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Usually it tries to set it to your computer's hardware clock first, then try to verify with the internet time server(s). Problem is, if they're all configured as offset of UTC rather than local (Windows is configured to use UTC internally, and only display the offset you configure "above the covers"), and your BIOS clock is off, your Windows time will be off. Are you sure your BIOS clock is correct?

And here I thought this was just my UPS guy. They left approximately USD2K worth of equipment, most in VERY descriptive boxes (thanks marketing departments!), sitting on my front porch. My neighbors are all trustworthy as far as I can tell over the years, but you never know who might be driving by.I now ship FedEx only, as they (so far) haven't pulled this little stunt (UPS will do it even if you're home!).

Well, that leaves either your specific combo of apps, or a driver issue - I run an average of 10 - 12 apps at a time, have for years, never with that happening. I've seen it on other machines, and it's always come down to some application munging the z-order on losing focus, or a driver issue causing the list to reorder, etc.

Happy Birthday old man!

Well, you told Windows to skip it. See? <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE> <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>

If you're using a Win7 install, I would go with AHCI unless you have multiple drives *AND* want the redundancy that RAID provides to protect from failure. If you're using XP (especially x64), you can get XP to install and run on an AHCI system but it's not trivial (whereas Win7 has inbox drivers that support it on most chipsets).

No, can't say as I have. The z-order is a shell construct, it generally keeps track of the stack order, although there are APIs that any Win32 app can call to move itself up, down, bottom, top, take focus, etc, so it's hard to say. Is there anything specific that is always running on your machine across your differing hardware? This likely won't be a driver issue (it's possible, just not probable), but an app issue instead.

ghostE, we generally frown on warez and cracks here, just fyi. I wouldn't continue discussion about anything less than legal here in the future.

I'll probably be getting to it on Monday, but thanks for uploading.

If a device on your network, or your ISP, has a wpad configured (sounds like it may be in your ISP's DHCP configuring it to where IE is downloading it), then it will be downloaded by IE and applied even if you delete it the next time the cache timeout for it expires or IE is closed and re-opened. You need to contact the ISP (which looks like Shaw Cable) to see why they are pushing down a proxy PAC file to your machine. Note that if you go into IE's connection settings and make sure NONE of those options are checked, technically it should never check for a PAC file again, unless you've got other software on the machine that resets the setting, of course. Otherwise, use a non-IE browser if it's really that much of a problem.

Well, why did you update your BIOS? You could have changed a whole host of things without realizing it, and Windows has always been quite picky about the disk subsystem it's installed on. If your BIOS upgrade changed anything about the disk subsystem and the way it's presented to the OS, it could have caused it. Without knowing more about the microcode changes (which you aren't going to find publicly) it's hard to say, but it is easy to say that there were changes here in the upgrade, enough to cause Windows to no longer be able to find itself on any bootable disk once the kernel was loaded.

Probably not, honestly. You will likely have to do a repair installation (in-place upgrade) as described here.

Actually, how are you adding the languages? I know you're not supposed to integrate more than 3 without taking some special precautions (I don't remember the technet link currently, but I specifically remember integrating more than 3 directly via pkgmgr was something to avoid and use WSIM to do it instead).

According to the AMD site: Looks like a power driver supplement.

Might want to use process monitor with a filter on HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings, so you can see what process is overwriting your changes with it's own. At least you should see which .exe or .dll does it.

7B == Inaccessible boot device. Sounds like, perhaps, the BIOS update reset your SATA controller configuration? I know mine always sets my SATA back to IDE after a refresh, when I installed it set to AHCI. You might want to check that for starters.

that will just give the vendor of the NIC, which is not always the vendor of the product. Agreed, hence finding out what switch port it's on removes some of that ambiguity assuming it's wired to the network. Just follow the patch cable.

Agreed, also, they have a service for doing the media creation on CD as well (which seems absurd, and may not still exist, but I know it did when I still used it a year or so ago). I'd disable or remove any of the "updater" services, but the rest is probably best to leave.

Note that those are very likely OEM product keys, and using an OEM copy of XP on a machine that it didn't ship with is technically a violation of the EULA. Not sure Microsoft would do anything for 50 licenses, but it is technically an OEM license, and only (only) supposed to ever be used and activated on the machine it shipped with.

No, it should work fine. I was going to tell you it was the "Away Mode" ACPI driver, but I had to go to the doctor this morning and you'd already figured it out .

If you can, go to the properties of the device in device manager, click the Details tab, and select Hardware Ids from the drop-down list. If we can get the PCI and Vendor IDs, we can figure out what it is.

Probably not - what specifically did you try to integrate, and what are you removing?

Not supported doesn't mean it doesn't work, but I do remember that integrating an SP with vLite ends up with problems installing the next for most people, so caveat emptor.

Windows Server 2003 R2 has "File Screening" capabilities, so if you're using 2003 R2 on those servers you can use this to watch for specific file types and extensions.

Moving to new topic.