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I would create a new user account, log into it, go to a website or something then try a shut down and see if it happens there. Its likely a running application causing the problem, and if you are lucky it will be profile specific. Meaning, a new user profile might not have that program.

Ok, breach of contract is illegal correct? Take Visa for example, merchants are not allowed to store CVV codes. If any Visa cards are within this database and CVV values are stored, they would be in breach of the Visa Merchant Agreement for accepting Visa card payments. http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/card-acceptance-guidelines-for-visa-merchants.pdf

You could run the command with ProcMon running. You'll probably find it unable to find a dependent file that contains the function it is looking for. It might be worthwhile to determine which file this is and where it is located, or where the software expects it to be located. For example, it may be looking for it with a relative path, or using an Environment Variable that is not used in WinPE, etc.

I did some quick searching but there doesn't seem to be anything free besides Logon auditing. Or maybe you can try something like this: http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2008/03/use-auditing-to-track-who-deleted-your-files/

There's a problem with this story. It specifically points out that the attack was done in a store and not online, however it doesn't match up with the data stolen. CVV codes are only printed on the card and not part of magnetic strip data. So in order for CVV codes to be part of the data, it would have come from instances where they were manually entered during a purchase. A standard purchase at target does not use this code. To my knowledge, the only time you'd need it is if you were returning an item for credit and money was added back to your card through a request to the card company. The other place this code could be used is online. It is possible that this database had a field for CVV codes but it was not present for a lot of customers. Unfortunately, Target has itself a larger problem. It is illegal for a merchant to store CVV codes in a database for any reason. http://blog.elementps.com/element_payment_solutions/2011/03/staying-within-pci-dss-requirements-when-storing-cvccvv2-information.html https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/merchants-are-prohibited-from-storing-cvv2-csc-per-pci-standards Information regarding the code and the magnetic strip: https://secure.bmtmicro.com/resources/info/CVV.html

That driver works perfectly fine with WinPE4. Make sure that you aren't just trying to use the INF. You need all the other files in the driver's original folder. It would be nice to know exactly what DISM says in the offline injection error.

The industry seems to think there is some great difference between a Server OS compared to a desktop one. There really isn't. It just comes with extra programs and boots to the equivalent of Computer Management by default. You'll probably want to add the File and Storage Services role at least... maybe Web Server or Application Server but I guess it depends on what you'll be doing with the thing.

WinPE doesn't have everything a normal OS has. What is Apoint.exe?

I've heard of such a thing but never experienced it myself. Are these computers on a network that contains a domain?

Welcome to the MSFN!

I've used Palemoon at home for a while now. Its basically the same as Firefox now, I can't tell the difference except some of the UI buttons are in different places. Neat trick, I'd like to try it! Any tips on how to do this, or is it considered un-kosher? --JorgeA Its a User Agent switcher. I have those mods in Firefox/Palemoon too. I primarily use them for development/debugging and don't actually use it on a constant basis.

It would still be a novelty item until it can be made to handle more adverse commuting conditions. For example, we have cars that can go about in all sorts of conditions. Rain, snow, wind, it can do these no problems. Wind is a larger conversation than what we would think. We can barely tell wind unless it is a certain speed while in a car. It would be totally different in a flying vehicle. It seems that even the most high tech flying vehicle available today would have limited use due to environmental conditions. For example, while the idea of having a flying car would have been nice last night, it would have been totally useless had I had one instead of a normal car. So much snow and wind, I would have been grounded with nowhere to go. At least in my car I could inch along for 2 hours to get home.

Well, fortunately you can tell from github that there seems to be no participation on that one. Was this supposed to be a new topic or a reply in a thread?

It doesn't have anything to do with the Funny Farm. My post is related to why the spam posts even showed up at all in this topic. You are right, it can (and does) happen in any public forum... like that Office one.

You know the trick of the team spammers. The first person goes and makes a question with specific keywords in it. Then after the page gets indexed and shows up in the search engine (usually a day or 2 later) the spam bot comes into the thread and posts a reply. There is a way in the forum software to block spiders from accessing publicly viewable subforums, but that setting isn't enabled for the Funny Farm. As such there is currently no safe place for a spam post to show up without it being found on google for the bots to visit.

Put your command line into LaunchApps. The top-level object [LaunchApp] is only for setting environment variables. Since you did not specify an AppPath in LaunchApp, it was ignored.

Are you sure it isn't running? It running does not necessarily mean it is processing the commands. You can add some lines that copy files at the beginning and end of the cmd. So you can see if it actually run, or if the cmd is exiting due to error.

Public network should not block internet access and it doesn't stop you from manually sharing anything.

The reason why they end up here is because the Funny Farm isn't blocked from search spiders. That does not explain why the original post was here. I suspect the OP is a human and not a bot and likely clicked on Funny Farm by accident instead of General Discussion.

This is a little confusing. It makes it sound like there will be one particular version of Windows that's Desktop only. Could that really be so? --JorgeA We'll see what this really means. It sounds more like a backtrack than anything. The only difference would be that the "Modern SKU" is the equivalent return to fill the void left by Windows Tablet Edition. One could argue that WindowsRT is the tablet replacement, except for the main difference that the OS hasn't been made available to OEMs, while Tablet was always available (even to Technet/MSDN guys) I think. I hope that the usage of the term "split" is in error and what ends up happening is that Windows 8 Core (Home Premium line edition) ends up being the Metro edition, Pro stays Pro (as desktop edition) and Enterprise staying what it is. Although I hope they actually brand the Core product officially.

Ok wait. I think maybe you are using recenv.exe from a Windows 8 system. I have not used that yet.

Can you share when the user had registered?

Does it do this *because* you had removed files? I have not seen this screen before.

Fix here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35824860&postcount=4

Last time I played with the idea of disabling those messages... I recall it was related to security zones in IE. However nowadays if I run into this type of message, I work around it by doing a different way. For example, if the security message is caused by running an application from a network share, I will copy it locally and run it there instead.