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You won't be able to use memory over 4GB even on a 2003 enterprise unless you use applications that are able to work in this case and most end user applications don't.

You could add at the begining something like this.

If safe mode worked correctly a reinstall would solve the problem most likely as the ubuntu live cd test passed fine but might be overkill. You might chose between the fast way (a reinstall) or the repair way (which might be a lot slower) removing video driver and power management settings and perhaps other things.

I'd begin to try it with live linux distribution or a winpe and let it run four a least two hours to see if the problem happen or not. If it happens with both, there is an hardware pb. If it doesn't then i'd try in safe mode or in vga mode, and if it doesn't have any problem there it might be linked to a strange profile setting so then i'd create a new account and test with it.

Or use this kb article : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874 the reset of oobetimer in registry part should help.

Most likely, you should be able to find the problem doing gpupdate /force and then gpresult on the server (assuming your TS server is a w2K3).

Well of course you need to load the registry hives of the offline system but then the way of removing is still the same.

If you can't access you computer from the recovery console of the installation CD, you should still be able to use a winPE CD or by connecting the hard drive containing the windows installation on another working computer to clean properly the drivers (as described in the jaclaz's post) .

You also need to modify the setting on the client .rdp and if it's still greyed out in terminal service configuration then that 's most likely that there is a gpo blocking.

You just need to boot to the recovery console from an XP CD and disable the drivers and remove the associated files.

If you're speaking about the write cache, you can enable it or disabled in the device manager using the properties of the drive and the policy tab. See also this MS KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811392 about managing the cache from command line.

You should replace the fan as it is used to cool the chipset of the motherboard and if you don't to buy a new motherboard soon, you'll have to replace the fan and do not power on the motherboard until then (or use another cooling method). The BSOD you've encountered might related to this problem. The fan problem can cause freeze or worse.

Should ask your retailer before as it might not work.

The crash debug is most likely coming from storage drivers that aren't configured properly (the vmwaredisk drive isn't ide or the boot drive of the physical machine wasn't using an ide driver). Use driver injection to install the right one (you might need to extract it from vmware tools ).

First as you're having acces to your data right now, you should backup what you can't (or don't want to) reinstall. Then you didn't said if the partition layout was already this one before. The first partition is a little small for a standard xp install so it might a recovery patition. You're right the map command of the repair option of XP install CD pointed out something that can be the cause. You might be able to fix the problem using chkdsk /p /r from the XP install cd.

There would be a license problem as an Oem XP license can not be transfered to another computer.

I don't really understand why you're mixing so many languages (autoit , batchs and vbs) to do this. If you only rely only on one or two it will work. #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("w32tm /resync /nowait","C:\Apps") RunWait("cscript " & chr(34) & "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" & chr(34) & " /osppsvcrestart", "C:\Apps") RunWait("cscript.exe " & chr(34) & @ProgramFilesDir & "\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" & chr(34) & " /act", "C:\Apps") Run('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Winword.exe') WinWait("Document1 [Compatibility Mode] - Microsoft Word","") Send("{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}h") Try this, it may work.

It is very unlikely that using fat32 or ntfs would prevent an old program from working on XP unless this was a requirement (video editing tools need usually ntfs as fat32 can't handle file bigger than 4GB). Also you can install XP on a fat32 drive without worrying, it will only be less secure (and a little faster).

It is just a connection to connect 2 PC over firewire (it works very well, i tried it a long time ago when gigabit ethernet network cards very too exepnsive and rare).

You completly misunderstood the way i would use shadow copy: First i would create at least one primary partition for the system (about 60GB for the system) then create another one for the datas, and then setup shadow copies to be active on the data partition and only on this one. This way when you trash a file on the data partition, you'll be able to recover it if shadow copy has run between its creation and its deletion. Also it seems you never setup shadow copies correctly as it won't run all the time if you tell it to take snapshots of the partition at 04:00 AM (then it will only begin a 04:00 AM) and take the required time to complete (should be less than one hour if the drive is fast enough and activity on this partition is low). The way the OP said to consider the choice was that he could recover easier the data he removed so i think windows 7 might be safer for him (i never told it would be faster). Of course if everyone were to use computer a better way, does they really need to use a gui OS in the end (most people i know use it primarily to check their emails, do internet surfing and tracking home accounts ) ? Most of those usages doesn't really need any kind of "great" OS, you just a good OS (even a command line based OS would do). For the computers you managed, you have an huge "luck" or perhaps your computer users cann't power on thier computer, because in my ten years working in the IT for different companies, i never once encountered a user that didn't remove the wrong file in his homedir folder. Everyone can make error you know.

You might be able to find 100Mb/s switchs as most of companies aren't using them any more. Your idea should work but you're going to face another problem : all computers will download from internet the virus definition and most of the time those are about 70MB. You'll need at least to setup the update at different time on each computer.

I totally agree with you, it isn't a mean to backup data (even when you can set it like in windows 2003 R2 and store the snapshots on another drive) but it can help to restore a file deleted the day before.

Then could you go in the bios then "onboard device configuration", then check if "onboard usb audio" is enabled or not then go to PCIPnP section and set "Plug and Play OS" to Yes. If you still don't see anything new when you scan for hardware changes in the device manager you should try a bios reset ( you'll have configure it again after ). As you didn't try reinstalling you could also try downloading a live linux CD with audio support and see if audio works with it.

That was exactly what i was thinking when i remembered that Win7 have the shadow copy ability (which is a lot better than XP restore point) and if you manage the shadow copies efficiently you should be safe unless you have an hard drive failure.

Just my 2cent as i am not a Win7 specialist: i would prep a modded wim from the Win7 install CD and add a runonce key as you did before or (if doesn't work) install a service (with instsrv and srvany ) that would do it. Both of them would start a batch ( or another kind of script as you wish ) and list in a folder all subfolders and then for each folder exec another script that would be the silent install of the application (and if it was launched with the added service, remove it) .