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You're in the wrong section of the registry. All WSUS settings need to be handled through the policies registry key. If you edit these keys directly you also need to restart the service for the new values to take effect.

Here is the registry key. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system] "shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000000

You must be confusing alternating case with camel case.

You can't build a PC based extender, the extender software will only run on specific harware. Here are some examples of what is required: CPU/GPU: ATI Xilleon X225 WMV Decoder: Analog Devices ADSP-BF532SKBCE10 DRM Mangement: Atmel AT90SC3232CS Ethernet: RealTek RTL8139C (or later) WiFi: Intersil/Globespan ISL39200 or Atheros AR5004X With these requirements there is not that much room for customization so all the extenders look very simular.

Thanks for your clarification. When I wrote pre-activated I meant Royalty OEM. I've had mixed results when using the key on the sticker but it always works with the key in the registry, that's why I wrote getkey.vbs (I did not write or know who wrote the getkey function). I've used this method for Home, MCE2005, TabletPC2005, Pro, and Server. BTW the OEMBIOS files for MCE2005, TabletPC2005, and Pro are interchangable and the product keys are interchangable between brands. You can also use the keys found on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...oy/wpadepl.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...y/oempreac.mspx.

Why would you want to integrate this tool? It will run once to check for malicious software (which you shouldn't have on a clean install) and then do nothing until the 2nd tuesday of the next month.

Does your DVD or HD have the I386 and CMPNENTS folders? if so you can build your own install DVD or CD set. See http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=63258 for information about preserving activation when reinstalling

I'm having some difficulty installing the Server Appliance Kit from a batch file called from cmdlines.txt. The line msiexec.exe /i %systemdrive%\sa-wss2003\sasetup30.msi ADDLOCAL="BackEndFramework,WebUI,SetDateAndTime,UsersAndGroups,NetworkSetup,Logs,SystemBackup,AlertEmail,S hutdown,RemoteDesktop,SysInfo,NAS,DisksAndVols,ScheduledDefragmentation,ShadowCopyManagement,Service s" /qn allways fails but if use msiexec.exe /i %systemdrive%\sa-wss2003\sasetup30.msi ADDLOCAL="BackEndFramework,WebUI,SetDateAndTime,UsersAndGroups,NetworkSetup,Logs,SystemBackup,AlertEmail,S hutdown,RemoteDesktop,SysInfo,NAS,DisksAndVols,ScheduledDefragmentation,ShadowCopyManagement" /qn it does work. The only differance between these two lines is the "Services" component. Both lines work from the "Run" dialog box.

The third CD contains Update Rollup 2

Is it safe to start the Windows Installer Service from cmdlines.txt?

I decided to use RegMon to watch what happens when I hit the power button and discovered that Winlogon.exe was attempting to query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\ShutdownWarningDialogTimeout After searcing on google and getting no results I set the value to dword:0 and tried to shutdown and nothing happened then I set the value to dword:1 and the server shut down almonst instantly when I pushed the power button. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows] "ShutdownWarningDialogTimeout"=dword:00000001 This value specifies how long (I think in milliseconds) a user will be warned that other users are using a computer when attempting a shutdown 0=indefinate

I am building a headless server running Windows Storage Server 2003 that I need to be able to shutdown using the power button. I've already disabled the shutdown tracker and enabled shutdown without logon. The only problem is that windows always puts up a confirmatin message box if other users have RDP sessions open. is there any way to tell windows to shutdown even when there are RDP sessions open? I do not want to have to hold the power button down, I need a clean shutdown.

Home Edition does support SMP - as long as the cores are on the same processor

The Home kernal is the same as the Pro kernal and will access both cores. It will not access 2 seperate CPUs due to licensing limitations. Previous home OSs (9x) do not have the capability to access both cores because SMP fuctionality was never built into the kernal

You need Pro for Multi-processor support but even Home will support Multi-core processors.

After some searching I found that setup puts the current drive letter assignments in \$win_nt$.~bt\migrate.inf I deleted this file and now Windows in installing in c:

I have successfully installed Windows but now my hard drive is labeled E: Is the drive "remembering" what is was on the origional PC or there something telling setup to use this drive as E:?

With the introduction od Windows 2003 SP1. Microsoft introduced the ability to boot to WinPE from a USB Drive. I don't think it would be too hard to change the bootloader to pass control over to setupldr.bin.

According to the terms in the OEM EULA you can not reuse the licence. If you activated the first installation within the past 90 days you will probably have to activate by phone.

Thanks. The only thing this method doesn't do is partition and format the new drive, but I can live with that. Now I just have to figure out what needs to be changed in my winnt.sif to be a valid unattend.txt.

Use WGet.

I am trying to install Windows on a computer with no removable storage available. I would like to start the install using the CD-Boot method on another computer and move the hard drive after the text mode portion of setup. I know that I can copy the I386 folder using the $OEM$ folder but how can I make sure that the GUI portion of the setup knows where the source files are?

It looks like TigerDirect is selling MCE 2005 with Update Rollup 2 on the third disk.

Is this documented anywhere and is it freely available? Or do you know what's required to actually do something like this? Also, is it possible to make the call using rundll32? Most of the font related APIs are documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....ontext_9r77.asp

KB article 314960 has a very short list of standard fonts. My guess is that the rest are removable.