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After actually using Windows 8 for the first time yesterday on a non-touchy screen, I'm surprised that MS didn't implement better alternative mouse controls. When using any Modern App, the mouse behaves the same as it always has. You should be able to drag the screen around rather than having to rely on scroll bars and what not. Just go look at how the mouse behaves in Google Maps. That would have made a world of difference for non-touch if you ask me.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the official answer would be "You won't have this problem with Server 2012..."

I had considered that... is there a way to disable that again and audit mode still work properly? I might even abandon this AuditSystem thing altogether...

I'm fuzzy on 9x Device Manager. Can you look at properties of the unknown device to see the Hardware ID?

Reminds me of some audio clip or maybe a video about someone who wanted an iPhone, no matter what. Even after being shown an android phone that prints money.

I can test using a stock 2008 functional level (never saw a need for the R2 myself) domain I have here and see if I can recreate. I will be using Windows 8 Pro x64... Order of operations in the spoiler... Using this procedure I am unable to replicate the expected behaviour. Let me know if I did something incorrectly. Note, my testing domain doesn't have any GPOs set on it as it is only used for imaging via WDS.

Max, I used your example to create an unattend to install a program in Audit Mode. I set the logon count to 1, and added a WillReboot to Always. The problem I have is that when you use that AuditSystem pass to create the user, it isn't temporary. I would really prefer that after the Audit Mode work is done, that it reboot back into the built-in Administrator account automatically, then I would need to delete that "Admin" account. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Examining the generated source for ArsTechnica shows that they use different classes for different versions of IE. And also that if the version of IE is 7 or lower, they use different WordPress theme components.

Well WinPE 3.0 is based on Windows 7 RTM, 3.1 is Windows 7 SP1 and 4.0 is Windows 8. I've noticed that my WinPE4 images are larger in size than the PE3.0 ones. WinPE4 supports more packages, such as PowerShell.

Using the F8 Boot Menu, choose "Disable automatic restart on system failure" to see the BSOD. As seen in this picture: http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u21826/W7-RE02.jpg It looks like you did boot into Windows? How did you see that event log? If you have access to the event log, the bugcheck log should be present.

Actually, it might just be easier to use ProcExp to pause the dllhost.exe process and see how Windows behaves.

Windows 7 (and Vista) uses display names as well as folder names. I encountered some problem with these "virtual containers" when trying to work on a manual file backup. The computer in question ended up (somehow) with 2 Users folders. Only one appeared in Explorer, but 2 of them actually exists. The other one ended up as Users2. I couldn't get the old data merged (time constraint) so the backup data was scrapped and we used Ghost to image the disk for backup. You can see the naming different in this pic: I had made a thread about it here but can't find it.

Incorrectly cleaning a virus that "replaces" processes like this (or explorer or whatever) will definately cause problems. I'd say give it a shot in a VM!

It should be worth noting this thread for reference: It would be interesting to see what the errors are, also if you can find any helpful Event logs relating to the errors. Also (in case it might matter) what is the functional level of the domain?

I always use exit, but I think if you use CMD /C with /WAIT but without the EXIT, the command prompt will stay on the screen with either a flashing cursor, or a C prompt after executing the script. This can also cause anything after it (in the chain of events) not work until the CMD is manually closed.

Try removing those devices from Device Manager in Safe Mode. I've seen that happen before on an old system, but not during a first install.

Ok well I fixed my post then ...

Do you also have other wireless software installed? If the manufacturer's wireless software is installed, you need to configure through that or if it has an option to let Windows manage the connection.

The Downgrade Rights Program (to XP) expired on October 22, 2010 for OEMs. The only way to get an XP downgrade from an OEM is to purchase with a volume agreement. Note that the Extended Support Lifecycle for Windows 7 ends in 2020. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle As far as the "individual" doing it, might be related to this: http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/what_to_do_downgrade_rights.aspx But that still means that the end user needs to be able to find a System Builder (or OEM) that not only still has both sets of media AND still has access to XP COAs. I know that the "edge-to-edge" media that the above link talks about has disappeared from the channel over 2 years ago. I'm not sure how VLK is concerned, but that type of licensing is typically only in the Enterprise and not the end user.

Thank you for your reply. Glad to know such players do exist. When you said "consumer-grade CD Player", what class of CD Player in the other end will play CD-RW burned as Audio CD? Perhaps "industrial-grade"? Consumer Electronics stuff. The CD player in your car, or your discman, or the CD player you have in your home theater system. Most disc players have logos of what formats they support on them. It might be possible that some of the "advanced" multi-disc players could read an audio CD-RW... such as those DVD upscalers, PS3 or Xbox 360. I'm not sure what the capabilities of the Wii are... and not sure about a PS2.

No problems of this on Windows 7. I dragged a Technet link I had in my bookmarks to the desktop and it has the correct icon.

I doubt WDS on Server 2003 actually supports Server 2012. You should be using MDT 2012 to deploy it, but MDT 2012 is not compatible with your OS. Here are MDT's system requirements: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175 It may be possible there is something wrong with your answer file. Did you create it using WSIM that is included in the ADK?

Post the actual event log for this error. You can obfusicate any computer or user names if needed.

It really depends on the amount of domain users and computers there are. What I would do is create a Security Group for that folder. Then add domain users into that group that you want to have (whatever kind of) access to that share. Then on the server itself, add that Security Group to the security tab and set the appropriate permissions. By using a Security Group, you can have multiple users have the same access. Then you can easily add and remove users from it.