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Volume keys and media exist for Tablet PC and are provided to Select and Enterprise customers by calling 1-888-352-7140. There are no volume keys for MCE.

Could these drivers be included in the Driver Pack? The official location of these drivers are http://files.americas.creative.com/manuald...CPatch_LB_3.exe The PCB and all marking look identical to the Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 but the HWIDs is differant

My suggestion if to run RegMon from sysinternals to determine what is putting the key back.

Does your product ID on previous installs match either of the following patterns? XXXXX-640-0000356-23XXX or XXXXX-640-2001765-23XXX

That site is the unofficial translation in Simplified Chinese.

There are 4 files that are differant on the Dell cd than on the hologram CD and 1 additional file (there are other different and additional files but these don't concern us). The files that are diffeant are the 4 oembios.??_ and the added file is winnt.sif. during install winnt.sif tells setup what key to install with. This key is a generic key that is permanently blocked from activation but is allowed for WGA. The oembios files tell Windows that activation is not required on Dell hardware. If you use this CD on non Dell hardware the install should complete but it will require activation. When you attempt to activate you will be prompted to change the key. If you attempt to use a key from one of the top manufacturers you will be blocked from activating online but will be able to activate by phone.

If you have a valid volume licence you can order a media kit. I think media kit cost about $15. you can also just replace the setupp.ini file in the i386 directory

I was searching through the registry to determine where the drive information is kept. I finally found this article Q316529 that mentions that the keys are under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. The really weird thing is that the registry identifies the drive as a CD-R drive and Explorer identifies it as a CD-RW drive.

It could be a memory leak in any service that doesn't have its own exe file. Look at the properties for each running service to see if it uses svchost.exe. Try stopping these services until the memory is released.

The EULA only allows Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 or Windows 98 (Second Edition). It does not allow the use of Windows XP Home or Windows ME. I've never tried using a Pro key on a Home CD. but my Advanced Server Key doesn't work on my Standard Server CD

You can use a generic CD-Key from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...oy/wpadepl.mspx but will have to change it to activate.

It sounds like you have a pirated CD-Key in your i386\winnt.sif file.

Thanks for both of your replies. I wrote the following script the to check for a CD-R drive but it isn't working: ReturnCode=0 strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colCDROMDrive = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_CDROMDrive") For each objCDROMDrive in colCDROMDrive For i = 0 to Ubound(objCDROMDrive.Capabilities) ' Wscript.Echo "CDROMDrive Capabilities: " & objCDROMDrive.Capabilities(i) if objCDROMDrive.Capabilities(i) = 4 then ReturnCode = 1 Next Next 'Wscript.Echo "Return Code: " & ReturnCode Wscript.Quit(ReturnCode) I am getting capabilities of 3 and 7 for a drive Windows recognizes as a CD-RW drive. I am hesitant to use the Caption property unless there is a documented industry-wide naming convention.

It looks like some policies were set. User policies are located under HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft. Computer policies are located under HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft.

It looks like the file D\C\I\ich4id2.inf is missing from DriverPack_Chipset_V511. The ich4id2.cat file is there and references the missing file.

Is there a tool I can use to determine is a CD-R drive is installed in my PC? I an making an unattended setup and only want to install CD burining software if I have a CD-R drive.

It doesn't do anything when it is in a winnt.sif file. If the line is in an unattend.txt file and you start setup from Windows it will check for update during the Windows based "text mode" portion of setup.

I am trying to create a multi-vender preactivated XP CD. During the intall process but before WFP is enabled I will determine the manufacturer and replace the generic oembios files with vendor specific files. I need to know when WFP is enabled because these files are protected. Note to moderators: This inqury is for legitimate purposes.

Internet Exlorere help file. I'm not sure where these entries are actually stored.

The ATI drivers allow you to set the desktop resolution higher than your screen resolution and will "zoom in" to whatever portion of the desktop your mouse is at. When you plug in a projector the driver will recognize the maximum resolution the projector is capable of (using PnP or VESA) but will not change the desktop resolution. The nVidia drivers will lower the desktop resolution if they determine that it is too high for your screen.

The speeds you see during a file transfer are measured at a differant OSI layer. Often the bits come over the wire in a differant order than they were sent. When enough bits come over the driver puts the bits in order and sends them to the application, this is the speed you see during a file transfer.

Did you create a %PROGRAMFILES% enviroment variable? The installer should check for the existance of a %PROGRAMFILES% enviroment variable, If it doesn't exist it should assume the default location as %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files.

Communication speeds are almost always measured in bits.

Its included in the administration pack. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

The boot partition contains the %WINDIR% directory and can be selected during the install. The system partition contains ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini and a few other files and must be on the active partition on the drive that the BIOS boots to. The setup program does not let you choose where to put these files. It would also help if I could see the contents of your boot.ini.