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Well, I cannot repro this either, for what it's worth. No matter what I name it, it just works.

If you're trying MDT, you can use FINISHACTION (set it to SHUTDOWN).

How was IE9 installed on these systems? Was it installed from the IE9 web installation package, or slipstreamed into the WIM offline?

So noted .

Unless the terminal server admin has configured easyprint, your printer driver must be installed on the remote server for it to print properly from a TS session. From the behavior you are describing, it would sound like neither has been done, hence it doesn't work.

Hence wondering what's different if you extract both files .

Not true for Vista+ - the thumbnail database is in the user's profile (and behaves a bit differently too). The per-folder thumbs.db is XP-style shell era behavior.

You should consider using a Microsoft tool designed to be more suitable for this particular job (image creation/maintenance), like MDT 2010.

Is it just the one user, or does it affect all users on the same machine? Also, is it just one network location, or does it affect shares on multiple servers?

MagicAndre is correct, in almost all cases, the latest version of a file is going to be the "winner" if a system has multiple hotfixes integrated offline. However, if you want the installation to go faster rather than slower, only install hotfixes that aren't themselves superseded by future updates. If the OS has to do additional servicing work with multiple fixes that replace the same files, the installation will take longer than it would if CBS did not have to handle this.

That fix is from 2010 (included in MS10-002), and the error is very generic. There's no way to tell if the fix from 979665 is actually for the issue you are seeing without you getting a crash dump and comparing that versus the fix.

If you want to open or view PST files larger than 2GB, you will need a program indeed - Outlook 2010 x64 can do it, and it has a trial you might be able to use: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/

I've never seen this, and I've searched for GUIDs *many* times, mostly CLSIDs and AppIDs. Perhaps you could define what "Adjust the proper settings" means?

First, be calm - this is a developer preview, not a full build. It's in tablet form now, probably because the kinds of things OEMs and developers will need to focus on will be tablet-style hardware and the new Metro UI for applets (desktop PCs and apps are, as expected, kind of mature at this point in history ). From all we've heard so far, defaulting to the desktop app will be possible, and we've not heard definitively on the start menu being totally gone or not (it's possible either way). Rant on the blog, but considering it's not even a beta yet, I wouldn't get too worked up.

Yes, sc.exe can configure new services. However, it's not *entirely* the same as using srvany, and if the program doesn't run well inside sc, you'd have to use something 3rd party (nothing from MS here, as doing this is technically unsupported). Srvany was an NT4 reskit tool, and wasn't officially supported even then (reskit tools have/had no support).

Powershell (and thus .NET) support is pretty big, and requires a good deal of the OS to be in WinPE that wasn't there originally. 500MB really isn't that large in 2012, though, when it finally RTMs.

In all seriousness, you should use what works for you, but Microsoft is betting that PCs will become mostly obsolete in the coming years, and they are probably correct. Consumers buy more tablets and iPads than ever before, and Microsoft's sales of Windows are stagnant (PCs). Given that tablet-style devices are really still in their infancy, once they become more mature (and an OS like this is sure to help that along), I'm guessing developers will end up needing to learn how to use the new UI (c'mon, it's not that bad - if you stop thinking in old Start Menu terms, it does work), or stick with unsupported software. I would be surprised if there's not a way to disable that in RTM, but I've been wrong before... For what it's worth, I spend my days going to customer sites and seeing how users are migrating IT first-hand, and tablets are the thing. If Microsoft can get on that, they will save the company's bottom line (and make a whole host of very large customers very happy). If they don't do this, Apple will get a larger foothold in enterprises worldwide, moreso than they already have, and Android devices won't be far behind. Like it or not, this is the future. I for one would rather have a PC in tablet form than a toy.

Please don't double-post. Note that these sections aren't as busy as others on the forum, mostly because the programs just don't work as well against Win7 and 2008 R2 (and people are migrating to RT7Lite instead, it seems, to modify their Win7/2008 R2 installs).

If you have the .ETL file available, perhaps you could compress it with 7zip or WinRAR and upload it somewhere so we can take a look. However, if the program is just slow, there's not much you can do. Trip is also correct that running it as a service in Vista/2008+ means it runs as system in session 0, so there's no way to interact with it. If the program needs to be controlled in any way, you won't be able to do it. Also, services behave a little differently in Vista/2008+, hence why srvany is no longer supported.

This should be posted in the vLite section, as once you've modified your OS with vLite it's no longer "normal".

And I have the exact opposite experience - the start pane just "makes sense" to me, and everything is exactly where I'd expect them to be. It works for me either on keyboard/mouse or touch, although I would like to see the ability to disable it simply to sell copies of Windows 8 to folks who are stuck in 1995 .

Yes, it's possible, but if it slows down boot as a program moving it to a service isn't going to make it any better, either. You might find your time better spent using the WPT to get a boot trace and analyze why it is slow before figuring the best way to alleviate user experience.

My (educated) guess would be, probably not, unless you're using setup to deploy the image. Using something else, like imagex to drop it down, would be a big fat "no" .

You mean this thing? Win+F, select apps, type cmd (or just start typing cmd at the start screen). Also, BSODs are easy - just run it in VPC or VirtualBox, and it'll do it for you pretty quickly . And yes, touch screens make a world of difference, but using it with a tablet and a keyboard/mouse attached is frankly VERY useful. I'm thinking this Samsung is going to be my new "laptop" very soon.

Yes, but a whole raft of older 1st-gen Atoms are still 32bit only, and run Windows 7 (and will run Windows 8) just fine. As long as machines like this exist, and MS wants to support them, there'll be a 32bit variant (at least in Win7, there was the "starter" SKU that was 32bit only, not sure if that'll translate to Win8 for developing countries again or not and only time will tell).