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I've purchased these for users that didn't want to go through a reinstall. Since you are planning to reinstall anyway I'd suggest buying an OEM copy and editing the setupp.ini file if needed.
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No...None of the Home SKU's support Domain Join.....you'll need one of the Business Versions or Ultimate.
I 'm not trying to join a domain, I just want to stay in a domain.
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Can I use a Home Premium Upgrade to install over Windows XP MCE that is a domain member and still retain domain membership?
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Change your AU settings to prompt you to install instead of installing automatically. When propmpted choose a custom install and deselect the Service Pack and tell it never to install it, then you can change your AU settings back to automatic install.
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You can order media directly from MS. I think it must be within 60 days of activation.
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Does anyone know what the vista licence says about installing it on my desktop and laptop simultaneously? and what if i upgrade my pc in six months(new HD, more ram etc). What does it say about that?
Thanks
The only EULA that allows you to install an additional copy on a portable computer is the Retail (not OEM) license for productivity software. OS licences have always been 1 per computer.
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I only got the x86 Business Upgrade DVD (LRMCFRE_EN_DVD) and I'm in the USA. The license chart included with the Janurary kit doesn't mention what CPU it is for.
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I messed with my registry keys and told by a website to make my computer performance a little better but recently I have noticed that my computer just randomly cuts off; almost like a hibernation but wont come back from it. I believe it had to do something with the "hangtime" registry key. But who knows... maybe I can get them back to default or someone knows what I can do to my registry key to fix the problem... Thanks you guys!
Run the program again while regmon is running so you know what keys it messes with. You might be able to just delete the keys it changes and windows will use the default values. Post what keys are being messed with and hopefully someone will know if it safe to just delete that key.
There is also a posibilty that the program you used contains some malware. What program did you use?
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its not mce or tabletpc which is what confused me.
i made my cd using my xp disk from my other computer and put my dell oembios files and setupini on aswell. i used the dell key for my 1st try and it asked for disk 2, then i tryed "Windows XP Professional 32 bit" cd-key from the technet article mentioned in one of the 1st posts and it still asked for a disk but it accepted my oem cd.
It sounds like your missing one (or more) of the tag files. You should have the following tag files in the root of your CD:
WIN51
WIN51IP
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I had no problem with Dell OEM CD (Win XP), I used nLite to slipstream and create an ISO. Works beautifully on any Dell we have in house.
I have been having problems with Compaq OEM CD because of the 2-CD system of recovery to factory settings. I think the OEMBIOS files are on the Recovery CD, separate from the XP CD, both which shipped with the units, but I'm confident that I can solve this one now that I know about the OEMBIOS files. I will try the Getfile.bat trick tomorrow, and hopefully have a One-CD recovery system.
We also have several IBM Netvista PCs. IBM gave me a 4-CD set of recovery disks. None of the CD's are called WinXP, they are just CD1 to CD4. I tried to copy the CDs and they didn't work. Has anyone had any luck with slipstreaming for Netvista?
Regards
David
Since you already have a working CD for Dell systems, just use that as the source for your Compaq and IBM CDs. Just replace the Dell OEMBIOS files with the Compaq or IBM files. If you don't have a working installation you can get the files from my OEMBIOS Repository
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What exactly sets the region, is it media player? Because it is not drive itself - simply inserting disk in the drive, or browsing files with Windows explorer doesn't set the region.
If it is a player, what rights it have to change hardware settings without my permission, is it mentioned somewhere in the license agreement(I could not find anything)? I am about sure that WMP10 did not do that automatically, but maybe I am wrong.
Anyway, it seems to me like too much over the limits of acceptable.
The player needs to set the region before it can play region coded DVDs. I beleive that almost all players will set the initial region without asking the user. Subsequent changes will ask the user and the final change will provide an additional warning.
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I received a positive report from someone who has been using oemscan on Windows XP Professional X64 Edition
He ended up with a nice pre-activated install
That is great news.
So does x64 have it's own set of oembios files or do they use the same ones as XP x86 as well? Anybody have a repository for other oembios files? I want to run some tests but I have none of the oembios sets from any of the oter systems besides x86 XP. x64 uses the same files as x86.
Which is actually quite strange
The orginal Windows XP Professional X64 COA OEM disc holds 3 files which exactly match the Server 2003 COA/Retail set
Are you refering to the x64 CD or the IA64 (Itanium) CD? Actually for a Retail or MnP OEM CD (x86 or x64) it doesn't matter what files are used, any failure would just require activation. For IA64 it also doesn't matter because activation isn't needed (or so I've been told).
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I received a positive report from someone who has been using oemscan on Windows XP Professional X64 Edition
He ended up with a nice pre-activated install
That is great news.
So does x64 have it's own set of oembios files or do they use the same ones as XP x86 as well? Anybody have a repository for other oembios files? I want to run some tests but I have none of the oembios sets from any of the oter systems besides x86 XP. x64 uses the same files as x86.
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The only thing the user can choose is the "user name", the "organization name" and the first account username... but I want that my CD asks these information only when the setup finishes installing Windows (like the pre-installed Windows in HP and other notebooks).
Make a fully unattended setup with 1 automatic login and run SysPrep from GuiRunOnce.
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On line 3 when it is not commented out I get an invalid syntax error.
On line 11 I get "cannot use parentheses when calling a sub". If I don't put the parenthesis in there it gives expected end of statement.
This might work:
On Error Resume Next
For I = 0 To 9999
If WshShell.RegRead ("HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) & "\Afterburner") = "1" then
WshShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) & "\Works", "1", "REG_SZ"
End If
NextIf you run RegMon you will see that this is not efficiant but it looks like it should work.
I don't care about the efficiency too much.
I am using this reg key
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}020]"Afterburner"="1"
I tested this script
Didn't work for me and I also did a regmon and I don't see any activity in this location:On Error Resume NextFor I = 0 To 9999
If WshShell.RegRead ("HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) & "\Afterburner") = "1" then
WshShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) & "\Works", "1", "REG_SZ"
End If
Next
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}
Oops I forgot this line:
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")It should be the first line
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On line 3 when it is not commented out I get an invalid syntax error.
On line 11 I get "cannot use parentheses when calling a sub". If I don't put the parenthesis in there it gives expected end of statement.
This might work:
On Error Resume Next
For I = 0 To 9999
If WshShell.RegRead ("HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) & "\Afterburner") = "1" then
WshShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) & "\Works", "1", "REG_SZ"
End If
NextIf you run RegMon you will see that this is not efficiant but it looks like it should work.
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Problem with On Error Resume Next is that your code will not be working efficiently. Any number of ill-effects can occur with that in each function or procedure.
The reason I put it there is because RegRead will raise an error if the value I'm looking for doesn't exist and I want to ignore these errors.
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I'm not sure if the syntax is correct but this should get you started.
On Error Resume Next
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
On Error GoTo NoMoreKeys
For I = 0 To 9999
WshShell.RegRead "HKLM\...\" & Trim(Format(I+1,"0000")) & "\"
Next
NoMoreKeys:
On Error Resume Next
For I = I To 1 Step -1
If WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\...\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) "\...")="Value"
WshShell.RegWrite "HKLM\...\" & Trim(Format(I,"0000")) "\...", "Value", "Type"
End If
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Does this do a complete uninstall? Older versions would just get your computer to a state where you could safely reinstall the program. I remember having to use the removal tool to remove broken installations and then reinstall and uninstall to clean the system.
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I think this is more relevent:
Original Equipment ManufacturerMicrosoft original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners use a hardware security module (HSM), software, and an ID parameter that the OEM chooses to generate a public key, which Microsoft uses to create a unique OEM signing certificate. The certificate, along with special BIOS tables and product keys specific to the OEM and its particular product, is used to activate an installed version of the Windows Vista operating system and tie it to an OEM’s specific hardware.
Advantages of OEM activation include permanent activation, activation without connecting to any activation provider, and the ability for OEMs to use custom media images. (The recovery media is also activated.) Drawbacks for the customer are the need to maintain recovery media specific to each OEM system configuration versus having a generic image to use across all hardware.
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A few years ago, my friend's hp laptop had a hard drive failue, and the hp recovery discs weren't available to me. So I figured since the computer came with a xp pro license anyway, there wouldn't be any ethical issues loading on a corp version I had. It was a valid 640 pid, so I figured it wouldn't ever run into issues. Then wga kicked in and I'm getting complaints from a bunch of people who I've installed clean versions of windows (where they haven't had the recovery discs so I used mine).
I also own a dell personally and see how it can skip activation upon checking bios or other dcom flags. I'm imagining that hp is the same way. However, hp wants way too much $$ for a copy of the disc, with out of warranty yada yada. I was wondering if anyone had these files for the hp installs so I could create a xp disc and redo everything more along the lines of the "right" way? Wgaworkarounds are a solution but they're pretty embarrassing to have to deal with it every so often on clients' computers.
Thanks for any solutions!!
I've written instuctions for Building a Pre-activated CD from an existing installation and setup an OEMBIOS Repository. You will need to compress the files with makecab and find a SLP Key.
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hi all
i have been given a pc that is installed with a perfectly legal copy of xp pro and i want to know if its using a VLK XP pro or Retail XP pro.
if i right click my computer the product ID doesnt have OEM anywhere in it so i know its not that. can anyone tell me a way to find out which one it is?
thank you
MGADiag.exe should tell you what type of license you have.
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Product does not appear to be activated; Activation Wizard appears.use %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /ato check if it's activated
I have installed OEM Windows XP Professional on a new virtual machine with "SMBIOS.reflectHost = TRUE", but am still prompted for activation.
This method is not gauranteed. The only information transferred from the host is the System Manufacturer and the System Model. What is the CRC32 hash of your oembios.cat file?
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Hi there, this is my first post, hope it's a good one
I work at a school in which we have primary students using computers. They all use the same login depending on what year they're in. The problem is, senior school students have figured out the passwords (they're very simple! any harder and the primary kids have trouble).
We're trying to think of possible solutions and one is to have the teacher login all the computers for the primary students before they come to class, that way we can make the password however hard we like.
SO... my question is, does anyone know of a program/script/command that will login a group of computers with defined login credentials?
Thanks in advance,
Lindsay
You can make a script that the teacher can run that does the following.
Changes the password to a pseudorandom string
For each machine
Verifies that noone is logged on at the target pcSets the autologin registry settings for a single loginReboots the PCPauses for 300 seconds
Changes the password to a pseudorandom string
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So does x64 have it's own set of oembios files or do they use the same ones as XP x86 as well? Anybody have a repository for other oembios files? I want to run some tests but I have none of the oembios sets from any of the oter systems besides x86 XP. 
Clean install of an upgrade ?
in Windows Vista
Posted
I think it is legit. If I remember correctly MS allows you to use an upgrade as long as you have a valid license (including trial licenses) for a previous or the same version.