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You should have the backup in the WinSxS folder. In a cmd, run this to find them. dir msvfw32.dll /s

Looking at the Firefox screenshot, it looks like styles aren't enabled, but it is interesting that the advertisement shows up. I wonder how only certain pictures can be shown and not others. That doesn't seem to be the case in IE, since you do have that styled Sign In button. Since you say "Orb" being missing, you can right click on your Desktop wallpaper and choose Personalize. This should open the themes box. It looks like your current theme is High Contrast White. Change it to an Aero theme, or the Windows Basic theme.

What is the make/model of the motherboard you are using? Also, edit your topic title per Rule 12.

3. In basic practice, you will not "see" a meaningful difference booting a PC in IDE mode vs AHCI using a standard spindle drive. 4. Boards that have UEFI do not have a BIOS. Those with UEFI do BIOS emulation to handle legacy devices. It is comparable to how there is no DOS in Windows XP but you can still use the command prompt.

For encryption, its not helpful or not helpful. If you enable BitLocker, Windows puts file in the System partition if it is present. I don't know whether or not you can still use BitLocker without that partition... As far as deployment goes, the only real usefulness for the System Reserved partition is if you are going to have multi-boot... and technically speaking having a recovery partition counts in that case. There are a few different scenarios regarding image deployment. 1. If you install Windows manually, Setup will create the System partition. You capture the OS as an image. When you set up a new computer, you must create the System Reserved partition and the OS partition, then deploy the OS and use BCDBoot to point to the Windows installation. At first boot, Windows will create the files in the System Reserved automatically. 2. As with above, on deployment if you do not create the System partition, you need to run a different command in order for Windows to boot. 3. If you install Windows using an answer file and specify only one partition is created. Then you capture that image, you can deploy it either to a single (first) partition on a disk, or using the method outlined in #1.

So that explains what I see on my file server and I always wonder why the folders are "out of order" because I'm still thinking in Windows 2000 terms! This is what I am seeing: Its not a natural way of viewing files with numbers if you ask me.

You already have a post in this forum! http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163638-hello/

Thanks, I am aware that such projects exist but I stick with the official stuff to stay compliant.

Yeah we already did the Upgrade install on a "fondleslab" and it isn't behaving very well either. The touch screen makes an cursor (arrow) appear on the screen when you touch it and if you use it enough the arrow kinda drifts around and isn't even where you are pressing. It will be reloaded later to see if it can be fixed. It really sucks that the Upgrade wiped everything out because we had it set up with Win8.0 Pro and was a demonstration model for our entranceway. Now it needs to be set up all over again. Other "impressions" ... only using 8.1 Pro, the default wallpaper is some gaudy yellow painting. Also the default lock screen is some spiral design and is vibrant and all that, but really clashes with that yellow wallpaper. They should have kept it as the flower or something similar. Because on the Start Screen I couldn't immediately identify which tile was the desktop. OK Desktop tile icon can be see in this review. It is the yellow thing underneath the Mail icon. http://betanews.com/2013/09/03/why-i-love-windows-8-1/ And here in a different position. and also 2nd picture is a small version of the actual desktop screenshot. http://betanews.com/2013/08/29/inevitably-windows-8-1-rtm-leaks-on-to-the-internet/ another look at the wallpaper: http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-81-pro-rtm-x64-has-leaked-web And here is a link to what the default lock screen is. http://www.windows8core.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Default-Windows-8.1-RTM-lock-screen-image.png And Win 8.1 images cannot be serviced using Windows 7 SP1's DISM... so something else changed between 8 and 8.1 where a different DISM must be used. It also required Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5. Regular users can get the Windows 8.1 ADK on GA date. It may be possible that it works with 8.1 Preview or Windows 8 RTM ADK will work, but I never tried. I think I mentioned the giant helper arrows in the Deeper Impressions thread. They are very annoying. You know how sometimes people get annoyed when those little bubble tooltip things would show up in Windows 7 and older OS? Its like that but a lot bigger. You can see one example in the 2nd picture of this article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046448/microsoft-tweaks-windows-8-1-again-to-help-new-users.html I can't find any more pictures of these giant arrows.

If you put in the Windows 8.1 disc and the PC has Windows 8 installed, you will be provided with an option to do a clean install or an Upgrade. Well the "Upgrade" has a different looking setup but actually doesn't do an upgrade in the way you would expect. Instead it backs everything up to Windows.old and performs a clean installation of a fresh OS. No drivers, user accounts or programs are retained. Other differences is that I noticed if you choose to do a recovery (not a refresh/repair/whatever) it now gives you 2 prompts. One if you are going to keep the PC (quick format) and one if you are giving the PC away. The giving away option does a long format and the GUI actually says it can take several hours. Original Windows 8 wouldn't give you the quick format option and would always just take hours to reinstall Windows. Note: the GUI doesn't specifically mention the terms quick or long format.

Windows 8.1 does not really take care of a common Windows 8 complaint. There still is no "how to use the OS" thing that even Vista had. Instead there is a first run "experience" where annoying large boxes with arrows show up on the screen telling you how to access charms and the "Start button" on the taskbar. Its back to "normal" today. On the 30th the "My Forums" page had the old TechNet mesh design. And viewing a thread had some design elements changed. Maybe it was done by accident, as today I go there and it looks like it did before.

HDMI typically carries both audio and video signals. I ignore the fact that it carries audio signals and disable HDMI audio on the television menu. I have a similar setup as you where I have HDMI for video and composite for audio with my PS3. I am unaware of the usage of HDMI from a computer. If it is installed properly, maybe it has software where you can configure it. But you say your line-out is working but you aren't getting the line-out audio through your sound system. I would look there instead. Make sure you have the composite cables connected to whatever input "DVD" is.

Best bet, take a look see. Surprised you got that for nearly free. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=Alienware+M17x+R2&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

I would prefer larger devices anyways. Making them so small is prone to being lost or passed through the washing machine.

The Logitech Bluetooth Nano Receiver is just about that size too.

MS is changing how the Technet forums look again!

Have you checked the Task Scheduler to see if anything was run at the time of the wakeup?

Well you can take a look at this: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-012644.htm The minimum requirements for video is a DirectX 9 compatible adapter as mentioned here: http://support.rockstargames.com/entries/479504-Minimum-system-requirements-for-GTA-San-Andreas However the datasheet for your adapter mentions DirectX only once and makes no mention of what version it actually supports. http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29074602.pdf How much RAM do you have, and what speed is it?

I would say that XP could have potential problems on a UEFI board since it isn't supported at all. I only get to work with current products so I do not have experience with it... yet. However I get the pleasure of porting an XP Embedded image to a UEFI board so I'll get to see first hand how it handles it.

What about the CPU and the RAM? Will those be a problem for Windows 98?

Well it is part of the Chipset drivers, but not sure what exactly it is.

I am not looking forward to working with Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 so right now I'm going to pretend Windows 8.1 doesn't exist.

Gamehead200 isn't so active anymore. His life got busy after getting out of college it seems. Welcome back!

So basically you are seeing that the one causing the problem is the last one that gets 100%? I can try to do an update again after I am done with driver servicing.

What happened between now and earlier? And what kind of games do you mean? It looks like you are using onboard graphics and 64MB VRAM is not something that will let you play newer games easily, if at all.