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Setting up trusts is not hard, but you have to make sure you do it right. It's probably your safest bet: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...t1/adogd05.mspx

This is actually the default behavior - RIS will use a local account for logon after install, regardless of domain logon. You'll have to use registry modifications to make this work. It's been discussed here a few times before .

I wouldn't lie to you

Vista x86 will also not see anything above 4GB - you need a higher-end server OS to use PAE on x86 (or just run x64).

Running netstat -o in a command prompt will show you open connections, and the PID of the application responsible for the connection.

Also not necessarily true - if the BIOS reports the 4GB memory address boundary as somewhere lower than 4GB, only a 64bit OS or a 32bit OS with PAE support will see most (but likely still not all) of the RAM. It has nothing to do with the OS, and everything to do with the underlying system hardware without regard to either a 32bit or 64bit processor. This issue is ENTIRELY a hardware issue - mostly BIOS, but also video RAM shadowing (we'll see more of this in Vista with higher-end cards becoming the norm) will cause RAM to not be available to the OS as well.

Which one of these posts would you like to keep? This one, or the the one in the Networks and the Internet forum? We frown on double-posting here.

Did you build this UA cd from your original before it was scratched, or did you build it from a different media (either downloaded or borrowed)? Also, is your current valid CD key one that came with your computer from the manufacturer, or did you buy it retail from a store?

If you remove (not disable) your antivirus and antispyware software, does the problem persist after a reboot?

Moving to more appropriate forum - hopefully someone here familiar with this can assist.

You use cmdlines.txt or [setupParams] to launch at T-12 or T-9. You will NOT be able to install 99% of the applications out there at T-39 - almost NONE of the OS is installed at this point.

If you don't install a display driver from the OemPnpDriversPath that is valid for the machine, it will default to 640 x 480, no exceptions. You NEED to have a valid, extracted driver set in the OemPnpDriversPath, or have a video card that works out of the box (and you won't in VMWare or VirtualPC / Virtual Server), otherwise the [Display] portion of winnt.sif will not be used.

Windows embedded is meant for embedded and special-purpose devices. It doesn't contain a lot of the features of XP, but can boot from a CD or network device. If you look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded, you can read up on this.

Video RAM shadowing, BIOS hot-add memory reservations, PCI-E and PCI-X slots - all of those things chew up RAM because they get reserved on boot. If you run msinfo32 from start > run, how much "Total Physical Memory" does it show? If it shows 4GB (~4029 or higher), then it's a BIOS issue.

LOL - shows how much I remember. I guess I just don't like JIT runtime environments - Java, .NET, etc. To each his or her own, but I'll stick with what has worked for decades before I jump to anything where I don't have control over all of my own code .

I'm moving this to a more appropriate forum where more people interested in this will be exposed to it. Nice program, btw .

Well, if you aren't on your network (only VPN connected), then you'll need to set your DNS and/or WINS servers for that connection to a DNS and/or WINS server that knows about the hosts on that network. Depending on the VPN connection and software you're using, this may or may not be done automatically (but from what you're saying your symptoms are, I'd guess the latter).

If you can, then, get an adplus -crash application dump of the iexplore.exe process.

No, you need a Windows Server OS to run a WINS server on a Windows machine - but you could run it on a Linux box .

If the salesperson at Fry's did not give you a COA when XP or Office 2003 were installed, Fry's could be in legal hot water (being a US company) - especially if this is "common practice" to other customers of that store. If you marched down to Fry's with the machine and explained the issue, you could probably get yourself another copy, or at least your COA. You might also want to call Microsoft, as any XP or Office purchase MUST come with the COA, and unless they're a really large royalty OEM (which they're not), hologram CD media. If you don't have one (or both), you don't have a legal copy. If you purchased this from a vendor (online or off), they broke the law in the US and owe you whatever it was they didn't give you (the COA, hologram media, or both!).

It requires a PS/2 keyboard and a reboot - perhaps you have a USB keyboard?

Since the system process is just a placeholder for kernel activity, I'd say it's a kernel proess (likely a filter driver). Can you generate a complete memory dump, and then let us know when you've got it?

If your home is wired with RJ45 jacks, you can plug a phone line into one end at the patch in your wiring "closet", and use the other RJ45 end to plug a phone line into for dialup or voice, but you can't mix & match with an RJ45 cable in one end and an RJ11 phone cable in the other, if that's what you mean.

Have you tried launching IE manually from a command prompt with this command? "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -extoff

Close all IE windows, and try launching IE like this manually from a command prompt: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -extoff or, for x64 versions of Windows: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -extoff Does the problem happen in the new IE spawned?