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Forefront client security beta ("Stirling"). And yes, that works on Win7 , so it's likely morro will.

Sorry, but the P4 really isn't very good for anything nowadays (can't speak to the 512MB of RAM - should be fine for XP). Honestly, I'd build up the cash flow for a HTPC box with a 3xxx silent card, a decent Core2 Duo or Quad, and 2-4GB of RAM. Heck, get a good tuner card (like a Radeon Theater 650 Pro) and you can have an MCE box too, either XP or (better) Vista HTPC box.

I would suggest a Radeon 3xxx or 4xxx HD card, with the Avivo chipset. It will do the h.264 decoding on the video card with software that supports it (I believe PowerDVD 8.0 Ultimate does, for instance).

If you plan on having a network connection throughout, consider using the netinst ISO image - it is ~160MB, and contains only the base system and packages. The rest will be downloaded from a mirror via apt-get during install.

Was this MSDN media, or other? I have this problem with all the MSDN 2008 images I've tried, yet the retail ISO I use has no such problems.

Get a dump of the process crashing and then compress it and upload it somewhere - then we can try to determine what is happening.

I've never found the need to clean the registry in XP as I did in 9x systems, but I have found that almost everyone complaining of slow XP systems either has a million unnecessary things running at boot (either in the taskbar or as services, startup items, etc), and drives are heavily fragmented. Defrag and use autoruns to disable / remove anything you don't deem necessary before monkeying with the registry .

Is this a stock Vista install, or has it been modified in any way prior to install?

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=117154

Since the system account is supposed to only ever log on to session 0 to run services, if you're actually seeing it LOG ON to a desktop, you've got a serious problem that could very well be malicious. If you run process explorer, can you see anything out of the ordinary running when this occurs? Also, when exactly did this behavior start?

The new motherboard - is it using the same chipset as the old? If not, you're going to be SOL without running sysprep from the old machine.

Looks like it's an XP Pro (RTM) upgrade disc, and probably a retail disc too. 012 must have been in the retail channel at some point way, way back when, because I can't find any evidence it exists anymore (well, at least after SP2). I'm assuming your install media is RTM or SP1 integrated, and not SP2 or SP3 integrated.

What product code are you seeing? 012 might be like 006 was, a special promotion version or some other non-volume or special licensing run.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913086

LOL

He might also want to try building this in a VM - considering it's Vista, a VM package that can take snapshots would probably be better than recapturing images over and over. Since it's Vista, and sysprep'ing a final image removes hardware info, it's far less a problem (perhaps not a problem at all anymore) to build an image from a VM.

Yes, I use windbg.

My problem is, most of what I'm working on are actual web apps (either ajax or actual older POS code, or webbrowser control stuff). I'd love to just do it via CSS, but sometimes (OK, a lot of times) it's not enough based on the customer environment. Ask jcarle, he knows a little of my personal hell .

Something like HelpCenter Live, Chatwo, or EveryChat for instance?

Well, considering I do this sort of for a living, I do tend to design 2 sites - one for IE8 and FF/Gecko/et. al (yes, I want to be ready for IE8), and one for IE6 and IE7. I know the sites that are fully compliant generally run awful in IE6 and 7, so that's why I have to have pages that work for both (either comingled in the same site, or using browser detection to serve up the right page if it gets complicated). So whilst compliance is very nice (and does mean it will render correctly in Opera, webkit, and newer FF versions), I also face reality when the majority of the people who interface with these sites are running IE6 or IE7.

Considering these use wininet.dll for networking, and removing IE also removes this binary (and all of it's associated connection registry blobs it uses) you're gonna have a tough go of it. If you put the msfeeds, wininet, and urlmon dll files back in system32 and re-register them (and if x64, the 32bit versions back in syswow64 and re-reg those as well), does it work? Note that IE also installs other RSS binaries, of which there are many, so just this may not work. You may actually have to keep IE if you wish to use RSS (my money's on the latter, but you can try the .dll re-reg to see what happens). Just to reiterate, note the parent interface (IFeed) to the COM objects and the minimum availability requirements down below: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686325(VS.85).aspx Removing IE effectively removes RSS, as RSS is built on the IE platform and wininet.

Do you have a network trace of the client machine whilst IE is trying to attach to one of these pages? Also, do other browsers work, and just IE fails, or do other browsers fail as well? Also, are you configured to use a proxy in the Internet Explorer settings (or does the network you're VPN'ing into require proxy config)?

USB ports generally are shown to the OS as a USB hub device (unless you've got two motherboard USB controllers), so it shouldn't matter (driver-wise) which port it's plugged into. Are these other ports on the back of the PC, or on a hub or attached to the monitor, etc? Is there anything special about these USB ports vs others you've tried? I've seen some funky things with motherboard USB controllers where only certain ones had enough juice to power things like USB mice and external USB HDD enclosures.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums...1-5df58d846bff/ Does that help? Looks like you aren't the only one with the problem, and this guy (same problem, same steps taken to get there) appears to have solved it with bcdedit.

This actually looks a little different - it appears your video driver has passed in bad parameters to a window draw function, vSolidFillRect. From the loaded module list, it looks like you're running an nvidia driver: 1: kd> lmivm nvlddmkm start end module name fffffa60`03a08000 fffffa60`04310980 nvlddmkm (deferred) Symbol file: nvlddmkm.sys Image path: nvlddmkm.sys Image name: nvlddmkm.sys Timestamp: Tue Oct 07 17:57:15 2008 (48EBDB3B) CheckSum: 0090E3AE ImageSize: 00908980 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e0 0409.04b0 0409.04e0 Does it crash if you change your video driver to "Standard VGA" and uninstall the nVidia drivers?