" ApplicationName="Windows Photo Viewer" /> <Association Identifier=".eml" ProgId="ThunderbirdEML" ApplicationName="Thunderbird" /> <Association Identifier=".wdseml" ProgId="ThunderbirdEML" ApplicationName="Thunderbird" /> <Association Identifier="mailto" ProgId="Thunderbird.Url.mailto" ApplicationName="Thunderbird" /></DefaultAssociations>If I check the associations via the Default Programs in Control Panel, .bmp is still associated with Fotos instead of Windows Photo Viewer. I also tried enabling the appropriate GPO entry and placing the test.xml in c:\windows\system32 but that doesn't seem to apply to local hosts. I would like to automate setting the program/file associations during the system build process possibly at the OOBE stage. Anyone know how?

I only use SetupComplete to add things such as dotNET, VCRedists, Tweaks,, Fixits, etc.. All integratable fixes go into the wim which I update each month using Komm's repository. Integrating the latest fixes into the wim each month is a no brainer. I've been doing this for over a year now and this was the first time I ran into the problem where a fix was unremovable from my offline image.

Well, after checking, I actually did try to remove 2703811 before adding 2844009. I still had the problem removing it even with 2844009 not integrated at the time.. I did not want to waste moe time on it and I redid the integration up to June stariing with the W7 SP1 install wim. I always make it a point to remove superseded updates from the offline image before adding any replacements. I have no idea what happened.

bootmnt.exe is a small tool I wrote to mount all hidden boot partitions. It's integrated in WinNTSetup and extracted every start to temp folder. Normally an XP/2003 install deletes that folder in the last setup phase, but it doesn't work always. Especially on newer systems, that folder and the file $LDR$ remain after setup. I Never saw this on previous Win7 installs, but I guess I can just delete it without anything getting broken. I will keep an eye on this to see if iit's a random thing the next time I install.

I noticed that $WINDOWS.~BT was still present on C:\ the last time I did a Win7 install with WinNTSetup. Is this normal and can it be safely deleted? Al

Okay, I understand. I could not find this file after winntsetup finished - only in the temp directory when it was running. Where is this file from?

When running WinNTSetup, I noticed it creates some temp files, one of which is bootmnt.exe and HitmanPro is flagging this as a Trojan. Virustotal shows 5 of 47 on this file. I assume this is a false positive. C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Local Settings\Temp\WinNTSetup000\Tools\x86\bootmnt.exe Size . . . . . . . : 14,336 bytes Age . . . . . . . : 0.0 days (2013-07-13 07:54:35) Entropy . . . . . : 5.5 SHA-256 . . . . . : E63FECABFAB2E48953E28347D5BBCEFB637F05C0D956D52211A516CE41CCFD90 Ikarus . . . . . . : Trojan-Spy.Agent!IK Fuzzy . . . . . . : 108.0

Yes, that was indicated in my question.

Hello, I'm trying to remove KB2703811 (superseded by KB2844009) from a Win7 offline image. My problem is that I can't remove KB2703811 because I keep getting the following error: Processing 1 of 1 - Removing package Package_for_KB2703811~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.4.0 An error occurred - Package_for_KB2703811 Error: 0x80070490 ERROR_NOT_FOUND The error code 1168 (0x490) means Element not found. DISM log shows: 2013-07-11 11:20:46, Error CBS Failed to resolve package 'Package_31_for_KB2703811~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.2.0' [HRESULT = 0x80070490 - ERROR_NOT_FOUND] 2013-07-11 11:20:46, Error CBS Failed to process single phase execution. [HRESULT = 0x80070490 - ERROR_NOT_FOUND] 2013-07-11 11:20:46, Error CBS Failed to perform operation. [HRESULT = 0x80070490 - ERROR_NOT_FOUND] 2013-07-11 11:20:46, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=688 Failed finalizing changes. - CDISMPackageManager::Internal_Finalize(hr:0x80070490) 2013-07-11 11:20:46, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=688 Failed processing package changes - CDISMPackageManager::ProcessChanges(hr:0x80070490) 2013-07-11 11:22:09, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=688 Failed while processing command remove-package. - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine(hr:0x80070490) I can't remove v4 (6.1.4.0) because CBS is complaining about v2 (6.1.2.0). KB2844009 which replaces KB2703811 has been integrated in the offline image. Is there a way to completely remove KB2703811 from the offline image so it is no longer part of the /get-packages output file? Thanks for any help on how to solve this problem.

/configfile will only accept a full path and will not look in the current directory is that correct? I tried C:\Toolbx\WinNTSetup\WinNTSetup2_x86.exe /configfile:W8_WinNTSetup.ini which is in the same dir as the exe and this does not work.

Fyi ... the tools directory included with the new 2.3.5.1 is empty. Nevermind, I forgot that the files get downloaded when you run the exe the first time. Sorry for the false alarm.

Danke ...

I managed to fix this from XP by running bcdboot w:\windows /s w: which copied the required W7 files. Isn't WnNTSetup supposed to do this for me? I noticed with the new WinNTSetup, you included a Tools directory. Could it be that WinNTSetup is not finding the tools?

I just ran the latest WinNTSetup from XP for a Win7 system build and the system to start the install on will not boot. I used 'use bootsect.exe to update the boot code' with no other boxes checked on that menu. It looks like the win7 boot files were not copied to that partition. How can I fix this?

When you say Offline regedit do you mean being able to add/modify reg entries from an offline wim? That would be nice.

Yes, sorry. I should have mentioned that I was using Win8. Advpack.dll should work there too, but I don't know why it doesn't for this particular inf file. Anyway, using infdefaultinstall was a workaround for me. Thanks .....

Neither of those commands work. I had tried those already. No error msgs. but did not install. The monitor still shows Generic PnP Monitor instead of ThinkPad Display 1680x1050. I think this is because windows thinks I already have the newest drivers installed and advpack won't process the inf file. The only way I could get this to install from a command line was: c:\windows\system32\infdefaultinstall.exe D:\@Drivers\$T500\$Common\Video\LCDMon\geoi02w8\TPLCD.INF

okay, understood, but how does the right-click on .inf -> install find the right install section? I was thinking that method also used advpack under the covers. I still can't get it to install by adding the inf section TPLCDWSXGAP.Install.NTx86 Now I get INF Install failure. Reason: The parameter is incorrect rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection D:\@Drivers\$T500\$Common\Video\LCDMon\geoi02w8\tplcd.inf,TPLCDWSXGAP.Install.NTx86