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Restart is the default setting. Setting it manually to Restart is really a waste of time. There does not appear to be any Unattend setting that lets you specify a time interval, although there is an option to use Shutdown instead.

Games for Windows 8 are Metro style apps from what I understand. Do you specifically mean those, or games from previous versions of Windows which is described in that link?

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I'm fairly certain that the original $200 price would have Microsoft be in the red for at least a year or two before recouping profits from the app store. They would definately be selling the Surface at a loss to begin with, similar to how Verizon began installing FiOS to customers for free. The idea is to get the product out there, wow people by the price and then recoup the losses later with something else. Microsoft was in high hopes for Windows 8 when that figure first came out. Since then to now, we know that customers aren't sold on Windows 8 yet. Intel spoke out about it, game companies spoke out about it, app developers spoke out about it (and the new Visual Studio) and those complainers about the missing Start Menu. And we have seen a recent article that the amount of apps available on the Store itself is still pretty paltry. I can say "from the inside" that Windows 8 also brings a lot of changes and requirements not previously seen in Windows releases. There is a lot of push back by ODMs, resulting in a low participation rate from them leading to certain compatibility issues. See, Microsoft has been banking on the Metro Style Apps, the paid ones. Profit sharing between the developers/publishers, Microsoft and OEMs, all with purchases or microtransactions. But we have seen from all the negative hype about it (just look at this thread) likely directly led to the lackluster selection of apps in the store. This means that the initial forcast of App purchases is probably greatly reduced by now.... and that the Surface product price HAD to change, since I bet (I have no confirmation on this, just a hunch) that the cheap Surface price was set because they could offset the losses based on App Store revenue.

Are you using en-US locale for everything or some other combination?

Your software should create burn logs and you should have no problem copying them off to a network share. There have been some attempts to enable RDP on WinPE, I don't know how successful those have gone. You may want to look at DaRT which is designed for this type of purpose. Maybe with a DaRT WinPE you can still run your burn program. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-and-technologies/mdop/dart.aspx

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I never said that. If he reports bug, he does it in Ex7forW8 thread. I see just empty menu; that's okay. Ok this is good news for those users then. For the record, here is the thread in question:

Today I suddenly can equate a similarity between Surface and the Sega Saturn. The circumstances are not exactly similar, but close enough for me to construct a post. Surface As previously mentioned above: Sega Saturn In a slightly different approach, originally the initial prices for Surface was $199, which would have put it into competition with the Android tablets. This price came from Microsoft or someone at Microsoft or affiliated with them. Prior to pricing for the Saturn being announced, the speculative figure came from industry analysts and was expected to retail for $500 in the US. Then this happened: The quote comes from SegaBase. I am aware that a lot of info on SegaBase has been refuted, but the E3 story is pretty solid and worth sharing. So I can see that Microsoft has made itself a problem by initially preparing to create a Surface tablet to compete in the Kindle/Android market by offering a low cost product. They should have realised that those devices are actually in competition with the tablet market as well. So I think it is a mistake to only create a Surface device to compete with Apple and maybe the high end Samsung tablets and totally ignore the low cost market which is ripe for the picking. Sony Playstation Apple iPad mini Sources SegaBase DigitalSpy

Tihiy has abandoned Ex7forW8 tool, so I doubt it will ever be fixed.

Please adjust your post and topic title appropriately.

Ah ok. You need to either add the modify permission for your user account on that file, Or you can open an elevated Notepad, then open that file and you should be able to save just fine.

I never quite liked the idea of the single-jack surround setup that Realtek uses on motherboards. I wonder if it is emulated or maybe the quality isn't as good?

Its a joke really. I haven't delved too far into Linux but it isn't a real priority for me.

I'm not sure you even want to sacrifice your USB device for Virtual Memory. They are made primarily for reads and not so much writes. Using a UFD for Virtual Memory will kill it after some time. Isn't this the same idea as ReadyBoost? I've killed 3 UFDs before I stopped trying to use ReadyBoost. Its a nice idea but doesn't work out well in practice.

I certainly have gotten used to Windows 8 interface by now, but only as a requirement of developing for it. No other reason for me to actually use the OS for a workstation or personal use. I have no problem with the pop-outs and hot spots and whatever else... but I realise through my usage that I never use the Start Screen for anything! So I see Windows 8 a little like Vista for me, I never really "used" Vista either. I may change around if there really is a $200 Surface tablet, I'd get one of those.

Coffee in a clear cup? What an odd guy.

I only know how to FTP in Linux.

Don't use the tag, it doesn't work very well. You can still find old posts that use it, and the code just runs off the side of the page.

Well of couse Steam spies on you... its not really any secret. I disagree that hosts is hard to edit by the user. As for checking your connections, you can use the netstat -b command to show you connections to IPs and what process is using them. Its best to do this when you have no browser or IM program open.

What packages? What did you remove them with?

I don't really see how there is a "hack" involved here, other than changing the hosts file. Game distribution and control still has its flaws. Sooner or later I would expect MS to make something like Steam, maybe tied in with the App Store.

Not all recent programs show up in the recent list as you'd expect. The only ones I see are the ones I launch from either the Desktop or the Start Menu iteslf. Other often used programs I open from the Taskbar do not appear in the list, for whatever reason.

x86 is going to disappear not because of popularity. Even now, I am doing absolutely nothing with x86, only amd64. The reason for this is that while MS came to manufacturers with the new "requirements" for Windows 8, they didn't implement all of them. The important one is the UEFI 2.3.1 firmware for SecureBoot. The problem is that x86 version of Windows (any Windows) isn't supported on UEFI firmware. So x86 will have a small footprint because most manufacturers primarily only have EFI hardware available. Now, we'll see some x86 Windows 8 show up from OEMs on tablets and such... but only because of the WindowsRT lockout for a year. OEMs won't want to be left out and only those 5 ARM Partners being able to put out mobile devices. But those x86 products won't support SecureBoot either.

The SRT package never really worked anyways. Isn't the winre.wim a WinPE 4? I think it is but I never looked. Maybe let's start from scratch here. What exactly do you want your image to do?