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I think that's because most people know that the only true way to put something back is to not remove it in the first place. Sorry I can't help further, but it seems you really wanted a response .

See these posts: Deployment of Windows using MDT 2010 Default product keys for Windows (Vista/2008 and Win7/2008R2)

1. Please do not double-post. 2. In almost all countries (yours included), the only place you can legally download a copy of Windows is from Microsoft, and they make no "lite" versions. Sorry, violation of the very first rule of the forums as well. Banned.

1. Please do not double-post. 2. In almost all countries (yours included), the only place you can legally download a copy of Windows is from Microsoft, and they make no "lite" versions. Sorry, violation of the very first rule of the forums as well. Banned.

Try installing Fiddler and getting a trace of the visit to MSFN (after clearing the cache) - since your login info is stored in a cookie, it'd be interesting to see what happens during the process of visiting the site if you're stuck logged in.

Yes.

Please do not use nLite (or vLite, for that matter) for non-personal use as specified in it's EULA (emphasis mine): Also, using nLite on a Windows source may violate the EULA for Windows (Microsoft doesn't support modified copies of Windows with non-Microsoft tools), so closing this topic.

Good!

The only time I remember people complaining of this problem after the changeover was when the MSFN cookie wasn't deleted from the browser's cache - the old cookies "sort of" work, but this is the behavior you run into. Have you cleared out the cache completely for the browser to be sure you're not using the old cookie?

It might be best (long term) to put that into a cmd file rather than calling the command line directly, that way you can at least add some debugging to it.

1. The only place you'd be able to download OEM files from would be your own machine - otherwise, that would be redistribution of files that would violate the eula (and of course the forum rules), so let's nip that one in the bud. 2. The making of a "new" OEM pre-activated installation disc / source was just posted about this recently in the Win7 forum - check it out.

I don't remember specifics off of the top of my head, but this behavior reminds me of similar behavior of an older virus/worm that shows up after installation of a service pack due specifically to some of the changes that SP2 and SP3 do to a system during install, thus causing the malicious code to "break" and start to show up obviously in task manager like this with those two specific binaries over and over, and should be treated as such. In task manager, on the processes tab, if you click view > select columns, one of the options is "Command Line". I am guessing you'll see either services.exe or cmd.exe being started from somewhere other than \Windows\System32, which would indicate for sure the infection.

The Idle "process" is just that - it's the time the CPU is IDLE, not doing anything, so I'm sure that's not what's causing your CPU issue. However, svchost.exe is a "SerViCe HOST" process that can host multiple (usually similar) services in one binary process (usually to save on resource use, but sometimes also for ease of sharing thread data between two or more services). It would be best to know WHICH svchost.exe process is causing this first (use Process Explorer to try and see inside of it to get an idea of which thread or threads seems to be causing the CPU usage), and we can go from there.

To the OP, it's worth noting you're running SP1 beta. Please upload the .dmp file somewhere we can get to it to analyze it, but be aware this may be a beta bug that you won't get around without compatible drivers from whatever driver caused this.

The only versions capable of running OCT are Professional Plus and Enterprise volume license versions. MSDN downloads of PP seem to work fine, so I'm wondering if the Technet version is a retail version and not a VL version.

The problem with that one is that it's either not going to contain the full driver software compared to previous "IT pro" versions, or you'll get the full driver + software and get random issues on clients that don't also have the full software installed. However, the basic driver will work fine from the server, so it's worth investigating if the feature set is enough to use, or if you need something "more" in the driver (in which case you need the inbox driver, or the full package installed on both clients and server).

This is actually starting to get fairly common - it looks like the last version of the driver they released for server/enterprise use was 9.0.0, and the later versions for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 are shipping with windows (it's on WU for 2008 R2, but it's actually on the Win7 disc natively). The problem with getting an update from WU is that generally you must have an older driver for it to update to the newer software. What I would recommend, in this case, would be to add the print queue to your 2008 R2 server remotely from a Windows 7 client (browse to \\server, open the printers folder, and add the queue and driver from there) - selecting to create the Standard TCP Port, and browse to HP in the vendor list. You'll see the K8600 driver listed there amongst the other OfficeJet Pro listings, and this will copy the driver from Win7 to the print server when the queue is created, thus giving the driver you need.

Good point - I was all caught up distinguishing between x86 and x64 Win7, without paying attention to the fact the goal is to run Win7 drivers on a 2008 R2 box .

They're basically the same in any ways that would affect a driver unless you're talking about loading an unsigned kernel driver on an x64 machine.

You miss the point of questions like this - it's not to get the correct answer, it's so the interviewer can "see" how the interviewee thinks, and what kind of mental horsepower he or she has. You get asked logic questions with less-than-obvious answers (and ridiculous situations) partially because they would never happen in real life, so you have to really think hard about your answers. You miss the point of the questions entirely. Asking someone things they already know will only tell you certain things about a person. If you want to find out also how well they react to odd situations, or how someone thinks on their feet, asking questions you would reasonably expect an interviewee to know gets you nothing. Again, you miss the point of asking these types of questions in the first place - it's fairly common in a dev interview to get dev questions, logic questions, and interpersonal-type questions. Assuming you're a decent dev, and not a complete jerk, the only part that will be "hard" will be the logic questions, and it's something that can get you a job or lose you a job, honestly, as most other interviewees who make it past the first screening are also likely decent at their job (at least), and are problably decent people as well.

Correct - and google search doesn't impact our servers, whereas search on this site does - we require membership if you're going to use our CPU resources .

Might want to boot in safe mode after uninstalling McAfee on one of the machines to see if it starts working again.

Have you considered going back to a restore point prior to the installation of Adobe Premier?

Look in the Unattended Windows 7 forum, questions like this have been answered (and stickied) already.

I would recommend Pro if you use the features or need to join a domain. Also, what 32bit app won't run under WoW64? It's probably worth documenting here for others.