Tripredacus

I have no updates added. I am not using any leaked software. My software comes directly from Microsoft. The only reason I resorted to changing the Start Screen color is for software deployments. When it is red it means software is installed. When it is green it means it is done. Originally I had used a MessageBox to appear when it was done, but this "broke" the Start Screen. I will see if I can get some other feedback on how to change the colors.

After my application finishes, the Start Screen is still red. Even though you can see in this screenshot that the code for green is written: So I open the tuner, it shows the Accent color is red: I choose to change it to green. But the tuner shows it as Blue now: Here is the registry now: The start screen is also now blue: So I sysprep the PC and after going through OOBE, the Start Screen is default blue which I did not change from the color screen. Even after logging into Windows, still the Tuner does not function! Changing to any color on the color select screen, the Accent Color remains unchanged, still stays blue. Changing the Logon Screen color changes the color of the box at least, but when I apply the settings, it changes back to the blue color.

To further clarify, a disk can either be MBR or GPT. Its kinda like how your car can either be manual or automatic.

Also, I can confirm that the registry keys are being written to. I can see the change in regedit. I will reload the PC and take screenshots of everything, then sysprep and see if the app works then. I don't specifically need the screen to turn green, turning blue would work for me too.

I added the screenshot from Depends as well. Ignoring IESHIMS, the other ones with the hyphens imply something else is missing. In my previous experience when running depends and finding these hyphen items, a program was missing a redist. It is also possible that something needs to be registered, something not normally active in Audit Mode. SSCTpml.rar

Did you try it in Audit Mode? When I open the program, it shows the accent color as being red. When I click it and pick green from the menu, the square then becomes blue. I confirm this is the color of the Start Screen. I captured a PML of it if you want. Also I ran depends on the 3 files and only the WinaeroStartScreenHelper.dll shows something is missing. This OS has no updates installed and no extra .NET versions enabled or installed.

Windows 8.1 Pro x64 RTM

Using that tool doesn't seem to work. Not even changing the colors in the app. I can select the new color from the list but the little boxes remain the same. I do see that it writes *something* to the registry, but I cannot determine what those hex values relate to. They are not standard hex color codes. I rebooted as well but it didn't change anything.

Something changed in Windows 8.1. For Win8 I use this AutoIT script at the start: RegWrite ( "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Accent" , "ColorSet_Version3" , "REG_DWORD" , "0x0000000e" ) RunWait (@ComSpec & " /c taskkill.exe /f /im explorer.exe") Run(@ComSpec & " /c Start c:\windows\explorer.exe") $metro = "1"This changes the metro screen to red (from the default). And it works in Windows 8.1. However after the work is done, this part does NOT change it to green (or anything). But later if I change the reg key to 0x0000000b, and restart, the color still stays as red. I've tried other hex codes and they do not make any difference. Even if I manually change the registry key, and either kill and re-open explorer or restart the computer. I should also note, that in Audit Mode, you can't launch explorer.exe nor cmd.exe from Task Manager unless you check the "create this task with administrative priveledges" box.

I wonder if it is all possible to run a boot trace on this frankenOS you have made for yourself. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158252-trace-why-windows-8-boots-shutsdown-or-hibernates-slowly/

First of all, you should have .cmd and not .bat. Second, there is no GUI in the Specialize pass, so your .cmd file shouldn't echo anything at all. You'll need to check the setupact.log to determine what the actual error is.

The SkipRearm setting does not exist for Windows 8. You will need to find the error in the setup logs on the client. You can access these in c:\windows\panther. However, if setuperr.log is empty, it may be located in the setup or UnattendGC folders.

I'm fairly certain that Vista will automatically defrag the disk by default.

The notifications are a symptom of the forum upgrade. I merged your thread (and another one) into the bugs topic. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163472-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345-bugs-only/

Windows 7 Home Premium x64 has Wow (Windows on Windows) and supports 32bit binaries. If you launch an application, you can tell if it is running in 32bit mode or not by looking at Task Manager. If 32bit, under the Processes tab, the exe file will be prefixed by *32. If you have a program you want to launch in 32bit mode and Task Manager isn't helpful, you can try running it using the 32bit cmd.exe, which exists in C:\windows\syswow64.

Welcome to the MSFN!

Oh sure it can get that large. It depends on what you're putting in there. I have, for example these 64bit images: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64, no drivers, no updates: 2.9GB Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64, Office 2010, no drivers, no updates: 5.0GB Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64, drivers, updates, no Office: 5.1GB What kind of compression are you using? I always use the FAST option.

You need to use an answer file to hide those OOBE pages.

MSSE will change it automatically, do you have that installed?

In addition to the /IPK code above, you can then run this to prompt Windows to activate: slmgr.vbs /ato

I don't need to sit on "Secret" information once MS lets it out of the bag. Windows 8.1 GA is October 17, 2013. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/427c62dd-b90a-4bcd-b1f9-d65d6305cd77/windows-81-forum-category-rename-for-windows-81-general-availability-ga?forum=w8itproinstall

There are a couple of things to consider. First is what Edition of Windows 7 do you have? Second, which browser do you have? Some editions of Windows 7 have a security feature called AppLocker, which allows you to disable/enable the ability to use certain programs. So for example, if you had multiple browsers on a computer, you could disable all but one (or all) so that a user can only use what you want them to use. However, only Ultimate and Enterprise editions have the ability to enforce AppLocker rules: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759131.aspx Here is how you can block all websites but one (or more) in Internet Explorer: http://www.ehow.com/how_5759058_block-except-one-internet-explorer.html

Its interesting. I just hope that it works well enough and doesn't cause any problems that can't be easily reverted.

Merged the 2 other "notification not working" topics into this one.