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if you go into the control panel, choose windows color and appearence, from there there is a hyperlink at the bottem of the page to "Open classic appearance properties for more color options" here you can setup the windows classic. I know it is nice to be able to keep the same look for users and keep everything consistent, but remeber users at home are going to get a the Aero setup on their machines, and while that isn't your issue, using Vista one way at home and a different at worl will cause some issues, esp for those people whole are not very good with computers. Just a thought, the GUI will continue to change, at some point your users are going to have to experience the new GUI,

thanks for the notes guys locked out

each time you install vista, weither it be a reinstall or on a new machine, it will count against your MAK key

first, welcome! second, i believe you are talking about Vlite i am going to move the post to the Vlite forum, the folks there can give you a better idea of where you need to start to get working with it

another issue to check would be in the installer folder, (c:\windows\installer) this is hidden by default you can un-hide it by the following steps 1. open a folder and click Tools on the menu options and choose Folder options 2. Click on the View tab and uncheck the hide protected operating system files box (hit ok to the prompt the comes up) 3. change the radio option to show hidden files and folders. 4. hit OK after this done you will see an installed folder in C:\windows, check in here for multpile MSP files. sometimes they get caught up and aren't deleted after a patch is installed you can delete files then end in a .msp extension

isn't realy a vista related question but, creating a RAM disk of that size won't work, why are you making some many changes to images? recompiling an image should be that disk intensive, how big are hte images that you are working with?

trkevig, was there any OS installed prior to this? was this a clean install or an upgrade? is this SATA drive hooked to a Raid controller?

using 3 different brands of ram with different times if going to cause inconsistancies like you are seeing, the timings will play a large role is how consistant the system is

mm his issues isn't that he is over the 3 gig limit for user mode memory, his ram is just reading at hte full 2048 that it should, the Ram chips most likely are not regsitering the full amount of ram on them, happens with chips that aren't up to spec sometimes

shouldn't have t do that, how did you capture your image? did you capture it from a PE environment? (bartpe or winpe?) if not you probably did not capture everything in the image. recapture your image either with the drive slaved in another machine, or from a PE enivronment (prefferable)

Most likely he has the external DNS server 193.78.240.1 either listed as a DNS server in his TCP/IP setting on the NIC that connects this server to the Internet, or in his DNS settings he has this DNS server setup as a forward, check those settings and see if they are there, how does he connect to the internet? could you give a quick breakdown?

you can install all the .Net Framework packages on Vista, at least 32 bit, i have installed 1.1, Sp1, 2.0, no issues, use hte links cluberti provided and you will be able to install them fine

don't worry about the missing memory, could be the OS reporting it incorrectly or the ram is not the best, mine only shows 2038, usually with this small amountage it is something to do with the ram

myspacee, your best bet would be to not mess with sxs files, it will only cause you more headaches then it will be worth,

the trusted installer would still to have rights to read and write those files still, either add it to the admin group, or make sure any files you change that you still give it rights to be able to read and write. this may not be enough no

hard setting a swap file is not a good idea, this doesn't allow the manage the memory as effectivelly. yorkie, what situation are you having where vista tells you that you are running out of memory? or what are you trying to open that won't run? can you give specific situations with as many details to see if we can help you with this

which extra icons are you trying to install?

VLK keys will always activate unless they have been blacklisted, though these should be only in a Coperate environment anyways,

i would still point to flakey drivers, his issue isn't with Memory being low but with CPU usage spiking, Madboy, have you checked on the creative forums yet? i remeber there being a huge there about how terrible the XFi drivers were. not sure if anything has changed since then or not

the only way to make this work would be save the WIM file on your DVD (instal.WIM) download the WAIK from MS and take the WIM and break it into sections,

every one needs to go take a read to jan, and Feb's technet magazine http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/default.aspx has a 3prt EXCELLENT article written by Mark Russionovich on vista internals, on dexters last note about allowing vista to control the Page file size this is very important now as vista will also Dynamically assign the the Kernel address space, if you have statically set your page file, vista cannot optimally adjust it to work with the changes it is making when it changes the space that has been set aside for the kernel address space "Vista also introduces the concept of low-priority I/O, which enables background processes to run with lower-priority access to the hard disk drive than other programs. That means better performance while running multiple apps. If you've tried the latest Diskeeper and found that it doesn't decrease the system performance at all- well thats how apps in vista run, the OS has a built in IO-Smart / InvisiTasking kinda feature" This is the Standby list, it was part of Xp but was not priority based it is now broken into 8 priorities 0 - 7 that can be applied to memory

what kind of video card are you running? how much ram does it have on it?

Hamins, if you can, have the DFS root running from the R2 Machine, DFS in R2 is much more efficent then with SP1, as long as the DFS root is the R2 machine, it can work with teh 2003 SP1 machine, it would also future proof your DFS as you already would know it is compatible with R2 for when you upgrade your other machine

You need 25 unique computers connected at once to activate and use the KMS server, it does not just count vista computers that have activated with it. so you will need to get vista onto 25 computers

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_...ile-System.html an excellant article on DFS, basically with DFS, you will create a "Root" namespace what will encompass all filesshares that you want users to be able to connect to through a single unique path for all users. read the article and let me know ifyou have any questions