Tripredacus

Just a question I had, will you some time include the ability for the software to update itself to a newer version? Or the ability to check for updates?

I've never actually owned a PDA, although my favorite that I had to support was the Sony Clié.

Alternatively, if you don't want to see the CMDs on the screen, you can use CMD /K instead.

You aren't the only one to see (hear) sound problems on Windows 7. I had the luxury of using the same soundcard I have in my Windows 7 PC when that PC had Windows XP. The problems did not occur in XP. Also, surround sound never seems to work in the OS itself, but does for games. I will say that you could still have a hardware problem with the card itself, you could check the caps for bulges or leaks.

You can use DRVLOAD name.inf for your NIC.

What kind of methods? I have an idea but you need to answer my questions first.

There is a perfectly valid reason for them not doing this. There are new processes for OEMs with the Downgrade Rights program for Windows 8 than with previous versions of Windows. Its not surprising to me but it shows that HP isn't willing to spend the money to change their process in order to accomodate both OSes. Its purely a time vs money question... I'm sure HP could have figured it out, but they are playing it safe by not offering downgrades to Windows 7.

Why's that? Please share! That particular style worked well for me. Also had used some and changed colors/inverted to make other wallpapers for boot images, etc. I did like Bliss in XP, but only because I could put animated gifs on it with Active Desktop.

What is your OS?

Imagex is deprecated in ADK. Those instructions are not for WinPE 4. And normally you would need to commit the changes afterwards. Its strange there is no instructions to unmount the image.

<!--This answer file generated by RT Seven Lite--> I'll hope that this was edited? You should not have empty elements. <UserAccounts> <LocalAccounts /> <AdministratorPassword> <Value /> </AdministratorPassword> </UserAccounts> <AutoLogon> <Password> <Value /> </Password> Also, why do you specify BOTH the Image Name and the Install Key? You don't need both, pick one or the other.

Have you thought of upgrading to Windows 7 x64? I had always found XP x64 to be used only as needed. I also remember some incompatibilities with it.

I think I liked the Vista wallpaper the best.

What is the Hardware ID of the device? You can find this on the Details tab in the Properties in Device Manager. It is possible that you can find a Vista or Windows 7 driver for it from another provider, or even in DriverPacks.net.

I still think the client PC needs more memory, but your suggestion might work. I've never used that setting and I don't know if it can be used without increasing client memory.

You have Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup in there twice. Check your answer file in WSIM for any other possible issues.

Is it a SATA or PATA drive? Are you using RAID?

In the future, if you posted your thread in the wrong section, ask a moderator to move it instead of creating a new thread. When you are in Audit Mode, you have to close the Sysprep window, then run sysprep from the cmdline using the /unattend switch. Preferably, your XML file should not have any WinPE passes in it.

I am looking at my HTA (see signature) which does not have a working progress bar... BUT it does go away after its work is done. I'm no master of VBScript, but I notice a difference between it and yours. Your progress routine doesn't have any exit command. For example: 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 See that Exit Sub part in there.

Is there anything recorded in Event Viewer? Are you able to post your VBS?

Well I'd go with what works... but... I recommend you put your XP files on a network share. That way you don't need to worry about UFDs either.

My guess is that they wanted to streamline all their products across the line, and there is already some confusion about RT and Desktop (such as people saying they will be buying a Surface and put an i5 into it).... So I am going to guess they got rid of Aero to save on GPU power usage... which is a consideration for battery life in the portable devices.

With my deployment app, I simply show an HTA during the install process to alert users that the installer is running. That way you don't have to worry about calculating times, etc. Also you need to watch out for installers that spawn msiexec.exe, since that can stay open in the background for 10 minutes.

The UUID of the motherboard can be used.

Look at this thread, starting with this post: You can add things to "DEFAULT" user account, if you need to load the "HKCU" you'll find that in NTUSER.DAT in the Users\Default folder.