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Well, technically, just because the key wasn't leaked to the internet doesn't mean it's not illegal. Also, it's illegal to give someone a copy of a Windows CD period, let alone a copy without a COA and PID. So, whether or not the key is "legal" is irrelevant, the CD used to install XP is highly suspect (even OEM kits and keys come with hologram packed media to give out with new PCs, although the master media belongs to the OEM).Get a new CD/key and use a legal copy of XP, or get the one he purchased from his "friend" (if he did purchase it, he is due one, legally).

Down to about once a day, and thankfully only when I close IE and come back. I haven't had it happen during a visit in a day or so, which is fine by me.

WDS actually doesn't have a WMI provider interface at all, unfortunately. In fact, there's not even API functions for the WDS console or the server hosting the images, only the client and server functions (PXE Boot, etc). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530729(VS.85).aspx

Neither of those events are run on synch or blocking threads, it's all async. Therefore, neither event should "lock up" your PC. If it really *is* hanging up when this happens, it's very much more likely that there's a driver problem, below explorer.exe (kernel-mode driver, LSP on the network stack, etc) that is misbehaving. Again, these operations are done on async threads that simply report back to the caller after a time, so these would not have any way to block the OS (in fact, unless someone or something blocks the waiting thread, it's impossible).

Correct, I think the plan was x64 7 and nothing else. We'll have to wait and see what the RCs and release look like. I guess if there's enough demand (complaining) about an x86 version, it'll exist.

If Vista is gone and the CPU has "shut down" (whatever that means), then this wouldn't specifically be a Vista problem (the kernel's gone once the shutdown command completes and everything unloads). I am moving this to the hardware section where more eyeballs with experience on this can see it.

Having an NTFS filesystem doesn't make your system more or less secure, it's just a filesystem. Yes it provides alternate data streams and such to "hide" files, or can provide security ACLs to lock files down, perhaps, but it doesn't make the system any more or less secure - the same theoretical security issue in 2K that allowed the bad code in will be exploitable at a system level, regardless of filesystem. So is Windows, but you're using that. I fail to see the issue, although I usually do. True, but NTFS is a journaled filesystem, and in almost all cases will be able to recover itself (and your files). FAT filesystems are not, and will not. Honestly, unless you need access to the volume by other OSes on the same machine that can't read NTFS, you should use NTFS.

Considering your security access token(s) is/are granted during logon (and during logon only), what you want to do is not possible. You need the user to log off and back on to get their security token(s) changes.

Right - the network services svchost (netsvcs) has crashed, which will take down all services running inside it. Most should restart, but at least one (the server service) will not until the system is rebooted - because srv.sys is the driver the server service loads into the system, and when a crash in the service occurs the srv.sys driver does not get unloaded. It is still running, but no longer talking to the server service - and for security reasons, only one copy can be running at any time, meaning it can no longer be unloaded and reloaded, thus the reboot requirement. What I would suggest is a userdump dump of the svchost.exe process crashing: 1. Download the userdump executable, located here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en 2. Double-click the downloaded .exe file to extract the userdump installation files. By default, these will extract to C:\kktools\userdump8.1. Please click "Yes", then "Unzip" to extract the files. 3. Double-click the "setup.exe" file located in C:\kktools\userdump8.1\x86 to install the userdump utility. Please select the defaults when possible, and make certain to select the "Enable dump on process termination" feature when prompted. NOTE: You may need to reboot the machine at this point for the installation to complete successfully. 4. Create a folder called C:\userdump. 5. Once installed, you will find a new icon in your control panel called "Process Dump". Please open this utility. 6. When the userdump window opens, please click the "New" button. 7. Please enter "svchost.exe" in the "Application name:" dialog box, and click "OK". 8. Click on the new listing for "svchost.exe", and click the "Rules" button. 9. Select the "Use custom rules" radio button. 10. Type "C:\userdump" in the "Dump file folder" dialog box. 11. Click the "Monitor Process Exit" box 12. Change the "MiniDump Type" to "Complete". 13. Click the "OK" button. 14. Click the "Apply" button, then click "OK". The next time svchost.exe crashes, it should create a .dmp file (or series of .dmp files) in C:\userdump.

If you open the event ID error in the event log, the text of it should say something along the lines of failed to load dllname with <GUID> (where GUID will be a long string). The GUID will tell which dll is not registered or installed properly.

Can you post the GUID in the error? Just an event id and a dll name does not help...

The SP2QFE branch will install on SP3, as will the SP2GDR branch. The branch is determined by the AnalyzeForBranching phase of setup, and even on SP3 systems, certain hotfixes (mostly IE) are still being built from the SP2xxx branches for now.

My car actually gets it's best mileage on premium at 74mph, but you are correct - driving 80+mph in almost any vehicle is a waste of gas.

The thread is from January 2006, with no posts from Feb 2006 to April 2008, and again resurrected in November 2008 without a response from the OP (I'm quite sure by this time he/she has moved on). Closing.

I've got a desktop where M3 and later builds bugcheck during install, but others (with different/newer Intel chipsets) that don't exhibit the problem. I'd suggest reporting the driver bugs to Microsoft, because that's likely the ultimate culprit.

If that was the case, hfnetchk would report all XP systems with IE7 as missing the hotfix. That's just silly, hfnetchk isn't at fault, the install of IE7 is.

I'm not sure that's the case - note that the binary versions it's checking against are 6.x versions (the reported greater than/less than versions), yet IE7 is installed. This would indicate a failure of a complete IE7 install rather than a false-positive. The machine still thinks it's running IE6, not IE7, it would seem.

No, only OEM and retail. There are no VLK versions of anything other than Professional.

I voted Microsoft. And companies aren't "mean", but they can be ruthless. In capitalism, this is considered a "good" thing until you become too big, and then it's "not good". You can't put morality on a company when the name of the game for ALL involved is to make money, as much as possible, for as long as possible. It changes behavior.

Note that when you change the PID, you aren't changing the version of Windows on the disc - only the types of license keys it will accept. It is not technically the same thing.

And Exchange 2007 had an x86 version until release. We won't know for sure if Win7 will release in both flavors until release (or until Microsoft says it will release a 32bit version).

Start outlook.exe manually with the /rpcdiag switch.

New Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 build has it in %windir%\system32 as version 6.0.6001.18000. The screenshot here shows version .22291, which appears to come from KB958652. So, if you don't have it by default, install 958652. However, I'm not sure how a Vista build is missing this file, as the hotfix installs for all versions (including the basic variants). I guess it's possible, though - maybe the folks who don't have it are running a specific Vista build or version?

Every 4ish hours, it happens, regardless of whether or not you click the "Remember me" link. Just FYI for those who are submitting that as a solution - it's not. Stop.

Well, replacing the 6.0L engine with something more economical, and reducing weight (I think that by default, an H2 is 6400lbs), would be a good start. Honestly, a 3.0L diesel turbo would give almost identical power and torque, with more than double the gas mileage. If you're looking for a silver bullet device, it doesn't exist - there are computer replacements out there that can give you a few mpg back, so that'd be where I'd start if an engine swap isn't something you're interested in .