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Plug and play is logged by setupapi.log located in your inf folder. Delete the file, plug in your device, then post the log file. You'll also want to look at event viewer. When you plug in a device vista copies the inf to the inf folder and the drivers to the DriverStore. -gosh

Microsoft provides the HCL - www.microsoft.com/HCL , although i dont know if it has cd burners. In XP you could check the supported cd burners by checking cdrom.inf. I suppose Vista would be the same way. In device manager are you showing hidden devices? Could be upperfilters/lowerfilters problem. Try uninstalling the cd burner software and reinstalling it. -gosh

Good work, although i don't see the screenshots. -gosh

Arie: You could expand the i386 folder for faster processing, but some files such as the .cab files need to be compressed. I tried it once and got too many errors and gave up. cclo: thanks for that link. It's good that people are willing to look at new ways to do old things. -gosh

nuhi should have charged for his prog. Make money off a hobby. Things change. You won't be top dog forever. -gosh

Have you looked at group policy? -gosh

Just use the sfc_os.dll from nlite. -gosh

I've seen that on XP, it's very annoying. What i did was just hide the folder so it's not shown on the start menu. Just right click on it > hidden > apply to all subfolders. -gosh

If youre using auto admin logon you can hold down the shift key on startup to disable it. If you only have 1 active user you wont get the logon box unless you have DisableCAD enabled. As far as your folder, are you the owner of it? Is the folder in your profile? -gosh

What i do is go to barnes and noble and just take a book and read it there, then when i leave i write down the page i was on so the next time i can resume reading -gosh

In windows xp the activation license was stored in wpa.dbl, with the backup wpa.bak. There are public microsoft articles that say if you want to backup your xp license, you can copy wpa.bak to some safe place, format and reinstall xp, and you should be able to copy wpa.bak to wpa.dbl to restore your license, saving you an activation. It seems vista doesn't use wpa.dbl. Does anyone know if you can do anything simliar in vista? In other words, is there a way to backup your license so if you have to format or reinstall and you're prompted to activate you can just restore your license so you don't have to backup? -gosh

I just installed Vista Business x64 on my home computer over the weekend. So far so good, although it seems i need to update my NIC drivers. Device manager shows the NIC's fine, but they don't show up in network connections. Vista is very memory hungry. Sometimes im idle and it's using 1 gig of ram! -gosh

Instead of spending $40 on ram you could spend that $40 on a lottery ticket and possibly win millions of dollars. Your logic really perplexes me. -gosh

group policy -gosh

Microsoft just opened registration http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107967 I just registered for the phoenix launch april 1. -gosh

This has been documented by Microsoft. I've known about this since xp came out but saw no need to do this. Fooling the operating system to think it's in safe mode could cause unforseen problems that i would rather avoid. This is the poor man's hex editing -gosh

Whenever you integrate a new SP you should start from scratch because integrating a service pack won't remove files (except for that case of the xp video driver), it'll only add files. I've successfully integrated sp3 beta and installed it without any issues. -gosh

search on sysoc.inf and syssetup.inf, specifically [inf.always]. My site and build environment in my profile show you how to manually do this stuff. Nothing is easy! -gosh

If you can get to safe mode by pressing F5 you can run sfc.exe to extract the files. Otherwise you're going to need to reinstall windows. It doesnt matter if you reinstall from dos or windows, 98 setup will honor the migration dll's so things such as IE shouldn't be reinstalled. You should be fine. -gosh

Ponch is right, you need to share the device first. Remote desktop lets you redirect printers and hard drive, but i dont beleive there's an option for cdrom -gosh

That sounds like a bootreminder. You could delete it from the registry, or disable balloontips , enableballoontips=0 -gosh

windows me never had a service pack -gosh

Delete the following: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies -gosh

Windows Vista is SP3 -gosh

If this is a network share you can hide it by adding a dollar symbol ($) to the end example c:\i386 is shared as Install$ This will hide the Install$ share from network browsing regards, -gosh