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That space screen saver certainly helped!

The PC sales drop is something I was made aware of just recently. With my department being shooed away into a satellite location for the past couple years, we are no longer involved in the day to day production process. As a result, we have a "disconnect" with what trends are occuring in our facilities and can only really judge things based on what projects are assigned or what tech support we might have to do. Most of the work (non-custom stuff involved) has been primarily desktop related. I had only recently found out that desktops are down everywhere (don't need these news reports or numbers for that) and that mostly people are interested in servers and notebooks. I wouldn't necessarily blame Windows 8 for this slump. Windows 8 may have an impact in the retail/big box space since those stores usually do not offer Downgrade Rights purchases. The last "slump" that occured was with Vista but it wasn't until after the Downgrade Rights to XP period expired that the desktop/notebook sales went down. Then again, I see a lot of companies often do not want to bother with doing the program, so you see many that abandone Windows 7 altogether, even though they can still ofter it if they want to. Slackers.

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This is more industry standard across all notebook/tablet (fondleslab) manufacturers. It is increasingly difficult outside of some whitebook brands to do proper repairs on a notebook. I get many in from friends or family and they are all big name brands which means they use non-standard parts. Especially the case with the slim-line types that use clips rather than screws to hold them together. Most often than not, it ends up you go look on Ebay for replacement parts and sometimes you can find them for a good price. Otherwise if it is a common point of failure (HP dv notebook motherboard) you are better off buying a new one. These things have been getting newer tech inside of them, but as a result the outsides are getting cheaper. People are clutzes and they drop their stuff all the time. And this stuff isn't tough enough to take that kind of punishment. Sure you can find some rugged or modular notebooks/tablets, but they are out of the way (not sold in stores) and are more expensive. I used to like taking in notebook repairs for people, but it soon became evident that they are too cheaply made and most times I can do nothing for them except say to go buy a new one.

Ran into this problem. Research isn't helping much since its such a new issue. Windows Media Player will hang upon the autorun of an inserted audio CD. This only occurs on Windows 7 x64 (Pro, Home Premium, Ultimate) if IE10 is injected into the image. Images without IE10 and its pre-requisite updates do not have this problem. Also WMP is able to autoplay a DVD with no problem. See files located here: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=DF9CED75545B2B97!213&authkey=!AAJpbDDmIKG8ZCE Files include: - Report.wer from the Event Viewer error path - MediaPlayer.PML from a ProcMon trace - adplus folder (Hang_Mode dump recorded) Let me know if you have any ideas.

At this point the OS boots off the hard drive, not the installation media. That being said, you can look at setupact.log and setuperr.log in C:\Windows\Panther to see what it might be stuck on.

Maybe you can be the first to figure it out! Apparently... https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39822#p178899 It seems to be a foregone conclusion that VirtualBox does not work when Hyper-V is enabled. The common "fix" I can find is to diable Hyper-V... which isn't really a fix at all if you ask me. http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Akhilesh/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=9 http://netitude.bc3tech.net/2012/11/06/psa-do-not-install-virtualbox-4-2-4-on-win8prox64/ But i wonder why you need to run both?

I took a trip back last night and watched an old video. Good old Video Professor: Learn Windows 3.1 on VHS. Certainly it has no bad reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/video_professor_learn_windows_version_31/ In the video, the "Professor" explains the OS to the viewer under the idea that they 1) know how to use DOS 2) know nothing about previous versions of Windows So he needs to explains why it is called Windows anyways. The fact that you can have multiple Windows on your screen, as he puts it: as many as your memory allows. I certainly know people that fall into that category... mostly those who haven't fully grasped tabbed browsing... In Windows 8 it is still possible to open as many windows as you want, but only if you go to the desktop. But if Microsoft really does want to get rid of the desktop, then they are going to have to get rid of the name Windows as well!

According to Deployment Research, we can specify screen resolution in WinPE using an answer file. Wpeinit is rejecting resolution settings in an unattend file. Any idea what has changed that is causing this issue? Startnet.cmd: wpeinit -unattend:unattend.xml Unattend.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="windowsPE"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" 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"> <Display> <HorizontalResolution>1024</HorizontalResolution> <VerticalResolution>768</VerticalResolution> <ColorDepth>32</ColorDepth> <RefreshRate>60</RefreshRate> </Display> </component> </settings> </unattend> Wpeinit.log: 2013-04-05 04:34:10.067, Info WPEINIT is processing the unattend file [x:\windows\system32\unattend.xml] 2013-04-05 04:34:10.083, Info ==== Initializing Display Settings ==== 2013-04-05 04:34:10.083, Info Setting display resolution 1024x768x32@60: 0xfffffffe 2013-04-05 04:34:10.083, Warning Setting the display resolution failed; this error is being ignored 2013-04-05 04:34:10.083, Info STATUS: SUCCESS (0x00000001) Any ideas? I am using WinPE 4 x64.

Does diskpart exist in DaRT? Diskpart has a rescan command that should pick up the "new" drives. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415

Sooooo Windows 8.1 is also Windows 6.3?

I haven't used DaRT before, but the first thing I can think of (since you didn't mention it) was if the WinRE can see the hard disk at all.

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Here is an example from a .theme file I have on hand: [VisualStyles] Path=%SystemRoot%\resources\themes\Aero\Aero.msstyles ColorStyle=NormalColor Size=NormalSize ColorizationColor=0X6614A600 Transparency=1 Composition=1 VisualStyleVersion=10 The ColorizationColor in this case, 0x6614a600, the part in bold is the hex value. More information here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3560890/vista-7-how-to-get-glass-color

I did finally decide to look into it and it so far appears correct. Windows 8 uses some protocol to determine the URL for the actual store, and using a browser in another OS won't help unless it had that ability as well. MS does have a publicly available "store" which just seems to advertise the apps, and then tells you to get Windows 8 or Windows RT. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/apps#Cat=t1 http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsstore/thread/8b17c96c-2e60-4a9a-ab55-3269dd2a3616

We don't have that kind of setup here.

The term Master replaced the term Primary. http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch4/#master

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All of these app stores still just look at the User Agent to determine what kind of device you are using in order for access. I have not tried to look into the Windows Store yet, but have been able to go into both Google Play and Apple Store using Firefox at least. Most functions like downloading/installing and app do not work. Seeing the reviews for what kinds of apps to expect to find in there doesn't make me feel it is worth the time trying to view it with the "wrong" kind of "device."

I think ChrisR's project has this ability. Maybe look at his PE project and see how he does it.

Which WIM do you mean? The install.wim?

Yes, username cannot be the same as the computer name. If you did the OOBE manually and attempted to type both the same, it would say it on that screen.

Glad you got it sorted out, but we have a rule about topics like this unfortunately.