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Are you installing from the CD? I am aware that this game is in the abandonware category, however it seems that the one available online is the original (DOS) version and many people cannot get it to run in Windows 98. You can try running it in DOSBox on your XP install.

It would be nicer if you could write some guides that do not include directing users to download warez. EDIT: this is a duplicate topic. See original.

You don't need to use both the ProductKey in UserData and the InstallFrom. Use one or the other.

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That is horrible! But I bet that monkey (or is it ape, I call them all monkey?) can do better than me! BTW, I was using Windows 8 quite a bit this week. Rather than figure out "how to get there" I just used the Run commands... Control, devmgmt.msc, etc.

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Do you have any server-side browser detection scripts?

Submix8c, not sure why all the drama... Anyways, it is obvious to me (in light of this research) that Windows XP is a virus! Oh, and while I also use MSSE, I don't rely on it protecting anything. Last I checked version 1 of MSSE, it didn't even detect the EICAR file!

Look here and see if this helps any.

The re-arm setting is deprecated. I can't find it on TechNet yet, but the ADK says that it was removed from Windows 8, yet to use a different one... which only mentions Vista and Windows 7. Sooooo I actually don't know whether or not you can use it in Windows 8 or not. I see, so once your 30 days runs out you lose functionality, like you used to? For testing sake, I set my install ahead a couple years. The only thing I get is a reminder every few hours to activate. Then again, I'm still in audit mode so I don't know if it gets more aggressive in non-setup mode.

I see what you mean. It appears those specific color options only appear when you have a High Contrast theme selected...

Oh. The What/How was the instructions in your link to remove registry entries for the USB devices. I had removed the USB key I used for RDP transfer prior to that when I realised how many entries were there... and not certain which one was for that key. The 3 entries were: - one in Disk Drives, which showed no error. Was able to populate the volume data. - one in USB Controllers, as Mass Storage Controller - the third one... was in a section that normally doesn't appear. I can't remember the location, as the notes I started were lost when I had to reboot (forgot to save). Normally a USB key will have only 2 entries. One for USB Controllers, and one for Disk Drives, presuming it is formatted.

Through WHAT? HOW? What do you mean by "I disconnected my RDP key"? WHAT (the heck) is a RDP key? The RDP key is a USB key I had connected at all times that I shared as a local disk for when I RDP into something. It was only used for that purpose.

The program certainly does work in Windows 8. However I think it might be due to the file being in System32... C:\Drivers>dir vcredist_x64.exe Volume in drive C is Windows Volume Serial Number is 0490-8AE9 Directory of C:\Drivers 08/29/2012 11:07 AM 2,373,640 vcredist_x64.exe 1 File(s) 2,373,640 bytes 0 Dir(s) 290,716,385,280 bytes free C:\Drivers>GetFileExtents c:\drivers\vcredist_x64.exe File offset 0 LBA: 31c550 Sectors: 1220 C:\Drivers>copy c:\windows\system32\netcfg-86477109.txt c:\drivers\ 1 file(s) copied. C:\Drivers>GetFileExtents c:\drivers\netcfg-86477109.txt C:\Drivers>GetFileExtents c:\windows\sysnative\netcfg-86477109.txt C:\Drivers> The original failure is something I've encountered on a 64bit OS, where if you specify "system32" Windows can't actually find that path, even though it actually exists. So if I use "sysnative" instead, the file can be found. In the above code you can see that it is able to get some data from the vcredist file, but it returns nothing from the text file, regardless if checking the original location or after a file copy.

I went through that, and it seems better again. Interesting to note, I disconnected my RDP key. It had 3 entries in Device Manager, and while the key worked perfectly fine, one of the entries had a Code 43. Its possible that was related to the problem. In other news, when I connect a USB key now, I no longer get either the Scan message, or the autorun prompt. That's not so much a big deal, but interesting to note.

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Well this problem has returned. NirSoft only showed 6 entries. Removed all not actually connected. Now NirSoft only sees 3 devices (usb, mouse, ufd used with RDP) and the delay on connect/disconnect is 5-10 minutes with other UFDs. Using the Safe Remove Hardware option on it first doesn't seem to make a difference. Any other ideas?

Have you used this program before? It doesn't seem to work for me... C:\Drivers>GetFileExtents c:\windows\system32\netcfg-86477109.txt initFileTranslation: The handle is invalid.

Yep! Its been that way since Vista at least. Makes creating answer files a whole lot easier!