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Which version of Windows, or WinPE? The only real difference I know is that in the WinPE based on Win11, it won't assign a drive letter to an OS volume. This effects both ADK built WinPE as well as the PE that Setup uses from the install media. For which WinPE to use in general, I had typically stuck with whatever the most recent one that was needed for whatever purpose and typically that would work with previous versions of Windows but I would keep old builds around for legacy purposes. If you are referring to OS option on my profile card, that is just reflective of the computer I tend to post on the forum from. My regular internet usage computer is Win7 x64 but my gaming/streaming computer and my dev notebook run a Windows 10 equivalent, my security notebook runs Linux and I believe my imaging server runs Server 2019 Standard. I manage a Windows 11 computer also but you can only put 1 thing into the profile card. Not currently possible to circumvent enumeration. I don't even want to think about what would be required to change it. I don't think that it is impossible to do but it probably wouldn't be worth the effort unless you were really bored. Usually you just have to make the best with what you have and apply workarounds if you need to use them. Some of those workarounds that I have had to do in the past include: - always changing C volume to another letter on first boot into WinPE because it will assign USB drives and some unpopulated card readers to letter C which can interfere with some deployment scenarios. - having to make alternate deploy profiles for situations where WinPE enumerated Disk 0 as something other than the disk the OS is supposed to be deployed to. Methods of controlling drive letters include: - Using PXE to boot WinPE instead of from USB. - Using mapped network drives to be the places where OS images and applications would be stored.

WinPE reassigns all volume letters based on the order in which the volumes are enumerated. Typically it goes in ascending order from Volume 0, but there are some instances (on real hardware) where a volume (or disk) is not made available at the same time every time and those letters can change. Because of this, I usually recommend that only the disk that is meant to be imaged (or worked) is connected when booting to WinPE.

It seems to differ from Android version to version. I remember having a previous phone that I could set custom sound alerts for SMS for specific contacts, but then a later phone didn't have this option. There are apps that can do it but trying to find a simple clean app (especially these days) can be a real task. I had used apps to manage this before and they do work but not reliably. For example one phone I used an app for that, it would play the custom sound half the time and others it wouldn't before eventually it just stopped working. My current phone just has a default "Notification Sound" that is system wide, and the app I use for SMS doesn't have an option to use anything other than the system notification sound. I had a previous app that did but I never bothered to change it before it stopped letting me open it.

I only enabled the one custom theme. I will put making a new theme onto my worklog. Probably won't get to it until Monday at the earliest. If you have a wish about what kind of colors you are looking for, post in the Complaint Department.

I have not tried to do an installation the way you are thinking about. I would use a solution where the drive letter doesn't matter, which typically means to include the files I need to be installed (including the .cmd file) in the image itself, so that all paths are relative aka on C:\ already.

First of all, people typically don't respond well to demands to give answers or do all of the work for you. Second, it would be good for you to explain how exactly you are designing your deployment workflow. Since you mention using both XML types (one for install, one for sysprep) it leads me to believe that you are making a deployment image. I have never personally found it useful to add any scripting into Autounattend.xml to begin with because that is only for creating the base installation. It is different if you also intend to use it for a recovery scenario, but in that case you wouldn't end up using two XML files anyways. I've only operated in a structured deployment environment where the need for determining drive letters or scanning for volumes wasn't needed. Nevertheless, for post deployment customizations I would use FirstLogonCommands in the oobeSystem phase to specify a single .cmd file. Then within that .cmd file that would be where I would include the scripts. But as I said, I never would need to have to scan for volumes and if I did have to do something like that, I would likely end up writing a program to handle that type of task so that I can leverage WMI and Win32 API calls.

Bring back the Azure Screen of Indifference! Wasn't there a red screen of death in a Vista beta?

I don't really care about it personally. I have to deal with it here and the other thing I mentioned but MSFN is based in Europe so we have to follow those rules. If MSFN wasn't an official fallback location that line wouldn't be there. It is only because MSFN has many EU members that I mention it. It seems standard practice that US sites don't care about those things, even if the forum software supports it.

What do they mean by apps? Are they only referring to stuff that comes from the Store and not traditional executable programs?

The alternative forum is now available. It is located here: https://tripredacus.net/forum/index.php This forum is actively managed by myself and has public status sections for the three websites that I am providing temporary forums for. The fallback boards are not visible to the public and are not segregated, meaning if you can see a board, you can post in it if you want. The sections will always be open, even if the hosted site has an Up status such as MSFN currently does. This forum is not intended to, nor can it replace MSFN. It is also not meant to be a replacement for other unmanaged or unofficial meatup destinations such as any Discord channels, Steam or Facebook groups. It simple is a place to go in case there is a problem or you want to get info about whatever might be happening. This is not an indication that there is any longevity issue with MSFN. The forum rules are not MSFN's rules, with the exception that discussion about circumventing MSFN rules 1 are not allowed. UK/EU members make sure you read the end of the Registration Agreement. Whether you decide to register on it or not is up to you. This post is just to make you aware that it exists. You choose your own level of involvement. If you decide to register, you should edit your profile to put your MSFN name as it explains in the appropriate profile field. Doing so will cause a MSFN icon appear on your info card if you post in a thread.

I don't think the Discord is official. You can use whatever you want. The site has been running good lately, so hopefully no one will ever need to use it.

Websites can be weird at times, idk why. I got banned on Venmo just by registering an account. And I got banned on Whatsapp by opening the app on my phone after I took the sim card out.

An alternate/emergency forum is in the process of being completed and I will post more once it is ready.

I only go there while logged in but they could really use a better search overall. Besides shorts, it often gives results for things other people have watched which are never relevant to what I typed in. I wish all sites that had a search even Google or Ebay had an advanced option you could set where it would just give you results based on what you typed and not all that fluff they want to make money with.

Somewhat annoying is that some Youtube videos now start with an unskippable ad despite using ad blockers. I didn't know if there was a thread in regards to this in a non GD location. While I find the ad intrusion to be extremely annoying, it is still funny to me that the ad I see on Youtube videos is for a paid ad blocker.

Considering that the Asus PDF is a second revision and from April of 2006, it would be before PCI-E 2.0 would actually be available Gemini says that there is no Intel Specification named as such, but is likely refering to an Intel implementation guide and chipset-specific capabilities document in relation to the PCI-SIG specification. So they may be referring to a document like this, which is very difficult to read if you ask me: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/i-o-controller-hub-7-datasheet.pdf But there are some bits such as "Ports 1-4 can be statically configured as 4x1, or 1x4". Here you can build off this if you want: https://g.co/gemini/share/07cb56274eb7 I know working with these LLMs sometimes you can get them going in the wrong direction and they can be less reliable. Maybe I got a good start on that instance. But I have to preface again that these public LLMs are trained on public information and not on in-depth technical subjects like chipsets or hard drives. And because they are trained on public posts, they have also read forum posts or comments from people who may have not quite used the correct answer or an incorrect answer. You've been on MSFN for a long time, so you've seen posts that were inaccurate or wrong. And LLM doesn't know what is true or not and doesn't have the ability to test if anything is true or confirm things. That's why it is never actually helpful when you want it to help in regards to advanced hard disk related things such as trying to get more than 2.2 TB on an MBR disk, LLM think this is actually impossible due to it having read official support statements and the like. So try not to get caught up in the trap that LLMs know everything or are the solution to all of our problems. They are just a powerful tool and until AGI happens, we should treat them as such.

This looks to be the same PDF that I downloaded (pdf page 13 and 42) http://oldschooldaw.com/asus/2006/e3037_p5m2_series.pdf It does not say exactly what I wrote, it does not mention mechanical vs electrical but that is what it is actually refering to in a broader sense. It may be that those particular terms were not common at the time this was written. I am not even sure that in a general sense that electrical is even the right term, since I doubt it is actually voltage based. Rather the limitations boards can have on their PCI-E slots are typically caused by bandwidth limitations. Nonetheless, any time you see any mention of a 16x running at a lower spec when a video card is inserted typically means that slot was not actually designed to have a video card put into it. The manual doesn't seem to mention putting a video card into the PCI slot, I don't know if it would work with the onboard since they would both be on the same bus. This kind of reminds me of that one configuration I had to get working where I had a requirement that a computer be able to use the onboard sound in addition to 3 PCI sound cards and for them all to work independently. We tried everything but the only OS where it would work correctly ended up being Windows XP Pro 64 bit, which wasn't ideal because XP was going EOS very shortly afterwards (at least in comparison to a device lifecycle) and that configuration would not work on Vista of any version.

Modern games tend to ship with more capabilities than any one person needs. This is the result of the dev environment and I personally consider it to be laze. Take a simple example where a game will have all of the textures included that the game supports using, despite the fact that any person who plays the game will only use one of them. This is why you can find a lot of people complaining about games being so big, or 4K textures being included even for people who don't/can't use them. But on the code side, since these games are created using suites, they also include support for a lot of extra stuff. Let's say this particular thing is only relating to the multiplayer aspect, if you only played in single player the missing function calls would likely never be used. So the result of removing a dependency is that it is likely something isn't going to work, but that doesn't mean the thing that won't work is a function that a player will ever use or need. Eventually it can lead to a problem with future patches or with mods.

Tidbits from the manual for reference - a video card in the PCI-E x16 mechanical slot will run at 1x electrical - board has an onboard VGA enable/disable jumper VGA_EN1 As I understand, the 1x electrical probably won't make a difference for 2D compositing but 3D could have performance issues. BIOS apparently has primary boot graphic adapter options either Auto or Force x1. Since this is a server class system, we can likely presume that this slot was not intended to be used for a video card. Even the manual talks about using storage controllers and while it does mention the electrical difference, I would bet that it was intended that the board with use either the onboard or a discrete adapter but not necessarily both. Even with PEG present, it still makes the onboard available. The fact it has the jumper would indicate to me that the intended configurations would be to have VGA_EN1 enabled if using onboard, or disabled if using a video card. There is no mention of using multi-display for this board. What you describe (if I read it correctly) is that Windows 7 is only using the first display adapter that the BIOS makes available to the system. It is not necessarily disabling the other, which is why it appears in Device Manager. I have a couple of ideas but being able to find out if they are the right answer or not is difficult. This is another one of those types of questions that AI can't figure out because they aren't trained on the technical information. But basically this is what I can put together. First, WDDM 1.0 (from Vista, I don't know if just RTM, SP1 or what) was not designed to handle multiple display adapters and typically would use one and disable another. It was always third party implementations that had to be used to get multi-display to work, especially once hybrid graphics in notebooks started appearing. WDDM 1.1 in Windows 7 was supposed to correct this, and largely has. However there is a possibility that using a Vista driver on Windows 7 may have something hard-coded in it that is replicating this, or if your Win7 is modded in any sort of way to make this behaviour possible, although finding out what would do that might be impossible. The other thought that I had was that perhaps something is being set in an ACPI table by the system that 2000 and XP doesn't read, 10 may or may not read (but obviously the DDM in 10 is way more robust) and Win 7 does that causes this issue. Again, I don't know how to verify this, but just thinking of what Win7 could read from the system to make it behave this way. But I still think that the intended way to use this board was to only have 1 display adapter, and that Win7 is working correctly and that the 2000, XP and 10 experiences are actually the outliers.

What motherboard is it?

No issue with activations today. I can't speak about what was actually installed onto that refurbished computer. Quite possibly it was the Direct version of the OS. Any new install using System Builder or Retail will still activate but as with any version of Windows, you may have to use slui 4 (telephone activation) if you are re-using a key. I have no experience with the downloaded version of Windows 10 so I can't speak about that.

The forum has open registration, anyone can join. Just make sure they know about the forum rules, as you know sometimes these types of projects can be tricky to fully talk about here because of that.

I found this driver for this model. https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds001073-integrated-camera-driver-for-windows-7-32-bit-64-bit-vista-32-bit-64-bit-xp-32-bit-64-bit-thinkpad

Computing has plateaued over the past decade, so there is not really any point to buying new for a general purpose system. A few weeks ago I finally decided that I will need to transition my daily driver home computer because there are indications that some things are going to be more work than it is worth the work, such as being able to access bank websites. I ended up buying a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad P50 with an i7 CPU, 32 GB RAM, 512 GB M2 SATA and it also has the Quadro/Intel hybrid graphics. It cost just over $300 on Newegg. How I came to this particular choice was I looked at what models were available and then searched those models to find reviews. I was particularly interested to know about display panels and thermals. The P70 seemed an even better option but then I went onto Ebay to see what part availability was like. There were way more parts for P50 than P70 and being able to find parts will just get harder in the future, so I went with the P50. @Karla Sleutel There is no issue to post links to products on commercial websites.