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I am piloting a new burn-in program, and it is highly configurable. For example if you only want it to test memory, you can disable the other tests, otherwise you can test everything all at once. There is a regular and professional version, you probably don't need the Pro. Pro lets you test ports with loopback adapters, which is something my company requires. They have a 30 day trial that you can use for both editions. The product is called PassMark BurnInTest. http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm It can only be run in Windows, which contrasts with other burn software we've used in the past which only work as a Live CD, and are limited hardware wise. This one seems to like hardware that works as long as you have it installed in Windows. I still don't know if we are going to end up using it but it seems to work fine, although I haven't been able to get it to run off a WinPE disc yet. I haven't used it enough to know much more than that, so don't ask me any questions about it.

This is only in Windows. The brightness is fine at boot. Also, that is how I changed the brightness temporarily, by using the Fn + Sun up or Sun down.

You need to provide some additional information. Based upon the actual issue, this thread may yet be moved into a separate forum if this isn't an issue with Windows PE. Since you posted this as a reply to IcemanND's stickied thread, I am to presume that you followed his guide to create your PE for imaging. I need the following information: 1. What method of booting the WinPE are you using? PXE, UFD, CD? 2. Which Win PE version are you using and which architecture? 3. Did you use the WAIK, OPK or a third party tool (such as BartPE) to create your boot image? 4. Which operating system are you attempting to deploy? 5. What components were installed into your PE, such as WMI, Vista Offline Servicing 1.1, etc? 6. How much memory in the client (MININT) pc, also note if the client uses RAID or AHCI.

Geezery's HTA (which I use) is not locked down so that you cannot edit it. Therefore you can remove (remark) options out of the code to limit what your users can do. For example, in my version of his HTA (see it in my signature for a link) I remarked out the buttons for Capture, Append, Mount network drive. I did this because, in my production model, the standard users of this program should not need to ever use these options. In my case, mounting network drives is done via startnet.cmd and image maintenance is only the task of the evaluation guy, and myself, the image control guy. All the users get to do is deploy images and install software after the image is deployed. Of course your scope may be different and you can change things as you need to. Some knowledge of HTML and scripting languages is needed to edit them, but everything is open source so you can research it easily. I still do not understand everything in the HTA either.

My sister has a strange issue with her notebook. It is a Dell Studio 1535 that came with Vista Home Premium installed. When it is plugged in, the screen is dim, and when it is on battery, the screen is (normal) bright. I went into the power options where you can modify the power scheme, but there is no option for screen brightness. I've looked online and found tutorials to tell you exactly where it is, and with screenshots, but this option is not present. I did also find information about some OEM's own software may control certain configs and this would make some things not appear in normal CPLs. I was not able to find any Dell or Power related software installed on the computer, so I can't say that is the case with this one. I had temporary resolved the issue by changing the brightness with the keyboard, while on power and on battery. It seemed to remember these settings and haven't had a problem until today. Now it is doing what it did before. Is there any ideas about how to set the brightness levels in Windows, or why the option doesn't appear?

What video card are you using? Try to run the game as Administrator, and also change your video settings to low or off for everything to see if it still freezes. Yes the game will probably look like crap if you do this. Or if the game has a safe mode option, try that.

I do not have the ability to test this, but you can try removing the following files from your PE and see if it still works. usbehci.sys usbhub.sys usbport.sys

Is there a way to disable the account and free up the license? It usually isn't a good idea to delete an account of an ex-employee, but to assign them to a group that can't do anything. Maybe I'm not understanding how licensing figures into it tho.

It wouldn't hurt to go into the system restore to see what options it has. I've never seen one of those just go and start without having to click something. I have also seen system recoveries that provide a non-destructive repair type option as well. You might be able to find this info out online first before actually running the recovery in case you are worried about it taking off on you.

I just got a machine in that has a copy of Windows Embedded SP2 on it, and it is unfortunately the evaluation copy. All the Embedded images we create use a license key, but this one was made by another company. I need to find out when it will time bomb so I can inform the customer how long they can use it for. In Vista, you can use SLMGR to view current activation status and evaluation expiration date/time but this is not available in XP Pro or XP Embedded. Is there another way to view this information?

1. Do you have SP1 installed for Vista? 2. How much RAM on the clients that you boot to the PE? I am not going to rule out ISO corruption. I've had to reburn the OPK3 for Windows 7 3 times and I can't even get it to install because the Windows PE folder fails a CRC check. After I get it installed myself I will see if I get anything similar.

Sony had stopped shipping their recovery media about the time they started selling desktops with RAID in them, so around 2004 or 2005, when I was still working there. They also weren't shipping manuals either, but came with instructions on how to make your own recovery media. HP/Compaq is similar in this as well, as long as you leave their preinstalled software be, there is (should be) an option in the Start Menu to make the recovery media.

First I dealt with my old host closing up shop and being serverless for a few months. Then I got webspace up again but nothing to put on it. Any time there is any server change I always like to redo things again and start fresh. I went through and got a web server up and running on my computer at work (my production pc, not any of the servers) and began testing out systems. In the past, I had always created everything from scratch, because in said past, most products just didn't offer the things that I wanted, or I couldn't get my head around them. I tested out Mambo, Xoops and other CMS. I did not want to write my own CMS (I've done this before) because it takes too long to do it, and it isn't as secure as ones out in the open source community. After not being satisfied about any of the CMS I tried out, on a whim I tried out MediaWiki, which is the software used for WikiPedia and also Wikia's sites. I got it all up and running at work but wanted to make it better. Playing around with different skins and I found one that I liked but I needed to change it around. I got everything the way I wanted it and saved the files that I needed and emailed them to myself... Old fashioned! Then came the task of getting the Wiki installed on my server, and getting it to work, which took nearly a month. I finally got it all working today! And also got my custom skin to work as well. There are still a couple tweaks I need to do to make it perfect, but it feels good to have gotten this far already. Check it out and tell me what you think! http://tripredacus.net/ And yes, user registration is disabled at this point.

In a simple method, although it may be time consuming, is that you could use Imagex to capture the partition to a WIM file. You can store this WIM file anywhere that you would like, on the client's hard disk, or upload it to a file server, etc. Then you would need to take the files from the WIM and put them on the SAN, however I am not certain I understand how they work well enough to come up with a method of deploying the image onto it. Let me throw out some ideas and you can tell me if this makes any sense or if it gives you an idea. Typically, you would redeploy an image with imagex to the client you booted into the PE. However, imagex does not really care where it is being deployed to, you just need to specify a path for it to go. So let's say, for example, you have a mount point you can make available, and be able to map a network drive to it. Then you can have imagex apply the image to that drive letter instead of the local disk's drive letter. The only concerns I have about this idea is: 1. Make sure that the image will write only to the specific destination, and have enough space allocated to allow it to be deployed. 2. A likely considerable network load if the WIM is located in a place other than the local disk, or even the fact that you would be uploading the image over the network... I haven't attempted this method at all, but its what popped into my head atm.

FYI to anyone looking at this thread. THis device is an HBA, here is a spec sheet for example: http://www.dell.com/content/products/produ...;l=en&s=bsd I definately have not had any experience with this type of device. Have you already tried to use this device in your PE?

The Megaman guys are animated gifs added via Active Desktop.

Unclesocks has been transformed from Server 2003 to XP Embedded. It is still 2003 tho. Changed the larger images and start menu item. Also replaced the logon.scr so that the screen saver says Embedded instead of Server. This was difficult because DEP kept reverting to the original version. It took a bit of trickery but I got it to be replaced. It still says Server 2003 during boot and in Computer Properties, but I do not know how to change those. I uploaded some screenshots to show how it looks now. I edited this one to take out a word. I had forgotten that I had previously changed some of the string tables when I was bored a few months back. Next up, installing OPK for Windows 7. Last ISO burn failed to install, now waiting on another one. Also need to check out the new HTA version, haven't gotten a chance for that yet.

How to load? Open Regedit. Then click the [+] next to HKLM. And then highlight HKLM. Click File, and Load Hive. You get to name it, I always give it a name with an underscore, like TEST_SYSTEM or something. Something that stands out. So you navigate to where the registry is kept, C:\WINDOWS\system32\config And your regular registry files are here, they have no file extension, and then old copies are here as well, the have the extension .SAV. So you would choose SYSTEM.SAV, which is the backup of the SYSTEM tree. The other files here you can see have similar names for the other branches of HKLM. This is also where you go if you use the Recovery console to edit the registry offline. Now, your SYSTEM.SAV might not be very large depending on various settings for Windows that prompts it to make backup copies. For example if you didn't make a Last Known Good config. After you are done looking through the Hive, you highlight it on the left side, and then File, Unload Hive. Don't forget to do this part! As with any other time using regedit, all changes are made automatically, there is no save or undo. Back up anything first if you are concerned about working in there. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759303.aspx

I have a Windows 98 PC still. Welcome to MSFN.

My favorite, IE5.5 is missing from your list. Also, Maxthon is hardly a browser, more like IE with skin support.

I've only used Virtual PC 2007, but the concepts are similar. The VHD is your "Virtual Hard Drive" or where your VM software saves your session data. When you start, you open your VM program and tell it to use the VHD. Then it should boot up like a computer inside the window, but it won't be able to boot into anything. If you can tell it to read from your real CD drive then you can put an OS install disc in there and install Windows (or whatever) into your VM window. Then it saves that as the VHD file you made earlier. I recommend you use your VM in a window and not full screen until you get used to it. The version you have is from before Connectix was bought by Microsoft. I can't find a website with documentation for this version.

Here is a lead: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=801210

It does not appear there for Server 2003. Unfortunately you can't browse to it but you can launch it from the Run box via: %SystemRoot\Tasks\SchedLgU.txt Obviously if you view the Tasks folder you will only see your tasks. You can also view it by opening the Tasks folder and choose Advanced, and View Log. If you get an error at this point or it is blank then yes there may be an issue with it creating the logfile. You can change the location of where the logfile is kept by modifying this: Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SchedulingAgent Value: LogPath (REG_SZ) So you can clearly see it if you put it in another folder.

Have you loaded the SYSTEM.SAV Registry Hive to see if you have a backup of the keys you are missing?

I think what the OP is saying is that he wants to make sure it will work before trying to do it, because obviously the HDD isn't crashed yet. I recommend trying out these steps and test it in a VM session to see if it unlocks for you.