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The WAIK is indeed large but I think it is worth it. But you should probably get the ADK for Windows 8 instead. I don't know about any of the tools that are out there, I don't use any of them.

No, there is no "Sleep" in modern ui, just "Shutdown" and "Restart" Looking at this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/41bb0d2b-5f84-4585-97b8-18528f53d486/sleep-and-hibernation-is-working-on-server-2012-with-started-hypervisor-i-do-not-know-why It appears that Server 2012's sleep ability (or clickable option) is dependent on the video driver.

Merged max's topic with the existing one in the Beta forum.

JFYI, we have a thread about ReactOS if anyone is interested.

WSIM only validates against whatever rules are kept in the catalog file. It has no idea about how Windows actually behaves when it processes the file. Case in point, if you were to put an invalid character in ComputerName, WSIM won't catch this. But Windows will throw an error when it tries to set it during an install.

DISM can do it to a mounted image. I never tried it myself. It would appear the first step is to GET the associations, then EXPORT the one you want to modify. You should get an XML response. Then you could see how that XML looks like and how to modify it. Then use the IMPORT option to put it back. Also, it seems like you can use it on a live OS, since the documentation shows examples of using the /ONLINE option. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824855.aspx

This is what an internal speaker looks like: http://www.custom-build-computers.com/image-files/speakers-to-a-motherboard.jpg Older PCs had an actual speaker inside but it has been quite some time since I've seen one of those.

Its actually funny. This problem of Explorer not being able to delete a folder named with the "Delete" key is NOT a problem in Vista. It WAS a problem in Win9x however. But in that case, you could only delete it using the command prompt. In XP and further, this problem with Explorer giving the "can't find the file" error no longer exists.

I was in the call center business during the time the switchover happened. All the tier one reps are pretty much CSRs. They are handicapped by what they are allowed to do, they don't have the technical or applied knowledge of the systems and mainly operate off a script. There used to be a point where you could get an engineer on a first hit on the call center, but even then the script and support limitations were in effect. And they were surely enforced. Something happened where the real techs got pushed out and the cheaper (salary) CSR type person took over that job. It isn't just ISPs either. The real problem is when someone with some technical knowledge (like us) would call for something specific. This is a situation that the tech support person is not prepared for an often won't respond properly. As an example, I was having trouble with my internet connection. I was able to verify, on my own, that the problem was not on my own end and had identified which portion of the ISP's network was having an issue. I called into their tech support and reported that specific link was having a latency issue and it should be reported to their engineers. However, since all the rep had "heard" was that my internet wasn't working, they said to reboot the modem and to connect my PC to the modem and not use the router!

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The topic was created by a spammer and has been trashed. Sometimes, threads that are trashed or hidden, if they were the newest reply, will still appear in main index list. Even though the topic isn't actually there. I think that is caused by either session or cookie data.

Yep that hotfix did work! I finished testing on Friday, boy was I relieved.

Ref: The thread was split to create a new one.

I've heard this from time to time, but I am not seeing this ever happening. Mount and unmount time for me is less than a minute... But it may be more system related. Anyways, to OP what kind of size are we talking about here? I look at my Windows 8 Pro x64 image which has about 20 updates and a dozen of drivers and it is 4.1GB, while the vanilla image is 3.1GB. Actually now that you mention it... that is quite a size difference! Definately larger than the stuff I put into it. Hmmmm...

I had noticed, in the past, that some files have one of the 3 dates "changed" when you open a file but don't modify it at all. No real examples... But maybe you (op) can explain exactly what you are seeing.

Sounds like you said "unspecified programs" but you could have just said "programs" ... http://www.computerhope.com/starthlp.htm

Use this for your WinPE language stuff. <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SetupUILanguage> <UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage> </SetupUILanguage> <InputLocale>en-us</InputLocale> <UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage> <SystemLocale>en-us</SystemLocale> <UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback> <UserLocale>en-us</UserLocale> </component> If you still get the initial language selection screen, then your XML isn't being found. How are you installing it on a real PC?

I wanted to comment on this link which was posted elsewhere. The "exclusive" Windows 8.1 Features list... http://www.askvg.com/exclusive-windows-8-1-features-list/ Please tell me that isn't the new logo... Most of the items are pretty meh to me... except this. Wow a calculator! What's so special about a Metro Calculator? Are they going to remove calc.exe? Or would they brag about selling an OS with 2 different calculator apps? And... Sound Recorder. If that ends up being true... and it is similar (or the same, yeah right) as SoundRec from Win9x, I know a lot of people would be happy with its return.

Notebooks are totally a different subject I think. Look at the quote from the article jaclaz posted: Of course, notebooks are changing their orientation multiple times a day. Put on desk, put in bag, toss in car or bike, bounce around, etc. I won't even want to bring up the fact that so many people drop their notebooks... Was it at some point that notebook hard drives had some technology that allowed it to withstand moving about so much? If so, wouldn't it make sense that desktop hard disks might have gotten some of those advantages at some point, which is why they don't talk about needing to reformat before changing how your HDD is positioned?

I would be interested in the answer as well. I have this happen for one certain situation and the current method involves someone needing to be there to click the button on the warning screen. I had looked into it in the past but most people were pointing towards automating cursor movement which I feel is cheating.

In my experience, I never got Half Life to work in XP at all! Although, I expect there are other versions available, since you can run Half Life on XP and Windows 7 at least. I think it depends on the version you have. You may have one of the optimized/newer (Steam, Gog, retail) version, as opposed to the original CD when it was released. Because I would expect the original one (written for Win9x) wouldn't have any special pointers in it.

MS ruined the MSDN/Technet forums completely it is UNUSABLE. I'm fairly new to those but I was also surprised. I think the biggest problem is that it is difficult to identify with the responders because their user names are below their post, it is very small and their avatars are very small.

I have no picture proof, but an old friend had built a mini PC where the hard drive was held entirely by about a dozen rubber bands.

I don't think it was introduced for that purpose. Maybe you could say the same thing of L2 cache on a CPU? http://books.google.com/books?id=bRpSUetqwc8C&pg=PT360&lpg=PT360&dq=technically+pointer+encoding+isn%27t+a+code+quality+benefit&source=bl&ots=d6lb1dVrMs&sig=EN-TyAHeAlcJ9WhbnynulR2W_cw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3AfDUfLwLtHirAfq3YCQCw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ

It may be possible that the sound is the result of a keyboard buffer overflow. Did you try a different keyboard?