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As you mention using USB to install Server 2012? This is good, since you also say you have WSIM, you must have ADK. You should integrate the RAID driver into your OS image (install.wim) using DISM.

There is no "time of bad capacitors" !!! There was, however, a time of "worse than usual capacitors." Caps can go bad over time. It doesn't matter if it was made during that bad time, or a good time.

Not sure about the XML one... but the capicom... Is there a capicom.dll in your system32 folder? It may have been put there by another application. I do not think this DLL comes with Windows 8 as it isn't even on a Win7 I just checked.

The real news here is that MS is finally making Windows RT available to more people than just those 4 or 5 tablet makers.

May seem weird, but last time I had a similar problem (it was recently) I got past it by replacing the CMOS battery.

It was very difficult to get any sort of focus on this display. Here are the best pics I will be able to get: Clearer one of the language selection screen. Close-up of the EULA screen. Obviously the GUI doesn't support this screen resolution properly. Despite being a super-high resolution, the advanced drive options box will only show one partition at a time. Here is a longer shot. The "white square" in the middle is the box from the previous pic. It may give you a sense of scale as for how small it is. Also look at the "steps" on the bottom left corner. Microsoft may want to reconsider not being able to disable WinPE's function of using the native resolution when booted in UEFI mode.

If so inclined, you may upload those traces somewhere for others to look at.

Well first of all, maybe determine whether the delay is truly network related or not. You can say it is contacting your other computer, but so far I find no proof of that. Some ideas. 1. Noting the exact time, interact with a file... wait for the issue to persist and note the time again. Then head off to EventViewer and look at everything within that time. If it is 30 seconds, you'll only have 1 minute to bother with. If nothing relevant is in System or Application, you may need to dig into the advanced section. 2. For the second test, it is best that you have no other things running. I would leave antivirus, but if you can close everything else, it would be best. This would include items in the system tray. Reason being, you would want to get a ProcMon trace during a repeated file interaction. Less things running means less data to wade through. You can try just tracing Explorer.exe, but if you can't determine it by that alone, you'd need to not use any filters. A typical run would be to start capturing, then click the thing, wait for the behaviour to stop, then stop the capture. 3. You can check to see if the network is actually being utilized during this period as well. Various combinations of netstat commands may be enough, but if you wanted detailed info you'd need to capture network activity with something like Wireshark. Using of the capture process would be similar to how ProcMon was used.

Windows Embedded built with the File-Based Write Filter (FBWF) boot environment would be the ideal product to use for this. Hobbyists are in the gray-area, but using WindowsPE as an OS replacement is not allowed in the business world.

What is "corporate" version?

So as I've noted elsewhere before, WinPE for Windows 8 and 8.1 will use a display's native resolution if the hardware supports GOP in UEFI mode. Windows 10 seems to be the same way... and this WILL be a problem. Testing on a notebook with a native 4k display... installation is slightly... difficult: Picture is bad but it gets the point across. When I get hands-on with this specific system, I will get clearer pictures. *NOTE: This will be a problem for Windows 8/8.1 as well.

The site you are trying to download is written in PHP and uses JQuery. When you download from a site, you are only getting the rendered HTML, so certain functionality may well be missing. Also, the site is built with MediaWiki.... it specifically is importing functions from other portions of the site to handle certain things. For example this: <script>if(window.mw){mw.loader.load(["mediawiki.page.startup","mediawiki.legacy.wikibits","mediawiki.legacy.ajax"]);}</script>Documentation regarding loading resources:http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JQuery Also the problem might be that the code is specifically designed to only work while running in PHP/MediaWiki on an actual server... maybe your program can get all the relevant parts you need to make it work, but you are trying to use it in the incorrect environment? Or maybe the method is not correct. Most information I find for making backups of a MediaWiki are for site owners. Maybe research specifically how to use wget to download from MW, here is one thing you can look at: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/28702/how-to-dump-a-mediawiki-for-offline-use But it may not get the site 100% as for reasons outlined above.

That first thread seems to indicate this update appears on Enterprise OS. Is that what you have Noel?

Such programs exist. I have seen their use... for example: call center. I do not remember the names of any of them. I've worked with (as in monitored by) three different ones, but this was all a long time ago. They may not even exist now. I found this article which might help: http://www.pcworld.com/article/222169/how_to_monitor_your_employees_without_going_too_far.html

Event Viewer should log more information regarding the error... you can view it in Safe Mode. Also, you can upload the minidumps and someone can look at them for a start.

I read as, at this time, PayPal is the only currently accepted form of donation. Being as how this topic is directly related to the special (technical) sub-forum that it exists in, this topic will remain here. However, since the topic is now of things unrelated to either the special sub-forum or being technical, this topic will be closed. Interested parties may create something in General Discussion, providing it remains free of politics, threats to remove watermarks, or flame wars.

You know, I have been going about this all wrong. When I open up my food and find something wrong, I just throw it away. What I should be doing is calling the news station!

These writers seem to be getting confused about this "platform" thing with Windows 10. It is a marketing brand that can be "installed" on different hardware. For the moment, the only bit of software that works across all the platforms is the Modern apps that are in the Start Screen. The OS versions themselves are still heavily hardware dependent... you cannot just buy the Windows 10 from the big box store and install it on anything you want. There will still be 32bit, 64bit and ARM versions.

It may be different by country, but what I am saying is you can attach a bank account to paypal, with no use of any sort of card.

Are you receiving any errors? I read sometimes that a system with Secure Boot enabled can interfere with running recovery DVD or fresh installs. Also it may be good to know if you have UEFI enabled or not, as this can make different drives "disappear" from being "detected" as bootable devices in certain circumstances.

You can use either a bank account or debit card with paypal, not just a credit card. Or it can be as simple as, going to your bank (or even another bank), open a new account, put 20 of your money in there, sign up to paypal, attach new account to paypal, send money. I use paypal but also do not fully trust it, so I have a second account I attach to it.

--JorgeA This doesn't sound right. Such a term is used in speaking, but for a written work, I believe the actual slash ( / ) should be used.

This is likely caused by the fact there is no system tray to display notifications. Look in the update log file and see if this is the case. Windows Update is designed to run as a child process/application of Explorer.exe. Other than using a custom Update installer or WSUS. You can also change the Updates option to "download and install later" which will do it automatically, but will only do the actual installation on a (normal) shutdown. If you choose this one, your application will need to have a way to invoke a normal shutdown, so that installation of updates is triggered. I know a lot of ISVs are still building appliances that are designed to be turned off manually.

That's a lot of stuff! I agree that finding the correct product for the elderly (those who cannot see so well) is difficult with today's product offerings. Long gone seems to be the days of XP where you could have gigantic icons and text. I notice your list of user types is missing software developers who use multiple monitors!

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