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Using Vmware converter , and upon attempting to boot up the newly converted virtual machine . I get a blue screen of death, see attached screen shot any ideas what the problem is?. I also posted this problem in vmware communities but no responses yet. MSFN has always been top notch in helping me solve my technical issues, so I thought i'd give it a shot. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you. I think I am going to like Autoit.

Works. I am still getting the hang of autoit, so excuse the mixture of languages. I am learning and trying. What does the chr(34) do?

Hi I need help with an autoit script. I wrote. Basically what it does is run a view cmd files that are located in C:\Apps, resets the Administrator password via control userpasswords2 The script works but it i have to close the cmd windows before it runs the next command. I'd like to wait until each command is done, before going on to the next, I have included start /wait in the cmd files. lastly it opens word 2010 to check the activation status. I have tried _RUNDOS in autoit and that closes the windows but it if I put start /wait it will NOT move on to the next command, My Auto it script #include <Process.au3> Run('control userpasswords2') WinWait("User Accounts","") Send("{SPACE}{SPACE}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}") Send("password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}{ENTER}") Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}") RunWait(@comspec & " /c start /wait resynctime.cmd","C:\Apps") RunWait(@comspec & " /c Start /wait StartOffice2010serviceWinxp.cmd", "C:\Apps") RunWait(@comspec & " /c (Start /wait ActivateOffice2010.cmd", "C:\Apps") Run('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Winword.exe') WinWait("Document1 [Compatibility Mode] - Microsoft Word","") Send("{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}h") Resynctime.cmd cmd /c w32tm /resync /nowait StartOffice2010serviceWinxp.cmd start /wait cscript "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart ActivateOffice2010.cmd cmd.exe /c start /wait cscript "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act

It's an Office 2010 (Word 2010), and Office 2007 (Word 2007). Indent and spacing setting, I need to set it back to the defaults as seen in the attached screenshot along with font being Calbri and size 11. Is there a way to fix this via command line or script. I deployed this error unknowingly to several computers, Thanks for any assistance

Thanks will do. No all the machines are the same model so I know that the res will work it is for the projectors. 1024x768 works better.

Is it possible to change the resolution remotely on more machines then I care to admit to, the machines are running XP. I will have to do this via script or command line? Thanks again to all that lend a hand in this matter.

thanks to everyone for your help it really worked out nicely.

how do I put this in a batch file?, is this a vbs, or cmd sorry for my ignorance here. Kind of over-delivering I was thinking of a simple/blind "nuke the wallpaper" option ala (code not actually tested) SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, "", SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE); or even push SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE ;2 push 0 ;(pointer to zero length string, but zero works too) push 0 push SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER ;0x14 call SystemParametersInfoA but this can accomplish this (albeit you have to pass cmd line args for that) and a bunch more (setting wallpaper with options, setting more registry entries) Although this only solves part of the problem. Users can still set wallpapers by hand after that (even though not so convenient). Many small programs who cycle wallpapers will happily override this every few minutes, like webshots desktop, or Win7's desktop slideshow. A complete solution would check for Win 7 and disable desktop slideshow, likely change some settings using group policy, and you could even change the permissions on those registry keys... A "proper fix" would require some thought and some testing too.

is there a way to change the wall paper settings to none via command line or script?

Hi On the computers at the large college where I work, we have Office 2010, and Office 2007 installed. Some instructors want Office 2007 suite as the default some want Office 2010 as the default suite. Is there a way to change this on the fly with a batch file or script they can run before each class starts depending on their needs?

Thank you man, this works Great.

I got a request to do so, on about 150 computers at the school I work at. Is there a way to script this, so it is quick and dirty.

Solved, wrote a script to do a repair of Office 2007.

If you launch Acrobat 9 as the first application following the installation of Creative Suite 4, you will receive the message, "You must launch another Creative Suite application." The problem is the problem is on my reference image which I then deployed to many machines duplicating the issue. Is there a way to fix this without fixing my reference image and re-deploying it?. Thanks

Hi I forgot to manually associate .java file to automatically open in a program called textpad when they are double clicked in windows explorer. Is there a way to set this association via command line or script?. I have deployed my unattended on well over 250 pc's. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Hi I have an urgent problem, after uninstalling Office 2003 in one of my labs. I seem to have lost the following file associations for Office 2007 docx and pptx. Is there a way without doing a repair, to fix this issue?. Via Script or a reghack?. Thanks

Hi I would like to have a partition to always have the letter x;\ for some scripts I have written. After I image the computer with my reference image the partition I would like as X:, shows up as D:\ . I believe it is taking the next available drive letter is there anyway to stop this from happening?

Any other advice?

I enabled it, all I get is waiting for Prefetcher, and it eventually times out.

I am trying to speed the Windows 7 Boot process. I installed the Windows 7 SDK and the appropriate msi for my os. I opened up a command prompt as Administrator and ran xbootmgr -trace boot -prepSystem -verboseReadyBoot My system reboots once after it creates the etl file. Then I get waiting to Windows prefetch and it eventually times out. Saying it could not start Windows prefetch Can someone help me debug this issue?.

Can it be loaded as a service on bootup, is there some switches that could be used to speed up the firefox load times on first run. Any advice would be helpful.

Thank you I will give this a go

Hi, I am trying to auto login as Administrator via the sysprep.xml file after imaging to do some maintenance tasks. After imaging the stations do not login as Administrator. Here is the scenario. Any help would greatly be appreciated. 1.I have set Autologin as true in the sysprep.xml file using the Administrator account and the password. 2. I have also activated the Administrator Account via the sysprep.xml file. If I set Autologin to true in the sysprep.xml, sysprep crashes with this error below. "Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [C:\Windows\Panther\unattend.xml] for pass [oobeSystem]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup]." Lastly, when I set Autologin to false in the sysprep.xml file then sysprep completes with no errors BUT the machine doesn't Autologin. What can I do to troubleshoot and ultimately fix this issue?.

I decided to use parallels instead of vmware, ever since then the image boots without issue. Something in vmware fusion is wrong, probably a setting I am unaware of.