MrJinje

On some of my machines BIOS there is a reset ESCD ?? Configuration setting. and if I set that in the BIOS, it discards all previous profiles of attached hardware and rescans the machine on next BIOS boot. I think it is usually in the PNP Section of Pheonix BIOS, but I may be wrong, poke around and look for anything that sounds like reset ECSD or ESCD configuraton, (cannot remember and cannot reboot my machine at the moment). If it is not there, do not be worried, only some BIOS have this setting. Another thing that might help is some MOBO have a reset BIOS hardware jumper (check your manual), usually it is seated on pins 1+2 and to reset the jumper, you power off, unplug power supply, and then move the jumper to pins 2+3, wait 2 seconds, and place the jumper back on pins 1+2. I continually have this problem with one of those all-in-one memory card readers.

Instead of making changes to the global template, create a new .DOT template and store it in your personal folder. It will not be available on first open like normal.dot, but if you open word, then open your template from your personal folder, you should be all set. Sure it will take a few extra clicks, but considering you probably don't have any admin rights, this is likely the best alternative.EDIT: I assume Annie said pretty much the same thing, but I only read the first few chapters.

If you are not comfortable with XML, you can just create a file called SetupComplete.cmd and place it in this folder on your DVDDVD\Sources\$OEM$\$$\Setup\Scripts\SetupComplete.cmd Inside SetupComplete.cmd place this line of code. No XML needed. On first boot you will be in trial mode and have 3 (30) days to activate.Changing the product key is a single line of code. Once each machine is installed (using the above trial key), check your COA sticker, and run this from the command line. If it doesn't work, you made a typo. Start > Run > CMD.exe > "C:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -IPK YOUR-REAL-COA-KEY-HERE"

Power down and reboot does not work. If you have the issue I am thinking of, you need to power down and unplug the power supply from the wall socket (not the Mobo). Wait until the final flickering motherboard light goes out, then power back up. Report back.

LOL, my vLited install only takes up 3.66 GB, considering I run Windows 7 from a 4GB I-RAM this 30GB will be a major improvement. Have fun waiting for your HDD's to spin up, I don't really have .09 thousandths of a second to wait each time I click on my start menu. Some of us just prefer to have a computer doesn't act all slow and old. I do have about 5TB of HDD space laying around, so this is more about responsiveness of the OS.

Settled for the OCZ Vertex 30GB ($109). First thing I did was run benchmarks on the fresh drive. Here are the results. No where near the stated but good enough to boot from. -------------------------------------------------- Sequential Read : 159.698 MB/s Sequential Write : 93.776 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 128.192 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 93.281 MB/s Random Read 4KB : 24.811 MB/s Random Write 4KB : 11.684 MB/s Can anyone tell me how to determine if my SSD already supports the TRIM command or if I need a firmware update.

Here is a batch script that gives detailed information. Version.cmd systeminfo pause If it doesn't say Ultimate N or whatever then it's not the N version. Very simple. It'll be the second and third entries in the list. Try to run this link and tell us if WMP opens up. It should work even if GUI access has been limited. You'll probably have to adjust it to the "program files" in your language. C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe

One nice thing about Virtual Hardware, is you can run your Windows 98 VM on any machine without any hardware issues. Essentially it makes your entire OS portable. I have an XP VM that I run from a 4GB USB drive.

You might want to ask in the correct forum for your OS (or ask a mod to move this thread for you). XP explorer behavior is completely different from the Explorer in Windows 7. You never know, some of the mad scientists around here might have an add-on that does just this ?? one can only hope. Not sure if you are talking about in the actual explorer window or do you mean the Open/Save file dialogs. (confused after reading your other post about googlemail attachments)

Does your W2K3 ISO work inside a VM, or does it blue-screen there too.

Finally an easy question. Just include two text files in your DVD $OEM$ folder. DVD\Sources\$OEM$\$$\Setup\Scripts\ SetupComplete.cmd Net user administrator /active:yes Regedit /s %~dp0AUTOLOGIN.REG AUTOLOGIN.REG Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="Administrator" "DefaultPassword"="" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "ForceAutoLogon"="1" SetupComplete is ran by windows before first login and this should enable the account and force auto-login because Administrator has a blank password by default, at least in theory. Report back.

Here is the registry file from my all black login screens from a few months back. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background] "OEMBackground"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "UseOEMBackground"=dword:00000001

That is the explorer.exe behavior and AFAIK has nothing to do with Office or Word. Can just hit F5 key to refresh explorer.

One thing I noticed Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC-UX is a Vista setting. Easy fix is rename it to "Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-UX" From help manual. EDIT: Is this a vista XML, we may have more useless data inside it gumming up the works. If you open up Unattend.chm from the Windows 7 waik the very first help page is "Changes in Unattended Setup Settings from Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008" and if you scroll to the end it says that a SkipMachineOobe and SkipUserOobe have both been downsized in Windows 7.

Easiest way might be to run a script that installs the default trial key, can be done from a batch, vbs, or from Unattend.xml. Just find a way to schedule this command on first login to the machine. From Cluberti.com SLMGR.VBS -IPK D4F6K-QK3RD-TMVMJ-BBMRX-3MBMV Then each machine will get prompted to activate manually. To run it from unattend.xml, it will look something like this. <FirstLogonCommands> <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> <CommandLine>C:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs -IPK D4F6K-QK3RD-TMVMJ-BBMRX-3MBMV</CommandLine> <Description>Re-Install-Trial-Key</Description> <Order>1</Order> </SynchronousCommand> </FirstLogonCommands> The hard way might be to use WMI to collect the Asset Tag, serial number, or something else unique to each machine, then hard code a script that checks each machine and run SLMGR.VBS with the correct COA for each machine. But IMO this would be more work than it is worth.

Not sure if you already saw this thread, but in Windows 7 you need to "enable" the administrator account before you can use it. Post #7 describes one method to enable the Administrator account.

Have a look at bsdiff and bspatch, very easy to script resource edits. Then you don't have to upload a 20MB DLL, just the patch.

Delete this section and you will get prompted to choose a language. I'll assume you have a reason to need multiple languages, for single language readers, there is really no point to not automating language selection. Not sure about the install button page, but I think my first guess is remove the <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula> and see if that does it.

Why ? Because that is what it does, it "automates" your installation, so you can leave your computer unattended while installing. The easiest way to fix the problem is not to use an autounattend.xml.If you want to automate the rest of installation and only keep those two particular screens, attach your XML file (do not post as text) and I will look at it.

Have you tried moving one of your DC's to the new subnet. Otherwise, here is a troubleshooting guide from Technet

Sounds like all you really need is an autounattend.xml file. I don't know where you got your crashing XML file, but here is a sample of mine own. Only 10 laptops, you don't need to sysprep anything, just automate your DVD with autounattend.xml. Sample AutoUnattend.XML Are you using the "DriverPaths" setting in your unattend.xml, to add your drivers on the fly ? Otherwise, if you are really stuck and are willing to learn the hard way (by reading), find your unattend.chm and look for this page

Here is the link according to Daniel Martin MVP. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=hi Since the english version of the download page does not exist "displaylang=en" I cannot begin to offer advice on what to do with the file after you get it. FYI, got the link from Technet I am gonna assume I am not breaking any rules, otherwise Cluberti is free to delete my post. EDIT: If you check the date on the Cluberti's KB article, (8-25-09) and on the Hindi direct download page (10-21-09) it is likely the KB article is out of date.

The method described above will work for you, first mount your Install.wim with DISM and then run the /FORCEUNSIGNED command when integrating your driver. Once that is working you can drop all the bcdedit and registry stuff during the install. For people who do not know DISM is a a new command line tool in Windows 7.For help with basic syntax. Start > Run > CMD > DISM /? NOTE-TO-SELF: Next version of DISM Tool™ should add support for this.

Try this out, I went into .txt and the default was "txtfile" so I went and made the changes at [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\runas] and it worked. (at least for right click) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\runas] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\runas\command] @=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,4e,00,4f,00,\ 54,00,45,00,50,00,41,00,44,00,2e,00,45,00,58,00,45,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,\ 00Here are the main keys I looked at. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\text HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile

You want a USB security software, if you google their are plenty to choose from. I haven't used any of them, but this one looks good to me. http://www.myusbonly.com/usb-security-devi...ntrol/index.php