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Yes the controls do seem reversed. I got used to WASD for first person games, but in this one I found myself keep trying to move with the arrow keys. Thus, I was not able to escape XP. I wonder if this game actually has an "end" to it or if you can't actually escape XP and IE6.

When I tried to play it in Firefox, I got a blue screen that said I needed to use a more modern browser like IE11. When I played it with IE10, I saw the intro "blue screen" and it was different. I didn't like the controls much.

Microsoft wants to help you escape from IE6 and Windows XP with a browser game. It only seems to work in IE. If you try to play it in Firefox it shows a "blue screen" message. http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#escape-from-xp from https://twitter.com/IE/status/454025575959916545

I had a SMART failure so I decided to take a pic of my workstation.

EnableLinksBar is deprecated.

The wasProcessed attribute is added by Sysprep. This XML is not intended to be validated in WSIM. It looks like the way to get WSIM to show you what settings are invalid for IE11 would be to capture an image without an answer file... or maybe a dummy one with just language settings in it. Then you load that WIM into WSIM. Take your existing answer file and load that into WSIM and then validate it. It should then inform you what settings you have wrong. See the note here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn338139.aspx

I remember reading about this. It might have been a good idea at first, but the people who own the building had better keep up the maintenance. It will just look horrible in a few years once they get dirty and the pain starts wearing off.

I'll test it on Win 8.1 Update 1. EDIT: It is on MSDN. It looks like there is an update for Server 2012 R2 as well.

It appears there is a limitation regarding signed drivers where DISM won't be able to interpret the certificate depending on what OS you are running it on. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825070.aspx It isn't 100% true, as I've been adding drivers (boot-critical or otherwise) to Windows 8, 8.1, 2012/R2 images from Server 2008 R2 with the Windows 8.1 ADK installed. There hasn't been a problem until just now. I have found a driver from LSI that will not inject with DISM into a WinPE 4 image, but it DOES work if I do it from Server 2012. The error on Server 2008 R2 is: I have verified the signature with SignTool, and even the server itself (via Explorer) shows the certificate is OK. Is there an update available for Server 2008 R2 that will allow for the correct identication of certificates on driver injections? Using /forceunsigned is not an option.

Well no. It is not available yet. Whatever it was I downloaded last week (titled Windows 8.1 Update) was not, in fact, Windows 8.1 Update 1.

Styx - Renegade

I demand a screenshot of this 42 billion degrees.

I had found tutorials about how to create a DVD video referencing these types of files. I found this method which I will try out: copy /b d:\layer0\image.dat+d:\layer1\image.dat c:\windows\temp\image.isohttp://www.groupsrv.com/usenet/view.php?c=microsoft&g=4974&id=323329&p=1

I downloaded an ISO (or set of disc images) that usually come in either .IMG or .ISO format. Instead, these are in a dual layer format. Folder structure consists of a Layer0 and Layer1 folder, and each contain DAT and XML files. I usually use Imgburn and it doesn't see any of the files as supported types. How do I go about burning this to DVD?

It is important to clarify if this is a notebook with multiple video adapters, or if it is a desktop. The reason for this is because the Intel onboard video used in notebooks has the same HwIDs as the desktop one. This means you CAN install the desktop version on a mobile and it will work BUT the switchable/hybrid graphics WON'T work.

At this time, Hiren's Boot CD contains warez, which is clearly shown on their website. Until this product is proven to not contain warez, no discussions can be supported here.

I was wondering the same thing. For me, it isn't a deal breaker. What is, however, is the fact the entire Start Menu was removed. So my entire life of using an OS would have suddenly been interrupted by trying to go to the wrong place to launch my programs. I, fortunately, did not update to Windows 8... however those who have I've heard multiple times people being angry of accidently opening IE.

Tablet demand is still pretty low, so we've been looking into products that have built-in Ethernet. We even have found some Ultrabooks that have a collapsable NIC port.

It seems most of the replies to your first post have hardware specs in them. Specs are important to people. I'm sure both topics can exist in one.

It looks like the file sizes are designed to be put onto CDRs, given the file sizes. Here is another post I found about it: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19495053/20316997.aspx Did you check your task scheduler (or history) to see if there is a Dell backup task in there?

I never will use a 3rd party site to get a program if I can get the program direct from the creator.

Originally, I did not mind seeing advertisements. What really started to get me was advertisements that delay me trying to see/read/play whatever it is I want to do. Commercials before every video ever, paywalls, all that stuff is horrible. The worst offenders are those ads I see on my phone (especially in the weather app) that look like actual phone notifications. One is where it says the battery is low. I know it is an ad and wouldn't press on it, but I am sure plenty of people are hitting it.

It occurred to me that we have this topic already: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/67112-post-pictures-and-specifications-of-your-computer-here/ I will merge this one into there soon, likely tomorrow. I already moved this topic to the Hardware Hangout. I also had this old thread here you can check out: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/123912-the-life-and-times-of-unclesocks/

Well here's the rub. The product key is what tells Windows 8 whether to look into the BIOS or not. Unfortunately, that product key is not public! The public key will instruct the OS to not look into the BIOS for the activation key, at least that is my understanding of it. The second question is that you can't have the two different keys in the same XML.

I looked up your board and looks like you have a PS2 port for a keyboard. This means that you would be able to initiate a bugcheck at the time of the hang. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/130004-creating-memory-dumps/ But you might want to go through and take a look at your startup programs, get rid of unnecessary ones and see if that makes a difference.