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Is this for nLite?

You should maybe contact your network admin to see if you can get a static IP for use in the corporate network, but I suspect that they wouldn't like the idea of you doing this in the first place.

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Fixed. I haven't used the program myself. I noticed that on the link you posted, if you click "help" on the left, it goes to their own forum. Maybe the answer is in there.

However... isn't it possible to avoid the Metro mail and remote desktop apps, as one commenter suggests? Or are those services only available, in Win8, as Metro apps? That user's major complaint is that he requires the Microsoft Account in order to install the Touch Remote Desktop app onto the computers. I don't know if he is making images himself or if they are just purchasing PCs with Windows 8 preinstalled on them already.

Windows 8 in the Enterprise are causing headaches for administrators apparently. Some of the functions of Windows 8 such as Mail and others absolutely require that you are logged in using your Live account in order to function. Companies that are now purchasing Windows 8 systems have 2 problems with this: 1. They do not want to administer/manage hundreds of Microsoft accounts for their users 2. They do not want their users to use their personal accounts (if they even have them). Read some frustrated posts here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itproinstall/thread/8124f5da-dd2f-4866-85de-5d369abe1450

The product key in your answer file is the Install Key for Windows 7 Starter.

If this is Windows 8 on a GPT disk, that MSR partition is required. I'm not sure what it does exactly or how the OS would react without it, but it is a requirement for deployment. I wonder if you can add it back in with that unallocated space. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825686.aspx I should try it out, see how Win8 reacts to that partition suddenly disappearing. edit: will have to wait until monday...

There are multiple problems with your XML I can see off the bat: 1. There is no 64bit version of Windows 7 Starter 2. You cannot activate Windows 7 Starter using that product key in the Specialize pass. For language, presuming your Windows 7 Starter source has French in it (the only downloads I have seen are single language images) you can use this in the windowsPE pass: <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" 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> <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage> <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale> <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale> <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale> </component> And this in the oobeSystem pass: <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage> <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale> <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale> <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale> </component> You will have to change the locale settings to the codes you need. Look up each of those objects in the WAIK/ADK Unattend help file to find the valid codes.

Not all RAM is the same, and sometimes they are even mislabelled. Plus one of those two could have been bad, did you run Memtest on them?

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When it comes to the double backslashes ( \\ ) I seem to recall something from my early days of learning programming. That sometimes you needed to use the backslash as an escape character. I suspect many programs were written with this in mind, and as such would store registry keys this way. So that when that program reads the registry, they can read the keys properly. It was only until later that I learned it is better (but not as nice looking) to handle those extra slashes, quotes, double quotes, etc that can potentially get in the way of parsing a string by using ASCII characters instead. So it could be either an error on the programmer's side that allows these paths to be saved into the registry this way (write the data exactly without stripping out the extra backslash) or potential laziness on the programmer for storing the path this way (so that they do not need to re-convert the path for usage later). Of course all the while not realising that Windows itself may have trouble with these values, especially if (say) some new update or other program attempts to use the data and is not written by the same programmer. The thought doesn't seem too difficult to fix the paths before inserting them into the registry, or reversing the process when reading them: var p = new RegExp(s.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, "\\$&")) https://github.com/viatropos/tower/issues/235 But it could be worse... maybe you can find some paths that use forward slashes instead! myDirname = os.path.normpath("c:/aDirname/") http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/gotcha-%E2%80%94-backslashes-in-windows-filenames/ Now I would think the idea of using a backslash as an escape character is a bad idea specifically because it is used in paths. Perhaps this was borrowed from some pre-DOS language? It seems only DOS and Windows based OSes will use a backslash in a path, while Unix and Linux will use the forward slash. The internet is great for programming nowadays, with tons of help on tech and programmer sites, online documentation, etc. However, software isn't always that "new" in a lot of cases, but more like adaptations of older versions. Even drivers suffer this problem where there can still be found some old Windows 95 code in there. This can lead to these kinds of mistakes as well, since not all programmers at that time had access to online documentation, but instead would have to manage their offline manuals. Maybe if you were lucky you remembered to install those TechNet CDs with Visual Studio, or you had those 30lbs of books that came with Visual C. Even then, that's only documentation, you had no real feedback on whether what you were doing was a good idea, and no world-wide resource for finding new ways to do the same thing, or do that thing better. If it worked, that's all that mattered.

On your RDP app, under local resources uncheck printers. One way to fix it is to remote the XPS Printer on your local system but that is not something I recommend (its a handy printer if you can't make PDFs) Check out this really long thread about the behaviour: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officeitpro/thread/fdb951e5-82a4-46a0-8a74-5677b18094d6

:realmad: is this really a translation issue? Maybe it really refers to Windows Azure? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Services_Platform

May I ask WHY? Did we not meet your needs? Dos ö¿ö That user hasn't been here since the day they made that post, so I doubt you'd get an answer.

Maybe not that, but it does appear that the software is warez.

Attachment deleted due to ProductKey! Anyways, try putting the install key in UserData in the windowsPE pass, for example: <UserData> <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula> <Organization>C House</Organization> <ProductKey> <key>HYF8J-CVRMY-CM74G-RPHKF-PW487</key> </ProductKey> </UserData> I am presuming you are actually using Windows 7 Pro (thats what CLG you have specified), if it isn't you can find all the Windows 7 install keys here: http://www.cluberti.com/blog/2009/08/11/default-keys-for-vista-and-windows-7-deployment/

Well I got the answer I thought I would... And there seems no real way to make IE 10 not open itself at the end of setup... and the recommended method is to inject it in the image. This makes sense since it is required for certain parts of the channel to not even offer IE8 or 9 and use IE10 across the board.

SkipUserOOBE is only valid in Vista. It has no use in a Windows 7 or 8 answer file.

It will be some task to determine what is and what isn't classified as abandonware. Good luck then!

Some users may not click your link, expecting some sort of documentation but you have linked to a zip. In the future you are required to specify exactly what is in this type of download (which has 2 PDF files in the zip) ... see rule 1c.

What account does this task run under? You may not see a message if the account runs in Session 0.

I tell you how I can certify that it is reliable. As I wrote there that I found this software on Google, so it's quite usual that I first read about the software and then suggested here. I hope you understand this. Thank you. That's not what MY google results tell me. After the website and corporate Youtube account results, I have this: http://www.dropoutgotrich.com/product-review/sysinfotools-scam/ The comment on the article specifically refers to this BKF product. But the strange part is that this version you linked to is specifically called v1.0 and it apparently came out in February or March of this year. Oh and it is $199... BUT here's where the strange part comes up, you can buy version 2.0 for more than half that price and apparently it came out BEFORE version 1.0. You can see it here: http://download.cnet.com/SysInfoTools-BKF-Repair/3000-2248_4-11666916.html Since version 1.0, the new version, only had 68 downloads with no reviews on Softpedia, and v2.0 (the old new version) only has 81 downloads on C-Net with no reviews, I'm not sure how anyone could determine via the google that this product is reliable, especially without any first hand knowledge of the product itself.

Look at this in Event Viewer: Event Viewer (Local) > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Task Scheduler > Operational Also check the log file: C:\Windows\Tasks\SchedLgU.txt

That's not what Technet says: Configure the Windows Firewall Log