Tripredacus

Arg they changed it... Hopefully they change RTM date too.

This isn't a contest!

I haven't decided which is better, but have noticed a heat difference: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173843-windows-10-runs-hotter-than-windows-7/#entry1099467

It was certainly possible in the early days of Flash... and I wouldn't doubt it would be possible nowadays but there are considerations. It really depends if the user wants the behaviour, sees it or doesn't see it and/or doesn't want it.

I'm still wondering why the account matters at all... Does your program not work properly running in WinPE?

Is it you want to make a Recovery partition for Windows 7 on a GPT disk? Or do it for some other OS? Windows 7 hard disk based recovery instructions are not publicly available from Microsoft, however there are other programs out there like Acronis (that's the only one I can think of atm) that can make a recovery partition for you.

This is something I had to deal with regarding one of the programs I use that runs .cmd files. Because all the .cmd files existed on a network share, it would be really easy to accidently run one on the local system and have something bad happen to the server. What I ended up doing was having all the .cmd files change extension to .log. This way, if you click it, it will open in Notepad by default. Easy to inspect that way. And then of course if a file is needed to be run, my program changes the extension to .cmd after the file is copied from the share.

Yes there is a Users folder and it does show Administrator, Default and Public. When I open CMD, the prompt is: X:\Users\Default> So this PE logs in automatically as Default user, not Administrator. Administrator exists and is enabled, or at least NET USER says it is. The DefaultUsername shown in the registry for Autologon purposes is Administrator and the password is 1. It may be possible to run applications under the context of other accounts. I tried to run a cmd.exe using RunAs and the Administrator account, but it doesn't see Runas as being a valid command.

Maybe it is to right the "wrong" of previously having icons or folders in the past prefixed with "My" such as My Computer and My Documents. Anyone who has ever done tech support over the phone may run into people who simply did not understand directions. When you say "Open My Computer" they would say "Your Computer?" in a serious manner. Maybe they are attempting to right another wrong of Windows 6.x where the personalization of folders was removed entirely, having no My Computer and only Computer.

I guess not technically a "PE" anymore... the tools that add things to a stock PE make it a franken-os with a 3 day timer on it. The Make_PE3 I made (long ago) has both Administrator and Guest account. This I can only see from NET USER commands. Local Users and Groups snap-in does not work.

I wonder if your DPI setting has changed.

If you make a disk image of a Windows OS on GPT disk, including the EFI partitions, you may experience a problem booting the OS if you redeploy the image to a disk of a different size. This happens (for sure) with Windows 7, not sure about Windows 8.x. There may be a way to fix that after the fact, I never looked into it.

Sounds like a blade server? I've seen those before that have no video and you have to hook another computer up via serial port to see what's going on. That doesn't help anything! What WinPE version are you using? I'd personally try using WinPE 2.0 (Vista) to start.

Have you tried running the application in compatibility mode? I can't find a Super Solvers called Math. What is the full title?

Welcome to the MSFN!

Your post moved back here instead of from where it was posted: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173882-anyone-here-heard-of-zeroredirect1com/ No need to follow people around the site. In the case of that thread, posting "should have done this or that" doesn't help his current situation. Tarun is correct that the hosts file does not prevent infections, although it can hinder said infection from working properly... IF the url it is attempting to use is already marked. As a general rule, using the hosts file is not recommended because of the reasons he outlined. You have to understand that you (nor I) can compare performance of properly set up system (maybe that is in our dreams ) against what an average computer may be. The same goes for a fresh install into a VM. The average computer is underpowered and hobbled by all the junk the user have installed over time. The average user cares not for actual performance and uptimes, and even the "power user" to this day insists on doing fresh installs once something goes awry. I consider any sort of malware prevention, system or network protection ideas to be a YMMV issue and there is no right or wrong... except not having a network connection.

It sounds exactly like an error in the script. At least, I can say I had something similar happen before, but opened multiple CMDs instead.

I don't think you can do it with just the XML. The documentation does not make any sort of mention about that capability. I wonder if MDT can do this.

Topics merged.

It is possible, but not using Setup and an unattend alone. You'd need to use some form of wrapper to do the following: 1. If Disk 0 exist, determine the disk size. 2. If disk size 500GB or lower, use XML#1 3. If disk size 501GB or larger, use XML#2 4. Launch setup.exe with unattend switch pointing to the desired XML file. For the two different XML files, #1 will be the type to create full disk partition, #2 will only create 500GB partition. This is the first thing I can think of. You'd need to use some sort of programming or scripting language (maybe even batch can do it) for the wrapper.

It depends on if they are using the MS way or some other software to do recovery. If the MS way, there is no special key... it is just F8 which doesn't use the MBR.

Another thing I notice that I don't like... the Start Menu opens by itself. It only does this when there is an internet connection.

No, the issue occurred before that edit was made.

I have sent the OP a PM about it. We will see about how to get it resolved. bphlpt, spoiler tag is ideal, however we have difficulty editing the post. Maybe my computer needs more RAM!

I didn't change anything each time I open the program. I don't know why it did that.