troy

Hi all... I run a repair shop, and the Vista jobs are starting to pick up. Currently, for XP, I have an all-in-one CD that installs the proper OEMBIOS files for each vendor, bypassing the need to uninstall OEM garbage, applying service packs, etc... when using the original recovery media. I would like to do the same thing for Vista. Does anyone have any information on how to create a multi-boot DVD for vista that will allow me to install pre-activated versions of Vista (basic, premium, business, ultimate) for Royalty OEMs, generic OEM, retail, and upgrade versions? I've been searching both these forums and google, but the only information on this I seem to turn up, is how to exploit the SLP/SLIC thingies, which I do not want to do. I just want to be able to have a single DVD that I can use to restore OEM machines from Dell, GW, Asus, HP, etc... (as well as generic OEM, retail, & upgrades). Thanks,

All, I'm installing Vista Business on my Toshiba Satellite P25-S507, and everything went smoothly until I installed the nVidia drivers for the Go 5200 video card. Now, when the computer starts up, I get the funky green background image, but it never gives me a login screen. I can tap the power button to put the computer into hibernation, and when it comes out of hibernation, I get the login screen and everything works as expected until the next reboot. Anyone know what's causing this issue and how to resolve it? Thanks, -Troy

Yes, people have been complaining about it for a while now. http://www.google.com/search?q=ie7+iernonce+broken You can rename the v6 dll, but it won't be used unless you call it manually with RunDLL32, which is what we're doing for some things, but is useless for the startup process. BTW, check out v7's behavior... it's weird. It'll run, remove the values (title, flags) from the RunOnceEx key, but will not process any of the sub keys. If the format/syntax of the RunOnceEx registry entries have changed, that's fine, but I've been unable to locate any documentation so far.

Great work TC, I just got a good build of both Pro and Home using 1.0.4rc6. Tested both in VMWare without issue. However, I do have one request: can we keep the older version of iernonce.dll or find a way to emulate this behavior so that things can run from RunOnceEx on first boot? I have a few things, including .Net 2.0 some registry hacks that I really want to keep automated if at all possible. I suppose I can use that gui run thing to launch a script that will do what I need, but I'd rather keep it simple if I can. Much thanks!