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I am suddenly reminded of that time I looked up a KB article on MS Support and it said I had a hardware or software problem. Similarly...

When they are saying "web page" do they specifically mean the first ever HTML file published to the internet? Or more specifically, the "www" which is only part of the internet but no one calls it the www anymore.

I've made the "Sega Saturn" comparison before, but back when the Surface and iPad Mini had similar product release "conferences" or presentations or whatever. Regarding the design of the consoles... I didn't mind the Microsoft one... the Kinect kinda sticks out and reminds me of R.O.B. in a way. XBox One seems to be trying to add the features of Smart TVs into their console, maybe for people who don't have Smart TVs. But this could end up backfiring on them as time goes on and more and more TVs are Smart TVs. The features would be redundant. The ability to watch TV on XBox One is interesting, but it sounds more like its a Tivo without the recording feature. I've never wanted to play on Xbox because most of the games were also on Playstation or on PC. With the Xbox 360, I never really liked the controller and again the games were available elsewhere. I don't see any reason to buy an Xbox One. I don't care for the games or the Smart TV features. I think the Kinect technology is really great, especially if you see what people have been doing with the dev kits outside of the gaming console. Now for the PS4, I think Sony really killed at the presentation. The only part that was difficult was when the Japanese guy was talking. The console design was the real surprise I think. It reminds me a lot of the PS2, but then again it probably would have been a good design for the Xbox One instead. Since it kinda reminds me of the old Windows flag. The only one I couldn't stand was Ubisoft, showing off boring (read: kiddie) games and their presenter was making the worst jokes (read: no one was laughing) ever. Battlefield 4 looks great but I'll only try it on the PC. Playing a first person shooter with a controller is too alien for me. Overall, I really think that not being backwards compatible is a mistake for both consoles. They are basically saying that all that money you spent on their products over the years is now junk. They could have come up with some way to profit on used games. In fact, I think that the current gen (PS3/360) already have this method built in through DLC. Maybe I'm just too old fashioned when it comes to that. For me anyways, I just keep my old consoles (or buy them later) to play old games on, but I think in the grand scheme of things, most people aren't like that.

Sony just Sega Saturn'd the Xbox One.

To the best of my knowledge, the gray rectangle is from either one of these subs, right at the very end of the VBScript. Sub objWIM_Progress(Percent,TimeRemaining) On Error Resume Next objShell.Popup Percent, 1, "Title", -1 If Percent = 100 Then progress.innerHTML = "<table border='0'><tr><td>Percents completed: </td><td>100 % </tr><tr><td>Time remaining: </td><td>0 min 0 sec</td></tr></table>" Exit Sub Else Call ProgressHelper(Percent,TimeRemaining) End If End Sub Sub ProgressHelper(pr,tr) On Error Resume Next intFMin = (tr MOD 3600) \ 60 intFSec = (tr MOD 3600) MOD 60 progress.style.visibility = "visible" progress.innerHTML = "<table border='0'><tr><td>Percents completed: </td><td>" & pr & "%" & "</td></tr><tr><td>Time remaining: </td><td>" & intFMin & " min " & intFSec & " sec</td></tr></table>" If pr = 100 Then window.clearInterval(iTimerID) progress.innerHTML = "<table border='0'><tr><td>Percents completed: </td><td>100 % </tr><tr><td>Time remaining: </td><td>0 min 0 sec</td></tr></table>" Else Exit Sub End If End Sub As a way to replace that, I can think maybe change it to show a pop-up HTA similar to the Diskpart/format select screen, but instead the HTA would be fairly simple and have a Style Body object that has this: background-image:url('resources\imagex.gif') This is only an example. If you have any questions relating to VBScript, ask them here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/66-programming-c-delphi-vbvbs-cmdbatch-etc/

Also, it looks like some posts from mid-week (when the forum was working) appear to have been lost. I suspect a database rollback was done.

Uggg apparently there was a database rollback and my reply to this was lost. I will post again on Monday and see if I can reconstruct that reply.

Fortunately, that link still works! This is probably (or definately) the first time I've seen a mediafire address in "print." Is this an actual/physical book? Isn't the nature of mediafire links temporary? Anyways, its pretty cool.

Yes it sound like your AC Unit is initially drawing faster than what is made available when it turns on, causing a mini-brown out. Its possible that using a larger circuit could fix that, or making sure the AC unit is on a different circuit than your PC. I don't see a real problem with the PC being on the circuit when the brown-out happens. The worst case scenario is that the computer would turn off or reset. Is that happening? FWIW, I've seen PCs stay on even when no power is available to it for a short amount of time... say less than a second. I've also seen a PC stay on for about 30 seconds without it being plugged in at all.

64bit WinPE can do both, its the only one I actually use. The only problems with 64bit WinPE is that the client needs a 64bit CPU to boot. Also requires nearly 1GB RAM (its less than that but I don't know how to test it) 99% of the time and 2GB on some boards with RAID enabled. In other news, I've been working on trying to get the HTA to deploy via UEFI but it isn't working out yet. As it stands, this HTA can't deploy to UEFI and it can't deploy Windows 8.

There must be something more to warrant a whole revision number...

Hasbro!

Sure it is possible. What platform are you developing for?

I don't know about any tool, but I believe those entries are stored here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Computer name via the answer file leaves much to be desired. If neither of those fit your company's naming pattern, you should set it to * and then use scripts after deployment to change the computer name appropriately.

Do you mean when you browse for the mass storage driver?

Not even the firewall built into Windows? What happens to the shutdown time if you have that enabled?

What program gives you this message?

Imagex is deprecated for Windows 8. Use DISM instead. What is the stop error reported on the BSOD screen?

Hello from the internet!

My only complaint about the new Yahoo is how AJAX (or somesuch) dependent it is. Meaning it can just hang around doing nothing even though you've clicked a bunch of stuff. Their fantasy sports are worse now, where entire objects can end up disappearing when you hover over them.

I know that If you want to use a third-party email client (Thunderbird) on Exchange, you need to use IMAP. or at least maybe it is easiest to set up that way. I'm not sure why that is.

How long have we had keyboards with Start buttons on them? How funny is it that it isn't until AFTER Microsoft removes the Start Menu that they decide to release a mouse with a Start button? http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/24/microsoft-debuts-new-sculpt-mice-with-windows-8-start-buttons

Sometimes a notebook requires software for the function keys to work.

I have no experience in joining a computer to a domain via the answer file. There are multiple topics about it in this section. Just search for MachineObjectOU to find other (potentially similar) posts and see how their files are built and if they had the same problem.