IcemanND

What happens if you disable all of your startup applications? there are some that will try and take over usb devices exclusively instead of allowing the OS to handle them.

what drive letters do you have now? without a device plugged in and what are they? Any network drives? If the next drive letter after the last physical drive in your machine is used for a network drive the system will still try and use that drive letter for a physical drive when added to the system like a usb device.

then there must be more than one way to create an admin install point. Mine have and included MST file which has the key and can be edited. Have you looked at the msi with ORCA to see if the key can be found with it?

Yes it should, and assuming it can access all of the folders in your devicepath and the drivers are signed and laid out correctly it should install them. There is a limit to the length of the devicepath string in the answer files.

you could mount the remote machines hard drive and scan it, but that won't check the active processes in memory on that machine. I don't know of any consumer products that will, there may be some enterprise products that might. You could make a BartPE CD with virusscan and scan it offline, or get the UBCD and do it.

Does your computer support hardware DEP? Did you make changes to you install media, removed components, added thing, etc? What is DEP currently set to on your machine in the system properties, and in the boot.ini?

Likely you are getting a bsod on the hard disk controller driver missing.

check your event viewer for messages related to chkdsk it should list there what it found/happened

It all depends what you named it. The extension is MST.

Actually in 2003 the serial number is stored in clear text in the created answer file and can be edited in a text editor as long as you don't change anything else. 2007 this is not the case.

This will not account for duplicate lines in File 2 but I if as you say all the lines are the same except for the lookup value then it should not make a difference. Option Explicit Const For_Reading = 1 Const For_Writing = 2 Const For_Appending = 8 Dim dictFile2 Dim File1 Dim File2 Dim File3 Dim objFSO Dim strNextLine Dim arrNextLine set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set dictFile2 = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary") 'change path and file name as needed set File1 = objFSO.OpenTextFile("File1.txt",For_Reading) set File2 = objFSO.OpenTextFile("File2.txt",For_Reading) Set File3 = objFSO.CreateTextFile("File3.txt",For_Writing) do until File2.AtEndofStream strNextLine = File2.Readline arrNextLine = split(strNextLine," ") 'change (3) to zero based position of lookup value in file 2 if not dictFile2.exists(arrNextline(3)) then dictFile2.add arrNextLine(3), strNextLine end if loop do until File1.AtEndofStream strNextLine=File1.Readline arrNextLine = split(strNextLine," ") 'change (10) to zero based position of lookup value in file 1 if dictFile2.exists(arrnextline(10)) then 'change (10) to zero based position of lookup value in file 1 file3.WriteLine dictFile2.item(arrNextLine(10)) end if loop file1.close file2.close file3.close set objFSO = nothing set dictFile2 = nothing set File1 = nothing set File2 = nothing set File3 = nothing

There are a number of ways to accomplish this but here's an outline of one of them. Read Text file 2 into a dictionary object, the key would be you value in position 4, and the associated item the full line of text. then read text file 1 and as you read it check to see if the value of position 11 exists in the dictionary, if it does add the associated dictionary item to text file 3.

there is not one already within office. there may be tools out there that will do this for you. Or you could create your own macro to do it.

I won't redo the whole line but you should get the idea: =if (Left(C1,2)="TT","FM",if(Left(C1,2)="NR","SF","None"))

are you mapping by name or IP address?

http://www.subnet-calculator.com/

what model belkin router?

what do you mean by images? To some that would be a picture to others that would be a copy of a hard drive or other media.

if your base os the you are running when you kick off the install does not support long file names you will either have to rename the file after copy, or find another way to handle the name change.

how are you starting your install? By the looks of it your running it from a network share? From what startup OS?

I have experienced no issues with long file names being copied during the windows xp install.

be sure that you have long filenames enabled when burning your cd or creating your ISO.

Sorry, that was for 9x/ME systems. It appears Microsoft in their infinite wisdom did not include this for XP, at least not n an easy way. You can rename/delete/change the permissions on windows\system32\devmgmt.msc so that users can't launch it. But that only half solves the problem. Because you can still get the device manager when you launch the computer management console. To remove it from here do the following: 1. open windows\system32 and find devmgmt.msc 2. right click on devmgmt.msc and select Author 3. Now select File 4. Add/Remove Snap-in 5. Select the Extensions Tab 6. Uncheck Add all extensions 7. In available extensions list box uncheck Device manager extension 8. Click OK 9. Verify the Device Manager no long appears under System Tools. 10. Close Computer Management and Save changes on exit. A user with admin rights could reverse this process though.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\SystemChange Value of: NoDevMgrPage (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

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