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there are callable APIs the Setup.exe uses to select the WIM and extract it from the install.com. take a look at the .chm file in the waik and you will see a help file for theses API calls

this has been noted long ago and one would hope there is a fix in the works, since the bug is in Explorer.exe i would expect it is not something they can change/fix easily even if they know the fix.

Windows will always assign the partition that you install windows to as C: this is independent of what windows XP sees. disk manager should allow you to assign any drive letter that is not in use to that drive. what error do you get when you assign a drive letter?

process explorer then can give you insight to what calls a process are making

i'd hate to say it but you may be just stuck with a wireless card that is not compatible with your router, if it works fine else where and other machines at home work fine on your router, then until new wireless drivers or a new firmware update comes out for the router you are out of luck. sorry not to be able to help more

windbg would be a place to start http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/deb...ng/default.mspx

MDT? Please elaborate. Chris http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

Mike, take a look at the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.as...isplayLang%3den it will make what you are doing much much easier

I'm trying to connect as n (not b or g). When I get home tonight I will try forcing n only. Although that will break the one other computer that uses it. I have one other machine that connects to the wireless. I have tried disabling it to no avail. I haven't had any problems with wireless on other networks. try it both ways as well, force your router to only b or g and force the wireless card to only do B or G as well, then try forcing N for both.

can you actually logon onto the server? if so you can launch Server manager and add the roles that you want to your server. the RSAT (remote server administration tools) were loaded to your machine but you have to choose what tools are installed, go to your add/remove programs and go into windows components. there you will see the Remote Administration tools, add the tools you want and let them install.

What mode are your trying to connect as? (b or g) if you force it too a single mode (either b or g) will it stay connect for longer, do you have any other machines that are connecting to this wireless? if you try to connect to other wireless access points with x60 does it connect fine? lets see if we can't narrow down where the issue is.

Wouldn't it be easier to manage your power settings for the machine through group policy?

i am not quite sure i understand what you are trying to do, could you post a screen shot of the current config so we can see what you are trying to accomplish?

truthfully the mapper and linker will only apply in IP V6 situation but some people find that their router or network tries to respond on IPv6 and it can cause slowness because vista will try and use V6 first... glad to hear you solved the issue!

That didn't work. I took a screenshot of what it looks like in wireshark. You can seen that about 50 seconds after the computer receives the ARP requests it replies to all of them simultaneously. coudl you attach the screen shot so we can see what you is coming across the wire? also have you updated the firmware for the belkin router? are you allowing windows to manage the wireless connection or is it the wireless software from Lenovo?

auto tuning should be disabled to test see if it is causing problems Turn Off netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled Turn Back on netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal

both the mapper and the linker should be listed in the properties for the network card (network and sharing center -> manage network connections -> right click on your NIC and go to properties. the items should be listed there is TCP/IP and the other items available to the NIC

a good way to see how it is done is to down the MDT from microsoft and dissect it and look at the scripts they use to do it or just use the MDT since it will do it for you!

The windows looking pretty doesn't reduce their functionality at all... it does help when you have to stare at something all day, i would take the pretty windows

in vista there is a new start type for services that allow a service to be "delayed" to help free up resources at boot up, problem is depending what applications are loading on your machine you could be causing your self issues with the delayed started. what applications start up on your machine?

Even though your Domain account is an admin, you need to check to see if your account is part of the administrators account on the machine it self. log on as the local administrator and see if your account is part of the local admins group

yeah, you have to fight and show the business that what you are doing will have an huge impact down the road. It is all dollars and ROI to them, if you can show that testing now, will save you tons in troubleshooting, incedents, and lost productivity time. You should be able to convince them that you should be able to get the parts you need

Was it re-authorize the DHCP server to refresh the records on it

This would be an excellant time to look into Microsoft Deployment ToolKit. Using this and the MultiCast Feature in 2008 you could image all your laptops in a relatively short time When logging onto a domain Controller you should only recieve the option to log onto the domain (since there are no local user groups on a DC) you can log onto the DC with any account in the Domain Admins group though.

if you have access to a WinPE or Bart PE disk you could try booting into either of those environments and copying the files you need across to another HD or networked computer