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I did, read the rest of that post to see the actual sizes.

It can be done. Try this: 1. Go to Personalize 2. On the bottom, the second "thing" is your current Color option. 3. Click the word "Color" 4. The Color and Appearance comes up. For "Active window title" there are two options, Foreground (text) and Background (ummm... background) Change the Foreground color for the Active window title to something other than black. PS: I did some testing by switching to the High Contrast color scheme. No combinations of colors I could changed allowed me to see the menu bar items (without hover) in Internet Explorer.

Of course less than 1KB... but Explorer (details) doesn't show any size lower than 1KB. I checked mine here and file size is 117 bytes with Size On Disk of 4,096 bytes. its good that it will be fixed. While the file size isn't a concern, I immediately thought of SSD life.

Well, at one point, 99% of the mods were users.

Probably not. I've seen larger numbers at other forums. Its usually caused by bots.

Go take a look in C:\Windows\System32. I bet you'll find some text files called (example) netcfg-17040843. Everytime the NIC connects or disconnects (even on reboots), another one of these files are created! What is creating them? Contents of each as the same: Command line arguments: C: \ Windows \ system32 \ svchost.exe-k netsvcs CSteelhead :: CSteelhead CSteelhead :: ~ CSteelhead Found some postings from earlier this year on a Russian and Chinese website about this behaviour in the CP/RP version, but no fix. Do you think these types of log files can be disabled? It would add a bit (well they are only 1KB files each) of bloat after a while of using the OS I would think. If you want, you can see the creation of these files. Just sort your System32 folder by Date Modified (Descending) and unplug and replug in your ethernet cable.

I'm taking a look around at all the hubaloo about the SmartScreen Filter sending info about what apps you download and install. The Windows 8 EULA makes a mention of it specifically, but that it is disabled by default. I do not have a key to activate my Windows 8 deployment (I'm in Audit Mode) so I cannot determine if it gets enabled during OOBE or what. Anyways, it looks to me that SmartScreen is only a function of Internet Explorer, and may not have anything to do with installing software off a disc, or if you downloaded something using another browser. Also, my IE9 on my Win7 PC has the same thing, SmartScreen Filter installed AND enabled... Is the SmartScreen Filter in IE9 really any different than the one in IE10 that comes with Windows 8?

You're kidding!?! You mean that Microsoft is requiring OEMs to not put a start menu on their Windows installations? Its not so specific. OEMs can't include something that is basically a Start Screen (previously Metro screen) replacement... aka some method of launching multiple apps, which is what Start Screen is meant to do. In addition, OEMs can't enable the Widget Bar. There is, however, nothing to stop anyone from making available a Desktop-style app that once installed enables the Widget Bar and puts that Start Menu thing on it.

I was looking around in Event Viewer to see if the SmartScreen logged any info in there. I'm not sure I found it exactly, but take a look in the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational event log. I see two types of entries: EventID 1719 Completed processing the payload for the Notification Id : 3, App Type 1073741824 with Status 0x0. Is this a Special Toast? false. EventID 1737 User has Activated the Toast for Notification Id 3, App Type 1073741824. Was this a Special Toast? false. Google knows nothing about Special Toasts... Do you? Update: Found some more toasts in PushNotifications-Platform/Operational EventID 3012 Toast with notification tracking id 3 is delivered to Windows.SystemToast.Autoplay. EventID 2009 A local notification was received through an application endpoint: Windows.SystemToast.Autoplay [AppUserModelId] Toast Notification [Notification Type] 3 [NotificationTrackingId] Local [NotificationSource]/

Any guides on that? This is something I been wanting to do for a while now. Guides on the winre.wim? Well it just uses winpeshl.ini to launch apps, usually recenv.exe. You can see my post about adding a custom command into the recenv program so that I can install a Windows WIM using the built-in Setup.exe with an answer file here: This is Wiindows 7 specific however, I haven't gotten far enough into testing to build a custom Windows 8 recovery partition yet.

Don't use it. If you are specifying the Install Key (which you are in the UserData object), then you don't need to use the InstallFrom object.

Well Samsung should know that there is a binding policy with Windows 8. Obviously they didn't read it. I doubt this "Start Menu" widget ever officially ships, else Samsung will have violated their agreement with Microsoft.

I haven't gotten a chance to build a Core image yet, but from what I understand it is similar to previous Home Premium SKU. So it probably has some of the same limitations.

You should maybe run netstat -b To see if you have anything besides your browsers or known clients accessing the internet.

Well good luck! I recall that the tapes were worse to deal with than the drives!

Its partly by design or laziness. It shouldn't even be in the WAIK. The properly working SRT package is in the OPK version... but even so its pretty much pointless. Its a left-over from Vista that stuck around. Windows 7 came with a winre.wim already so there was never a reason to need to create your own WinRE image using the SRT package. Vista, on the other hand, did not come with a winre.wim, and everything had to be built manually.

Windows 8 does track all the Metro-style apps you "install" since they are tied to your Live account which is used to download apps from the store. I do not know if you can get to the Store with just using a Local Account... haven't gotten that far yet.

Yes, I have seen HTML front-ends for FTP sites, but they are typically slower than just using an FTP client. I don't recall Iomega having a public FTP for customers tho... I think they just use the term "FTP" on their website but I could be wrong. It has been a long time tho...

From what I remember.... the Ditto drive isn't detected as you'd expect a drive to be detected. That meaning, it doesn't get a drive letter, etc. I wish I remembered more or had my old documentation... You need to make sure your parallel port in the BIOS is set to EPP. ECP and Bi-directional are not recommended. Also make sure you aren't chaining the drive with a printer or other device. Definately make sure you have the latest software.

It is for making recovery images. I can't see why anyone would ever need those packages... especially since they do not work properly from the WAIK.

SystemLocale missing from the WinPE pass. And to keep things the same across the board, you should use the same setting for InputLocale in both places, eather than one vs the other.

Using Group Policy is a recommended way to manage multiple users. If you end up using an "in-system" method to control this, you will be left with a headache if you ever need to change something. Using Group Policy, you can manage these settings all from one central location.

There is no "OPK" for Windows 8, per se. OEMs and System Builders use ADK for everything. Any "OPK" you can get for Windows 8 is documentation only. I've never once used the SRT package in anything. You can easily build your own recovery image by using the built-in winre.wim.

OK, I got to here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994369.aspx Which leads to here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16548 Since MS website is so vast, sometimes I opt to use Google's site: dork.

When I worked for ISP, one of our steps seemed incredibly silly but none-the-less it sometimes seemed to fix problems like these. Presuming it is possible (I don't know your network topography) you can try it... short of trying another cable. Basically the step was to swap the ends. For arguments sake, I'll pretend your cable goes from PC to router. Take the end that is in the PC, put it in the router. Take the end that was in the router, put it in the PC. Might sound strange but I have seen it work, short of replacing the cable entirely.