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Simple File Sharing does not work over the internet like that. You'll need some program to "serve" the files to make them available. If you want to do this just for file access, you could use an FTP server application, such as FileZilla. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html But mind the terms of service from your ISP. Most residential plans do not allow provisions for running a server as that is typically reserved for business plans. If they do not allow you to run a server, they could shut off your service should they catch you. Another concern is that by doing something like this, you are opening up that PC to the internet and possible intrusion. So you need to make sure the way in is as secure as possible.

I haven't seen that message before, but maybe you are just using the 32bit disc for Windows 8? What is the disc part number?

I used to rely on Task Manager in Windows 7 (and older) when monitoring silent installs to verify the installation process ran/was running/etc. Now that the process name doesn't show, it is difficult for me to determine not only a) if the process is running but B) what the name actually is. The only one that is easy is anything that uses msiexec.exe because it shows up as Windows Installer. Also some old problems still exist. For example, MMC will lock up if you open Computer Management or Event Viewer and you try to do something right away. Even as an example, you can run Event Viewer and as soon as it opens, hit the maximize button. Those screen drawing problems exist there too. There is also an issue if you are in Computer Management, click on Disk Management, then click on something else... the screen will stay on Disk Management, with that message on the bottom and MMC will become unusable until you close it and re-open it again. I had done that and let it sit there for an hour.

I remember Yahoo used to do something similar as well, but it was configurable in the options. I don't use Hotmail so I don't know where to start looking.

Yeah sales of Windows 8. This cannot even be compared to Vista... Now my market is not to cater to retail type end users... but well there seems to be "passing" interest from customers about Windows 8, but people just aren't putting the money where their mouth is. I can't really say much more than that... but suffice it to say that I expected at least a Vista level of first day sales.

Active Desktop was deprecated with Vista.

I found this for WinPE 3: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972831 I can't find anything for v4 yet.

You may run into some OS stability problems with those folders removed.

You two are going to have to take your argument somewhere else!

What are you talking about??? Read what he stated below. Next version should be Release Candidate and it should come in a week, i hope, alongside with a site and purchase options. I already read it. I'm not sure how you got what you wrote "thanks for all the help..." out of that. He might aswell just could have said that. Thats what im saying. The fact that the file product would be a pay product was never in doubt as it was made clear when the thread was created.

Just to be clear, companies who handle marketing for MSPs seem to have some thought that it is a good idea to advertise on technical forums. This is an error in their thinking since any such spam gets reported from all the technical forums if it were to show up, which leaves a bad mark on your company name or your representatives. So just to be warned that we do not allow corporate advertising here, and we ask that you become involved with the community before posting a link to your company website. Otherwise, enjoy your stay.

It was initially expected that my area would get some heavy flooding and high winds but it turned out not really being an issue. The videos and pictures from New York City are something else!

What model notebook do you have? Most times for Notebooks, all drivers are provided by the notebook manufacturer.

Do you get an IP address for your WLAN NIC?

This is what I tell my computer, which currently has 5056 hours on it.

I think maybe at stock. But I'm using WinPE 3.1 x64 with BCDBoot from WIn7pro sp1 x64, and WinPE4 with stock BCDBoot.exe. I never looked into how it does what it does. It might be true that Windows 7 BCDBoot does not work with Vista, I always try to keep new OSes separate if I can.

When using a System Reserved partition, that is the one that is made active. Technically, the System Reserved partition is only needed if you have more than one bootable partition. There are boot files in that partition. This is how computers with Recovery Partitions will boot to repair mode if Windows can't boot, because the boot files are kept elsewhere. During a deployment, the System Reserved partition is empty. When the OS boots for the first time from a sysprepped state, it should copy the bootloader into there. After the OS boots and you are at the desktop, you can go look in the System Reserved partition. Any folders/files in there will be marked as Hidden System, so you'll have to dir accordingly. Also, if you assign a drive letter to it, you should unassign the letter afterwards unless you are using this just for testing. Again, you do not need a System Reserved partition unless you have multiple bootable partitions and want to use BCD to handle them.

Well, while my assertion that I've never used BCDBoot on a single partition deployment is true... and that it may not be 100% accurate for everyone... THIS is: BCDBoot x64 binary can write to both a deployed x86 or x64 OS. I had problems with 32bit BCDBoot from Win7RTM time doing both, and switched to 64bit exclusively. Also, BCDBoot from WinPE4 works with Windows 7 as well as Windows 8.

Well, that's a bummer. The salesman's point was that our e-mail already lives in the cloud somewhere, so we may as well not worry about it, and happily join the matrix embrace Windows 8. :angrym: --JorgeA I wonder what the numbers are for people using "cloud" email vs "downloaded" email nowadays. I haven't had "downloaded" email for home use... um... ever. My first ever personal email account was in the "cloud" of course back then it was just called webmail. And I only use "webmail" for work for the past 2 years or so... but only because Thunderbird stopped working.

Doing some testing with a new notebook, and I discovered that like Windows 8, WinPE 4.0 has the capability of reading from the BGRT as well. This was evidenced by the fact that instead of the normal Beta Fish boot picture, I saw the BIOS splash screen while booting WinPE.

Microsoft just changes stuff to change stuff and makes the less perceptive think it's better and fresh. They don't make intelligent changes that actually improve the OS. A lot of techies have been wanting a better task manager for years. The new task manager is fine... kinda like a strange hybrid of ProcExp, but I think the only real problem I have with it is that it uses the Executable Name in the task list and not the Process filename. This is a problem because if some programs are not written very well (no duh huh?) and their names appear as generic listings. I should be able to get a screenshot of this behaviour in a little bit. Here I posted the picture in this thread:

Speccy is pretty powerful. Also I think it has an option to upload the logs to their website too so you can look them up later. I've seen people post links to logs like this. http://www.piriform.com/speccy

Hope you mean ADK! Supposedly, WinPE4 has native support for wireless and it was on my project list at one point but I removed it recently. Does IPCONFIG see your wireless NIC?

Its the idea that you should look at the DEFAULT file to mount first, since all user accounts that get created use the settings in there as a template.

Also, don't ever logoff and then log back in. The mount doesn't like that either.