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You are right, this is the normal behaviour, but this app isn't doing that. Normally if I run into this situation, I use ProcMon to show me where it is looking for the file, but since it doesn't show up (even with Advanced Output enabled) I can't just temporarily copy it there. I haven't been successful at creating a Path Variable yet, but I have some other things to try out. Update: I've determined that the PATH variable won't make a difference because the .EXE is not using that to find the file. Even if I put the .sys file in the dirs already specified in PATH, it won't run.

WAIK files are unchanged between version 3.1 and 3.0. The only difference is the WinPE 3.1 wim that is included (and maybe some OCs).

Well before you bother with DNS or Firewall... those ARE working. We know this because you are getting a response from the webserver: the 404 error. There is a problem in your webserver (is it IIS?) ... maybe others can answer, but my quick thing would be to test all the addresses. First. you tried both "localhost" and the external address ONLY from the Exchange Server? Try these: - from server: Internal IP - from another computer on the same internal subnet as the server: Internal IP, External IP - from another computer outside the subnet or network: External IP

Uploading that minidump may be a good first step. Other users may want to see the full memory dump, which you can learn about here:

It seems all the SATA drives I have get a 5.7, but a lot of other people get 5.9 with them. Yours is kinda low (5.2) but I wonder what RPM and SATA speeds there are... I think all of mine are 5400rpm at 3Gbps, which would explain why I get 5.7 across the board.

I am working on automating a program to run from a network drive, but I am having problems getting it to run. This program has a .sys file that it uses for something, it is a filter driver. If I run the program from a c:\test with that file in there, it works fine. Due to the sensitive nature of this program, I'd rather have it run from the network drive so that it won't accidently be left on a completed system. In previous efforts I've accomplished this by copying support files to either the script directory, or into SysWoW64/System32. Unfortunately, this program does not use search paths to find the file. In my testing: - ProcMon does not show the EXE looking for the .SYS file. - Depends does not show the .SYS file in the list. - PE Explorer shows that it looks for the .SYS in the same folder as the .EXE is located. So I am wondering if there is a way to configure Windows temporarily using Symbolic Links or an Environment variable or something else to help this EXE find its support file? A worst case scenario is that I'll just copy it to the HDD temporarily to run the program, but I'd rather not take this step if I don't have to. OS using here is Windows 8 Pro x64 which hopefully won't matter.

I think we were spoiled with Windows 95 and Windows 98 with the ability to exit one OS and go into another one. I have not seen any one able to duplicate that type of thing with WinPE and be able to exit to DOS, or anything else.

Core huh... I've seen that before but didn't bother with it. Is "Core" and internal name for the non-suffixed Windows 8 release? I wonder why they didn't put a suffix on the "Home Premium" type version, and why they use the "Core" term which is used differently in their Server line...

After you choose either "Get Started" buttons at the bottom, and log into your Live account, it will automatically prompt to download the ISO. Strangely, it does not prompt me for a language selection, but the ISO itself said EN-US in the name.

Ace's EI post has been split from this topic and moved here:

Original topic: Documentation points out that this is supposed to be used in conjunction with the PID.txt.... so you say that if you just use the EI.cfg and not a PID.txt, it will install normally? I wonder where it gets the product key from then? More info on Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824952.aspx

You can use a free hosting service like Photobucket or Flickr. After you upload your picture to a site like that, they provide BBCode you can copy/paste on the forum to show the picture.

Try changing your network location to Work.

Some questions for now: 1. Have you previously set any registry settings regarding the network manually or via a .reg file? 2. Do you have any active GPOs? 3. Are you using a modified OS created from using one of the "lite" tools or something similar? 4. What version of Windows 7 are you using?

From what I understand concerning Microsoft Policy, these rules are primarily aimed at businesses such as resellers or the enterprise. For the most part, MS doesn't care what the end-user does with their PC, just that it has been delivered using those rules. The only exception is where redistribution happens, either as warez or using parts of the OS in other applications (in whole or in part) so that it would be possible (theoretically) to run that software on a different OS.

Really, they actually have imagex.exe in there? Don't forget, they could also use an answer file to define partition data if they need to do something custom. But, for the most part even a Setup based recovery doesn't do anything with the partition... in fact I'm not even sure if they even format it. You'd have to test because a stock recovery partition backs up the entire OS volume and puts it into C:\Windows.old. If you end up having a Windows.old with the old C: drive stuff in it, its likely using one of the Setup.exe in there. If not, then it could be using a custom thing. Basically, what I'm getting at is that the partition layout may not ever be changed by the recovery software, and may have been that way from the factory.

This should be the same even with Vista or Windows 7. I imagine this is why if you deploy Windows to Audit Mode, aero is disabled. But maybe this change you are seeing is because Aero is not in Windows 8 anymore.

This thread here has some programs that can do it. I link to it only because the Microsoft tool doesn't work in all situations.

For this PC that I am working on, has 4GB (4x1GB DDR2) in it, I get these values: Win32_ComputerSystem: TotalPhysicalMemory = 2613805056 / 1073741824 = 2.434295654296875 GB Win32_ComputerSystem: TotalPhysicalMemory = 2613805056 / 1048576 = 2492.71875 MB Task Manager values for Physical Memory (MB) Total: 2492 It is only a guess for me that my missing ~708MB RAM (3.200GB - 2.492GB) is due to the video card. I do not know why your WMI query works for you but mine does not.

I tried that one and did not get the actual physical memory, but what Windows saw as the total after ignoring the 32bit limitation, and whatever (must be) allocated to video.

There are 2 things I can think of. First is to monitor the registry for the changes made when you select the grayscale box. Then export those keys and import the .reg into another PC to see if it changes it. As read about here. The other thing is to use wmic to change the color setting. See Win32_PrinterConfiguration's Color object. This is example code, since I don't actually have your printer. I can't test it exactly myself since I do not have a color printer. wmic printerconfiguration where "name='HP Color LaserJet CP 3525'" set Color=1 Now the value of "name" should match the name it has in Printers and Devices, otherwise you'll have to check the WMI yourself to see what name it actually has if that doesn't work.

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Hmm why didn't I think of that? Using Win32_MemoryArray ... Round ( EndingAddress / (1024^2)) Gives me "4" on a 4GB PC and "8" on an 8GB PC. This might just be the thing to use.

I'm writing a new program that needs to read how much RAM is on a PC, and then create a disk partition that matches that size. The problem I am encountering is that I cannot find exactly the correct class in WMI that has this information. Using my own PC as an example, I have 2 different memory amounts. 1 - 4.00 GB is reported as "Installed memory" on Computer Properties 2 - 2.43 GB usable in the same place, also matches Task Manager's Performance tab of 2492 Total Physical Memory. I want to get this 4GB value that I see in Computer Properties, but all I can find is the lower number. Examples: Win32_ComputerSystem: TotalPhysicalMemory = 2613805056 Win32_OperatingSystem: TotalVisibleMemorySize = 2552544 Win32_PhysicalMemory: Capacity = 2147483648 Win32_PhysicalMemory: Round(Capacity / (1024^2)) = 2048 The only thing close I can find is Win32_MemoryArray (or MemoryDevice): EndingAddress = 4194303. That is presuming that number is showing me the RAM address. I tested on a 1GB system and it returns a 1xxxxxx value. So where can I get the Installed Memory size data from?

This is incorrect. You can buy an over-air HD tuner that definately has an antenna but they usally aren't very good. When I used to have one, I built my own antenna using a speaker, a VHF TV antenna, an Atari VCS RFU switch and a metal coat hanger. It didn't look very good, but the picture quality was awesome.